The legal situation of whistleblowers has become an object of keen public interest in recent years. As practice shows, people who reveal irregularities in the workplace are exposed to the negative ...consequences of their actions. This book proposes a model of legal protection of such people, which could be applied in the Polish legal order. This model has been designed on the basis of an analysis of the literature, jurisprudence and selected legal acts existing in the world in the field of whistleblowers‘ protection.
Rising Subjects explores the change of the public sphere
in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution. The 1905 Revolution
was one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general
...democratizations in Polish history. It was a popular rebellion
fostering political participation of the working class. The
infringement of previously carefully guarded limits of the public
sphere triggered a powerful conservative reaction among the
commercial and landed elites, and frightened the intelligentsia.
Polish nationalists promised to eliminate the revolutionary
"anarchy" and gave meaning to the sense of disappointment after the
revolution. This study considers the 1905 Revolution as a tipping
point for the ongoing developments of the public sphere. It
addresses the question of Polish socialism, nationalism, and
antisemitism. It demonstrates the difficulties in using the class
cleavage for democratic politics in a conflict-ridden, multiethnic
polity striving for an irredentist self-assertion against the
imperial power.
William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper ...Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians' traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting.Wheeling was a centre of West Virginia's labour movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city's active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the centre of the state's Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city's history of crime and organised vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighbourhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition. At once a deeply textured evocation of the city's ethnic institutions and an engagement with large questions about belonging, change and justice, Wheeling's Polonia us an inspiring account of a diverse working-class culture and the immigrants who built it.
Analysing the political relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the hasidic movement, this book examines plans formulated by the government and by groups close to government circles regarding ...hasidim, and describes how a hasidic body politic developed in response. Marcin Wodzinski demonstrates that the rise of hasidism was an important factor in shaping the Jewish policy of both central and provincial authorities and shows how the creation of socio-political conditions that were advantageous to the hasidic movement accelerated its growth. While concentrating on the dynamic that developed in the Kingdom of Poland, the discussion is informed by a consideration of the relationship between the state and the hasidic movement from its inception in the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that, whereas most analyses of political culture concentrate on states and societies with well-established electoral systems of representation, Wodzinski focuses on the under-researched area of political relations between a non-democratic state and a low-status community lacking authorized representation. Applying concepts more often associated with cultural history, his analysis draws a distinction between the terms of reference of high-level political debate and the actual implementation of policy middle- and low-level officials. Similarly, in analysing hasidic responses he differentiates between high-level hasidic representations in the state and the grassroots politics of the community. This combination enables a broad contextualization of the whole subject, integrating the social and cultural history of Polish Jewry with that of Polish society in general.
The evidence room Bordeleau, Anne; Hastings, Sascha
The evidence room,
2016., 2019, 2016, 2019-01-24
eBook
"In 2000, a libel suit argued before the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England successfully challenged the false assertion by Holocaust deniers that Auschwitz was not a killing facility. The ...Evidence Room is both a companion piece to and an elaboration of an exhibit, first presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, based on the forensic interpretation of the blueprints of the Auschwitz crematoria and the expert witness testimony by Robert Jan van Pelt, a professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, about the design and operation of those buildings as a killing facility."--
What happens when a region accustomed to violent shifts in borders is subjected to a new, peaceful partitioning? Has the European Union spent the last decade creating a new Iron Curtain at its ...fringes?Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontierexamines these questions from the perspective of the EU's new eastern external boundary. Since the Schengen Agreement in 1985, European states have worked together to create a territory free of internal borders and with heavily policed external boundaries. In 2004 those boundaries shifted east as the EU expanded to include eight postsocialist countries-including Poland but excluding neighboring Ukraine. Through an analysis of their shared frontier,Building Fortress Europeprovides an ethnographic examination of the human, social, and political consequences of developing a specialized, targeted, and legally advanced border regime in the enlarged EU. Based on fieldwork conducted with border guards, officials, and migrants shuttling between Poland and Ukraine as well as extensive archival research,Building Fortress Europeshows how people in the two countries are adjusting to living on opposite sides of a new divide. Anthropologist Karolina S. Follis argues that the policing of economic migrants and asylum seekers is caught between the contradictory imperatives of the European Union's border security, economic needs of member states, and their declared commitment to human rights. The ethnography explores the lives of migrants, and their patterns of mobility, as framed by these contradictions. It suggests that only a political effort to address these tensions will lead to the creation of fairer and more humane border policies.
