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Becoming Good Women
For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base for cultural production, particularly in reproducing ethno-religious hegemony under the guise of ‘good’ Buddhist girls. It illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. Drawing on theories of social reproduction, the book examines young people’s aspirations of ‘figuring out’ their identity and visions of the future in the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.
Teaching History, Celebrating Nationalism
This book analyses the relationship between history education and nationalism in the context of the dominant structures of collective memory in Poland. Drawing on original qualitative research with history teachers, it explores the ways in which teachers understand the aims of history teaching and how they teach history, with some contesting or negotiating official and hegemonic nationalist memory projects, while others predominantly reproduce or radicalise them. A study of teachers’ tendencies to approach history through the prism of nationalism, this study reveals a view of history lessons as a means of instilling national identity in students, as the past is constructed in nationalist terms and no contradiction is identified in viewing history as both an objective science and a ‘nationalising’ tool. An examination of the means by which a dominant nationalist discourse is reinforced through historical education, Teaching History, Celebrating Nationalism will appeal to scholars of sociology and education with interests in nationalism and memory studies.
The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland
This book explores attitudes towards migrants and refugees from North Africa and the Middle East during the so-called migration crisis in 2015-2016 in Poland. Beginning with an examination of Polish government policy and the discursive construction of refugees in the media, politics and popular culture, it argues that they identified refugees with Muslims, who were deemed to pose a threat to the Polish nation. This analysis establishes the Islamophobic public discourse which is shown to be variously reproduced, negotiated and contested in the nuanced study of Polish attitudes which follows. Drawing on original qualitative research and constructivist theory, the book examines differing stances towards refugees in the context of the lay understanding of the Polish nation and its boundaries. In doing so it demonstrates the influence of discourses that draw on an exclusionary concept of national identity and the potential for them to be mobilised against immigrants. This timely, theory-based case study will provide a valuable resource for students and scholars of Central and Eastern European politics, nationalism, race, migration and refugee studies.
The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes
This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation. As the largest international armed conflict in Europe since World War II, Russia’s war against Ukraine has provoked strong reactions and questions about the post-1945 world order, the utility of the war, and the effectiveness of international criminal justice. Throughout the chapters in this volume, scholars and legal practitioners from Canada, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, the UK, and the United States present the results of interdisciplinary research, insights from the perspective of other post-communist states, and first...
Computer Supported Qualitative Research
This book includes selecting the articles accepted for presentation and discussion at WCQR2021, held on January 20th to 22nd, 2021 (Virtual Conference). The World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) is an annual event that aims to bring together researchers, academics and professionals, promoting the sharing and discussion of knowledge, new perspectives, experiences and innovations on Qualitative Research. WCQR2021 featured four main application fields (Education, Health, Social Sciences, and Engineering/Technology) and seven main subjects: Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research; Systematization of Approaches with Qualitative Studies; Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research; Data Analysis Types; Innovative Processes of Qualitative Data Analysis; Qualitative Research in Web Context; Qualitative Analysis with Software Support. The book is a valuable resource for everyone interested in qualitative research, emphasizing Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS).
Sociological Foundations of Education
This volume introduces sociology as a foundational discipline of education. Education is a central structuring mechanism in shaping societies, making it a core focus for sociology. Sociologists study education in its broadest sense – as occurring within families, communities and provided by institutions. The purposes of formal education are contested and these contestations shape broader power relations locally, nationally and globally. Sociologists disaggregate processes within education to examine empirically and theoretically the various levels at which they operate. This allows them to describe and make sense of the ways that relations of inequality are developed, reproduced or unsettl...
Etyka badań jakościowych w praktyce
Jest to pierwsze w Polsce tak obszerne i wszechstronne opracowanie problemów etyki badań socjologicznych. Konfrontując postulaty normatywne z praktyką badań jakościowych, zwłaszcza związanych z narażeniem osób badanych na zranienie (krzywdę), Adrianna Surmiak uświadamia czytelnikowi, jak duża część tej praktyki wymaga wrażliwości, intuicji etycznej, empatii, a ponadto jak wiele szczegółowych kwestii należałoby jeśli nie uregulować kodeksowo, to przynajmniej poddać środowiskowej dyskusji. dr hab. Wojciech Pawlik, prof. UW Z książki Adrianny Surmiak jasno wynika, że antropologom i socjologom prowadzącym badania jakościowe potrzebna jest nie tylko znajomość zasad etyki proceduralnej (formalnej), ale też wrażliwość i wiedza wywodzące się z etyki opisowej; praktyce badawczej powinna towarzyszyć nieustanna „kontrola sumienia”, wyczulenie na wszystko, co może w jakikolwiek sposób naruszać dobro badanych. dr hab. Katarzyna Kaniowska, prof. UŁ
Antropologia zaangażowana (?)
Kwestia zaangażowania antropologii podjęta w niniejszym tomie, co zrozumiałe, nie stanowi głosu odosobnionego, a raczej wpisuje się w podejmowaną od pewnego czasu dyskusję na gruncie polskiej antropologii. Toczony w pierwszym dziesięcioleciu XXI wieku spór, przez wzgląd na naturę debaty naukowej był i jest daleki od definitywnego zakończenia. Myśl o satysfakcjonującym wszystkie zainteresowane strony rozstrzygnięciu wydaje się być mrzonką. Prowadzone na temat zaangażowania rozmowy uzmysławiają po raz kolejny współistnienie rozbieżnych, a niekiedy wykluczających się paradygmatów, co stanowi o sile i jednoczesnej słabości antropologii, o czym przyjdzie się wkrótce przekonać. Wszakże pokusa i obietnica jednomyślności byłaby zgubnym zasklepieniem się w monologu, sytuacja zniesienia rozmowy, niepokoju ścierania się stanowisk, stanowiłaby oznakę klęski niezależnego myślenia.
Sport and Nationalism
Sport and Nationalism: Theoretical Perspectives aims to advance the academic study of the interconnections between sport and nationalism by, firstly, reviewing the current ‘state of play’ in this field of study and, secondly, highlighting the potential for the development of future theoretically-informed analysis of the relationship between sport, nationalism and national identity. This book offers a critical appraisal of the utility of various theoretical concepts used to explore the nature of contemporary nationalism when applied to the specific topic of sport. Bringing together a range of contemporary academics in this field of study, it offers an opportunity to showcase contrasting theoretical positions on this topic. Furthermore, the central focus of the book regarding extended application of theories of nationalism to the field of sport provides an opportunity for novel and critical contributions to this field of study. This book will be beneficial to students, researchers and professionals with an interest in sport and in the relationship between sport, politics and nationalism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity
This book discusses historical continuities and discontinuities between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, interwar Poland, the Polish People’s Republic, and contemporary Poland. The year 1989 is seen as a clear point-break that allowed the Poles and their country to regain a ‘natural historical continuity’ with the ‘Second Republic,’ as interwar Poland is commonly referred to in the current Polish national master narrative. In this pattern of thinking about the past, Poland-Lithuania (nowadays roughly coterminous with Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia’s Kaliningrad Region and Ukraine) is seen as the ‘First Republic.’ However, in spite of this ‘politics of memory...
