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Polish Perspectives on Communism by Bogdan Szlachta Pdf
The authors in this anthology dispel the illusion that if communism failed in Russia it was due to an accident of history, having been tried in the wrong country and implemented by incompetent leaders. The evidence presented here should demonstrate that its failure was not only inevitable, but also anticipated long before it occurred.
Being Poland by Tamara Trojanowska,Joanna Ni?y?ska,Przemys?aw Czapli?ski 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.
New Perspectives on Polish Culture by Tamara Trojanowska Pdf
New Perspectives in Polish Culture: Personal Encounters, Public Affairs collects essays that examine the public-private dynamic as Polish culture-from the nineteenth century to the present day-interacts with the tensions, ambiguities, and idiosyncrasies of European modernity. The authors of these essays discuss Polish poetry, fiction, theatre, and literary and cultural theory. Writers and artists discussed in these essays range from Adam Mickiewicz and Joseph Conrad through Witold Gombrowicz, Miron Bialoszewski, Czeslaw Milosz, Zofia Nalkowska, and Tadeusz Kantor to Slawomir Mrożek, Tadeusz Rożewicz, the poets of bruLion, and the latest dramatists, as well as many other authors active both in Poland itself and in the Polish diaspora.
EU migrant workers, Brexit and precarity by Duda-Mikulin, Eva A. Pdf
How has the Brexit vote affected EU migrants to the UK? This book presents a female Polish perspective, using findings from research carried out with migrants interviewed before and after the Brexit vote – voices of real people who made their home in the UK. It looks at how migrants view Brexit and what it means for them, how their experiences compare pre and post the Brexit vote, their future plans, as well as considering the wider implications of the migrant experience in relation to precarity and the British paid labour market.
Treatment of Prisoners – International and Polish Perspective by Bożena Gronowska,Piotr Sadowski Pdf
List of Abbreviations / 7 Introduction / 9 Chapter 1. Deprivation of liberty in the context of criminal justice system / 17 1.1. General remarks / 17 1.2. Deprivation of liberty – its nature and aims / 23 1.3. Classification of prisoners – consequences / 26 1.4. Basic penitentiary paradox / 29 1.5. Prison of the 21st century / 31 Chapter 2. Contemporary penitentiary standards and policy – normative aspect / 37 2.1. Treaty standards / 38 2.1.1. General treaties / 38 2.1.2. Special treaty regulations / 43 2.2. Recommended standards / 45 2.2.1. Universal level / 45 2.2.2. Regional level / 49 2.3. Domestic impact of international standards – Polish example / 53 Chapter 3. Prison population – human dimension of personal interrelations / 57 3.1. The prisoners / 57 3.2. The prison staff / 66 3.3. Interpersonal confrontations and their consequences / 71 3.3.1. Horizontal personal interrelations / 72 3.3.2. Vertical personal interrelations / 76 3.4. Examples of extreme personal interrelations (prison scandals in a nutshell) / 78 Chapter 4. Social rehabilitation of prisoners – between idea and reality / 83 4.1. An idea of “normalization”/ 83 4.2. A concept of the “implied limitations”/ 90 4.3. Main instruments of social rehabilitation / 92 4.3.1. Contacts with the outside world – possibilities / 92 4.3.2. Special offers inside the prisons / 95 4.3.2.1. Work / 95 4.3.2.2. Education / 98 4.3.2.2.1. Spiritual assistance / 99 4.3.2.2.2. Leisure time / 101 4.3.2.3. Treatment programs / 102 4.4. Preparation for release / 104 Chapter 5. Prison life and human dignity – situations of special risk / 107 5.1. Brief introductory remarks / 107 5.2. Problem of discrimination / 108 5.3. Prison order and coercion measures / 110 5.3.1. An authorized coercion actions in prison / 112 5.4. Health care “in” and “out” of prison / 118 5.5. Disciplinary procedure and sanctions / 122 Chapter 6. Control, inspections and basic procedural guaranties for prisoners / 127 6.1. Domestic level / 129 6.2. International level / 132 6.2.1. Complaint/petition procedures / 132 6.2.1.1. Council of Europe / 132 6.2.1.2. European Union / 134 6.2.1.3. United Nations Organization / 135 6.2.2. Additional monitoring procedures / 137 Final remarks / 139 Bibiography (Basic Literature) / 147 Appendices / 155
A Romantic Polish-Jew by Michał Galas,Shoshana Ronen Pdf
In this book one can find historical background of Rabbi Ozjasz Thon's various interests, and it examines closely the main fields in which he was active and creative. Ozjasz Thon was a fascinating figure in the Jewish-Polish arena at the first third of the twentieth century. He was present and active in almost any field of the Jewish life in Poland in those days. He was a preacher and a rabbi, a political leader, a philosopher, a sociologist, an essayist, and a publicist.
