Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego: Recent submissions
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Nazywam się... O doświadczaniu imion i nazwisk w procesie interakcyjnej kategoryzacji i konstruowania tożsamości człowieka
(2025)The dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of experiencing names and surnames. Its main aim is to explore the roles they play in everyday interactions and in constructing individual and collective identity. Special attention ... -
From Voluntariness to Coercion: The Heterogeneity of Work Under Nonstandard Employment
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)Although flexible employment is a prominent subject of sociological research, specific arrangements still require further investigation. This article addresses this gap by analyzing three nonstandard forms of employment ... -
The Job Quality of Psychotherapists in the Polish Socio-Institutional Context: The Subjective Dimension
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)This article examines the job quality of psychotherapists from the perspective of the sociology of work. Given the increasing demand for mental health services, psychotherapists are classified as ‘essential workers’. The ... -
Praktykowanie przestrzeni przez osoby w kryzysie bezdomności – przykład Warszawy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)The aim of this article is to present different ways of practicing spaces by the homeless. It demonstrates the results of several years of qualitative research conducted in Warsaw and its surroundings, enriched with ... -
The Creation of the Social Boundaries of Occupation Based on the Example of Physiotherapists in Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)The article focuses on the initial findings of ongoing research dedicated to the practices of masseurs and physiotherapists. One unique aspect of working in a specific occupation is the social acknowledgement of certain ... -
Od analityczności do empatyczności – dwadzieścia lat przemiany z „Przeglądem Socjologii Jakościowej”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the transformation of the author’s research identity in the context of the 20th anniversary of the “Qualitative Sociology Review” scientific journal. Describing the path ... -
Work and Vulnerability in Times of Polycrises
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)The article is an introduction to thematic issue and as such explores the intersections of work and vulnerability in times of polycrises. It examines how market transformations, migration, war, and the COVID-19 pandemic ... -
W poszukiwaniu domu, którego nigdzie nie można odnaleźć. O nawracającej w ciągu życia niemożności zadomowienia się w świecie na podstawie narracji biograficznej bezdomnego mężczyzny
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)The article presents the results of an analysis that focused on the biographical narrative of a middle-aged man who, before finding himself in a homeless shelter, struggled for most of his life with a lack of his own ... -
Etnografia wielozmysłowa w praktyce. Dzienniki doświadczeń zmysłowych jako metoda badawcza
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)The article examines sensory experience diaries as a research method rooted in multisensory ethnography and the paradigm of embodied cognition. The author discusses the theoretical foundations of this approach and its ... -
„Te butelki same tu nie przyszły”. Analiza telewizyjnych programów interwencyjnych dotyczących dzikich wysypisk w przestrzeni miejskiej
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)This article addresses the issue of creating urban spatial disorder through the deposition of waste in unauthorized locations. The analysis encompasses social practices related to littering, abandoning trash, and the ... -
Od miski do saloniku kąpielowego. Udomowienie nowoczesnej łazienki
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-30)Drawing on the technology domestication theory and the concept of bathroom regime, this article aims to analyze the processes of the normalization and transformation of domestic bathrooms in Polish cities in the period ... -
A Review of Eve Dunbar’s Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)
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“Stop Read Listen”: A Review of The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City, edited by Tong King Lee (Routledge, 2021)
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All but a Pose? Unlikeable Heroines in Contemporary Fiction by Women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)The present research grows out of an engagement with emerging trends in contemporary fiction by young women authors whose works frequently feature unrelatable and ultimately unlikable female narrators and/or protagonists. ... -
Surviving Hamlet: Female Trauma through the Lens of Judith Lewis Herman’s Theory
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article employs Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery Theory as a framework to explore the theme of female trauma in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a play renowned for its intricate psychological depth. It analyzes the ... -
Redefining Death in Zero K by Don DeLillo
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Don DeLillo’s Zero K (2016) focuses on the possibility of overcoming death through cryonics. The narrative is set primarily in the Convergence—a facility which utilises cryonics to provide its subjects with the possibility ... -
Precious Evanescence: The “Little Angels” by Chichico Alkmim through the Lens of Vladimir Jankélévitch
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)This article establishes a dialogue between two distinct domains: the portraits of deceased infants—known in Brazil as anjinhos (“little angels”)—captured by the Brazilian photographer Chichico Alkmim (1886–1978) in the ... -
“We translate in order to differ”: Kaja Gucio in Conversation with Jerzy Jarniewicz
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A Hybrid Medium—Life (and Love) in John Ashbery’s Poetry
Bartczak, Kacper
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-10-21)
The article focuses on the form of John Ashbery’s long poems, with a view to discussing it as a vitalist formula. Ashbery continues the American romantic vitalism by bringing it close to perspectives provided by contemporary ... -
In Search of Autonomy: Sexuality and the Promise of Liberation in Witold Gombrowicz’s Pornografia and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-11-28)Around the launch of the Penguin series Writers from the Other Europe in 1974, Philip Roth’s novels turned to the intersections between sexuality and Jewish-American life with an increased intensity. Roth’s choice to include ...