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Globalization is a reality of the modern world. Religion in the future will become an instrument of globalization spiritual sphere. Gradually in the world will appear religion that will correspond to the character of global processes, the religion of the globalizing world.
In this article I will try to answer the question of what factors cause the formation of a new order on the borderlands of the changing social conditions and geopolitical, and they cause tensions and conflicts? I assume that the closer to understanding and explanation of the complexity of socio-cultural and political borderlands focused on Central and Eastern Europe need to take into account at least...
W niniejszym artykule korzystamy z fragmentów tekstu: A. Śliz, M. S. Szczepański, Borderland in sociological perspective. The case of the Polish-Czech border (Pogranicza w socjologii. Przypadek pogranicza polsko-czeskiego), [w:] J. Kiszta (red.), BlueNotes 1. ACCENDO – Centrum pro védu a výzkum, o.p.s, Ostrava 2013, s. 25-29.
Zamenhof was one of the few thinkers who noticed the impossibility of a just dispensation between ethnicities and religions in the Russian Empire. He aspired to present a social system where national actions could run in the most natural way and where no one has the right to rule on behalf of the nation. In Zamenhof ’s opinion multiculturalism composed of different ethnical groups inhabiting the same...
In the paper, the relation between a borderland region and the social identity of borderland inhabitants is considered. A question is posed whether the borderland has a stronger impact on the social identity of its inhabitants or the direction of the impact is opposite. The answer to this question is sought in the studies of borderland theoreticians and researchers, and in a reconstruction of how...
At the time of the Polish People’s Republic and the Soviet Union there was a thesis of friendship and brotherhood disseminated between the two countries and nations. This was, however, a purely official belief based on the ideology of those times. In fact communication between people, including those inhabiting the borderland was restricted and controlled. The KGB was directly responsible for supervision,...
Border University Network this is international consortium of universities from Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine. Author of presents structure of the network with including contacts each of her nodes has which. With the network analysis author describes and it presents properties of the discussed structure moreover, so as: positions of actors in network, density, centrality, strong and...
There is a stereotype that the Republic of Belarus is a country where pluralism does not exist in all spheres of life. However, this statement is not precisely correct, as contemporary Belarus demonstrates political neutrality and pluralism in the foreign policy and multiculturalism inside the country. Multiculturalism is viewed in the paper as mutual tolerance among the population and respect to...
The aim of the article is to confront the theory of cultural capital and social capital from the social reality in the border regions of the three countries: Poland, Hungary and Ukraine, with particular emphasis on the role played by young people in these societies. This confrontation will include both a theoretical reflection, focusing on the problem of the application of the theory of cultural and...
In the article I try to analyze some problems of institutionalization of additional place names in minority languages in Poland. Regulations concerning these issues didn’t exist in the Polish law until the adoption of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities and Regional Language in 2005. The implementation of bilingual regulations had been the real and difficult phenomenon for the local administration...
The article deals with the concept of “new materialism“ and tries to explain “how discourses come to matter” and “how matter comes to discourses” [Barad 2003, 2007]. Borders and border regions are particularly revealing places for social research, especially in the present era of growing globalization, growth of the EU and mass immigration. Two opposite, reciprocal processes are open for investigation...
The author, referring to his own research on the Polish-Lithuanian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian borderland, formulates the thesis that after the collapse of the USSR individual nations began to develop their own national identity in opposition to other nations. The author poses the question of the civic loyalty with simultaneous loyalty to the culture of origin, national culture. He gives...
It was already in the Middle Ages that the lands of today’s Ukraine were the area of clashes between the East and the West, Rome and the Byzantine Empire. Those clashes were manifested in confessional discrepancies of Catholicism and Orthodoxy as well as the differences in sacral language. In Ukraine, similarly to the whole area of the Latin – Byzantine borderline, the decisive factor in the later...
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century there was a political mobilization of states built on the model of nationalistic. This trend is very clear especially in the area of Central and Eastern Europe and in Central Asia. Any attempt a new organization of the semantic concepts of statehood, citizenship, nationality, country, nationalism, ethnos, ethnic minority, diaspora, migration, etc...
The paper comprises a theoretical exploration focused upon the ethnic borderland and the potential factors of its decomposition present and active in contemporary world. Namely, attention and discussion had been focused upon peculiarity of ethnic borderland build and maintained by social and neighbourhood relationships between members of numerous local ethnic groups, and its distinction from areas...
The article focuses on the relation between indigenous social movements’ struggle for establishment of plurinational state and resistance to neoliberal globalization. It present origins of movements for indigenous empowerment, reforms which provided indigenous people with new rights and shows effects of these reforms. Author proves usefulness of the concept of counter-hegemonic globalization proposed...
This article describes situation of foreign compatriots on the borderland after great changes in 1989/1990 year. The autor focuses considerations on social, economic and political conditions of relations between dominant majority and minority (foreign compatriots) and national homeland. After necessary clarification of definitions takes to description of the overall circumstances on the borderland...
The article covers the area of twenty-five years scientific outputs in Sociology regarding the Polish-German borderland. The data on which the analysis is based are 192 publications which has been classified by the author into the universe of analytical texts referring to the area mentioned above. Results of analyses presented in the publication firstly indicate a sustainable rate of growth of knowledge...
The goal of the analysis is to reconstruct a common model of the notion of multiculturalism, linked to activities in the field of culture, in local communities of the borderland. The phenomenon observed in Poland is the appearance of the idea of multiculturalism which does not refer to a real ethnic diversification. The represented analysis allows formulation of a thesis, that this phenomenon may...
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