Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach

Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), thus encouraging analyses in terms of transgression. This article opens with a quotation from Zygmunt Bauman’s essay, “On Postmodern Uses of Sex,” which reflects on the instability of the concept and emphasizes its contextualization. This openly declared incongruity raises questions of applicability. What is meant by eroticism today, i.e. in and after postmodernism? The article seeks to explore the relevance of the term in studies of urban drama and tries to suggest a workable approach that would differentiate between the commonly observable erotic material found on display within the premises of the city and the eroticism of the city itself. In the latter case the erotic relationship involves the materiality of the urban context and its user. The essay, focusing on drama, assumes that plays are written for the stage-their proper mode of existence-and deems it necessary to include the city/theatre and city/drama interdependence as well as the nexus of concepts such as urban drama and its genre restrictions into the following analysis

XXX years of education of physical education teachers in Łódź – a calendar of achievements

The article presents the issues of education of physical education specialists in Łódź. It is an attempt to systematize the achievements in the field of education of physical education teachers, trainers and sports coaches in the academic environment of Łódź. It contains the most important information relating to the origin of access to education at this department, important moments, facts, events decisive for the existence and further education of specialists of physical culture in Łódź. It presents the profiles of the creators of this initiative and important figures in its history. A crucial part of the study are the lists of graduates (Physical and Health Education and Physical Culture and Health), graduating in successive years at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Łódź

From a safe distance : Swedish portrayal of World War II : Astrid Lindgren: "Krigsdagböcker 1939-1945"

The article refers to the latest methodological reflections on the remembrance culture and presents one of the forms of Swedish collective memory thematization. The 1990s brought an increased interest of the Swedish people in the history of their own country and debates on the stance taken by Sweden during World War II. Diaries, memoires, autobiographic and documentary novels about World War II and the Holocaust gained recognition among Swedish researchers and readers. Among the latest prose works, coming under this thematic heading, Krigsdagböcker 1939-1945 (War Diaries 1939-1945) by Astrid Lindgren, published posthumously in 2015, merit attention. When analyzing the image of World War II presented in the diaries, the following issues were taken into account: the image of everyday life of the Swedes during World War II, the state of knowledge of the situation in Europe and the attitude towards the Swedish neutrality

Ukrainian fortresses a study of a strongholds system from the early iron age in Podolia

During the Polish ‑Ukrainian archaeological project “Fortresses of Ukraine” it was proposed to study two of the most significant sites with the newest possible technology. The final decision was made to apply the digital photogrammetry that was acquired with the use of drones.The project was funded with measures National Science Center awarded by decision numer DEC-2012/07/ B/ HS3/01917

Śledzenie procesu w badaniach politologicznych. Warianty i potencjał zastosowania

Process-tracing is a method of within-case analysis, which can provide causal explanations of various social phenomena. Its focus on developing and testing causal theories attracts interest among qualitative researchers who do not want to limit their inquiries to exploratory or descriptive aims. At the same time, the case-centric variant of process-tracing, in which theories are used pragmatically as heuristic devices, provides a systematic but also creative way of researching singular events and processes. This paper attempts to show what process-tracing is and what it is not, what its variants are and how they should be used. It also probes the ontological and epistemological limits of the method, by showing how it can be used in idealist and interpretive research

Social, Economic and cultural dimension of sporting spectacle

Prezentowana publikacja dotyczy wybranych zagadnień związanych z kulturą fizyczną i zdrowotną współczesnego człowieka. Autorzy – specjaliści z zakresu pedagogiki, nauk medycznych i nauk o kulturze fizycznej – podejmują m.in. problematykę wartości kultury fizycznej w procesie kształcenia i wychowania, współczesnych czynników promocji zdrowia i edukacji zdrowotnej, zdrowotnych uwarunkowań aktywności ruchowej czy społecznych kontekstów idei olimpijskiej. Tematyka ta wpisuje się w ważny nurt rozważań, w którym poszukuje się nowych rozwiązań pedagogicznych, zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do idei edukacji olimpijskiej i zdrowotnej.Sports event is this aspect of sport, which is experienced by most people. Sports games, competitions, matches shape the image of the sport in the popular consciousness The article includes analysis of the sporting spectacle – the essential aspects and function. The analysis aimed to identify possible prospects of viewing sport as a social phenomenon. As a result of the analysis, nine possible prospects were identified as possible discussion on the sports spectacle. Sports competitions, matches can be viewed from the following perspectives symbolic, emotional, recreation and health, economic, social and political, architectural as well as in the perspective of art and media

