Being And Becoming European In Poland

Author : Marysia H. Galbraith
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783084289

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Being and Becoming European in Poland by Marysia H. Galbraith Pdf

Overthrowing communism in 1989 and joining the European Union in 2004, the Polish people hold loyalties to region, country and now continent – even as the definition of what it means to be ‘European’ remains unclear. Paying particular attention to those who came of age in the earliest years of the neoliberal and democratic transformations, this book uses the life-story narratives of rural and urban southern Poles to reveal how ‘being European’ is considered a fundamental component of ‘being Polish’ while participants are simultaneously ‘becoming European’. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how the EU is regarded as both an idea and an instrument, and how ordinary citizens make choices that influence the shape of European identity and the legitimacy of its institutions.

Author : Maria Mälksoo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135230807

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The Politics of Becoming European by Maria Mälksoo Pdf

This book weaves together perspectives drawn from critical international relations, anthropology and social theory in order to understand the Polish and Baltic post-Cold War politics of becoming European. Approaching the study of Europe’s eastern enlargement through a post-colonial critique, author Maria Mälksoo makes a convincing case for a rethinking of European identity. Drawing on the theorist Edward Said, she contends that studies of the European Union are marked by a prevailing Orientalism, rarely asking who has traditionally been able to define European identity, and whether this identity should be presented as an historical process rather than a static category. The central argument of this book is that the historical experience of being framed as simultaneously in Europe - and yet not quite in Europe – informs the current self-understandings and security imaginaries of Poland and the Baltic States. Exploring this existential condition of ‘liminal Europeaness’ among foreign and security policy-making elites, the book considers its effects on key security policy issues, including relations with Western Europe, Russia and the United States. Supported by solid empirical analyses, this book provides an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the post-Cold War predicament of Poland and the Baltic States. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, European Studies, Social and Political Theory, and Anthropology.

Author : Aleks Szczerbiak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134179022

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Poland Within the European Union by Aleks Szczerbiak Pdf

This book examines the first five years of Polish EU membership. The combination of Poland’s potential power as a major, and possibly controversial, player in both the region and Europe as a whole, and the apparent salience of Euroscepticism in domestic electoral politics at the core of the Polish government and party system presented the possibility that Poland would be a ‘new awkward partner’ in Europe. However, although Poles may have voted for EU-critical parties in large numbers no ‘Eurosceptic backlash’ has emerged. In fact, far from being a ‘new awkward partner’, Poland has tried to portray itself as the ‘new heart of Europe’ and it certainly came to be increasingly perceived as such in Brussels and by its European allies. This book focuses on two linked questions. Firstly, what impact has Poland had upon the EU as a new member state? Secondly, how has becoming an EU member impacted upon public attitudes towards the EU and Polish domestic politics, particularly on its party and electoral politics? Szczerbiak provides the first detailed empirical case study of the impact of Poland’s EU membership on its politics and of Poland's impact on the EU. The book also makes broader theoretical contributions to our understanding of EU relations with its member states. As a result of the above, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European Politics, political science and European integration.

Author : Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787350717

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The Impact of Migration on Poland by Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany Pdf

How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. The authors explore an array of social trends and their causes before using in-depth interview data to illustrate how migration contributes to those causes. They address fundamental questions about whether and how Polish society is becoming more equal and more cosmopolitan, arguing that for particular segments of society migration does make a difference, and can be seen as both leveller and eye-opener. While the book focuses mainly on stayers in Poland, and their multiple contacts with Poles in other countries, Chapter 9 analyses ‘Polish society abroad’, a more accurate concept than ‘community’ in countries like the UK, and Chapter 10 considers impacts of immigration to Poland. The book is written in a lively and accessible style, and will be important reading for anyone interested in the influence of migration on society, as well as students and scholars researching EU mobility, migration theory and methodology, and issues facing contemporary Europe.

Author : T. Lane,M. Wolanski,Marian Wola?ski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230271784

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Poland and European Integration by T. Lane,M. Wolanski,Marian Wola?ski Pdf

Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European states? This book explores how Poles in exile attempted to shape opinion in Poland and the West.

