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THE HOMELESSNESS OF ODYSSEUS (Bezdomnosc Odyseusza)

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Michera W.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2010

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tom 64

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nr 2-3(289-290)

12-18

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Ithaca is the arche and telos of Odysseus' journey - the home, conceptualised as a permanent and reliable pole of human existence, contrasted with magical, fictional lands that cannot be localised on a map. The author, however, presents the non-obvious nature of this classical opposition (domi /foris) and reveals the deconstructive potential of Homer's Odyssey. He does so by focusing on two particular elements of the narration: the first is the cyclical nature of Odysseus' returns and resulting non-conclusiveness. The second circumstance is the 'great sign', mega sema (23,188), confirming the identity of the returning Odysseus - 'enrooting' this identity in the original construction of the home. The author demonstrates that this sign is connected directly with events transpiring in the cave of Polypheme, which becomes the reason why the centre of the home sphere and the very identity of Odysseus are branded with an inner 'lack' and receive the status of literary fiction.

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HOMELESSNESS AS THE PATH OF CREATION (Bezdomnosc jako droga tworzenia)

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Rogozinska R.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2010

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tom 64

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nr 2-3(289-290)

190-194

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The topos of sacrificing the home (conceived not as a dwelling but as a 'community of love') on the altar of art dates back to antiquity, although its strongest resonance took place in the nineteenth century. It is present in, i. a, the reflections of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, in which man's greatness, symbolised by the saint and the genius, is closely connected with solitude. Homelessness/solitude is, therefore, not only hopelessness and abandonment but also, according to Levinas, courage, pride and sovereignty. It assists the artist in attaining inner autonomy, sets free the power to understand, and favours raising oneself above human measure. Only (absolute!) solitude reveals that which is most important: it is the condition for discovering the truth. The shape of a tower assumed by the studios of Hubert von Herkomer or Carl Gustav Jung, ostentatiously inaccessible to others, should be recognised as a spectacular manifestation of the artist's inner exile. The category of homelessness is also associated with a train station waiting room, which for Simone Weil comprised a sui generis niche for reflection, or the hotel room, in which Albert Camus wrote. It is by no means an accident that the formal and ideological model for images of the atelier, universal in painting, was the depiction of St. Jerome or St. Augustine in their workshops. After all, they comprise a representation of the supreme form of a free and beautiful life - bios theoretical, or the Latin vita contemplative - a life consisting of contemplating that which is beautiful because it is invariable, eternal and divine, and thus of studying the truth and philosophising. The exhibition entitled 'The home - the path of being' shows that solitude, alienation and escapism are still part of quite a few programmes of the artist's studio, with considerable space taken up by paintings featuring the motif of the atelier. The Vast Studio by Jerzy Mierzejewski, suffused with light and silence, seems to indicate the supernatural source of creative inspiration. Only such conditions can give rise to a vision and then witness the miracle of its embodiment into a work. After all, it was believed that the creative act consists of a transcendence, a transition from the sphere of the profanum to that of the sacrum, an opinion of a different perspective, a change in the manner of perception. This is a great mystery. Although today such an approach is rare, upon certain occasions the studio is still treated as an exceptional and magical site, marked with sanctity. 'We lived in a house that resembled a Buddhist or Hindu monastery' - the painter Jerzy Cwiertnia recently spoke about the home-studio shared with his daughter, also a painter. 'When Nowosielski came to visit' - recalled Jerzy Tchórzewski - 'I received him in the flat. At a certain moment Jurek said: 'It's very pleasant here, but let's move to the studio. You know, there is always something holy in a studio'. True - I thought, since one enters the studio just as any other place that offers contact with another sphere, in a normal fashion, but leaves it in a special manner - via the paintings'.

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Bezdomność rodzin – socjologiczny szkic problemu

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Szluz B.

