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This article examines selected works of Polish fiction to analyse representations of the socio-cultural conditions of the diaspora that formed in the UK after Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004. Dobrogoszcz employs the categories of postcolonial theory used by Homi K. Bhabha in The Location of Culture to offer a critical review of stereotypes that have dominated the perception of Polish migrants in the UK, and to examine their role in the process of migrant identity formation. Faced with the incommensurability of foreign culture, Polish newcomers to the British Isles are bound to deal with the their national identity and to accept its inevitably hybrid character.
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Examining twenty novels and short story collections published between 2006 and 2013, Nowacki outlines the developments of Polish literary prose on economic migration after Poland’s accession to the EU on 1 May 2004. The central question is about artistic and communicative failure: none of the works examined have enjoyed wider success. Nowacki concludes with a working typology of prose concerning Poles on the Isles produced in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.
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In the 1990s and on the wave of the structural and democratic changes occurring in Poland, campaigns were conducted in areas with national and ethnic minority communities aimed at manifesting the identities of these groups in the public sphere. One of these displays was the success in introducing place names in minority languages on road signs. This was made officially possible by the 2005 law concerning national and ethnic minorities and regional languages. The article presents the course of the introduction of bilingual names in Opole Silesia region which represents the largest concentration of people of German origin. The paper also discusses the administrative work connected with this policy and the societal reactions accompanying this process. The text attempts to demonstrate the variety of attitudes held by residents of the region towards Polish-German place names (from full acceptance of dual naming via indifference to complete rejection).
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The archaeological explorations of the old town of Garić were discontinuously conducted in the period between 1964 and 2010 as a part of the exploration works necessary within the framework of presentation and conservation works. Due to the temporal length of the explorations and the rather long pause in the works (between 1971 and 2010), archaeological explorations may also be presented as a historical survey of the archaeological explorations of old towns in Croatia. The said works were led by: Slavko Degoricija, Dragica Iveković (the Museum of Moslavina), Milan Kruhek (the Croatian History Museum Zagreb) and Tajana Pleše (the Croatian Conservation Institute Zagreb). During the campaigns conducted in the years 1964, 1968, 1969, 1971 and 2010, the old town of Garić was made more approachable; hence, the explorations of bigger town parts and the central tower were facilitated.
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“Press Content Analysis” written by Walery Pisarek in 1983, has become an important and significant book in the popularization of press content analysis. Media researchers received a monograph in Polish devoted entirely to this research method. The article is an attempt to show how researchers used content analysis to solve research problems in the 21st century. Due to the multitude of publications in which this method was used, as well as the editorial and formal requirements, the following selection criteria were introduced: The study focused on monographs published in 2001–2018, the articles published in scientific journals were excluded deliberately. Moreover the analysis covered books published by various academic institutions. Efforts were made to show the use of press content analysis for electronic media research. It seems that this approach highlights the possibility of using this method in contemporary mass media studies.
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Znakomity językoznawca i medioznawca, związany z kilkoma uczelniami (z Uniwersytetem Jagiellońskim na czele), ostatnią dekadę swojego aktywnego i bardzo bogatego życia spędził w Uniwersytecie Papieskim Jana Pawła II (UPJPII) w Krakowie. Od 2009 roku prowadził zajęcia dla studentów w Instytucie Dziennikarstwa i Komunikacji Społecznej (IDIKS), kierowanym w ostatnim dziesięcioleciu przez ks. prof. Michała Drożdża, jego przyjaciela (obecnie dziekana Wydziału Nauk Społecznych, w ramach którego funkcjonuje IDIKS). Działalność Walerego Pisarka na polu dydaktycznym związana była ściśle z jego zainteresowaniami badawczymi dotyczącymi komunikowania masowego, w tym przede wszystkim z interdyscyplinarnie pojmowanym prasoznawstwem. Profesor Pisarek był dla studentów IDIKS UPJPII niezrównanym autorytetem w zakresie metod analizy zawartości prasy i analizy języka w kontekście w medioznawstwa, socjolingwistyki i psycholingwistyki.
