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Journal articles on the topic "Polish – Ethnic identity"
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Jackson, David J. "Polish American festivals and ethnic identity." Journal of Heritage Tourism 15, no. 6 (March 18, 2020): 648–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2020.1740235.
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Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Monika. "The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Constructing the Common Identity and Mobilising of Polish Community in Southeastern Lithuania." Polish Political Science Review 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 17–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ppsr-2015-0026.
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Abstract This paper is based on a series of qualitative (semi-structured) interviews conducted by the author with representatives of Polish civic organisations in southeastern Lithuania (the towns of Eišiškės, Jašiūnai, Pabradė, Šalčininkai, Švenčionys, Švenčionėliai, and Turgeliai). Data was collected from January 2013 to June 2014 as part of a research project to investigate ethnic, civic, regional, and local identities of ethnic minorities in southeastern Lithuania. The project was carried out by the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the Lithuanian Social Research Centre and was funded by the Research Council of Lithuania. The paper discusses the role of voluntary organisations operating in Southeastern Lithuania in mobilising the Polish community. The author investigates the activity of Polish organisations as they maintain and construct the identity (ethnic, civic, local and regional) of local community. Part of the research strategy is to recognise the content and means by which these organisations appeal to collective memory to create and affirm Polish identity. An analysis of interview data shows that the activities of organisations predominantly target the Polish community and their aims are to promote and foster Polish culture, language, and history. The Polish civic and political organisations and their leaders play active roles in identity building and mobilising the Polish Community in southeastern Lithuania. Referencing and recalling collective memories of the Polish ethnic group is an important tool for building a collective identity that lack local and regional dimensions.
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Trepte, Hans-Christian. "Between Homeland and Emigration. Tuwim’s Struggle for Identity." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica 36, no. 6 (May 30, 2017): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.36.04.
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Julian Tuwim belongs to the pantheon of the greatest Polish writes of the 20th century. His Polish-Jewish descent, his attitude towards the Polish language, towards Jews in Poland, his political activities as an emigrant as well as his controversial involvement with the communist Poland still fuel many critical discussions. Polish language and culture were for him much more important than the categories of nation or state. However, whereas for Polish nationalists and antisemites Tuwim remained “only” a Jew, Jewish nationalists considered him a traitor. It was in exile that his attitude towards his Jewish countrymen began to change, especially after he learnt about the horror of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Thus, he began writing his famous, dramatic manifesto, We, the Polish Jews. After World War II, Tuwim came back to Poland, hoping to continue his prewar career as a celebrated poet. His manifold contributions to the development of the Polish language and literature, within the country and abroad, cannot be questioned, and the dilemmas concerning his cultural and ethnic identity only make him a more interesting writer. Julian Tuwim belongs to the pantheon of the greatest Polish writes of the 20th century. His Polish-Jewish descent, his attitude towards the Polish language, towards Jews in Poland, his political activities as an emigrant as well as his controversial involvement with the communist Poland still fuel many critical discussions. Polish language and culture were for him much more important than the categories of nation or state. However, whereas for Polish nationalists and antisemites Tuwim remained “only” a Jew, Jewish nationalists considered him a traitor. It was in exile that his attitude towards his Jewish countrymen began to change, especially after he learnt about the horror of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Thus, he began writing his famous, dramatic manifesto, We, the Polish Jews. After World War II, Tuwim came back to Poland, hoping to continue his prewar career as a celebrated poet. His manifold contributions to the development of the Polish language and literature, within the country and abroad, cannot be questioned, and the dilemmas concerning his cultural and ethnic identity only make him a more interesting writer.
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Lease, Bryce. "Ethnic Identity and Anti-Semitism: Tadeusz Słobodzianek Stages the Polish Taboo." TDR/The Drama Review 56, no. 2 (June 2012): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00168.
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Tadeusz Słobodzianek's play, Our Class, addresses the 1941 massacre in the village of Jedwabne, Poland, where an estimated 1,600 local Jews were rounded up by their neighbors, locked inside a barn, and burned to death. First staged in London at the Royal National Theatre in 2009, and later remounted at Teatr na Woli in Warsaw, the play investigates the relationship between anti-Semitism and Polish national identity, exploring how theatre can shape our understanding of history.
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Cygan, Mary E. "Inventing Polonia: Notions of Polish American Identity, 1870–1990." Prospects 23 (October 1998): 209–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006335.
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In the last quarter of the 19th century, the American Polish-language press began using the term Polonia to describe the imagined community of all Polish-speaking immigrants in the United States. Local Polish American settlements already bore neighborhood names. Where the Roman Catholic hierarchy permitted an ethnic Polish parish to form, Poles often designated the surrounding area — not only the parish buildings, but the whole network of neighborhood institutions and businesses — by the parish name followed by the suffix owo. By 1895, Poles in Chicago, for example, could read about news in different parts of the city nicknamed for local Polish-language parishes located there: Stanislawowo, Wojciechowo, Jadwigowo, Jackowo, and Michalowo. When speaking of all the Poles living in a single American city, Polonia could be used with a qualifier such as Chicago Polonia, Buffalo Polonia, or Milwaukee Polonia. But Polonia by itself referred to all Polish immigrants who were bound — or should have been, the writers insisted — by a shared notion of Polishness.
