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ON DECOLONIZING SLAVIC STUDIES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA
Ewa Thompson’s new scientific essay on the decolonization of Slavic studies in America and Europe has been published on the website of the Conservatives and Reformers of the European Union, deliberatio.eu.
‘The proposition to decolonize Slavic Studies began to gain traction at the very end of the decolonization process that has been occurring worldwide since mid-twentieth century. In the United States, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, which has long tolerated colonialist scholarship about non-Germanic Central Europe and Eastern Europe, has joined the bandwagon and dedicated its 2023 Virtual Convention to that theme. It took the Russian-Ukrainian war and its “uncontrollable consequences” to make acceptable the idea of placing Slavic Studies under the microscope of decolonization. “No event has transformed the continent more profoundly since the end of the Cold War, and there is no going back now”, noted Roger Cohen in the New York Times at the outset of the second year of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine (…)
The second article, “Ojkofobia i jej odwrotności” has been posted on the website teologiapolityczna.pl.
‘Tylko niewielka ilość polskiego kapitału kulturowego przedostaje się za granicę. Taki transfer może się odbyć tylko wtedy, gdy sprzyja mu odpowiedni moment, tymczasem wiadomo, że Polacy nie celują w marketingu. W dodatku koszmar następców Jerzego Urbana zamazuje rzeczywistość do takiego stopnia, że czasem można wziąć pławiących się w wulgaryzmach wychowanków komunizmu za polską rzeczywistość – pisze Ewa Thompson w kolejnym felietonie z cyklu „Widziane z Houston”.’
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