Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.4.7
M. Kempny
This paper examines practices and strategies of consumption among Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bridging theoretical perspectives on postmodernism, transnationalism and consumer society, the author discusses extent to which consumerism among Polish migrants can be seen as their way of integration with the local community in Northern Ireland. Focusing on conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption, this article explores the reasons why migrants take on the local consumption practices. Furthermore it examines migrants’ attempts to increase their social status, and display wealth through their engagement in consumer culture. Next, differences in Polish and local consumption patterns are teased out. Following this, the author links consumerism among Polish migrants to their embeddedness in local, transnational and global spheres. This research adopts 30 in-depth interviews.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/human.2021.20.2.7
Jakub Alejski, Elżbieta Kowalska
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.2.25
Karol P. Kaczorowski
The article aims at presenting trans-local aspects of Kurdish society and especially trans-local ties maintained by Kurds in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul. Inspired by transnational theories in migration and diaspora studies, the author proposes a categorization of Kurdish migration waves and waves of internal migration in Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with Kurds in Istanbul, the paper depicts ways of maintaining ties with the country’s Kurdish regions and types of social organizing around their culture and perceived needs. The paper also offers insights into contemporary Kurdish migration in Turkey, leading to the conclusion that although trans-locality has often been forced on Kurds, the socio-political situation in 2002–2015 led to the emergence of a new, trans-local, socially active Kurdish elite in Turkey
{"title":"TRANS-LOCALITY AMONG KURDS – THE CASE OF TURKEY","authors":"Karol P. Kaczorowski","doi":"10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.2.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.2.25","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims at presenting trans-local aspects of Kurdish society and especially trans-local ties maintained by Kurds in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul. Inspired by transnational theories in migration and diaspora studies, the author proposes a categorization of Kurdish migration waves and waves of internal migration in Turkey. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with Kurds in Istanbul, the paper depicts ways of maintaining ties with the country’s Kurdish regions and types of social organizing around their culture and perceived needs. The paper also offers insights into contemporary Kurdish migration in Turkey, leading to the conclusion that although trans-locality has often been forced on Kurds, the socio-political situation in 2002–2015 led to the emergence of a new, trans-local, socially active Kurdish elite in Turkey","PeriodicalId":30309,"journal":{"name":"Studia Humanistyczne AGH","volume":"38 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72485751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/human.2021.20.2.23
T. Majkowski, M. Kozyra
The paper offers a reading of Mass Effect: Andromeda (BioWare, 2017) vis-à-vis lost world romance (also dubbed “lost race romance”, or “imperial romance”), a late-Victorian era novelistic genre originating from H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines and serving as a major tool for British Empire propaganda and a source of early science-fiction conventions. We claim that the narrative failure of this ill-received game stems from its adherence to the rigid principles and forceful themes of the genre and the colonial and imperial imaginary informing it. Our analysis aims at highlighting the way 19 th -century novelistic convention can be remediated as contemporary digital games, and to expose the link between the imperial imaginary and the ways in which open-world digital games are structured, on both the narrative and gameplay levels, even when they do not directly refer to the historical colonial legacy.
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Personal assistance for people with disabilities in Poland is not available as part of a comprehensive state policy; it is instead a dispersed, fragmented service based on projects. There is a lack of both a national strategy for independent living (including solutions for personal assistance as a key tool) and a plan for deinstitutionalisation of support services. A disabled person as an independent entity seems to be invisible to legislators, despite the postulates regarding “tailor-made” services or “profiling of help” present in public discourse. At the same time, uncoordinated changes are taking place regarding support for people with disabilities, including assistance services. They are partly forced by Poland’s ratification (2012) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and partly due to grassroots social innovations of non-governmental organizations. In the article, the authors analyse the factors responsible for the current state of affairs in the context of the theory of imposed modernization, emphasizing the superficiality of institutional changes. They will refer to critical research of public policies (so-called street level bureaucracies) analysing the daily practices of public officials and the social consequences for their recipients. The limitations of the model of personal assistance services as services including disabled people in the mainstream of social life will also be discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/human.2021.20.2.71
Miłosz Markocki
There are many types of digital games – some focus more on new gameplay mechanics while others focus more on new ways to tell and deliver their stories. Some games, in their goal of creating more engaging narratives, push the environmental storytelling and evocative narrative elements to their limits, allowing for a unique emergent narrative experience for players. Consequently, players now recognize a specific type of game, call - ing them, “reactive games”, in which the events and story of the gameworld occur without the need for the input of the player, who instead must react to the events and problems the game sends their way. This article presents two examples of reactive games which create a unique gameplay experience by exploiting the limits of environmental storytelling, evocative narrative elements, and emergent narrative: Dwarf Fortress and RimWorld .