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Gunkel, Ann Hetzel. "The Space of the New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community." New Horizons in English Studies 4 (September 4, 2020): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2020.5.186-207.
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Following the spatial turn in cultural studies, ethnic space is understood as a cultural category, constructed by discourse and determined by capital, within which people create their own narratives. This essay explores the construction of ethnic space and identity in the phenomenon of the Polish American polka music festival. Framed by the attention to the process of “production of space” (Lefebvre 1991), the essay presumes that new conceptualizations of spatiality assume space is no longer treated as something given, a pre-existing territory, or locale. The case study of the ethnic music festival is an ideal place for examining the invention of place, because it is not located in a fixed space, but in a movable community traveling from festival to festival. The polka festival circuit is attended by a core community of polka boosters, many of whom travel from event to event in vacation motor homes, with attendees setting up "neighborhoods" of motor homes that include front lawns, outdoor kitchens, and "streets." Most bring lawn signs, street signs, flags and other public signs of Polish American identity, recreating—this essay argues—the urban ethnic neighborhood of previous immigrant generations. Polish American ethnic identity for this group of participants is located and recreated in an imagined community that it creates, dismantles, moves and recreates in a mobile spatiality of ethnic belonging.
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Pyrah, Robert. "Germans in Wroclaw: “Ethnic minority” versus hybrid identity. Historical context and urban milieu." Nationalities Papers 45, no. 2 (March 2017): 274–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1259295.
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After 1945, German Breslau was transformed intoUr-Polish Wroclaw at Stalin's behest. Most of the remaining prewar population was expelled, and a stable population of a few hundred with German ethnic background is estimated to have lived in the city since then. This paper is based on qualitative analysis of 30 oral history interviews from among the self-defined German minority. It pays close attention to historical context, urban milieu, and salient narratives of identity as shaping forces, which include the suppression of German culture under Communism, prevalent intermarriage between Germans and Poles, and the city's qualified reinvention as “multicultural” after Polish independence in 1989. Together with the group's relatively small numbers, these narratives play out in their hybrid approach to ethnicity, often invoking blended cultural practices or the ambiguous geographical status of the Silesian region, to avoid choosing between “national” antipodes of “German” and “Polish.” The results follow Rogers Brubaker's insight into ethnicity as an essentializing category used to construct groups where individual self-perception may differ; and the concept of “national indifference,” previously applied to rural populations. It also suggests we might better approach circumscribed “minority” identities such as these, by seeing them as a form of “sub-culture.”
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Jełowicki, Arkadiusz. "THE ETHNICISING OF OBJECTS AND ITS RESULTS. ON THE ROLE OF UKRAINIAN ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS IN POLAND." Muzealnictwo 58, no. 1 (July 27, 2017): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.2239.
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Categorising and contextualising objects in collections is a natural feature of museum professionals and collectors, which they do both with their own collections and others. Assigning given features to objects is connected with their description (e.g. academic) as well as with inventory and storage requirements. Another reason for such practices may also be mentioned here – the need to classify the world of objects and ideas. One of the categories most frequently used in such operations is the ethnic and cultural (or identity and cultural) category, particularly favoured by ethnologists and ethnographers – hence the non-European, non-Polish, Slavonic, Lithuanian, Ukrainian or even Lemko, Boyko etc. collections in museums (and not only there). Specific comparison of ethnic collections (in this case, Ukrainian) allows at least a few significant questions to be posed regarding the way they function. Firstly, concerning the history of mutual inter-ethnic relations; secondly, concerning their role in Polish ethnographic collecting; thirdly, concerning their impact on the identity of ethnic groups; and concerning the point of ethnicising objects; and finally concerning the impact on the self-reflection of ethnology. The author replies to the questions raised on the basis of his research in 2010–2012 in over ten Polish museums and collections. While presenting the results of his queries, he tries simultaneously to indicate the multidimensional and multi-context way such collections function in Polish culture.
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Sadowski, Andrzej. "THE PROCESS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL IDENTITIES ON THE POLISH‐LITHUANIAN‐BELARUSIAN BORDERLAND." CREATIVITY STUDIES 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2008): 46–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.46-54.