Author : Marcin Piatkowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198789345

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Europe's Growth Champion by Marcin Piatkowski Pdf

What makes countries rich? What makes countries poor? Europe's Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland seeks to answer these questions, and many more, through a study of one of the biggest, and least heard about, economic success stories. Over the last twenty-five years Poland has transitioned from a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country to unexpectedly join the ranks of the world's high income countries. Europe's Growth Champion is about the lessons learned from Poland's remarkable experience, the conditions that keep countries poor, and the challenges that countries need to face in order to grow. It defines a new growth model that Poland and its Eastern European peers need to adopt to grow and catch up with their Western counterparts. Poland's economic rise emphasizes the importance of the fundamental sources of growth- institutions, culture, ideas, and leaders- in economic development. It demonstrates that a shift from an extractive society, where the few rule for the benefit of the few, to an inclusive society, where many rule for the benefit of many, can be the key to economic success. *IEurope's Growth Champion asserts that a newly emerged inclusive society will support further convergence of Poland and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe with the West, and help to sustain the region's Golden Age. It also acknowledges the future challenges that Poland faces, and that moving to the core of the European economy will require further reforms and changes in Poland's developmental character.

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Katja Mäkinen,Johanna Turunen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429620805

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Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union by Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Katja Mäkinen,Johanna Turunen Pdf

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social, spatial, temporal, discursive, narrative, performative, and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities, identities, and borders, and for generating notions of inclusion and exclusion in Europe, the book also considers the idea of Europe itself as a narrative. Chapters tackle issues such as multilevel governance of heritage; geopolitics of border-crossings and border-making; participation and non-participation; and embodiment and affective experience of heritage. Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union advances heritage studies with an interdisciplinary approach that utilises and combines theories and conceptualizations from critical geopolitics, political studies, EU and European studies, cultural policy research, and cultural studies. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of heritage, politics, belonging, the EU, ideas, and narratives of Europe.

Author : Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787350687

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The Impact of Migration on Poland by Anne White,Izabela Grabowska,Paweł Kaczmarczyk,Krystyna Slany Pdf

How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. The authors explore an array of social trends and their causes before using in-depth interview data to illustrate how migration contributes to those causes. They address fundamental questions about whether and how Polish society is becoming more equal and more cosmopolitan, arguing that for particular segments of society migration does make a difference, and can be seen as both leveller and eye-opener. While the book focuses mainly on stayers in Poland, and their multiple contacts with Poles in other countries, Chapter 9 analyses ‘Polish society abroad’, a more accurate concept than ‘community’ in countries like the UK, and Chapter 10 considers impacts of immigration to Poland. The book is written in a lively and accessible style, and will be important reading for anyone interested in the influence of migration on society, as well as students and scholars researching EU mobility, migration theory and methodology, and issues facing contemporary Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UCSD:31822034039354

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International Trade Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anne White,Izabela Grabowska-Lusińska,Krystyna Slany,Paweł Kaczmarczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178735069X

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The Impact of Migration on Poland by Anne White,Izabela Grabowska-Lusińska,Krystyna Slany,Paweł Kaczmarczyk Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Poland
ISBN : IND:30000028457335

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Contemporary Poland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michał Dobroczyński
Publisher : Adam Marszalek
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : European Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073033073

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Poland, Its Surroundings and the European Union by Michał Dobroczyński Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poland
ISBN : UVA:X002128226

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Polish Western Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elżbieta Opiłowska,Monika Sus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000373172

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Poland and Germany in the European Union by Elżbieta Opiłowska,Monika Sus Pdf

This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, across such different policy areas as trade, foreign and security policy, energy, fiscal issues, health and social policy, migration and local governance. By studying the impact of the three explanatory categories – the historical legacy, interdependence and asymmetry – on the bilateral relationship, the book explores the patterns of cooperation and identifies the driving forces and hindering factors of the bilateral relationship. Covering the Polish–German relationship since 2004, it demonstrates, in a systematic way, that it does not qualify as embedded bilateralism. The relationship remains historically burdened and asymmetric, and thus it is not resilient to crises. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European and EU Politics, German politics, East/Central European Politics, borderlands studies, and more broadly, for international relations, history and sociology.

Author : Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Nizynska,Przemyslaw Czaplinski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442622524

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Being Poland by Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Nizynska,Przemyslaw Czaplinski Pdf

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland’s cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.