Krzysztof Wasilewski

Koszalin University of Technology · Department of Humanities

Non-state actors are gaining in importance in international politics. Regions, and even cities, often initiate global activities in the field of human rights, climate change or healthcare service. The paper presents the theoretical and empirical aspects of international memory diplomacy of cities and its conflicting character. The first part of the...

W niniejszym artykule historia mówiona traktowana jest jako metoda służąca odpowiedzi na pytanie o istnienie ram narracyjnych wspólnych dla określonej grupy, w tym przypadku regionalistów pogranicza polsko-niemieckiego. Funkcjonowanie na tym specyficznym obszarze wymaga bowiem akceptacji wielokulturowego dziedzictwa i pamięci odwołującej się do dor...

As both the European Union and its member states acknowledge that the proliferation of fake news threatens their political stability and – consequently – the general idea of European integration – they have undertaken many steps to confront that problem. Them, the article examines how EU institutions, together with the member states, have tackled t...

Rola miast w stosunkach międzynarodowych systematycznie wzrasta. Wiele współczesnych inicjatyw globalnych z zakresu ochrony środowiska, walki z nierównościami społecznymi czy nielegalną imigracją bierze swój początek w aktywności zagranicznej samorządów. Coraz chętniej też miasta budują swój międzynarodowy potencjał poprzez tzw. dyplomację pamięci....

This article introduces the concept of transculturation of collective memory and the politics of memory in the Polish-German borderland. The role of the 1990 German reunification in that process is studied using the example of the Lubusz region. Reunification made it possible for cooperation between local governments, associations and individuals,...

This paper uses quantitative and qualitative content analysis of two respected U.S. magazines of opinion — the conservative National Review and liberal The Nation — in the years 1995–2019 to see how they frame discourses on the nature of the Internet. Since media frames organize information and provide a perspective through which message receivers...

The 2015 refugee crisis – as the mass influx of migrants from the Middle East is commonly dubbed – tested the European Union’s ability to react to large-scale humanitarian emergencies. Apart from various organizational, social and political changes that the 2015 refugee crisis has brought to the European Union, it has also marked the growing role o...

Hate speech has become a key element of contemporary political discourse. It has also changed the very structure of communication. With the access to public sphere provided by social media, hate speech engages people in connective action, which allows it to construct and deconstruct collective identity. By doing this, hate speech undermines the ide...

The media play an important role in shaping the collective memory of their users. Popular movies, TV shows or commemorative newspaper texts influence the ways in which people remember and forget. Many scholars have attempted to describe this connection; however, little attention has so far been paid to alternative media. This article aims to analys...

Autor artykułu przybliża założenia framingu oraz ram medialnych. Koncepcja ta, zapoczątkowana przez Ervinga Goffmana, należy obecnie do jednych z najpopularniejszych teorii średniego zasięgu. Zakłada ona, że media nie tylko selekcjonują, które tematy zostaną przedstawione, a które zmarginalizowane. Zdaniem autorów teorii ramowej media dodatkowo pod...

The article analyzes the situation of the Roma people in the Lubuskie Region in the years 1945-1989. Being part of the so-called “Western Territories”, the Lubuskie Region, first as the Zielona Góra Voivodship and later divided into Zielona Góra Voivodship and Gorzów Voivodship, attracted a number of ethnic minorities, including Gypsies. “e article...

The article presents the quantity and the contemporary state of digitization of the Polish-language press published in the United States in the years 1875-1924, when the Polish immigration to the US reached its apex. The analysis has covered digital libraries and repositories of both: non-commercial and commercial usage.

In her relation Grażyna Pytlak recounts how she got engaged in opposition activities. Already in 1976 she started cooperation with the Workers’ Defence Committee, the result of which was, among others, the distribution of illegal books and press in Gorzów. Moreover, Grażyna Pytlak took part in the meetings of Academic Chaplaincy organized by Rev. W...