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In this article I will at least try to outline the necessary methodological assumptions for the future researches on the national identities of the inhabitants of the Polish ‐ Belarusian ‐ Lithuanian borderland. Then, using the results of the studies of the identities on the Polish ‐ Belarusian borderland, I will attempt to prove the thesis, that in present conditions, the national identity should not be treated as only subjective reflection of someone's national membership, described with the use of a given set of features on the different levels of objectification, but should be understood broader: declaration of the national identity also means taking of the certain position, defining of someone's place and duties within the dynamic and changeable national structure. We can distinguish four types of the collective actors, which shape the national identities on the studied borderland: (1) ethnic minorities (with which certain categories of the citizens identify), (2) national majorities backed by the power of the state in which the representatives of the minorities live, (3) the “foreigner fatherlands” (R. Brubaker) and (4) international organizations which create certain legal regulations and who monitor (control) their realization. In the studies of the national identity of the Polish‐Belarusian‐Lithuanian borderlands some theoretical approaches can be distinguished. There is a need to define, at least for the use in the studies, the concepts of national minority and ethnic minority, and to create a new theoretical category ‐ “the cultural nation”. The national (ethnic) minority can be distinguished in the specific minority situation, most frequently in the context of the other, dominant majority, as the community, which is less significant, subordinated and often discriminated. The notion of national‐ethnic self‐identification should be associated with the resourcefulness of the representatives of a given minority in certain environments.
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Łucka, Daria. "Widely Open Closed Doors. Contemporary Repatriation Policy in Poland." Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny 47, no. 1 (179) (2021): 9–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.21.001.13313.
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This article focuses on the repatriation policy of the Polish state toward co-ethnics residing in some post-Soviet countries. Its main goal is to answer the question: Why has this policy been unsuccessful? Based on the existing literature, legislation and official documents, the article draws upon the approach laid down by Olga Zeveleva (2014), exploring two spheres within the repatriation program: the ideological and the practical. The key argument is that the failure of the repatriation policy in Poland was due to its poorly developed practical component. At the same time, its ideological component was fully in place, contributing to the program’s prolongation, even though it had not been bringing the expected results. In conclusion, it is argued that the persistence and strong ideological rooting of the idea of repatriation confirm an important aspect of the identity of the Polish state: the predominance of the ethnic concept of the nation. The analysis of the Polish case also shows the need for further development of Zeveleva’s conceptualisation of the success (or lack thereof) of repatriation.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polish – Ethnic identity"
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Kromer, Anna. "The impact of ethnic identity on nursing home placement among Polish older adults /." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81463.
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An exploratory, qualitative study on the experiences of Polish older adults who made a transition from independent living to an ethno-specific residential care facility in Toronto is presented. Using the framework of Continuity Theory of Aging, the impact of ethnic/cultural identity on the process of relocation and subsequent adjustment to a nursing home environment was investigated. A purposive sampling strategy was used to select 2 male and 4 female participants. The data was collected using long interviews that were tape recorded and transcribed verbatim. The findings of this study indicate that the subjects employed specific coping strategies that stem from traditional value orientation and life experiences hence suggesting that ethnic/cultural identity may have played a role in their successful adaptation to residential care setting. Although this research study is limited to one group of older adults and cannot be generalized to other ethnic groups, it has a potential to contribute to increasing the body of knowledge about the dynamics of residential care placement among ethnic minority seniors. Implications for social work policy, research and practice are discussed.
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Drozdzewski, Danielle Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences Faculty of Science UNSW. "Remembering polishness: articulating and maintaining identity through turbulent times." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41258.
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This thesis details the maintenance of Polish identities through acts of memory: the (re)production, transmission and reception of Polish cultural practices. The (re)productions and transmissions of Polish identity formations, and the acts of remembrance, are multifarious by nature, and I have examined them in two distinctly different settings ?? in public spheres in Poland, and in the private realms of Australian Polish diaspora. In this thesis, these research settings have been conceptualised as the conduits through which Polish identities are maintained. Polish identity is theorised using a constructivist approach; Polish identities are therefore positioned historically and geographically. Their performances are fluid: they move through time and across spaces. The active maintenance of Polish identity developed as a result of foreign occupations. The partitioning of Poland by the Austro-Hungarian, Prussian and Russian Empires lasted 123 years. From 1795 to 1918 the Polish nation was expunged. Following a brief period of independence between World War I (WWI) and World War II (WWII), Poland was again occupied by Nazi and Soviet regimes during WWII (1939-1945). The Soviet occupation continued after WWII with the Soviet-supported Polish government that lasted until 1989. Under occupation ?? particularly during WWII ?? Poland suffered events that have been indelibly imprinted within Polish cultural memory. The macabre nature of this era included the incursion of hegemonic regimes on political and everyday social life, as well as the atrocities for which it is well known. An important outcome of these occupations has been the division of discourses of Polishness, and their remembrances, into distinctly public and private spheres. These periods of foreign occupation brought various attempts to suppress and eliminate Polishness: the cultures and identifications of Polish people. Suppression particularly occurred in public spheres through the prohibition of the Polish language, and by investing the public memory landscape with ideologies that represented the new regimes. By repressing public commemorations of Polish cultural narratives, a new history was written at the expense of the Polish experience. There have been two primary responses to these repressions of Polishness. These responses initially developed during the partitioned period to ensure that Polish language and cultural practices were maintained. First, a narrative and tradition of resistance emerged in reaction to the Russian, Prussian and Austrian partitions. It was enacted through military participation in insurrections and through the production of patriotic Romantic Era cultural artefacts, both of which strengthened linkages to the Polish Catholic faith. Second, Polish cultural practices and language were safeguarded in the private spheres of home. It was in private settings, in Poland and within the diaspora in Australia, that memories and experiences of occupation were passed on and through generations. In Poland, such narratives were often maintained in resistance to those imposed by foreign occupiers and because of the inability to commemorate events of Poland??s macabre past in public. In Australia, identity maintenance has occurred to resist the dissolution of Polishness in a diasporic and multicultural environment. This thesis demonstrates the utility of studying cultural memories as a means of understanding how identity maintenance can occur in the face of adversities, such as the multiple foreign occupations that occurred in Poland, and in diaspora. Moreover, it exemplifies the diverse paths of identity maintenance in different contexts. This thesis shows that despite the distinctive character of both Polish public and private spheres, Polish identities have been informed, shaped and maintained through culturally-enacted memory (re)production. This process is exhibited in the present ?? in Poland and through the diaspora ?? and it occurred despite the repressive aims of various foreign occupiers.