Izazovi za hrvatski nacionalni identitet unutar EU-a: poljska perspektiva

The aim of this paper is to share the experience of a post-socialist country and a member of the EU since 1 May 2004 and the problem of preserving its own national identity, while also trying to promote it. The author first examines the definition of the concept and the relevance of the Nation’s Brand Identity Model with respect to Croatia. Next, he addresses the issue of how to preserve national identity facing “the winds” of unequal competition from more developed EU member countries as well as other global players – mainly United States. (perhaps even more dangerous). The issue of media ownership plays an extremely important role. Based on the evidence from the Polish experience, the author developed a new concept of “the reed effect.” In the final section of the article, he recommends public diplomacy as the potentially most efficient tool for building relations and promoting national identity. Finally, he concludes the study with a rather optimistic observation that external threats tend to strengthen national identity, yet the process is time-consuming. In the case of Poland, the appeals for “economic patriotism”, defending the purity of the Polish language, slogans like “buy Polish” and “proud to be Polish” did not emerge until 6-8 years after accession to the European Union and about 18-20 years after the beginning of the country’s economic and political transformation. This phenomenon can be observed after the first waves of enthusiasm for the “western/individualistic” value system, consumer goods, junk food, films, foreign direct investment and media “freedom”.Cilj je ovoga rada podijeliti iskustvo Poljske, postsocijalističke zemlje, članice Europske unije od 1. travnja 2004., koja se s jedne strane suočava s problemom očuvanja vlastitog nacionalnog identiteta, a s druge strane istovremeno ga pokušava promovirati. Autor ispituje relevantnost modela brendiranja nacionalnog identiteta u odnosu na Hrvatsku. Osvrće se i na pitanje očuvanja nacionalnog identiteta s obzirom na “vjetrove” neravnopravne konkurencije, kako europske, osobito bolje razvijenih zemalja članica Europske unije, tako i svjetske. Izrazito je bitno pitanje medijskog vlasništva. S obzirom na poljsko iskustvo razvijen je novi koncept – “efekt trske”. U posljednjem dijelu rada javna je diplomacija preporučena kao potencijalno najučinkovitiji alat za izgradnju odnosa i promoviranje nacionalnog identiteta. Studija je zaključena s razmjerno optimističnim opažanjima da vanjske prijetnje osnažuju nacionalni identitet, ali i da taj proces dugo traje. U slučaju Poljske apeli za “ekonomski patriotizam”, obrana čistoće poljskog jezika, slogani poput “kupuj poljsko” i “ponosan da sam Poljak” nastali su tek prije 6 do 8 godina, odnosno nakon ulaska u Europsku uniju, te 18 do 20 godina nakon početka ekonomske i političke transformacije. Taj fenomen može se uočiti nakon prvih valova entuzijazma povezanih sa “zapadnim/individualističkim” vrijednosnim sustavom konzumentskih dobara, brze hrane, filmova, direktnih inozemnih ulaganja i medijske “slobode”

Caryl Churchill’s Artificial and Orificial Bodies: Between Subjective and Non-Subjective Nobody’s Emotion or Affect

This article analyzes the shift from emotion to affect in Caryl Churchill’s writing for the theatre, a process which becomes prominent in the later seventies and culminates in the production of A Mouthful of Birds, a project designed jointly with the choreographer David Lan. The effects of the transformation remain traceable in The Skriker, a complex play taking several years to complete. It is argued that there is a tangible and logical correlation between Churchill’s dismantling of the representational apparatus associated with the tradition of institutional theatre—a process which involves, primarily, a dissolution of its artificially constructed, docile bodies into orificial ones—and her withdrawal from the use of emotional expression in favour of the affective. In the following examination, emotions are conceived as interpretative acts modelled on cognition and mediated through representations while the intensity of affect remains unstructured. Often revealed through violence, pain and suffering, affect enables the theatre to venture into the pre-cognitive and thus beyond the tradition of liberal subject formation