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Title:

Feeling at home in Grochów. The phenomenon of Kicia Kocia

Subtitle:

Zadomowienie na Grochowie. Fenomen Kici Koci ; Journal of Urban Ethnology 17 (2019)

Creator:

Sikora, Sławomir

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

anthropology of space ; Kicia Kocia clubhouse ; feeling at home ; Grochów ; place ; urban anthropology

Abstract:

Feeling at home can be metaphorically associated with dwelling (M. Heidegger) and finding/constructing one’s place. With, i.a. the concepts of Heidegger and M. de Certeau as a starting point the author shows how the process of creating one’s place can be understood today. Recalling various examples of tamed “places/ venues” (the cigar shop in Smoke by P. Auster and W. Wang, the local shop in the anthropological documentary Tobacco, Truths and Rummikub by S. Meyknecht, and the “mobile bar” in Ankara described by D. Altay), he creates an ambiguous concept of the “own place today”. An example crucial for the presented reflections is the establishment and functioning of the Kicia Kocia clubhouse in the district of Grochów (Warsaw) showing how a “real place” can be created first virtually (Facebook), through stories and things, and then by the people themselves or rather through their relationships. It is the latter – or their network –that allow to construct a place-rhizome, which radiates throughout a district

Relation:

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Volume:

17

Start page:

81

End page:

96

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

1429-0618

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 714 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 1505 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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