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Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine I
Volume One of Three Revolutions presents the overall research and discussions on topics related to the revolutionary events that have unfolded in Ukraine since 1990. The three revolutions referred to in this project include: the Revolution on Granite (1990); the Orange Revolution (2004–2005); and the Euromaidan Revolution (2013–2014). The project’s overall goal was to determine the extent to which we have the right to use the term “revolution” in relation to these events. Moreover, the research also uncovered the methodological problems associated with this task. Lastly, the project investigated to what extent the three revolutions are connected to each other and to what extent they are detached. Hence, the research in this volume not only discusses the theoretical aspects but also provides new analyses on such issues as religion, memory, and identity in Ukraine.
African Migrants and the Refugee Crisis
This book discusses African migration and the refugee crisis. Economic, political and social tension in the Middle East and in many parts of the Global South has induced historic mass migration across national and international borders. The situation is especially dire in Africa, where a sizable number of Africans have chosen or have been forced to leave their countries of origin for Europe and North America. Written by an international team of scholars, this edited book traces the refugee crisis around the world, telling the necessary story of forced migration, intentional exclusion, and human insecurity from an Afrocentric lens. The volume is divided into three sections. Section I places A...
Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism
This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete print technology known as samizdat to break the modern monopoly of information of the party-state has fascinated many, yet this book looks beyond the Cold War frame to reappraise its historical novelty and significance. What made that culture resilient and rewarding, this book argues, was the correspon...
East Central Europe
What is East Central Europe? Can it be defined with any precision? The question of definition is a difficult one as is ussually the case concerning borderlands whose historical developments show little continuity and an uncertain identity born of the conflict between aspirations and reality. It is in East Central Europe that „no peace settlement is ever final, no frontiers are secure and each generation must begin its work anew”. Is there any chance that this definition will become out of date?
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History
This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity right now? What are the roots of this development? How can a Central European identity be shaped when national perspectives are prevalent? The book’s first part analyses social and political processes that shaped nation-states in the Central European region and shows divergent trends of individual states when it comes to defining a regional approach of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czech Re...
Intermarium
History and collective memories influence a nation, its culture, and institutions; hence, its domestic politics and foreign policy. That is the case in the Intermarium, the land between the Baltic and Black Seas in Eastern Europe. The area is the last unabashed rampart of Western Civilization in the East, and a point of convergence of disparate cultures. Marek Jan Chodakiewicz focuses on the Intermarium for several reasons. Most importantly because, as the inheritor of the freedom and rights stemming from the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian/Ruthenian Commonwealth, it is culturally and ideologically compatible with American national interests. It is also a gateway to both East and West. Since...
Architektura oddzielenia
Autorka przedstawia przestrzenne działania Izraela wobec Palestyńczyków prowadzone od 1967 roku na terytorium Zachodniego Brzegu. Wznoszone tam obiekty architektoniczne, a także tworzone dla nich zaplecze logistyczne, można postrzegać jako jedno z narzędzi rządzących, którzy dają poprzez nie wyraz prowadzonej polityce oraz ideologii państwa izraelskiego. W tym sensie rządzący stają się architektami uprawiającymi politykę organizacji przestrzeni w celu zrealizowania założeń polityczno-społecznych. Materiałem, którego używają do swych celów – jakkolwiek brutalnie by to zabrzmiało – są nie tylko cement, piasek, czy czujniki elektroniczne, ale także ludzie. To bowiem Palestyńczycy zamieszkujący Zachodni Brzeg Jordanu płacą wysoką cenę za społeczno-przestrzenną inżynierię Izraela.
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Walka bez przemocy na przykładzie oporu Palestyńczyków z Zachodniego Brzegu Jordanu wobec polityki Izraela
Podstawowym celem, który wyznaczyła sobie autorka, jest analiza walki bez przemocy podejmowanej przez Palestyńczyków mieszkających na Zachodnim Brzegu Jordanu. Walki bez przemocy – czyli rodzaju walki prowadzonej przez społeczność cywilną, u której podstaw leży nieposuwanie się do przemocy fizycznej, a nawet niewysuwanie groźby jej użycia. Taka forma walki przewiduje natomiast korzystanie z całego zestawu nacisków o charakterze politycznym, gospodarczym, społecznym oraz moralnym i psychologicznym. Autorka podejmuje próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, dlaczego mimo długoletniego doświadczenia i konsekwencji walki bez przemocy przeciw polityce Izraela Palestyńczycy nie odnosz...
