commenting on the situation in Polish humanities
“EREGNAT EM ILON. Elitarne i jego koczownicy” [“EREGNAT EM ILON. The Elitist and her nomads”], Anthropos?, no 28/2019, p. 1-14. ISSN 1730-9549
This personal essay in resentment is an attempt at capturing the secret of the symbiosis between the elitist humanities cultivated at the high-ranking universities and the academic outsiders. The problem at its core is the persistent lack of eminence of Polish humanities in the international context (that the author interweaves with her personal lack of eminence in Polish context, creating a game of palindromes). Trying to indicate possible causes of this situation, the author comments on the marginalization (and self-marginalization) of the outsiders searching for new paths, the derived character of the approaches produced in Polish mainstream academia, as well as the narrowness of conservative corpus that Polish scholars work on; lacking originality is shown as a consequence of a relative poverty of new, unexplored materials. As an example of a dynamic, expanding corpus, studied in the leading academic contexts but not in Poland, the author brings about several examples of nomadic literature (the songs of Fulani shepherds, a novel by a Saudi writer, the modern poetry of Najd).
This personal essay in resentment is an attempt at capturing the secret of the symbiosis between the elitist humanities cultivated at the high-ranking universities and the academic outsiders. The problem at its core is the persistent lack of eminence of Polish humanities in the international context (that the author interweaves with her personal lack of eminence in Polish context, creating a game of palindromes). Trying to indicate possible causes of this situation, the author comments on the marginalization (and self-marginalization) of the outsiders searching for new paths, the derived character of the approaches produced in Polish mainstream academia, as well as the narrowness of conservative corpus that Polish scholars work on; lacking originality is shown as a consequence of a relative poverty of new, unexplored materials. As an example of a dynamic, expanding corpus, studied in the leading academic contexts but not in Poland, the author brings about several examples of nomadic literature (the songs of Fulani shepherds, a novel by a Saudi writer, the modern poetry of Najd).
"Obszar, ciągłość, granice czytelności - topologie humanistyki. Glosa do debaty" ["Area, continuity, limits of legibility - topologies of humanities. Gloss over a debate"], Debaty Artes Liberales. Inteligent, humanista, intelektualista, t. VIII, Katarzyna Tomaszuk (ed.), Warszawa, Wydział "Artes Liberales", 2014, p. 83-94. ISSN 2081-3228, ISBN 978-83-63636-29-6
“Obszar, ciągłość, granice czytelności – topologie humanistyki. Glosa do debaty” [“Area, continuity, limits of legibility: topologies of humanities. Gloss over a debate”], Debaty Artes Liberales, vol. VIII: Inteligent, humanista, intelektualista, Katarzyna Tomaszuk (ed.), Warszawa, Wydział “Artes Liberales”, 2014, p. 83-94. ISSN 2081-3228, ISBN 978-83-63636-29-6
http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/pliki/publikacje/elektroniczne/debaty_t_%20VIII.pdf
http://www.al.uw.edu.pl/pliki/publikacje/elektroniczne/debaty_t_%20VIII.pdf
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“Muszą więc być analizowani. Imperium Teorii i wyzwanie humanistyki transkulturowej” [“They must be analysed. Theory's Empire and the challenge of transcultural humanities”], Tekstualia, no 4 (35)/2013, p. 115-122. ISSN 1734-6029
in memoriam
“Kingsajz, or the Worldliness (postcards from Amsterdam and Bissau)”, Spain – India – Russia. Centres, Borderlands and Peripheries of Civilisations. Anniversary Book Dedicated to Professor Jan Kieniewicz on His 80th Birthday, Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski, Cristina González Caizán (eds.), Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2018, p. 505-517. ISBN 978-83-65886-60-6
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