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.2.61
Agnieszka Pałka-Lasek
The article is an attempt to present the response drawn in the Arabic independent media by the world discussion on the figure of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Using the tools for discourse analysis, the research focuses mainly on the way the activist’s image is created in the context of the social role assumed by the Internet press media as news publishers, covering the plane of language, transmitting ideas and social interactions. Articles from the Moroccan Internet journal Hespress (for several years one of the most often visited website among the Moroccan e-community), come from the period from 27 September to 29 December 2019, were used as the research material.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/human.2021.20.2.85
E. Imbierowicz
{"title":"THE FUTURE, THE CRISIS, AND THE FUTURE OF REPLAY STORY","authors":"E. Imbierowicz","doi":"10.7494/human.2021.20.2.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2021.20.2.85","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30309,"journal":{"name":"Studia Humanistyczne AGH","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87753458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/human.2021.20.2.57
Katarzyna Marak
This paper highlights the manner in which contemporary psychological horror games rely on repetitive storylines and plot twists, resulting in predictability of new titles, and the way in which this negatively affects immersion and players’ emotional investment. Through examining the game Blair Witch (2019), developed by the Polish studio Bloober Team, and its inclusion of an animal companion, the article demonstrates how shifting the players’ affective identification from the avatar to the companion character can cause players to overlook the shortcomings of the game. At the same time, by juxtaposing Blair Witch with other similar digital game texts, the paper showcases how linearity and reliance on predictable tropes in a game can be masked by the effective inclusion of an interesting companion with appropriate mechanics.
{"title":"“IF THE DOG DIES, I QUIT”: BLAIR WITCH AND THE PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR GAMES","authors":"Katarzyna Marak","doi":"10.7494/human.2021.20.2.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7494/human.2021.20.2.57","url":null,"abstract":"This paper highlights the manner in which contemporary psychological horror games rely on repetitive storylines and plot twists, resulting in predictability of new titles, and the way in which this negatively affects immersion and players’ emotional investment. Through examining the game Blair Witch (2019), developed by the Polish studio Bloober Team, and its inclusion of an animal companion, the article demonstrates how shifting the players’ affective identification from the avatar to the companion character can cause players to overlook the shortcomings of the game. At the same time, by juxtaposing Blair Witch with other similar digital game texts, the paper showcases how linearity and reliance on predictable tropes in a game can be masked by the effective inclusion of an interesting companion with appropriate mechanics.","PeriodicalId":30309,"journal":{"name":"Studia Humanistyczne AGH","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85325975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.7494/HUMAN.2020.19.4.114
A. Lipska
This article discusses the possible uses of picturebooks in an ESL classroom (grades 1–3). First, it offers an overview of the picturebook theory, focusing on its educational potential as far as teaching English is concerned. Then the selected examples are presented: I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato (Lauren Child); Meerkat Mail (Emily Gravett); The Rabbit Problem (Emily Gravett); Have You Seen Who’s Just Moved in Next Door to Us? Colin McMaughton); Katie and the Mona Lisa (James Mayhew). These texts are then analysed as useful material in an ESL classroom, with due attention paid to the requirements and recommendations put forward in the Ministerial curriculum for grades 1–3 of elementary school.
这篇文章讨论了绘本在ESL课堂(1-3年级)的可能用途。首先，对绘本理论进行了概述，重点介绍了其在英语教学中的教育潜力。然后是精选的例子:我永远不会永远不会吃番茄(劳伦·查尔德);Meerkat Mail (Emily Gravett饰);《兔子的问题》(艾米丽·格雷维特);你看到谁刚搬到我们隔壁了吗?科林McMaughton);凯蒂和蒙娜丽莎(詹姆斯·梅休)。然后将这些文本作为ESL课堂上的有用材料进行分析，并适当关注小学1-3年级部长级课程中提出的要求和建议。
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