Searching for Identity. Personal Experiences and Methodological Reflections – EBOOK

This volume is dedicated to the International PhD Program “Searching for Identity: Global Challenges, Local Traditions,” organized at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw, in 2013–2018. The volume aims at showing identity as a processual concept, using the example of the researcher as a living personality. It thus corresponds with the general trend in the humanities and social sciences to pay attention to the researcher and the ways his or her personal background and experience influence the generation of knowledge. By introducing this topic, we would like to show completing a PhD, or any other research, as a dynamic process with a personal history of success and failure, as well as to demonstrate the impact of the “Searching for Identity” project.

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode).

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Ayur Zhanaev – PhD in Sociology (University of Warsaw), Assistant Professor at the Department of Culturally Integrated Legal and Social Studies, Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization, University of Warsaw, collaborator in the Project “Searching for Identity. Global Challenges, Local Traditions” at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. Academic interests: sociology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology.

Olha Tkachenko – PhD in Social Sciences (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin), collaborator in the Project “Searching for Identity. Global Challenges, Local Traditions” and teacher at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw. Her academic interests encompass media and identity studies, post-Soviet transformation, Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Wojciech Cendrowski, https://orcid.org/
A Blue Collar as an Ethnographer: A Few Reflections about Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Context of the Polish University
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.205-228

Robert Sucharski, https://orcid.org/
A Few Words in Way of Introduction
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.15-22

Jan Kieniewicz, https://orcid.org/
Experiences in Searching for the Identity of a Nation
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.23-55

Olha Tkachenko, https://orcid.org/
Ayur Zhanaev, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-8811
Foreword
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.9-14

Valeria Korablyova, https://orcid.org/
Imagining a Modern Poland: Lessons for Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.287-306

Marzena Maciulewicz, https://orcid.org/
In Search of Scientific Identity: Reflections on Intercultural Partnership, Fieldwork, and Researcher’s Engagement
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.229-266

Galina Dondukova, https://orcid.org/
Insider, Outsider, or In-Between? The Experience of Studying the Buryat Ethnic Identity in Poland
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.83-98

Kamil Maria Wielecki, https://orcid.org/
International and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programs in the Polish Academic Culture – Obstacles and Opportunities: Observations of a Graduate and Coordinator
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.267-284

Irina Koluzaeva, https://orcid.org/
Life Strategies in a Wartime Borderland: Problems of Identity of People “In Between” on the Eastern Border of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Livonian War
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.137-154

Inna Sukhenko, https://orcid.org/
Literary Chernobyl as a Factor of Ecological Identity Formation: The Case of Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.341-360

Olha Tkachenko, https://orcid.org/
Perceived Identity: Real Objectivity or Deconstruction of Discourse?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.119-136

Kyunney Takasaeva, https://orcid.org/
Reflections on Name and Identity: “What Do You See in My Name?”
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.179-204

Natalia Andriichuk, https://orcid.org/
Terminology in Inclusive Education: Its Evaluation in Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.361-374

Ayur Zhanaev, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-8811
The Falling Rain Will Stop, The Guest Who Arrived Will Leave: Once Again on “Insider” and “Outsider” Positions in the Buryat Field
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.99-116

Oleksiy Polunin, https://orcid.org/
Time Flow in the Human Mind
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.307-340

Daria Burnasheva, https://orcid.org/
Uncovering Arcticness: Experiences of Arctic Identity at Home and Abroad
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.59-82

Bato Dondukov, https://orcid.org/
Virtual Reality as Fieldwork: A Study of Buddhist Communities of Russia on the Internet
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548157.pp.155-176