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• Title:
  “We Are the Poles from Former Yugoslavia.” Transformation Processes Shifted in Time—The Biographical Perspective
• Creator:
  Ligus, Rozalia
• Contributor:
  University of Wrocław, Poland;
  Rozalia Ligus is an Associate Professor in Adult Education and Cultural Studies, Institute of Pedagogy, University of Wrocław. Her main interest is focused on socio-cultural aspects of adult learning, biographical (re)construction of identity, collective memory, and the development of local community. She is the author of the book Teachers’ Biographical Identity (2009) and articles published in Polish and English. Since 2004 she is a member of the ESREA European Society for Research on Education of Adults and since 2018—a member of the Polish Sociological Association.;
  rozalia.ligus@uwr.edu.pl
• Description:
  This paper is based on the first analysis of the 25 narrative interviews collected from March to November 2018 in small local communities in the Lower Silesia Region. All narrators belong to the families that were transferred from the former Yugoslavia in 1946 to the western lands which were incorporated to Poland. The socio-cultural conditions are significant for local development, so I present some features of localism after 1989 when the state transformation processes started. Next, I discuss the narrators’ self-identity dilemmas and make an attempt to conceptualize “migrating biography” as one of the features of living in a postmodern world. The aim of the whole project, but not described in this article, is to reveal the intergenerational adult learning processes seen from the insider’s perspective, as well as to describe such lives in a psychosocial and cultural context.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.11.22;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review; 4;
  15
• Subject:
  Western Borderlands of Poland;
  “New Localism”;
  “Return Migration”;
  “Migrating Biographies”;
  Self-Identification
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/30879 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.15.4.05
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
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