Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Balogun, Bolaji

doi:10.1177/0038026120928883

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“…16, Iss. 1, 2022 converts include (1) Poland as a local setting shaping the process, defined by its historical, cultural, religious, and racial collective identities (Balogun 2020), and (2) online spaces, including social media, videoconferences, emails, and websites. The women we studied are located at the intersection of these contexts, each of them structured by dynamic relationships, affordances, and limitations.…”

Section: Muslim Subjectivation In Literaturementioning

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The Role of the Internet in the Formation of Muslim Subjectivity Among Polish Female Converts to Islam

Piela¹,

Krotofil²,

Górak-Sosnowska³

et al. 2022

CyberOrient

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In this article, we discuss the main arguments related to female Muslim converts' formation of a religious subjectivity in the context of studying Islam in online spaces. In distinguishing between Western and Eastern Europe, it is our purpose to highlight the significance of online sources for converts who inhabit geographic “peripheries” of Islam. After giving an overview of the literature that discusses Muslim subject formation among converts, we analyse 35 in‐depth, qualitative interviews with Polish female converts to Islam in reference to a theoretical framework that integrates Belenky et al.'s model of epistemological categories of knowledge and the concept of Muslim subjectivity formation. We argue that for the Polish female converts we interviewed, the process of acquiring and revising their knowledge about Islam, through online engagement with individuals, groups, texts, and multimedia content, is vital for developing an ontologically secure Muslim subjectivity.

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Section: Muslim Subjectivation In Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Internet in the Formation of Muslim Subjectivity Among Polish Female Converts to Islam

Piela¹,

Krotofil²,

Górak-Sosnowska³

et al. 2022

CyberOrient

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“…Such hostilities have been enumerated from party officials on a regular basis in Poland, linking those who are practicing Muslims to terrorism (Narkowicz, 2018). Most of these conversations on Islamophobia involve immigrants from Northern Africa, who contribute additional constructions of “otherness” that permeate within Poland (Balogun, 2020). Bobako (2018) examines religion's role in the perpetuation of racism in Poland based on Islamophobia and asserts “in fact, the realities of Islamophobic politics are messy and are marked by instrumental cross‐borrowings of arguments forged in very different locations of the political spectrum.…”

Section: Why Poland?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland

Greene

2022

Sociology Compass

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This article provides an overview of literature pertaining to anti-blackness and racism in Poland. Much of the literature on anti-blackness and racism in Europe has focused on certain hegemonic powers in Europe. This literature reviews seeks to add another country to explore the topic. The article first discusses how anti-blackness conversations are formulated in general and then shifts to examine Poland, exploring how these conversations on immigration, economic issues and Islamophobia add to a broader discussion of Europe's problems with anti-blackness more broadly. From here, the article examines and dismantles the notions that Poland is isolated from the African continent and that Poland's historical and contemporary population can be viewed as totally homogenous. Self-identified Afro-Poles are discussed as a focal population of Black Poles, showing that there are generational interactions between the African continent and Polish society in the last section. This review seeks to add a new case study into the discourse of anti-blackness and racism in Europe. I argue that cases like Poland are valuable and necessary to develop fuller conceptualizations of anti-blackness.

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“…Racial categories associating people of colour with low status may also impact other Poles' choice of partners and knowing when to voice or not voice racist comments (Fox and Mogilnicka 2019). A racialized discourse of whiteness and blackness is also emerging in Poland (Balogun 2020). Moreover, religious, and ethnic groups other than white Catholic Europeans are discursively absent from the ethnic framing of the Polish diaspora (Elgenius 2017a, forthcoming).…”

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Gate-keeping the nation: discursive claims, counter-claims and racialized logics of whiteness

Elgenius

Garner

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This article analyses the racialization of discourses about national identities, and explores the implications for populations racialized as white. Two extensive datasets have been brought together, spanning a decade and 560 interviews, to explore discursive interplay, the oppositional nature and relationality of majority and minority claims about national belonging. We demonstrate that national identity claims are constructed discursively from positions of relative advantage and disadvantage: here the English majority and Polish minority. Discourses of national identity involve positioning and using resources differentially available. Dominant majority groups, perceiving themselves as entitled through their conceptualization of the nation-state and indigeneity, interpret and police minority claims in ways that equate to a gate-keeping function. The analysis examines the contingent hierarchy of whiteness and the discursive implications for entitlement, deservingness and resentment. The framework of whiteness helps illuminate the construction and contested racialization of hierarchies around national identity and belonging.

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Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Cited by 31 publications

References 45 publications

The Role of the Internet in the Formation of Muslim Subjectivity Among Polish Female Converts to Islam

The Role of the Internet in the Formation of Muslim Subjectivity Among Polish Female Converts to Islam

Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland

Gate-keeping the nation: discursive claims, counter-claims and racialized logics of whiteness

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