U pogledu odnosa između promjena u strukturi inovativne tržišne proizvodnje i strukture izdataka za inovacije, učinkovitost stvaranja izravnog fizičkog proizvodnog kapitala i društvenog kapitala u ...poljskoj industriji ima presudnu ulogu. Budući da je stopa (tempo) rasta inovativne tržišne proizvodnje i stopa (tempa) rasta fizičkog kapitala određena okruženjem određenog poduzeća i nisu ovisna o poduzećima, jedina varijabla koja objašnjava stopu rasta inovacija je stopa (tempo) rasta (u vrijednosti) rashoda za ljudski kapital u poljskoj industriji u 2005–2013. Rezultati ankete pokazuju da je stopa (tempo) rasta u ljudskom kapitalu najintenzivnije ostvarena u poljskoj industriji u razdoblju 2010–2013, dok je u razdoblju 2006–2009. ova stopa (tempo) oblikovana u ograničenom opsegu. Kako nije postojao ujednačen protok ljudskog kapitala, ukupna vrijednost inovacija stvorenih u poljskoj industriji u analiziranim godinama bila je ograničena.
An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s
Between the 1890s and 1930s, Argentina, following the United States and ...Palestine, became the main destination for Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews seeking safety, civil rights, and better economic prospects. In the period between 1918 and 1939, sixty thousand Polish Jews established new homes in Argentina. They formed a strong ethnic community that quickly embraced Argentine culture while still maintaining their unique Jewish-Polish character. This mass migration caused the transformation of cultural, social, and political milieus in both Poland and Argentina, forever shaping the cultural landscape of both lands.
In Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture , Mariusz Kalczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies. Based on archival research, Yiddish travelogues on Argentina, and the Yiddish and Spanish-language press, this study recreates a mosaic of entanglements that Jewish migration wove between Poland and Argentina.
Most studies on mass migration fail to acknowledge the role of the country of origin, but this innovative work approaches Jewish migration to Argentina as a continuous process that took place on both sides of the Atlantic. Taken as a whole, Polacos in Argentina enlightens the heterogeneous and complex issue of immigrant commitments, belongings, and expectations. Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina serves as a case study of how ethnicity evolves among migrants and their children, and the dynamics that emerge between putting down roots in a new country and maintaining commitments to the country of origin.
Seminar sta organizirala Oddelek za poljsko filologijo in aplikativno jezikoslovje, Oddelek za zgodovino in mednarodne odnose ter Oddelek za druzbene vede in var- nost, kar kaze, da tema ni bila ...razumljena samo kot zgodovinski pojav, ampak bolj kot aktualno vprasanje mednarodne politike in politologije. Iz cele vrste referatov, ki so jih med drugimi pripravili Zofia Chyra-Rolicz, Iskra Curkina (Ruska akade- mija znanosti), Stanislaw Wiech, Borche Nikolov (Makedonija), Danuta Szymonik, Roman Mnich, Ljudmila Mnich, Malgorzata Ocytko, Henryk Sloczyñski, Lucyna Wisniewska-Rutkowska, Tomasz Derlatka (Leipzig), pa tudi avtor pricujocega poro- cila, je bilo razvidno, da je dvoumen predvsem sam pojem »panslavizem«.
Justice behind the Iron Curtain Finder, Gabriel N; Prusin, Alexander Victor
Justice behind the Iron Curtain,
2018, 2018, 2018-11-21, 2018-11-23
eBook
In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder ...and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice Behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.
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