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Glowacka-Musial, Monika. "LAJKONIK OF TUCSON - A PIECE OF TRUE POLAND: CONSTRUCTING POLISH - AMERICAN IDENTITIES IN AN ETHNICALLY HETEROGENEOUS SOCIETY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/69130.
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Tucson, Arizona is a site of a lively Polish-American community. Initially associated with a political organization ("Solidarity Tucson"), which actively supported the Solidarity Movement throughout the 1980s, the Polish diaspora has gradually transformed into an ethnic community very much focused on maintaining its distinctive heritage. Recent formation of the Polish folkloric dance group Lajkonik was directly stimulated by the local multicultural establishment, which promotes ethnic diversity in the Old Pueblo. Having become an integral part of the Southwestern society, Lajkonik has developed a collection of identity practices, which despite diverse influences continues to reproduce Polish cultural traits. In my ethnographic account, I examine ways, by which members of the Lajkonik group construct their diasporic identities. First, I focus on the core activities of the group, which include the practice of Polish traditions, learning folk dances and songs in a wide cultural context, and negotiating the speaking of Polish. Additional analyses, based on video recordings, of Polish classes and dance rehearsals, which show the actual mechanics of the production processes, as well as the narratives of the teacher and parent of performers, further support the account of the ethnographer. Secondly, I look into the development of Polishness for public consumption, which involves negotiation of multiple images in accordance with specific cultural events, creation of engaging stage programs, and presenting the essence of Polishness to festival audiences in Tucson. Regardless of the particular purpose of identities' productions, either for integrating community or public display, these processes simultaneously involve the quest for authenticity, building ethnic pride, and negotiations of diverse traditions.
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Godula, Olga Dominika. "Echoes and Memories of Poland: Music and Dance in the Polish Community of Toledo, Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1213008130.
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Ruskoski, David Thomas. "The Polish Army in France: Immigrants in America, World War I Volunteers in France, Defenders of the Recreated State in Poland." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/1.
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Independent Poland ceased to exist in 1795 and the various insurrections to restore the Polish state were thwarted by the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Russians. During the First World War, Polish statesmen called upon the thousands of Polish immigrants in the United States to join the Polish Army in France, a military force funded by the French government and organized by the Polish Falcons of America and Ignacy Paderewski, the world-famous Polish pianist. Over 20,000 men trained in Canada and fought in the final months of the war on the Western front. While in France they were placed under the command of General Jozef Haller and became known as Haller’s Army. At the conclusion of the war, the Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference decided to send the soldiers to Poland to fight in the Polish-Soviet War to stop the western advance of the Bolsheviks. When the war ended, the United States government, with the influence of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, funded the return of the soldiers to their homes in the United States. This dissertation focuses on questions of the relationships among foreign policy, nationalism, and immigration and investigates forced recruitment, dissatisfaction with the cause of Polish independence exacerbated by difficult wartime conditions, nationalism among immigrant groups, ethnic identity, and anti-Semitism.
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Delong, Silvia Regina. "Vitalidade linguística e construção de identidades de descendentes de poloneses no sul do Paraná." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2016. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6105.
