Reconciliation in Bloodlands

Jacek Kurczewski holds the Chair of Sociology and Anthropology of Custom and Law at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw (Poland). The professor’s main areas of interest are sociology and anthropology of law, political representation, and local-level politics. In 1997/98, he was Academic Director at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Spain). He is editor of the journal Societas/Communitas.

• Contents: Jacek Kurczewski: Bloodlands à la longue durée - Introduction – Joanna Kurczewska: Anthropology in Service of Reconciliation – Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka: Hate Narrations – Aneta Gawkowska: Love Speech as Action. John Paul II Teaching and Practice – Paweł Śpiewak: Reconciliation with the Absent: Poles and Jews in Democratic Poland – Michał Bilewicz/Anna Stefaniak/Marta Witkowska: Polish Youth Confronting the Jewish Past: Antagonistic History and Pathways to Reconciliation – Henryk Czech: Reconciled Diversity - Contribution of the Opole Catholic Church to the Reconciliation of Ethnic Groups, Traditions and Cultures – Józef Szymeczek: Polish Protestants in Trans-Olza Cieszyn Silesia Towards the Polish-German and Czech-German Reconciliation – Aniela Różańska: Young People of Cieszyn Silesia in Interfaith Dialogue – Aleksandra Herman: The Reconciliation Through A Marriage: A Comparative Study of Marital Selection in Two Polish Bi-denominational Communities – Halina Rusek/Andrzej Kasperek: Memory Sites versus Antagonism and Reconciliation: The Case of Polish-Czech Relations – Vladislav Volkov: Latvian-Russian Relations in Daugavpils Since 1991 – Małgorzata Fuszara: Kresowianie: The Polish Expellees’ Perspective on Reconciliation – Dariusz Wojakowski: Past, Conflicts and Seeking of Reconciliation on the Polish-Ukrainian Borderland – Krzysztof Czyżewski: The Culture of Coexistence in the longue durée. On Practising the Ethos of the Borderland – Jacek Kurczewski: Compelled to be Neighbours: A Small Polish Town in Former Germany – Jacek Kurczewski: Reconciliation in the Bloodlands - Concluding Remarks.