Aleksandra Maria Bilewicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2064641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Maria Bilewicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilewicz |
| SIGNATURE | BILEWICZ A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1133-1270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decline and transformation of cooperation in two rural communities in Poland in the context of deagrarianisation
The aim of this article is to analyse how members of two rural communities—one with a more, and one with a less agrarian character—experience the decline of cooperation, how they compare it to their memories of the past and how they perceive changes in the character of cooperation in the context of deagrarianisation. The research encompassed interviews with villagers of different ages, but mainly in fifty to seventy years of age. The interviews r…
The naturalization of runaway rights
This paper explores how political demands transform into collective rights through a psychological lens, emphasizing the process of naturalization. Building on Moghaddam et al.'s framework, the authors introduce the idea that collective demands, when reframed as rights, are perceived as inherent, timeless, and essential to group identity. The paper discusses psychological mechanisms like essentialism, autochthony beliefs, and collective continuit…
Czy te hektary urosły? Zmiany w doświadczaniu czasu w dwóch społecznościach wiejskich w Polsce
Celem artykułu jest analiza zmian w postrzeganiu czasu wśród członków dwóch wiejskich społeczności w Polsce, oparta na badaniach etnograficznych. Punktem wyjścia dla analizy było stwierdzenie rozmówców, że mają mniej czasu na interakcje społeczne niż 20-50 lat temu (dotyczy to starszych uczestników badań, w wieku około 50-70 lat). Dzieje się tak pomimo postępującej mechanizacji rolnictwa i prac w gospodarstwie domowym, która powinna oszczędzać cz…
A repeasantisation in Poland? New farmers, the peasant mode of production and their situations in local communities
This article discusses Poland's new farmers: people who have left the city to engage in agriculture and urban people with a ruralbackground who return to their villages to start farming. We analysed their mode of production using the categories of van der Ploeg (2018).: We also focused on the relations between the new farmers and their communities. The results show that new farmers farm in a peasant-like way. However, they also constitute a disti…
Złoty środek, którym zazwyczaj chodzi życie”. O potrzebie obecności agraryzmu w Polsce
Celem artykułu jest wskazanie na aktualność idei agraryzmu ludowcowego – reprezentowanego przez działaczy Związku Młodzieży Wiejskiej „Wici” oraz Stronnictwa Ludowego (przede wszystkim przez Stanisława Miłkowskiego) i argumentacjana rzecz tezy, że przypomnienie sposobu rozumowania i postulatów agrarystów mogłoby wesprzeć rozwiązywanie problemów społecznych i gospodarczych nie tylko współczesnej wsi, ale i całego państwa. Pomogłoby także w tworzen…
De-assimilation Without Assimilation? The Continuities in the Polish Secular Model of Jewishness
This article critically examines Krajewski's (in this issue of Contemp Jewry) argument about the assimilation and subsequent de-assimilation of the Jewish population in Poland. While Krajewski asserts that Polish Jews underwent a process of assimilation followed by a revival of their cultural and religious practices, the authors argue that the term "de-assimilation" is not applicable in this context. They propose that post-war Polish Jews conscio…
Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
Farmers in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe are the major beneficiaries of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), at least in monetary terms. Why, then, are they dissatisfied with the CAP? This study aims to understand farmers’ subjectivities (i.e., judgments shaped by personal opinions and feelings) regarding CAP and compares these subjectivities to the actual impact of CAP in rural areas. It is based on empirical r…
Deagrarianization in the making
Beyond the Modernisation Paradigm
The aim of this article is to explore the possible emergence of a food sovereignty movement in Poland through the analysis of two farmers protest movements organised in 2012-2019 (Protest Rolników and Agrounia) as well as Polish alternative food networks. The analysed protest movements reacted to the socio-economic crisis in the countryside which entails a continuous decline of smallholder farming, a process that has started during the 1989 Polis…
A Path to a Countermovement? Forms of Integration in Polish Consumer Cooperatives
This paper discusses Polish consumer cooperatives in terms of the embedded economy as understood by Karl Polanyi. The author compares today‟s “new” cooperatives, or informal groups of consumers that have been emerging in Poland since 2010, with the “old” consumer cooperative movement that existed between 1906 and 1939, as represented mainly by the “Społem” consumer cooperative union. Following Polanyi‟s understanding of the relationship between h…
Beyond the “Northern” and “Southern” Divide
In this article, the authors analyze emerging alternative food networks (AFNs) in Poland—that is, newly established consumer cooperatives—focusing on how the networks’ members perceive food and the space of its production. This analysis leads to reflection on the division that exists in the subject literature between “northern” and “southern” AFNs. The authors argue that this division does not capture the complex situation of Central and Eastern …
Who defines humanity? Psychological and cultural obstacles to omniculturalism
In this article we discuss the social-psychological limitations of using omniculturalism as a tool to improve intercultural relations between majority and minority groups. The omnicultural imperative suggests that intercultural interactions be framed in terms of human commonalities. This strategy might face severe psychological and cultural obstacles. Due to automatic mechanisms of ingroup projection, such framing might have adverse effects: Peop…
Beyond the “Northern” and “Southern” Divide
In this article, the authors analyze emerging alternative food networks (AFNs) in Poland—that is, newly established consumer cooperatives—focusing on how the networks’ members perceive food and the space of its production. This analysis leads to reflection on the division that exists in the subject literature between “northern” and “southern” AFNs. The authors argue that this division does not capture the complex situation of Central and Eastern …
Deagrarianization in the making
Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