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Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar como são constituídas as identidades étnico-linguísticas de um grupo de descendentes de poloneses residentes em uma comunidade da zona rural, no interior do Estado do Paraná. No estudo, identificam-se alguns eventos de letramento que ocorrem em polonês, tanto no contexto escolar quanto fora dele, com o intuito de verificar como esses eventos contribuem para a construção das identidades e a vitalidade da língua polonesa nessa comunidade. Esta pesquisa tem como referencial teórico a construção de identidades (HALL, 2005, GEE, 2000), as práticas de letramento (STREET, 1984), bem como a vitalidade das línguas minoritárias (TERBORG e GARCÍA LANDA, 2011). A pesquisa é de natureza qualitativo-interpretativista, baseada na etnografia da linguagem (GARCEZ e SCHULZ, 2015), tendo como instrumentos de geração de dados as gravações audiovisuais feitas nas aulas de língua polonesa, questionários respondidos por alunos, professora e pedagoga da escola. Também foram feitas entrevistas semiestruturadas com algumas pessoas da comunidade, anotações em diário de campo e gravação das entrevistas em áudio. Além disso, foram analisados vários documentos, como os do Celem (Centro de Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas), relativos à implantação da Língua Polonesa na escola; o Livro Tombo, documentos da paróquia relacionados à comunidade e, no Museu, os documentos históricos ligados à cultura polonesa, os quais deram subsídios para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa. Os resultados mostram que a tradição religiosa é um dos aspectos identitários mais arraigados e presentes até hoje nessa comunidade. Entretanto, alguns eventos de letramento que ocorriam na igreja local e que mantinham a vitalidade dessa língua, infelizmente, não existem mais. O único evento de letramento na igreja que ainda está sendo preservado nessa língua é a reza do terço antes das missas dominicais. No âmbito familiar, a língua polonesa é utilizada frequentemente, misturando-se com o português (code switching). Por essa razão, algumas expressões como “polonês entrecortado”, “polonês brasileiro” ou “polonês caipira”, são formas utilizadas pelos participantes da pesquisa para se classificar como falantes de polonês, porém, muitas vezes denotam uma baixa autoestima em relação a si e aos outros. Quanto à identidade étnico-linguística, esta se alterna entre a identidade polonesa e a brasileira, dependendo dos seus interlocutores e das circunstâncias que os cercam. E, por último, os resultados mostram que, em geral, as mulheres (“fazedoras” e “invisíveis”) de Santa Faustina assumem diversos papeis, principalmente dentro de casa e na igreja, mas não são empoderadas na presença da comunidade.
This dissertation aims to analyze the constitution of ethnic and linguistic identities of a group of Polish descendants who live in a rural community in the countryside of the State of Paraná, Brazil. In the study, we identified some literacy events which occur in Polish, both at school and out of it, aiming at verifying how these events contribute to identity construction, and the vitality of the Polish language in that community. This research is theoretically based on identity construction (HALL, 2005; GEE, 2000), literacy practices (STREET, 1984), as well as on the vitality of minority languages (TERBORG; GARCÍA LANDA, 2011). The nature of the research is qualitative-interpretative with an ethnographic perspective, based on the ethnography of language (GARCEZ e SCHULZ, 2015), and the instruments for data generation are audiovisual recordings made of Polish language classes and questionnaires answered by learners, the teacher, and the school pedagogue. Semi structured interviews were also conducted with people in the community, as well as notes in a field journal and audio recordings of the interviews. Besides, several documents were analyzed, as the ones from CELEM (Centro de Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas – Center for Modern Foreign Languages), referring to the school´s implementation of the Polish language; the official registration book, which contains the community´s parishional documents, and at the Museum, where the historical documents connected to the Polish culture were studied, which subsidized the development of this research. The results show that religious tradition is one of the identitary aspects which are more rooted and present in the community to this day. However, some literacy events which happened at the local church, and maintained the vitality of that language, unfortunately are no longer held. The only literacy event which is still kept in church, in Polish, is the recital of the rosary before dominical masses. In the familiar scope, the Polish language is frequently used, it is a Brazilian Polish, mixed with the Portuguese language (code-switching). For this reason, some expressions like “broken Polish”, “Brazilian Polish”, or “countryside Polish” are expressions used by the participants to refer to the Polish language they speak; it often indicates low self-esteem regarding themselves and others. As to the ethnic-linguistic identity, this alternates between Brazilian and Polish identities, depending on their interlocutors and the circumstances surrounding them. Finally, the results show that, in general, the women (“doers” and “invisible”) in Santa Faustina take on several roles, especially in the house and the church, but they are not empowered amidst the community.
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Davlatshoev, Suhrobsho. "The Formation And Consolidation Of Pamiri Ethnic Identity In Tajikistan." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607111/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to examine the formation and consolidation of the Pamiri people in Tajikistan. The research focuses on two topics. The first is to compare the primordialist and constructionist schools over the question of the features individuating ethnic groups. The formation of Pamiri ethnic identity during the Soviet rule was selected as a case study of this thesis. The second topic of this study is to examine the formation of Pamiri ethnic identity and the factors that contributed for its consolidation during the Soviet period. While the first topic is gathered around contemporary issues about ethnicity, the second one is based on the Soviet period with a focus on the policies about the nationality question.
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Seto, Ming Chu. "Relationships among language, schooling and ethnic identity of the Macanese in Macau : implications for education policy." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2977/.
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The shift of political control from Portuguese to Chinese has changed the importance of languages in Macau. Chinese has become a more important language in the enclave. This shift has created a dilemma to the Macanese group whose first language is Portuguese. This study aims to see whether the present language education policy has taken into consideration this group of people by looking at the construction of the Macanese identity and the role of language and schooling in identity maintenance. The study, the first of its kind in Macau, looks into the ethnic identity of the Macanese people and its implications for the education policies. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted. Interviews, the main source of understanding of the issue, were conducted to collect the group's opinions and questionnaires were administered to different members of the same group to gather data in order to complement and supplement the interview data. The interview data were analysed by a grounded theory approach and the questionnaire was analysed statistically. The findings show that there are different sets of criteria to define people in the group. The genealogical feature is an indispensable criterion but the feeling of 'Portugueseness' is seen as more important. Language and schooling are very important markers of the group as they are important channels to acquire a sense of 'Portugueseness'. It is important for the government to realize this so that appropriate strategies and policy can be adopted. It is hoped that Macanese culture can be maintained so that its uniqueness can be preserved in this enclave.
