Wydział Nauk Społecznych: Instytut SocjologiiTematem pracy jest polskie podróżnicze doświadczenie... more Wydział Nauk Społecznych: Instytut SocjologiiTematem pracy jest polskie podróżnicze doświadczenie w Rosji po rozpadzie Związku Radzieckiego. Praca odwołuje się do wybranych teorii socjologii podróży oraz wykorzystuje niektóre pojęcia teorii postkolonialnej odniesione do kontekstu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Celem jest rekonstrukcja turystycznego wizerunku Rosji w oczach Polaków i zbadanie zależności pomiędzy indywidualnymi doświadczeniami turystów a kulturowymi obrazami Wschodu. Praca łączy dwie metody: socjologicznie zorientowaną analizę dyskursu bazującą na materiałach książkowych (publikowane relacje z podróży) z interpretacją wywiadów z turystami podróżującymi do Federacji Rosyjskiej. Główne wnioski dotyczą selektywności wyłaniającego się obrazu Rosji oraz oceny przydatności stosowania perspektywy postkolonialnej dla opisu relacji polsko-rosyjskich. Współczesna Rosja jest przez podróżników postrzegana jako przestrzeń prowincjonalna, oddalona w czasie i przestrzeni, nosząca cechy...
Uniwersytet Gdański "rzuciłA prAcę w Korpo i zAjęłA Się… gotowAniem". prAcA z jedzeniem, nieoczyw... more Uniwersytet Gdański "rzuciłA prAcę w Korpo i zAjęłA Się… gotowAniem". prAcA z jedzeniem, nieoczywiSte trAnSformAcje zAwodowe i poSzuKiwAnie AlternA tywnej relAcji ze świAtem Artykuł dotyczy wizji dobrego życia, która realizowana jest w niszowym modelu mobilności zawodowej, polegającym na rezygnacji z pracy w zawodach klasy średniej, opartych na pracy umysłowej, na rzecz pracy przy produkcji jedzenia i w gastronomii. Model ten popularyzowany jest przez media lifestylowe i kulinarne, które zachęcająco opowiadają podobne historie biograficzne. Tekst artykułu bazuje na indywidualnych wywiadach pogłębionych z osobami, które faktycznie zdecydowały się na taką zmianę ścieżki zawodowej. Głównym problemem artykułu jest wpisana w analizowane narracje sprzeczność między przynależnością do hegemonicznej wizji kariery, w tym normalizacją kreatywności w stosunku do własnej biografii, a postrzeganiem decyzji zmiany zawodowej jako pewnej alternatywy lub kontestacji. Kontekstami prowadzonej analizy są: szersza redefinicja znaczeń związanych z jedzeniem w kulturze oraz ideał zacierania granic między czasem wolnym a pracą zawodową. W artykule wskazuje się również na sensotwórczy-dzięki namacalności rezultatów-charakter pracy z jedzeniem, a także jej potencjał do budowania nowej (rezonansowej) relacji z otoczeniem. Słowa kluczowe: socjologia pracy; produkcja żywności; gastronomia; kariera zawodowa; czas wolny "She Quit Her corporate job and took up… cooking." professional food work, unobvious career Shifts and the Search for an Alternative relationship with the world The article refers to a vision of the good life realized in a niche model of professional mobility: resigning from a middle-class profession and changing to the work in craft food production or gastronomy. This model is popularized by culinary media that encourage this type of biographical scenario. The article is based on the in-depth interviews with people in Poland who decided to change their professional career according to the above model. The main problem that the article focuses on is a contradiction between the hegemonic normalization of creativity in relation to one's own biography, on the one hand, and the perceived alternativeness of this career change with regard to hegemonic ideology, on the other. The analysis is set in the contexts of both the broader shift in the
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an ... more The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries and three years ago started exploring Poland and Polish gastronomy, finding himself in the role of outsider. Both scholars have been recently working together. The power relations between the societies and the academic worlds from which they come from turned out to be crucial to the research dynamics and became one of the paper’s key interests. Three main topics provide the structure of the collaborative paper: 1) the question of the authors’ positionality; 2) food as a phenomenon that is intrinsically political, and the legitimacy issues related to its study within academia and to scholars’ engagement outside it; and 3) the power and inequality dimensions of food research. The authors agree that inextricable connection of ...
ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the ... more ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the region of the Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to explore if and how Polish tourists to the former Soviet Union incorporate a historic past in their imaginaries. Sixty interviews carried out between 2008 and 2012 are analysed in order to establish if there are references to the past in tourist accounts although the fact history was not a major travel motivation. We were also interested in how the past co-creates tourist experiences and destination images. We found out that tourists may question dominant versions of historic memory in their straightforward references to the past. We also discovered that sources of memory are multiple and include not only first-hand memory but also family memory as well as non-representational memory. Some tourists purposefully suppressed the past. We suggest that more attention should be paid to ‘traces’ of the past in tourism imaginaries.
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse thr... more This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing different forms of engagement with the West and by imagining the future shape of the community. We distinguish between a pragmatic and a foodie type of culinary capital and focus on how they differently and at times paradoxically frame cultural memory and tradition. We observe the dynamics of collective memory and oblivion, and assess how interpretations of specific periods in Poland’s past are negotiated in the present through representations of material culture and practices revolving around food, generating not only contrasting evaluations of...
Publikacja stanowi raport końcowy z projektu "Punkty styczne: między kulturą a praktyką (nie)ucze... more Publikacja stanowi raport końcowy z projektu "Punkty styczne: między kulturą a praktyką (nie)uczestnictwa" współfinansowanego przez Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w ramach programu Obserwatorium Kultury. Był on realizowany w międzysektorowym partnerstwie przez: Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, Instytut Filozofii, Socjologii i Dziennikarstwa Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego oraz Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową. Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego isbn 978-83-64610-10-3 Treść raportu dostępna na licencji Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an ... more The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries, before three years ago starting to explore Poland and Polish gastronomy, and thus finding himself in the role of outsider. The two scholars have recently been working together. The power relations between the societies and the academic worlds from which they come turned out to be crucial to the research dynamics and became one of the paper’s key interests. Two main topics provide the structure of the collaborative paper: 1) the question of the authors’ positionality; 2) the legitimacy issues related to the study of food within academia and to scholars’ engagement outside it. The authors agree that an inextricable connection of food and politics has not only an academic or theoretical dimension, but also impacts on the realities of people’s lives.
The paper focuses on celebrity chefs in Poland as a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part ... more The paper focuses on celebrity chefs in Poland as a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part of the paper a synthetic review of the discussion about celebrity chefs in global foodscapes is given. In the second part an analysis of Polish version of cookery show MasterChef is presented. The program is interpreted as a carrier for the meanings about the formation of a new gastronomic field in Poland with celebrities of different scale as key actors. The show’s imitative character as well as its detachment from rather conservative eating habits of the majority of Poles is underlined. Polish MasterChef presents culinary capital as seemingly accessible to everyone, recruits smaller-scale food celebrities and stimulates a development of a new food culture connected to a global gastronomic field. This process is a part of larger lifestyle modernization in Poland: the show positively interprets biographical and cultural change, defines the relationship between passion and work, and promotes the specific idea of life success.
This paper deals with intergenerational home-made food transfers inside Polish urban families. It... more This paper deals with intergenerational home-made food transfers inside Polish urban families. It is based on the material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations. Not only economic, but also emotional and symbolic function of food distribution are presented. The circulation of food containers which travel between parents’ and children’s households is interpreted as systemic, according to the logic of gift. Three components of the system – giving, receiving and reciprocating – are analysed in order to reveal the tensions hidden in the food exchange. The relation between stability and dynamics in contemporary Polish families is also described. Both reproduction of the social order and the intergenerational change are embodied in the system of food exchange analysed in the paper.
Key words: domestic cooking, intergenerational transmission, home-made food, mobility of objects, the gift, reciprocity
This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety an... more This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety and the meaning of food, as applied by people in Poland. Using material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations, the paper analyses the bottom-up, scattered and intra-family solutions woven into the structure of everyday life. Although alternative food networks and food activism are emerging nowadays as an important area of criticism towards contemporary food production and supply, the paper goes back to the choices made within the mainstream food system. Although the interviewees could be classified as middle-class and for this reason are expected to eagerly adapt to new lifestyle patterns, the research material allows one to focus not only on the novelty in people's culinary choices, but above all-on the continuity. Forms of domestic cooking and buying provisions for the household-as embodied skills based on physical work and time available-are interpreted in the light of contemporary food distrust. The similarities between late modern and traditional mechanisms of maintaining trust are analysed, showing how different layers overlap, shaping a mix of traditional and modern forms.
