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Contribution to the Forum Teaching Anthropology in the Secondary School, Anuac, vol. 5, n° 2.

In Poland, anthropology has never been taught as a mandatory or optional course outside university education. Some attempts to introduce anthropology at a level of secondary school were made at the beginning of the 1990s by the late Krzysztof J. Brozi, university professor of philosophy and cultural anthropology. In his arguments in favor of anthropology Brozi insisted on the general humanistic value of anthropology as a discipline studying cultural diversity, and its popularity in the West, particularly in the United States. He trusted that in the period of enthusiasm for sweeping revolutionary changes in all domains of social life this move would bring expected results, however it was an illusory hope. As far as we know, these attempts did not reach beyond discussions in small academic circles and did not reach the governmental level essential for anthropology to be introduced in the country. Furthermore, most policy makers and representatives of educational institutions in the central administration, independently of their political orientation, probably saw philosophy as the humanistic subject that should be taught in secondary schools rather than anthropology. Instead, it is religion and not anthropology that is offered as an elective subject in schools (Buchowski, Chlewińska 2011).

Work Package 4: National Case Studies of Challenges to Tolerance in Political Life ; The ACCEPT PLURALISM project (2010-2013) is funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities. (Call FP7-SSH-2009-A, Grant Agreement no: 243837). Coordinator: Prof. Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

Résumé Une partie des processus concernant l'Europe de l'Est concerne la restructuration de la perception des inégalités sociales par l'idéologie néolibérale dominante. La façon dont les pays et les groupes sociaux se sont saisis de la libération du marché et de la démocratie sert de mesure à leur insertion dans la catégorie de l'Occident. Autrefois, c'était une carte géographique qui traçait la frontière entre l'« Orient » et l'Occident (le rideau de fer). Aujourd'hui, cette carte mentale a pris les formes d'un espace social et les anciens « Autres » se retrouvent sous la figure de frères socialement stigmatisés. La stratégie qui consiste à jeter le blâme sur les victimes présente plusieurs défauts, notamment son déterminisme anti-sociologique et anti-culturel. La résistance des dominés, tenus pour responsables des échecs du projet néolibéral, renforce leur altérité. En participant aux discours dominants, les intellectuels présupposent qu'ils les aident à se transformer en « citoyens civilisés ».

On rethinking ethnography in Central Europe : Towards cosmopolitan anthropologies in the "peripheries" / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova -- Othering the self : National identity and social class in mobile lives / Marek Pawlak -- Re-negotiating symbolic capital, status, and knowledge : Polish physicians in Sweden / Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander -- Mobile entrepreneurs : Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier -- Pavlivka iodine spring water : Transnational entrepreneurship in post-transition contexts / Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranská -- Giving birth in Berlin : Reproductive experiences of Polish migrant women / Izabella Main -- New urban activism in Slovakia : The case of Banská Bystrica / Alexandra Bituiíková -- Feminist and queer sex therapy : The ethnography of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska -- Civil society and EU integration of Serbia : Toward a historical anthropology of globalizing post-socialist Europe / Marek Mikus -- On the road : Polish modernization from the perspective of the anthropology of the motorway / Waldemar Kuligowski and Agata Stanisz -- Ethnography of post-socialist rural change : Social memory, modernity, local empowerment, and internal displacement / Hana Horáková -- Dalai-Lamaism : An Orientalist construction of post-socialist consciousness / Martin Hríbek -- Afterword / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova

This doctoral thesis is based on the ethnographic field research that I carried out among the former and current automotive workers in Zwickau from September 2018 until October 2019. The dissertation touches on a variety of themes related to industrial and social transformations in the car industry in eastern Germany over the past 30 years. Based on my fieldwork and on the literature on postsocialism, industrial labour and populism both within and outside of the field of social anthropology, I show that the workers have experienced various forms of disenfranchisement and devaluation, including the decline in social status, devaluation of socialist production, the economic and symbolic hegemony of the West. Together with the weakening of the labour movements, neoliberalisation, uneven development and the threats of capitalist disinvestment, these experiences of devaluation lead to sentiments of misrecognition and lack of representation on the political level.

This doctoral thesis is based on the ethnographic field research that I carried out among the former and current automotive workers in Zwickau from September 2018 until October 2019. The dissertation touches on a variety of themes related to industrial and social transformations in the car industry in eastern Germany over the past 30 years. Based on my fieldwork and on the literature on postsocialism, industrial labour and populism both within and outside of the field of social anthropology, I show that the workers have experienced various forms of disenfranchisement and devaluation, including the decline in social status, devaluation of socialist production, the economic and symbolic hegemony of the West. Together with the weakening of the labour movements, neoliberalisation, uneven development and the threats of capitalist disinvestment, these experiences of devaluation lead to sentiments of misrecognition and lack of representation on the political level.

Willisch, A.; Laschewski, L.: Editorial. - S. 2-3. Tovey, H.: Ländliche Armut - eine politisch-ökonomische Perspektive. - S. 5-16. Buchowski, M.: Wie eine Dorfgemeinde in Polen mit dem Kapitalismus klarkommt. Eine anthropologische Perspektive auf soziale Strukturen im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. - S. 17-30. Laschewski, L.; Siebert, R.: Effiziente Agrarwirtschaft und arme ländliche Ökonomie? Über gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Folgen des Agrarstrukturwandels in Ostdeutschland. - S. 31-42. Hempe, M.: Leben auf dem Land und mit der Landwirtschaft. Mecklenburg vor 1933. - S. 43-51. Brauer, K.: "Unsere Lösung - Ihr Problem|" Entwicklungskonzepte, -kontexte und -katastrophen ländlicher Gemeinden im Vergleich. - S. 52-64. Barlösius, E.; Neu, C.: Die Wildnis wagen? - S. 65-76. Beetz, S.: Woher die Menschen und wohin mit dem Land? Eine empirische Analyse zur Entwicklungslogik ländlich-peripherer Räume. - S. 77-86

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