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Young, Sara Rachel Jane. "The construction of ethno-linguistic identity amongst Polish-born adolescents living in the UK." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10052280/.
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Polish accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004 led to an upsurge in the number of Poles coming to the UK. However, little research in socio and applied linguistics has investigated the experiences of Polish-born adolescents resident in the UK. Following the UK General Elections of May 2015 and June 2017, and the Referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU in June 2016, the climate in Britain has become one of an increasingly virulent anti-immigrant discourse, especially against EU migrants. Against this backdrop, this research purports to investigate how Polish-born adolescents resident in the UK negotiate the construction of their ethno-linguistic identity. The study explores the experiences of eleven adolescents (aged 11-16) living in small Polish communities in semi-rural settings in southern England, with a predominantly white British demographic. Fieldwork was conducted in spring 2016. A narrative approach was used, whereby participants are encouraged to tell their own stories. Based on an understanding of identity as contingent and a site of negotiation, the study draws on the notion of identity as positioning within discourse. Counter to previous identity work in socio and applied linguistics with established BAME migrants, findings suggest that in the face of dominant discourses surrounding EU migrants in the UK, scope for the (re)negotiation of ethno-linguistic identity positions amongst Polish-born adolescents in the UK is limited, and the creation of hybrid identities stymied. Similarly, the adolescents’ reported language use indicates an orientation to a separate rather than flexible bilingualism. The study also suggests a need to reconceptualise whiteness in socio and applied linguistics. While whiteness has been understood in such literature as homogenous, this study proposes that to examine questions of identity more comprehensively, the black/white binary which often underpins identity work demands reassessment, and the existence of prejudice against minority white individuals requires greater acknowledgement.
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Riaz, Nighet Nazim. "More choices, more chances? Exploring identity, culture, policy and practice with black and minority ethnic young people in Glasgow." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739199.
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Sword, Keith. Identity in flux: The Polish community in Britain. London: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1996.
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Polish joke. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service, 2003.
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Polish migrants in Belfast: Border crossing and identity construction. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
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Congress, Canadian Polish. A report on anti-Polish prejucide in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Polish Congress, 1995.
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Sadowski, Andrzej. Tożsamość Polaków na pograniczach. Białystok: Wydawn. Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 1999.
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Lopata, Helena Znaniecka. Polscy Amerykanie: Współzawodnictwo o pozycję społeczną w grupie etnicznej. Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1986.
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Małgorzata, Michalska. Polacy poza granicami kraju u progu XXI wieku: Różne oblicza polskiej tożsamości. Wrocław: Polskie Towaryzstwo Ludoznawcze, 2011.
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Polish-speaking Germans?: Language and national identity among the Masurians since 1871. Köln: Böhlau, 2001.
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Ewolucja ideologii i przemiany tożsamości narodowej Polonii w Stanach Zjednoczonych w latach 1870-1970. Kraków: Nakł. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 1989.
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Polonia na Słowacji: Położenie, kultura, tożsamość : studium socjologiczne. Wrocław: Deltapress, 2012.
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Łodziński, Sławomir. "Equal and More Equal: Ethnic Communities and Polish Public Policy 1989–2018." In Identity Strategies of Stateless Ethnic Minority Groups in Contemporary Poland, 1–29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41575-4_1.
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Kabzińska, Iwona. "The Ethnic Identity of the Polish Population in Belarus: A Research Note." In National Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe, 148–50. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26553-4_9.
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Wojdon, Joanna. "Visions of the Past and their Role in Shaping the Polish American Identity, as Seen in Ethnic Festivities." In Memories in Multi-Ethnic Societies, 409–20. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/m.eer-eb.5.120071.
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Warmińska, Katarzyna. "We Are the Same but Different. The Processes of Identity Construction in the Case of Polish Tatars." In Identity Strategies of Stateless Ethnic Minority Groups in Contemporary Poland, 79–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41575-4_4.
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Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala. "Education and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Postcolonial Spaces." In Islamic Identity, Postcoloniality, and Educational Policy, 1–21. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1228-5_1.
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Tistarelli, Massimo, and Enrico Grosso. "Human Face Analysis: From Identity to Emotion and Intention Recognition." In Ethics and Policy of Biometrics, 76–88. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12595-9_11.
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Johansen, Inger. "‘But They Call Us the Language Police!’ Speaker and Ethnic Identifying Profiles in the Process of Revitalizing the South Saami Language, Culture and Ethnic Identity." In The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami, 29–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05029-0_3.
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Gerner, Kristian. "Ethnic Triangles, Assimilation, and the Complexities of Acculturation in a Multi-ethnic Society." In Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 31, 41–60. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764715.003.0003.