Wydział Nauk Społecznych: Instytut SocjologiiTematem pracy jest polskie podróżnicze doświadczenie... more Wydział Nauk Społecznych: Instytut SocjologiiTematem pracy jest polskie podróżnicze doświadczenie w Rosji po rozpadzie Związku Radzieckiego. Praca odwołuje się do wybranych teorii socjologii podróży oraz wykorzystuje niektóre pojęcia teorii postkolonialnej odniesione do kontekstu Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Celem jest rekonstrukcja turystycznego wizerunku Rosji w oczach Polaków i zbadanie zależności pomiędzy indywidualnymi doświadczeniami turystów a kulturowymi obrazami Wschodu. Praca łączy dwie metody: socjologicznie zorientowaną analizę dyskursu bazującą na materiałach książkowych (publikowane relacje z podróży) z interpretacją wywiadów z turystami podróżującymi do Federacji Rosyjskiej. Główne wnioski dotyczą selektywności wyłaniającego się obrazu Rosji oraz oceny przydatności stosowania perspektywy postkolonialnej dla opisu relacji polsko-rosyjskich. Współczesna Rosja jest przez podróżników postrzegana jako przestrzeń prowincjonalna, oddalona w czasie i przestrzeni, nosząca cechy...
Uniwersytet Gdański "rzuciłA prAcę w Korpo i zAjęłA Się… gotowAniem". prAcA z jedzeniem, nieoczyw... more Uniwersytet Gdański "rzuciłA prAcę w Korpo i zAjęłA Się… gotowAniem". prAcA z jedzeniem, nieoczywiSte trAnSformAcje zAwodowe i poSzuKiwAnie AlternA tywnej relAcji ze świAtem Artykuł dotyczy wizji dobrego życia, która realizowana jest w niszowym modelu mobilności zawodowej, polegającym na rezygnacji z pracy w zawodach klasy średniej, opartych na pracy umysłowej, na rzecz pracy przy produkcji jedzenia i w gastronomii. Model ten popularyzowany jest przez media lifestylowe i kulinarne, które zachęcająco opowiadają podobne historie biograficzne. Tekst artykułu bazuje na indywidualnych wywiadach pogłębionych z osobami, które faktycznie zdecydowały się na taką zmianę ścieżki zawodowej. Głównym problemem artykułu jest wpisana w analizowane narracje sprzeczność między przynależnością do hegemonicznej wizji kariery, w tym normalizacją kreatywności w stosunku do własnej biografii, a postrzeganiem decyzji zmiany zawodowej jako pewnej alternatywy lub kontestacji. Kontekstami prowadzonej analizy są: szersza redefinicja znaczeń związanych z jedzeniem w kulturze oraz ideał zacierania granic między czasem wolnym a pracą zawodową. W artykule wskazuje się również na sensotwórczy-dzięki namacalności rezultatów-charakter pracy z jedzeniem, a także jej potencjał do budowania nowej (rezonansowej) relacji z otoczeniem. Słowa kluczowe: socjologia pracy; produkcja żywności; gastronomia; kariera zawodowa; czas wolny "She Quit Her corporate job and took up… cooking." professional food work, unobvious career Shifts and the Search for an Alternative relationship with the world The article refers to a vision of the good life realized in a niche model of professional mobility: resigning from a middle-class profession and changing to the work in craft food production or gastronomy. This model is popularized by culinary media that encourage this type of biographical scenario. The article is based on the in-depth interviews with people in Poland who decided to change their professional career according to the above model. The main problem that the article focuses on is a contradiction between the hegemonic normalization of creativity in relation to one's own biography, on the one hand, and the perceived alternativeness of this career change with regard to hegemonic ideology, on the other. The analysis is set in the contexts of both the broader shift in the
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an ... more The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries and three years ago started exploring Poland and Polish gastronomy, finding himself in the role of outsider. Both scholars have been recently working together. The power relations between the societies and the academic worlds from which they come from turned out to be crucial to the research dynamics and became one of the paper’s key interests. Three main topics provide the structure of the collaborative paper: 1) the question of the authors’ positionality; 2) food as a phenomenon that is intrinsically political, and the legitimacy issues related to its study within academia and to scholars’ engagement outside it; and 3) the power and inequality dimensions of food research. The authors agree that inextricable connection of ...
ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the ... more ABSTRACT This article is a contribution to the developing body of research on tourism within the region of the Central and Eastern Europe. Our aim is to explore if and how Polish tourists to the former Soviet Union incorporate a historic past in their imaginaries. Sixty interviews carried out between 2008 and 2012 are analysed in order to establish if there are references to the past in tourist accounts although the fact history was not a major travel motivation. We were also interested in how the past co-creates tourist experiences and destination images. We found out that tourists may question dominant versions of historic memory in their straightforward references to the past. We also discovered that sources of memory are multiple and include not only first-hand memory but also family memory as well as non-representational memory. Some tourists purposefully suppressed the past. We suggest that more attention should be paid to ‘traces’ of the past in tourism imaginaries.
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse thr... more This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing different forms of engagement with the West and by imagining the future shape of the community. We distinguish between a pragmatic and a foodie type of culinary capital and focus on how they differently and at times paradoxically frame cultural memory and tradition. We observe the dynamics of collective memory and oblivion, and assess how interpretations of specific periods in Poland’s past are negotiated in the present through representations of material culture and practices revolving around food, generating not only contrasting evaluations of...
Publikacja stanowi raport końcowy z projektu "Punkty styczne: między kulturą a praktyką (nie)ucze... more Publikacja stanowi raport końcowy z projektu "Punkty styczne: między kulturą a praktyką (nie)uczestnictwa" współfinansowanego przez Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego w ramach programu Obserwatorium Kultury. Był on realizowany w międzysektorowym partnerstwie przez: Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, Instytut Filozofii, Socjologii i Dziennikarstwa Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego oraz Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową. Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego isbn 978-83-64610-10-3 Treść raportu dostępna na licencji Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska
The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an ... more The aim of this article is to analyse the political aspects of food and their significance as an object of study. The first author of the article has studied Polish society as an insider, while the other author had previously conducted research in other countries, before three years ago starting to explore Poland and Polish gastronomy, and thus finding himself in the role of outsider. The two scholars have recently been working together. The power relations between the societies and the academic worlds from which they come turned out to be crucial to the research dynamics and became one of the paper’s key interests. Two main topics provide the structure of the collaborative paper: 1) the question of the authors’ positionality; 2) the legitimacy issues related to the study of food within academia and to scholars’ engagement outside it. The authors agree that an inextricable connection of food and politics has not only an academic or theoretical dimension, but also impacts on the realities of people’s lives.
The paper focuses on celebrity chefs in Poland as a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part ... more The paper focuses on celebrity chefs in Poland as a relatively new phenomenon. In the first part of the paper a synthetic review of the discussion about celebrity chefs in global foodscapes is given. In the second part an analysis of Polish version of cookery show MasterChef is presented. The program is interpreted as a carrier for the meanings about the formation of a new gastronomic field in Poland with celebrities of different scale as key actors. The show’s imitative character as well as its detachment from rather conservative eating habits of the majority of Poles is underlined. Polish MasterChef presents culinary capital as seemingly accessible to everyone, recruits smaller-scale food celebrities and stimulates a development of a new food culture connected to a global gastronomic field. This process is a part of larger lifestyle modernization in Poland: the show positively interprets biographical and cultural change, defines the relationship between passion and work, and promotes the specific idea of life success.
This paper deals with intergenerational home-made food transfers inside Polish urban families. It... more This paper deals with intergenerational home-made food transfers inside Polish urban families. It is based on the material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations. Not only economic, but also emotional and symbolic function of food distribution are presented. The circulation of food containers which travel between parents’ and children’s households is interpreted as systemic, according to the logic of gift. Three components of the system – giving, receiving and reciprocating – are analysed in order to reveal the tensions hidden in the food exchange. The relation between stability and dynamics in contemporary Polish families is also described. Both reproduction of the social order and the intergenerational change are embodied in the system of food exchange analysed in the paper.