The Polish Road from Socialism: The Economics, Sociology and Politics of Transition by Walter D. Connor,Piotr Ploszajski Pdf
What the contributors to this volume offer is neither a romantic version of the course of Polish history nor a jubilant account of the recovery of national independence and political choice. Rather, they offer a variety of tough-minded analytic perspectives on what comes when "the party's over" - not just the PSPR but the celebration marking its downfall. They focus on Poland's movement toward an internationally competitive market economy, a political democracy in which plural interests compete, and the constitution of a civil society that both tolerates and ameliorates conflict. The multidisciplinary contributors include Jan Mujzel, Keith Crane, Benjamin Slay, Kazimierz Poznanski; Jan Bossak, Wojciech Bienkowski, Wlodzimierz Wesolowski, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, Adam Sarapata, Andrzej Sicinski, Piotr Lukasiewicz, Krzysztof Nowak, David S. Mason, Adrzej Rychard, Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Jack Bielasiak, Janusz Reykowski, Stanislaw Gebethner, Miroslawa Marody, Edmund Mokrzycki, and Michael D. Kennedy.
Author : Jo Harper Publisher : Central European University Press Page : 294 pages File Size : 49,6 Mb Release : 2018-10-20 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9789637326554
This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.
24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber in the tabloids, the New Cold War in the broadsheets and the endless search for 'the new Berlin' for hipsters. Against the stereotypes, Agata Pyzik peers behind the curtain to take a look at the secret histories of Eastern Europe (and its tortured relations with the 'West'). Neoliberalism and mass migration, post-punk and the Bowiephile obsession with the Eastern Bloc, Orientalism and 'self-colonization', the emancipatory potentials of Socialist Realism, the possibility of a non-Western idea of modernity and futurism, and the place of Eastern Europe in any current revival of 'the idea of communism' – all are much more complex and surprising than they appear. Poor But Sexy refuses both a dewy-eyed Ostalgia for the 'good old days' and the equally desperate desire to become a 'normal part of Europe', reclaiming instead the idea an Other Europe. , ,
The Polish Dilemma by Lawrence S Graham,Maria K Ciechocinska Pdf
Although much has been written about contemporary Poland, discussions that provide a balanced assessment of the current situation are in short supply. To correct that problem, this book offers a cross-section of intellectual opinion within Poland, including original research and works of synthesis that draw on Polish research and writing that have been, for the most part, inaccessible to scholars outside Poland. The contributors' views avoid the extremes of condemnation or defense of the system and make possible a more complete understanding of present-day realities. Their perspectives are moderated by the fact that, although the authors recognize the need for reform and change, they also take into consideration the great constraints facing all who would confront serious national issues. The discussions range from examinations of social structure and class to evaluations of the significance of the state apparatus in the analysis of policy and assessments of economic performance.
Polish Literature and National Identity by Dariusz Skórczewski,Agnieszka Polakowska Pdf
"Although for half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission, its colonial status escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics. It still remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. In Polish Literature and Identity: A Postcolonial Landscape Dariusz Skórczewski argues for the advantages of applying postcolonial thought to Polish realities; at the same time, he modifes the theoretical framework worked out by other postcolonialists. The book seeks to reveal how Poland's two lines of experience-one of foreign hegemony since the late 1700s through 1989 (excluding a short period of sovereignty between the two world wars); and the other of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as itself a pre-modern empire-have shaped the culture of contemporary Polish society. The book focuses on identity transformations as reflected in Polish literature and critical discourses. It opens up the question of the identity of a postcolonial nation in contemporary East-Central Europe where globalization and cosmopolitanism clash with growing national sentiments, making predictions about a speedy advent of a post-national era premature. The first few chapters are devoted to the postcolonial theorizing of Poland in the East Central European context. This part of the book seeks relevant language(s) and registers for the analysis of the cultural condition of East Central Europe as a part of the world which slipped most postcolonial critics' attention. The second part of the book (Chapters 7-11) deal with the effects of the colonial encounter on Poles' self-perception and perception of Others, as reflected in Romantic and modern Polish literature. The book closes with a Postscript titled "Three Warnings," outlining a critique of postcolonial theory and criticism"--