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Historically, the inter-ethnic conflict in Kosovo has been made for its territory. Both sides, Serbs and Albanians, have voiced allegations of history and ethno-demography to justify their supposedly exclusive right over this ethnically mixed territory. According to the London Conferences (1912-13), Versailles (1919) and Paris (1946) and against the free will of its Albanian population, Kosovo has become part of Yugoslavia. After the Second World War with the establishment of Communist Yugoslavia Kosovo Albanians were given a degree of autonomy within the framework of Serbia. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1991, the Kosovo Albanian population organized a referendum in which independence was elected. On the other hand, Serbian authorities insisted on Kosovo's constitutional status as an integral part of Serbia. Kosovo represents important challenges and also the opportunity to fulfill human rights guarantees and promises of international co-operation. Where ethnic tensions and violence share societies, as is the case with Kosovo, respect for minority rights promotes conditions for political, social, and peace stability. In such societies, different national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups have the opportunity to live together, communicate effectively and understand the value of differences between themselves and cultural diversity in their societies.
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The changing side of socio-cultural, economic, technological and political structure over the world, which occurred with globalization, rapid development of information and communication technologies especially during 1980s intensified the international interaction and caused the globalization to accelerate. These effects significantly changed the notion of individual, changing economic, sociological and political balances made the individual obliged to look at the world with a new point of view. Differentiation emerged in this period that significant theoretical divergences occurred. The notions such as discrimination, racism, anti otherness concertized with globalization, “identity politics” emerged as the notions which was introduced to field of expression by the art. This period when post-structuralism and deconstructionism revealed the unity of life, politics and art with an understanding that developed around “I” caused the “other” to be accepted and women, black people, homosexuals to have the freedom to express themselves. The artists addressed phenomena such as gender politics, sexual identity, ethnic identity, discrimination in their works created through various ways of expression, and they shaped their arts in this direction. Artistic construction of identity politics developed with globalization which constitutes the content of the subject was examined and assessed in terms of social identity characteristics within the context of sociology methods and theories. Artistic construction was examined over a broad bibliography; the acquired findings put forth art’s theoretical discussions from past to present comparatively.
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The article shows how narratives of Tiraspol Old Believers shape urban ethnoconfessional space. The empirical basis of the study includes archival materials and field data collected by the author in 2015—2019, including observations and interviews with the urban citizens. Oral narratives about local history are viewed as living evidence shaping different inner versions of the past and ethnoconfessional space within the city, so called Old Believer Tiraspol. In memories, existing important elements of urban space (acting church, museum) come together with the destroyed church and houses, objects that have changed their status. On the basis of interviews a) a map of Old Believers’ places in Tiraspol is elaborated, b) it is being considered what meanings are attached to significant objects as well as what role they play in reproducing locality.
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The purpose of the article is to characterize the political and legal means of regulating the cultural segment of the functioning of national minorities in Ukraine during the period of independence and to analyze the effectiveness of the legal and regulatory framework in resolving existing problems. Methodological approaches are based on polydisciplinary principles of studying the sphere of touch of ethnonational, legal, political and cultural phenomena. This involves taking into account theoretical developments in each of the scientific disciplines within which the specified range of issues is developed, as well as the application of the newest conceptual categorical apparatus. Through the integrated use of interdisciplinary approaches, the state's steps to regulate the cultural sphere of activity of ethnic and national minorities in modern Ukraine are traced, shortcomings and perspectives are overcome. Scientific novelty of the research is to systematically analyze the factors that influence the process of adopting political and legal documents that meet modern international standards and could accelerate the resolution of pressing problems in this area. Conclusions. The current internal and foreign political situation in Ukraine hinders the rapid resolution of the problems accumulated over many decades in the political and legal regulation of the cultural segment of ethnic minority activity. The action of destructive internal and external factors artificially limited the ability of the state in this regard. At the same time, there are grounds for claiming that there is no goodwill in the political elites that are responsible for resolving such issues. It is necessary to realize that in a rapidly changing world, regulatory support for ethnic policy must respond promptly to the challenges of time and be updated accordingly. The problem of developing adequate tools for the legal provision of cultural rights of ethnonational minorities, as well as the prevention of crisis situations, remains a pressing issue. In order to achieve effective steps in this direction, the state must properly organize their financial and material support.