Key words: domestic cooking, intergenerational transmission, home-made food, mobility of objects, the gift, reciprocity
This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety an... more This paper deals with internal household strategies for regaining control over quality, safety and the meaning of food, as applied by people in Poland. Using material gathered by interviewing representatives of two generations, the paper analyses the bottom-up, scattered and intra-family solutions woven into the structure of everyday life. Although alternative food networks and food activism are emerging nowadays as an important area of criticism towards contemporary food production and supply, the paper goes back to the choices made within the mainstream food system. Although the interviewees could be classified as middle-class and for this reason are expected to eagerly adapt to new lifestyle patterns, the research material allows one to focus not only on the novelty in people's culinary choices, but above all-on the continuity. Forms of domestic cooking and buying provisions for the household-as embodied skills based on physical work and time available-are interpreted in the light of contemporary food distrust. The similarities between late modern and traditional mechanisms of maintaining trust are analysed, showing how different layers overlap, shaping a mix of traditional and modern forms.
Projekt graficzny i skład: Tomasz Pawluczuk, Nylon Studio W prace badawcze, obok zespołu autorski... more Projekt graficzny i skład: Tomasz Pawluczuk, Nylon Studio W prace badawcze, obok zespołu autorskiego publikacji, na różnym etapie zaangażowani byli: Beata Duszyńska, Alicja Jelińska i Krzysztof Zaczyński. W proces projektowania i realizacji analiz statystycznych materiału ilościowego zaangażowana była Agnieszka Figiel.
" Bringing together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those from 'the West', th... more " Bringing together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those from 'the West', this book utilizes tourism as a tool to understand cultural and economic processes thus enriching debates in the study of tourism and giving voice to scholars from CEE. The book builds a bridge between scholarship once separated, by the so-called Iron Curtain. At a time when identity politics is rising, and we seem to be seeing the pulling across of new 'Iron Curtains,' the invitation to walk across the bridge appears ever more urgent and makes this book essential reading for us all. " —Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University ABOUT THE BOOK
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors Eastern Europe is a pioneering collection, edited by two renowned Polish authorities, on the anthropology of tourism that demonstrates the dynamic nature of travel and tourism and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. This is the first study of its kind to give voice to a wide range of research from scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and is an essential source for researchers, teachers, and students of tourism, anthropology, human geography, and European studies. " —Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague
Although there are many ways in which tourism and migration are interconnected, current research ... more Although there are many ways in which tourism and migration are interconnected, current research focuses mainly on either migration or tourism. Tourism is commonly linked to leisure and business, while migration is generally linked to work, politics and culture. In fact the boundaries between tourism and migration are not often clear cut and the consequences of different kinds of mobility are not obvious. This book demonstrates the importance of blurring the boundaries between different kinds of mobility in social research and broadens understanding migrants and tourists as interconnected social categories placing Poland and Iceland at the center of the inquiry. Based on a collaborative project between researchers from these two countries it examines leisure and tourist activities of migrants, their perceptions of nature in Iceland and UK, changing images of migrants and tourists in Iceland, and changing images of Iceland as a tourist destination.
“Mobility to the Edges of Europe: The case of Poland and Iceland”
Eds. Dorota Rancew-Sikora and U... more “Mobility to the Edges of Europe: The case of Poland and Iceland” Eds. Dorota Rancew-Sikora and Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir -
Although there are many ways in which tourism and migration are interconnected, current research focuses mainly on either one or the other. Tourism is commonly linked to leisure and business, while migration is generally associated with work, politics, and culture. In fact the boundaries between tourism and migration are not often clear cut and the consequences of different kinds of mobility are not obvious. This book emphasizes the importance of blurring the boundaries between different kinds of mobility in social research and broadens our understanding of migrants and tourists as interconnected social categories, placing Poland and Iceland at the centre of the inquiry. Based on a collaborative project carried out by researchers from these two countries, it examines leisure and tourist activities of migrants, their perceptions of nature in Iceland and the UK, the changing image of migrants and tourists in Iceland, and the evolving attitude towards Iceland as a tourist destination.
In societies with industrial food production systems, eating patterns are coming to resemble trad... more In societies with industrial food production systems, eating patterns are coming to resemble traditional dining communities less and less. The cultural status of highly processed food reaching the consumer after going through long distribution chains is becoming unclear. The spatial, temporal and symbolic distance between the food system and the consumer's mouth translates into doubts and criticism toward food economies and food itself. Food lacking in stabilized cultural meanings becomes tasteless, disturbing, and harmful.