Roczniki Nauk Społecznych

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2011

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tom 3(39)

139-157

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The problem of homelessness is not new, however it was only after 1989 that research regarding this issue started in Poland. Only very sparse publications connected with this subject matter appeared in preceding years. That situation was caused predominantly by the tendency to conceal the existence of certain social issues. The research related to this significant phenomenon conducted in the period of less than 20 years turned out to be extremely difficult, time and work consuming and very costly. A preliminary survey of the subject related literature showed that a research connected with family homelessness is undertaken very rarely. This phenomenon is a dangerous experience for an individual, but also the issue of family homelessness is becoming an alarming problem. Family's life is disturbed, which often leads to its disintegration. When a family faces homelessness, children are often placed in welfare institutions. Homelessness has negative impact on children's growth and education. Moreover it ruins physical and mental well being of the family members. In relation with the occurring problems, the herein article attempts an analysis of the issue of family homelessness. The analysis focused on the socio-demographic image of homeless families, causes of the problem, place of stay, ways for providing for the family, and forms of assistance for homeless families.

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HOMELESSNESS - THE DESTROYED HOME, THE UNATTAINABLE HOME (Bezdomnosc dom zniszczony, dom nieosiagalny)

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Waltos J.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2010

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tom 64

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nr 2-3(289-290)

183-184

EN

A text accompanying the exhibition 'The Reduced Home. Homelessness. The Home in Contemporary Art' at the Municipal Art Gallery, Czestochowa, 2010).

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OF ALCOHOL AND MEN – SURVIVAL, MASCULINITIES AND ANTI-INSTITUTIONALISM OF POLISH HOMELESS MEN IN A GLOBAL CITY

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Garapich M. P.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

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2011

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tom 37

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nr 1(139)

309-330

EN

This article looks at the issue of the dramatic raise of street homelessness among Polish men from the perspective of social anthropology looking at the relationship between structural constraints faced by Polish migrants and their own perception of the social world, their meaning-making practices, norms and values, behavioral patterns. As I will show, focusing just on structural and economic determinants not only offers simplistic and one-dimensional picture but it also fails to give an explanation and prediction what happens if these constraints and exclusionary policies are removed and homeless migrants gain same set of social rights as the rest of British and EU citizens (which in theory will happen in May 2011). An anthropological approach to the functions, roles and cultural meanings of homelessness, group bonds, masculinities, alcohol consumption, perception of the state and dominant society as voiced by homeless migrants I ‘hanged around’ with, reveals that structurally rejected, people with particular backgrounds reconstruct communities and form strong ties despite (or because of) a hostile, exclusionary and hegemonic social environment of the neoliberal order. Two conclusions are drawn from this analysis, empirical and theoretical: first taking both structural and cultural factors into account the levels of homeless among that group is going to rise, at least in London; second the set of cultural forms of behavior and social practices described in academic literature as the homo sovieticus syndrome (Wedel 1986, Sztompka 2000, Morawska 1998) proves not only valuable and resourceful in highly individualized, neoliberal and capitalistic society but may be in fact reinforced in new conditions being a productive – socially and culturally - counter-reaction to the neoliberal order of social life in the global city.

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'THE HOMELESS IN POZNAN'. THE POZNAN PROJECTION BY KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO (Bezdomni w Poznaniu. Projekcja poznanska Krzysztofa Wodiczki)

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Marciniak J.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2010

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tom 64

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nr 2-3(289-290)

139-140

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The Poznan Projection concerns social exclusion and, primarily, homelessness, unemployment, their causes and consequences and the ensuing question of alcoholism. Its display served the subjectivisation of the excluded and drawing attention to their life situation. 'Hopefully, the project will create a dual socio-aesthetic situation of the sort in which the town will enable the 'strangers' to develop and enforce their weakened or destroyed capability of becoming open and sharing difficult experiences within public space, and will enable the public to grow closer to the 'strangers' and recognise their role as the main protagonists and actors of the city's Agon' (K. Wodiczko).

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EVERYDAY LIFE ROUND THE SCRAP YARDS IN WARSAW (Codziennosc wokól skupów zlomu w Warszawie)

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Mostowska M.

Kultura i Społeczeństwo

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2009

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tom 53

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nr 2

77-96

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This paper explores the survival strategies, daily-paths and everyday activities of a group of homeless men in Warsaw who live by scavenging. It is based on data collected during three months (April-June 2008) of participant observation focussed on a street corner in the vicinity of two recycling centres/scrap yards, where a group of waste-picking men after selling the scavenged goods meet and hang out on a daily basis. The place performs multiple functions and is a central point both in their daily-paths, their time-organizing framework and their functions in a group.