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In the modern era, technology and innovation discourse has become a natural part of society. Whether it is in organizations, NGOs, enterprises, financial corporations, educational institutions, businesses, cities or countries, it seems that the values of innovation and technology have become a significant part of the messaging set delivered to stakeholders. Similarly, the political-diplomatic field also reflects these values and plays an important part in empowering the excitement that surrounds innovation. As part of telling their stories and persuasively branding their countries, leaders and public figures often use technology terminology. The main goal of the current paper is to find the actual place of innovation and technology in public diplomacy. To do so, this research uses rhetorical analysis of eight UN speeches by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The findings indicate that technological values have a central role in shaping the new narrative of Israel. The research reveals the rhetorical techniques that perpetuate the branding of Israel as an innovation centre and success story.
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Hardly, a researcher of the European integration process is able to comprehend the whole mechanism of the European Union decision-making. There are many actors involved in this construction and they play such a different role that often it is impossible to match their interests. In a dialectical approach of agent-structure logic the last question is Who shapes the European Union? In the last two decades, the Court of Justice enjoys increasing attention from researchers of the EU integration. Two Professors of Law at American University proposed a new approach of the CJEU impact on the EU integration process.
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The Museum in Tuzla was founded in 1947 as the Museum of National Liberation Struggle. The activity of the Museum took place in the narrow and wide area of Tuzla, and covered the period of the revolution from 1941 to 1945. In 1950, the Museum was declared native, after which the activity of the Museum expanded to collect material, not only from the period of the people's revolution, but also in the field of archeology and ethnology. In 1962, with the decision of the Tuzla District Assembly and with its funding, the Museum continued to operate as the Museum of Eastern Bosnia in Tuzla. The Historical Division of the Museum of Eastern Bosnia Tuzla collects, researches, preserves and presents historical material. This material is divided into periods: Ottoman period, Austro-Hungarian period, period between two world wars, labor movement, World War II - period of national liberation struggle, socialist construction, period from 1992 - Defensive - liberation war 1992 - 1995. A total of 9,764 exhibits were recorded in the history department's records. In addition to the three-dimensional material (weapons, tools, uniforms, decorations and other items), the department has a large number of photographs, historical maps and documents. One of the main activities of the historical department of the Museum of Eastern Bosnia Tuzla is the organization of exhibitions.
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The 20th anniversary of the NATO campaign in Kosovo, which led to the beginning of a long process of state-building, was recently commemorated. Yet it is worth recalling what led to the campaign and understanding the lessons of its aftermath which are very much relevant today.
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The observations of the illegitimate elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples’ Republics in 2014 and 2018 by far-right and far-left European politicians serve the purpose of augmenting the number of actors and dimensions of a conflict with the aim of protracting any conflict resolution process. What is more, these elections violate the sovereignty of the state, since they take place in areas not recognized by the international community.
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The Donbas conflict has been taking place for over five years now. Some significant steps have been achieved since the implementation of the 2015 Minsk Agreements, and with it the official war might have reached an end. Yet, peace remains elusive.
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Information aggressors, especially the Russian Federation, are not “reinventing the wheel”. They use existing mechanisms. Journalists and the media, regardless of the provenance, are the first on the “information front” in the war over people’s hearts and minds. They have a choice: ignore or refute this fact or accept their role as a key element in state security and the information space.
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Review of: Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, “The Compatriots. The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.”, Publisher: Public Affairs, New York, 2019. Review by: Luke Harding
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