In societies with industrial food production systems, eating patterns resemble traditional dining... more In societies with industrial food production systems, eating patterns resemble traditional dining communities less and less. The cultural status of the highly processed food reaching the consumer after going through long distribution chains is becoming unclear. The spatial, temporal and symbolic distance between the food system and the consumer's mouth translates into doubts and criticism toward food economies and food itself. Food lacking in social and cultural meanings becomes tasteless, disturbing or harmful. Uncertainty, distrust and lack of control over the plate cause new types of social anxieties. The former threats associated with seasonal food shortages, monotonous diet and physically or symbolically polluted food are replaced by new ones. These include fear of technological (GMO), epidemiological (BSE, E. coli), cultural or economic threats (endangered local economies and traditions), as well as concerns related to medicalisation and aestheticisation of the body (" pandemic of obesity "). Social fears and anxieties are expressed at different levels of the social realm: from state public health politics, economic processes, media discourses, and social movements to bottom-up cultural activities and households' everyday strategies. The homogenising tendencies of globalisation are accompanied by counter-processes, both conservational and innovative. We can observe a growing appetite for new symbolic frames, narratives, practices and values within food cultures. Disillusionment with industrial food systems triggers novel food production, distribution, and consumption patterns. At the same time the traditional ones become the source of remedies for what is lacking in contemporary foodscapes. They give a sense of order, security and confidence. The new food ideologies are then supposed to strengthen consumers' agency and allow them to build different forms of socialisation: food-oriented social movements, cooperatives, new self-provision, consumers' and prosumers' communities, shortened food supply chains etc. However, these novel initiatives are generating new axes of social differentiations and inequalities. Food fears are also closely related to their cultural, political and economic contexts, and therefore we can discern diversified diagnoses of local food systems and different answers to food threats in various places. We invite the submission of papers on contemporary food fears and socially expressed food critiques, as well as on various responses to them. The special issue of Contribution to Humanities (Studia Humanistyczne AGH) aims to become an arena for discussing and problematising the locally diversified narratives of distrust toward contemporary food systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:-ways of manifestation of dietary concerns (including the phenomenon of moral panic)-new food-oriented social movements and food ideologies-alternative food supply chains-food as a medicine and food as a poison-the renaissance of traditional eating practices and food nostalgia-cultural discourses on food and new mechanisms of constructing dietary knowledge
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Key words: domestic cooking, intergenerational transmission, home-made food,
mobility of objects, the gift, reciprocity
Key words: domestic cooking, intergenerational transmission, home-made food,
mobility of objects, the gift, reciprocity
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors Eastern Europe is a pioneering collection, edited by two renowned Polish authorities, on the anthropology of tourism that demonstrates the dynamic nature of travel and tourism and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. This is the first study of its kind to give voice to a wide range of research from scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and is an essential source for researchers, teachers, and students of tourism, anthropology, human geography, and European studies. " —Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague
This book demonstrates the importance of blurring the boundaries between different kinds of mobility in social research and broadens understanding migrants and tourists as interconnected social categories placing Poland and Iceland at the center of the inquiry. Based on a collaborative project between researchers from these two countries it examines leisure and tourist activities of migrants, their perceptions of nature in Iceland and UK, changing images of migrants and tourists in Iceland, and changing images of Iceland as a tourist destination.
Eds. Dorota Rancew-Sikora and Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir -
Although there are many ways in which tourism and migration are interconnected, current research focuses mainly on either one or the other. Tourism is commonly linked to leisure and business, while migration is generally associated with work, politics, and culture. In fact the boundaries between tourism and migration are not often clear cut and the consequences of different kinds of mobility are not obvious.
This book emphasizes the importance of blurring the boundaries between different kinds of mobility in social research and broadens our understanding of migrants and tourists as interconnected social categories, placing Poland and Iceland at the centre of the inquiry. Based on a collaborative project carried out by researchers from these two countries, it examines leisure and tourist activities of migrants, their perceptions of nature in Iceland and the UK, the changing image of migrants and tourists in Iceland, and the evolving attitude towards Iceland as a tourist destination.