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„VY JSTE TAKOVÉ KOUZELNÉ DĚVČÁTKO“: O FORMÁCH NÁSILIA VO VÝSKUME ZAMERANOM NA BEZDOMOVECTVO

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Bírová B.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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2016

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tom 64

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nr 3

345 – 360

EN

The study focuses on the process of ethnographic field research among homeless people from the perspective of researcher. It presents methodological approaches vis-á-vis initial ideas about the field research before going out to the field. The study covers the problematic aspects of the course of the research, from entry in the field up to the generation of data in relation to the changing positionality of the researcher. It shows how the relationship between the contact persons and the researcher changes in a given situation on the basis of the different characteristic features of the public and the private space and the forms of power that affect this space. Emphasis is placed on gender issues in the field and on how this fact influences the field research, contacts and the researcher. It describes the various forms and contexts of violence, from symbolic up to sexual ones. The study asks questions about how violence can be minimised during field research, and offers proposals for solutions.

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Studium bezdomovectví v USA: inspirace pro výzkum v České republice

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Vašát P.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2012

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tom 99

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nr 2

129-150

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Homelessness in the Czech Republic is a relatively new phenomenon. Because of ideological background before 1989, as a result of loos of employment, it could not show up. For that reason, it fully emerged in early 1990s. Under this condition, it has been also unresearched for long time. Moreover, most of the written papers have ignored key studies from abroad, especially from the USA. Therefore, this paper offers an overview of studying the homelessness in USA. It briefly describes historic and cultural movement from the pre-industrial poor to the urbancentric homeless. Then, in light of distinguished periods of 20th century, it focuses on conditions of emergence and development American skid rows and particularities of their populations. Finally, the paper presents important studies of all these periods. Based on overview of American homelessness the paper articulates four propositions for a research in the Czech Republic. The research should focus on: (1) historic, socio-cultural and polical-economical context related to postsocialism and neoliberalism; (2) searching for less ideological conceptualizations of homelessness; (3) connecting poverty as the main factor of homelessness with other ones; (4) carrying out more ethnographic researches.

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Mezi rezistencí a adaptací: Každodenní praxe třídy nejchudších

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Vašát P.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2012

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tom 48

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nr 2

247-283

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The article studies homelessness in the city of Pilsen, but instead of the traditional perspective, which works with the common deﬁnition of a ‘homeless person’, it introduces and deﬁnes the relational concept of the poorest class. The advantages of this class concept are that: (1) it does not rule out the possibility of the construction of a notion of home by members of this class; (2) it provides more information about social practices generally; (3) it focuses on the agent-individual, avoiding the reiﬁcation of a homeless person in the form of a homogeneous group. Using the concepts of active agency and space-time the article aims to describe time-space mobility, everyday practices, and the production of places of the observed agents. This study draws on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel de Certeau and on the space-time theories of David Harvey, Thorsten Hägerstrand, and Michel Foucault. It works with ethnographic data and puts forth the idea that unlike dominant places, which are strategically produced and can be ascribed one dominant meaning and associated practice, in the case of tactically produced places there are always multiple meanings and thus a myriad of associated practices. These speciﬁc places are ‘heterotopias’. The article describes the (re)production of one heterotopia and in doing so offers an empirically based conceptualisation of such a place.

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Wizualna Teoria Ugruntowana. Nauczanie teorii ugruntowanej przy pomocy obrazów i analizy wizualnej.

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Konecki K. T.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2010

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tom 6

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nr 2

1-35

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The paper is based on personal 20-year experience of teaching qualitative methods and methodology of grounded theory. In the following paper I would like to show the usefulness of visual analysis in teaching methodology of grounded theory. A very important tool is sequencing of pictures which gives a comparative insight into empirical data and teaches the comparative method. Students can learn how to compare and find patterns in empirical instances which have visual character. Some of the sequences show stages of action and the sequence which is a linear representation of activity. In other case, the sequences of pictures given to students are not planned. They are almost accidentally created and force students to find patterns by means of the comparative analysis. We should always know what was happening before a picture was taken as well as afterwards, it is similar to sequences analysis in textual data (Silverman, 2007: 61 -84, 146). Students are also encouraged to saturate categories using data from photos. This helps them to proceed with the research from empirical incidents to conceptually elaborated properties of categories and finally to the definition of category. They also get familiar with the procedure of saturating category. In this way they learn visual grounded theory, that is using the visual images for generating categories, properties and hypotheses.