Anna Horolets

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Warsaw

Urban gardening plays a major role in how sustainable futures are imagined and envisaged, but the focus on its innovative potential tends to obscure the diverging logics at play. We draw upon ethnographic fieldwork at the community garden Onkraj gradbišča in Ljubljana, which was conceptualized primarily as a social and cultural innovation. Yet, it...

Tekst jest wprowadzeniem do sekcji tematycznej poświęconej alternatywnym wizjom dobrego życia. Ma on na celu wskazanie miejsca i roli tego pojęcia w procesach, które charakteryzują współczesne społeczeństwa. Szczególnie podkreślono w artykule podatność pojęcia „dobre życie” na zawłaszczenie i stosowanie go w sposób manipulacyjny przez rynek i państ...

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it – both in theory and in practice. It draws together a comprehensive approach to failing, and invisible forms of cancelling out and denial of future perspectives. Underlining critical mechanisms for cha...

Ignorance and Change analyses the European refugee crisis of 2015-2016 from the perspective of ignorance studies showing how the media, decision-makers and academics engaged in the projection and reification of the future in relation to the crisis, the asylum system and the solutions that were proposed. The book provides an erudite background, comp...

In migration studies, relatively little attention has been paid to leisure. This article aims at contributing to this field. It analyses how migrants’ leisure, identity and uncertainty linked to migration experience are intertwined. The study is based on materials of a year-long field research that was carried out in the West Midlands, UK, among po...

The article’s aim is to demonstrate how migration regimes tacitly operate at the level of everyday practices. We propose to see migrants’ leisure, recreational use of parks in particular, as a venue for the internalization and embodiment of migration regimes. We seek to explore if migrants negotiate and resist these regimes through their everyday p...

Download on-line first here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0888325419891204 The article addresses the issue of the so-called refugee crisis in Europe from the perspective of ignorance studies and seeks to establish the mechanisms whereby ignorance is created through categorizations. We depart from the proposal of Proctor and view ignora...

Naszym celem, jako autorów niniejszego artykułu, jest krytyczna analiza dotychczasowych ujęć porażki w polityce publicznej. Definiujemy porażkę oraz jej rozmaite odmiany, wskazujemy również na potencjalne przyczyny porażki. Proponujemy traktować porażkę jako zjawisko, które może wystąpić na różnych etapach tworzenia, wdrażania i oceny polityki. Szu...

W Polsce po 1989 roku w wyniku intensyfikacji mobilności przestrzennej i zwiększenia swobody akademickiej nastąpił dynamiczny rozwój studiów migracyjnych. Po trzech dekadach transformacji ustrojowej można stwierdzić, że osiągnęły one status odrębnego pola badawczego, którego tożsamość instytucjonalną wyznaczają specjalistyczne ośrodki naukowe, duże...

The article focuses on the meanings of leisure among Polish migrants in Chicago metropolitan area. The empirical material was collected in 2014 during a six months long fieldwork. Two strategies of speaking about leisure are presented: emphasizing the lack of free time among migrants and emphasizing the richness and diversity of migrants’ leisure p...

In this text, the author’s goal is to provide a preliminary answer to the question regarding the characteristic features of migrants’ experience of happiness. The empirical material for the article was collected in the course of the 6-month-long fieldwork among Polish migrants in Chicago Metropolitan Area in 2014. Multiplication of reference system...

This study explored the use of natural environments for leisure among rural-to-urban immigrants by adopting Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, social and cultural capital, and field. Data were collected with the use of individual interviews with 27 participants, including Mexican immigrants in the United States, Ukrainian immigrants in Poland, Morocca...

A book chapter presents migrants visits to their home country from the perspective of leisure studies. Temporal and spatial aspects of doing families in translational context via holidaymaking are considered.

The article offers an overview of the European and Polish refugee policy before the so called refugee crisis of 2015 and the reactions to what has been defined as a critical situation. Prior to 2015 refugee policy has been carried out in the sphere of public ignorance and has not been an issue of public debate. In Poland this promoted the tech­no­c...

In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when their disciplines we...

This study examines the use of natural environments for recreation among immigrants and factors that led to changes in their use of natural environments between home and host countries. The data were collected through individual interviews with 13 Latino and 13 Chinese immigrants in the U.S., 15 Ukrainian and 11 Vietnamese immigrants in Poland, 9 M...

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...

Do analizy i interpretacji pozycji badacza w terenie w artykule użyto pojęć „gość” i „gościnność”. Jednym z milcząco przyjmowanych założeń podejścia etnograficznego jest gościnność osób badanych wobec antropologa. Korzystając z antropologicznych i filozoficznych koncepcji gościnności, w tekście przedstawiono różne wymiary relacji gospodarz–gość (ni...

This study examined the role of leisure in natural environments in immigrants' adaptation, with a particular emphasis on facilitating interracial/interethnic interactions. Berry's adaptation framework was used as a theoretical framework. The project used in-depth individual interviews with 70 immigrants from China, Latin America, Morocco, Turkey, U...

Artykuł ma cel eksploracyjny. Podjęto w nim próbę zrekonstruowania praktyk analizy dyskursu na podstawie badania zawartości abstraktów czasopism anglojęzycznych z zakresu analizy dyskursu („Language in Society”, „Discourse Studies”, „Discourse and Society”, „Language and Communication”, „Text and Talk”). Analizie poddano czasopisma mające wysoki ws...

The latest wave of migration from Poland to the European Union is unprecedented in its scale. The changed economic and political circumstances of migration trigger the changes in the lived experience of migration as well as its perceptions. Yet, the grand narrative of economic migration that was a product of migrant experiences in previous epochs h...

The article is devoted to the role of risk in tourist experience. It particularly concentrates on risk as a figure of travel narratives, the identity boundaries marker. The empirical material comes from a study on Polish niche tourism to the countries of the former USSR, the rarely chosen destination in post-1989 Poland. The niche status of tourist...

The unprecedented wave of post-2004 migration from Poland to the UK could not but lead to the re-conceptualizations of the images of the receiving society. In this article we consider this recent intercultural contact from the overlapping perspectives of postcolonialism and post-communism. We place migrant narratives in three dimensions of (quasi)p...

There are two meanings attached to the concept ‘Europeanist’ when applied within the boundaries of our discipline. The term can be used to refer to the practice of anthropology in Europe (e.g. Grillo 1980; Macdonald 1993). This usage primarily indicates the region where fieldwork and research is carried out, as when we label other such fields of an...

Travel is one of the important modes of identity construction. It is influenced by individual choices as well as by macro-contexts of institutional practices and changes. Based on the study of the accounts of young middle-class Polish travellers to the former Soviet Union countries, this article attempts to demonstrate the ways in which macro-proce...

Even though the European Union has become an "ever closer union" in economic and political terms, the problem of the emotional deficit of the EU identity calls for solutions. Metaphor offers an untypical yet interesting mechanism of overcoming the alien aura of the EU. Taking into consideration the cognitive value of metaphors, Antony Judge, the EU...