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The 'national' histories of 'Hungary', 'Poland', and 'the Jews' are entangled. In the course of the nineteenth century the territories of the national states of Europe acquired an ethnic character. Being Jewish had to relate to the national identity proclaimed by the state. One consequence of the ethnic 'nationalization' of states has been defined as follows:...
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Kleiner, Israel. "From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question." In Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 16, 513–15. Liverpool University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774730.003.0033.
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This chapter discusses Israel Kleiner's From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question. In this monograph, Kleiner focuses on V. Z. Jabotinsky's views of Ukrainian nationalism both in the period before the First World War and in the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution and the ensuing civil war. After establishing Jabotinsky's general views on nationalism and cultural identity, Kleiner examines closely what he identifies as the courageous positions adopted by Jabotinsky in three critical moments. In Kleiner's view, Jabotinsky's support for Ukrainian nationalism was fully consistent with his fierce opposition to Jewish cultural assimilation. Jabotinsky not only condemned the Polish policies of active Polonization in Austrian Galicia, but also rejected tsarism's efforts to Russify the ethnic communities of the western borderlands of the empire. Instead, he welcomed the full development of Ukrainian cultural life and championed those expressions of Ukrainian nationalism that he believed would eventually result in an independent Ukraine. In Kleiner's exposition, Jabotinsky envisioned a future in which democratic nationalist movements would achieve their goals, thereby producing a non-threatening international order in which individuals could realize their own full potential as human beings without loss of national culture or ethnic identity.
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Gońda, Marcin. "Narratives of Polishness Identity Ambiguities of Foreign Students of Polish Descent." In Narratives of Ethnic Identity, Migration and Politics. A Multidisciplinary Perspective, 87–100. Księgarnia Akademicka, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788376383644.07.
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Wirza, Yanty. "Bahasa Indonesia, Ethnic Languages and English: Perceptions on Indonesian Language Policy and Planning." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.16-8.
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Language policy and planning in Indonesia have been geared toward strengthening the national language Bahasa Indonesia and the preserving of hundreds of ethnic languages to strengthen its citizens’ linguistic identity in the mid of the pervasive English influences especially to the young generations. The study examines perceptions regarding the competitive nature of Bahasa Indonesia, ethnic languages, and English in contemporary multilingual Indonesia. Utilizing text analysis from two social media Facebook and Whatsapp users who were highly experienced and qualified language teachers and lecturers, the study revealed that the posts demonstrated discussions over language policy issues regarding Bahasa Indonesia and the preservation of ethnic language as well as the concerns over the need for greater access and exposure of English that had been limited due to recent government policies. The users seemed highly cognizant of the importance of strengthening and preserving the national and ethnic languages, but were disappointed by the lack of consistency in the implementation of these. The users were also captivated by the purchasing power English has to offer for their students. The users perceived that the government’s decision to reduce English instructional hours in the curriculum were highly politically charged and counterproductive to the nation’s advancement.
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Wu, Yunong. "Cultural Governance Mode of Response Mechanism and National Identity of Ethnic-Minority Sport Culture Policy." In International Conference on Information System and Management Engineering. SCITEPRESS - Science and and Technology Publications, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006445701450148.
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Jawaut, Nopthira, and Remart Dumlao. "From Upland to Lowland: Karen Learners’ Positioning and Identity Construction through Language Socialization in the Thai Classroom Context." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.9-2.
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Karen (or Kariang or Yang) are a group of heterogeneous ethnic groups that do not share common culture, language, religion, or material characteristics, and who live mostly in the hills bordering the mountainous region between Myanmar and neighboring countries (Fratticcioli 2001; Harriden 2002). Some of these groups have migrated to Thailand’s borders. Given these huge numbers of migrant Karens, there is a paucity of research and understanding of how Karen learners from upland ethnic groups negotiate and construct their identities when they socialize with other lowland learners. This paper explores ways in which Karen learners negotiate and construct their identities through language socialization in the Thai learning context. The study draws on insights from discourse theory and ecological constructionism in order to understand the identity and negotiation process of Karen learners at different levels of identity construction. Multiple semi-structured interviews were conducted to gain deeper understandings of this phenomenon between ethnicity and language socialization. The participants were four Karen learners who were studying in a Thai public university. Findings suggest that Karen learners experience challenges in forming their identity and in negotiating their linguistic capital in learning contexts. The factors influencing these perceptions seemed to emanate from the stakeholders and the international community, which played significant roles in the context of learning. The findings also reflect that Karen learner identity formation and negotiation in language socialization constitutes a dynamic and complex process involving many factors and incidences, discussed in the present study. The analysis presented has implications for immigration, mobility, language, and cultural policy, as well as for future research.
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Adler, Jaime, Raquel Arias, Kimlin Tam Ashing, Shauntay Davis-Patterson, Hilary Gillette-Walch, Jeffrey Klausner, Jim Knox, et al. "Abstract PO-273: Human papillomavirus vaccination: California state-level mapping to identify gaps and inform practice and policy." In Abstracts: AACR Virtual Conference: Thirteenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; October 2-4, 2020. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp20-po-273.