Farmers in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe are the major beneficiaries of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), at least in monetary terms. Why, then, are they dissatisfied with the CAP? This study aims to understand farmers’ subjectivities (i.e., judgments shaped by personal opinions and feelings) regarding CAP and compares these subjectivities to the actual impact of CAP in rural areas. It is based on empirical r…
Beyond the Modernisation Paradigm
The aim of this article is to explore the possible emergence of a food sovereignty movement in Poland through the analysis of two farmers protest movements organised in 2012-2019 (Protest Rolników and Agrounia) as well as Polish alternative food networks. The analysed protest movements reacted to the socio-economic crisis in the countryside which entails a continuous decline of smallholder farming, a process that has started during the 1989 Polis…
Who defines humanity? Psychological and cultural obstacles to omniculturalism
In this article we discuss the social-psychological limitations of using omniculturalism as a tool to improve intercultural relations between majority and minority groups. The omnicultural imperative suggests that intercultural interactions be framed in terms of human commonalities. This strategy might face severe psychological and cultural obstacles. Due to automatic mechanisms of ingroup projection, such framing might have adverse effects: Peop…
A Path to a Countermovement? Forms of Integration in Polish Consumer Cooperatives
This paper discusses Polish consumer cooperatives in terms of the embedded economy as understood by Karl Polanyi. The author compares today‟s “new” cooperatives, or informal groups of consumers that have been emerging in Poland since 2010, with the “old” consumer cooperative movement that existed between 1906 and 1939, as represented mainly by the “Społem” consumer cooperative union. Following Polanyi‟s understanding of the relationship between h…
Beyond the “Northern” and “Southern” Divide
In this article, the authors analyze emerging alternative food networks (AFNs) in Poland—that is, newly established consumer cooperatives—focusing on how the networks’ members perceive food and the space of its production. This analysis leads to reflection on the division that exists in the subject literature between “northern” and “southern” AFNs. The authors argue that this division does not capture the complex situation of Central and Eastern …
Beyond the Modernisation Paradigm
The aim of this article is to explore the possible emergence of a food sovereignty movement in Poland through the analysis of two farmers protest movements organised in 2012-2019 (Protest Rolników and Agrounia) as well as Polish alternative food networks. The analysed protest movements reacted to the socio-economic crisis in the countryside which entails a continuous decline of smallholder farming, a process that has started during the 1989 Polis…
Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
Farmers in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe are the major beneficiaries of the European Union’s (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), at least in monetary terms. Why, then, are they dissatisfied with the CAP? This study aims to understand farmers’ subjectivities (i.e., judgments shaped by personal opinions and feelings) regarding CAP and compares these subjectivities to the actual impact of CAP in rural areas. It is based on empirical r…
Deagrarianization in the making
Złoty środek, którym zazwyczaj chodzi życie”. O potrzebie obecności agraryzmu w Polsce
Celem artykułu jest wskazanie na aktualność idei agraryzmu ludowcowego – reprezentowanego przez działaczy Związku Młodzieży Wiejskiej „Wici” oraz Stronnictwa Ludowego (przede wszystkim przez Stanisława Miłkowskiego) i argumentacjana rzecz tezy, że przypomnienie sposobu rozumowania i postulatów agrarystów mogłoby wesprzeć rozwiązywanie problemów społecznych i gospodarczych nie tylko współczesnej wsi, ale i całego państwa. Pomogłoby także w tworzen…
De-assimilation Without Assimilation? The Continuities in the Polish Secular Model of Jewishness
This article critically examines Krajewski's (in this issue of Contemp Jewry) argument about the assimilation and subsequent de-assimilation of the Jewish population in Poland. While Krajewski asserts that Polish Jews underwent a process of assimilation followed by a revival of their cultural and religious practices, the authors argue that the term "de-assimilation" is not applicable in this context. They propose that post-war Polish Jews conscio…
A repeasantisation in Poland? New farmers, the peasant mode of production and their situations in local communities
This article discusses Poland's new farmers: people who have left the city to engage in agriculture and urban people with a ruralbackground who return to their villages to start farming. We analysed their mode of production using the categories of van der Ploeg (2018).: We also focused on the relations between the new farmers and their communities. The results show that new farmers farm in a peasant-like way. However, they also constitute a disti…
The naturalization of runaway rights
This paper explores how political demands transform into collective rights through a psychological lens, emphasizing the process of naturalization. Building on Moghaddam et al.'s framework, the authors introduce the idea that collective demands, when reframed as rights, are perceived as inherent, timeless, and essential to group identity. The paper discusses psychological mechanisms like essentialism, autochthony beliefs, and collective continuit…
Czy te hektary urosły? Zmiany w doświadczaniu czasu w dwóch społecznościach wiejskich w Polsce
Celem artykułu jest analiza zmian w postrzeganiu czasu wśród członków dwóch wiejskich społeczności w Polsce, oparta na badaniach etnograficznych. Punktem wyjścia dla analizy było stwierdzenie rozmówców, że mają mniej czasu na interakcje społeczne niż 20-50 lat temu (dotyczy to starszych uczestników badań, w wieku około 50-70 lat). Dzieje się tak pomimo postępującej mechanizacji rolnictwa i prac w gospodarstwie domowym, która powinna oszczędzać cz…
Decline and transformation of cooperation in two rural communities in Poland in the context of deagrarianisation
The aim of this article is to analyse how members of two rural communities—one with a more, and one with a less agrarian character—experience the decline of cooperation, how they compare it to their memories of the past and how they perceive changes in the character of cooperation in the context of deagrarianisation. The research encompassed interviews with villagers of different ages, but mainly in fifty to seventy years of age. The interviews r…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agricultural economics and policies (4 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Rural development and sustainability (4 works)