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Maiangwa, Benjamin. Peace (Re)building Initiatives: Insights from Southern Kaduna, Nigeria. RESOLVE Network, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/pn2021.22.lpbi.
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Violent conflicts and crime have reached new heights in Nigeria, as cases of kidnapping, armed banditry, and communal unrests continue to tear at the core of the ethnoreligious divides in the country. Southern Kaduna has witnessed a virulent spree of communal unrest in northern Nigeria over the last decade due to its polarized politics and power differentials between the various groups in the area, particularly the Christians and Muslims, who are almost evenly split. In response to their experiences of violence, the people of that region have also shown incredible resilience and grit in transforming their stress and suffering. This policy note focuses on the transformative practices of the Fulani and other ethnic communities in southern Kaduna in terms of how they problem-solve deep-seated socio-political rivalries and violent relations by working through their shared identity, history, and cultures of peace. The note explores how peace practitioners and donor agencies could consolidate local practices of sustaining peace as complementary or alternative resources to the state’s liberal system.
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HEFNER, Robert. IHSAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL REVITALIZATION Appreciating Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.001.20.
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Ours is an age of pervasive political turbulence, and the scale of the challenge requires new thinking on politics as well as public ethics for our world. In Western countries, the specter of Islamophobia, alt-right populism, along with racialized violence has shaken public confidence in long-secure assumptions rooted in democracy, diversity, and citizenship. The tragic denouement of so many of the Arab uprisings together with the ascendance of apocalyptic extremists like Daesh and Boko Haram have caused an even greater sense of alarm in large parts of the Muslim-majority world. It is against this backdrop that M.A. Muqtedar Khan has written a book of breathtaking range and ethical beauty. The author explores the history and sociology of the Muslim world, both classic and contemporary. He does so, however, not merely to chronicle the phases of its development, but to explore just why the message of compassion, mercy, and ethical beauty so prominent in the Quran and Sunna of the Prophet came over time to be displaced by a narrow legalism that emphasized jurisprudence, punishment, and social control. In the modern era, Western Orientalists and Islamists alike have pushed the juridification and interpretive reification of Islamic ethical traditions even further. Each group has asserted that the essence of Islam lies in jurisprudence (fiqh), and both have tended to imagine this legal heritage on the model of Western positive law, according to which law is authorized, codified, and enforced by a leviathan state. “Reification of Shariah and equating of Islam and Shariah has a rather emaciating effect on Islam,” Khan rightly argues. It leads its proponents to overlook “the depth and heights of Islamic faith, mysticism, philosophy or even emotions such as divine love (Muhabba)” (13). As the sociologist of Islamic law, Sami Zubaida, has similarly observed, in all these developments one sees evidence, not of a traditionalist reassertion of Muslim values, but a “triumph of Western models” of religion and state (Zubaida 2003:135). To counteract these impoverishing trends, Khan presents a far-reaching analysis that “seeks to move away from the now failed vision of Islamic states without demanding radical secularization” (2). He does so by positioning himself squarely within the ethical and mystical legacy of the Qur’an and traditions of the Prophet. As the book’s title makes clear, the key to this effort of religious recovery is “the cosmology of Ihsan and the worldview of Al-Tasawwuf, the science of Islamic mysticism” (1-2). For Islamist activists whose models of Islam have more to do with contemporary identity politics than a deep reading of Islamic traditions, Khan’s foregrounding of Ihsan may seem unfamiliar or baffling. But one of the many achievements of this book is the skill with which it plumbs the depth of scripture, classical commentaries, and tasawwuf practices to recover and confirm the ethic that lies at their heart. “The Quran promises that God is with those who do beautiful things,” the author reminds us (Khan 2019:1). The concept of Ihsan appears 191 times in 175 verses in the Quran (110). The concept is given its richest elaboration, Khan explains, in the famous hadith of the Angel Gabriel. This tradition recounts that when Gabriel appeared before the Prophet he asked, “What is Ihsan?” Both Gabriel’s question and the Prophet’s response make clear that Ihsan is an ideal at the center of the Qur’an and Sunna of the Prophet, and that it enjoins “perfection, goodness, to better, to do beautiful things and to do righteous deeds” (3). It is this cosmological ethic that Khan argues must be restored and implemented “to develop a political philosophy … that emphasizes love over law” (2). In its expansive exploration of Islamic ethics and civilization, Khan’s Islam and Good Governance will remind some readers of the late Shahab Ahmed’s remarkable book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Ahmed 2016). Both are works of impressive range and spiritual depth. But whereas Ahmed stood in the humanities wing of Islamic studies, Khan is an intellectual polymath who moves easily across the Islamic sciences, social theory, and comparative politics. He brings the full weight of his effort to conclusion with policy recommendations for how “to combine Sufism with political theory” (6), and to do so in a way that recommends specific “Islamic principles that encourage good governance, and politics in pursuit of goodness” (8).