Julia Włodarczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 368587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Włodarczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Włodarczyk |
| SIGNATURE | WŁODARCZYK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Economics in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8808-1583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Plastic Domestication: Reading Species Stories Through the Framework of Plasticity
This article examines plasticity as a theoretical lens for analyzing non-human animal narratives, focusing on popular animal fiction from the early twentieth century, especially Jack London’s wolf-dog novels. Plasticity – the capacity of organisms to be shaped by environmental pressures – has historically been used to construct species hierarchies, with dogs, particularly wolf-dogs, portrayed as the most plastic and adaptable. This framing often …
The Elgar Companion to Information Economics
The Elgar Companion to Information Economics dexterously navigates this interdisciplinary field of research which celebrates the crucial contribution of information to decision making, market dynamics, and economic well-being. Offering a wealth of conceptual analysis, this erudite Companion embarks on an intellectual journey exploring the fundamentals of information economics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Diversity within commonality: A comparative study of the impact of foreign direct investment and trade openness on economic growth
The relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness, and economic growth are complex and analyzed by many researchers. Still, there are some gaps in our knowledge as literature documents positive, negative, and ambiguous impact of FDI and trade openness on economic growth. This paper addresses one of these gaps and focuses on the similarities and differences among countries from Central and Eastern Europe and West Africa. Th…
Introduction. Discordant Harmonies: Interspecies Relations in the United States
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging wordAnd the sky is not clouded all day.Brewster Higley, “Home on the Range” The lyrics to the popular folk song “Home on the Range,” first composed in 1873, depict a picturesque “utopia among pristine nature,” in which the promise of harmony between humans and animals forms the appeal of the American West as a place where one may wan…
From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness
The article explores the link between cuteness and animality, focusing on depictions of so-called animal odd couples, with emphasis on the effects cuteness may have for manipulating and flattening the life stories of real animals and obscuring the trauma that leads to the creation of cute imagery. After analyzing the vision of interspecies harmony in Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom, the article locates a shift away from the dominance of the subl…
Domestication Western-Style: Fantasies of Harmony and the Violence of Plasticity in Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka
Historically, animal characters and animal-child encounters in children's narratives have served largely metaphorical functions. More recently, scholars have become interested in exploring literary human-animal relations as interesting in and of themselves and not purely as background for promoting values and attitudes considered desirable for adolescent readers. The article proposes a reading of Mary O'Hara's novel My Friend Flicka (O'Hara 1941)…
Rank, stress, and risk: A conjecture
Between Employment and Nonemployment: The Ambiguity of Work and Leisure in the Contemporary Labor Market
The relationship between work and leisure has significantly changed in various segments of the contemporary, digitalized labor market. This article explores the characteristics of the developments that contributed to an increasing indistinguishability of work and leisure. It also discusses theoretical concepts associated with this ambiguity, namely prosumption, playbor and gamification, taking into account the issue of motivation, remuneration an…
Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska: A Forgotten Economist from Poland
This article investigates the contribution made by Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska (1860-1934)—an economist, feminist and activist—to economic theory and practice. Her career was influenced by the situation of Poland and women at the turn of the 20th century. In her writings, Daszyńska-Golińska covered a wide range of issues, but her greatest accomplishments were in the area of demography, social policy and the role of women in the economy. Unfortunatel…
My dog and I, we need the park: More-than-human agency and the emergence of dog parks in Poland, 2015-2020
The article analyzes the emergence of dog parks in Polandi, on the basis of stories from local media, with emphasis on how dog park proponents justify the need for establishing dog runs. Even though official arguments present dog parks as an amenity that offers training opportunities for dogs, the guardians' activism is motivated by the recognition of their dogs' needs for off-leash play and social interaction with others dogs. The guardians ofte…
When pigs fly: Emotional support animals, service dogs and the politics of legitimacy across species boundaries
This paper probes the distinction between the so-called emotional support animals (ESAs), a term that is specific to the USA and that has recently been the subject of significant media attention, and service animals. The attention devoted to ESAs has largely taken on the form of jokes and critical comments related to the absurdity of the 'political correctness' that makes it possible for pigs to fly in the passenger cabin of airplanes and llamas …
Innovations and income inequalities – a comparative study
Due to the complexity of relationships between innovations and income inequalities, the choice of measures to be taken in the course of their interaction is very important. This paper presents a regression analysis based on the selected measures of innovativeness (gross domestic expenditure on R&D, number of patent applications, the Creative Economy Index), income inequalities (Gini coefficient, top 3% and top 1% shares of national equalized inco…
Be More Dog: The human–canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
One way of conceptualizing the changes that have taken place in the methodology (or methodologies) of dog training in the past two decades - towards methods that are, very broadly, kinder and gentler - is to speak of a growing respect for the dog's subjectivity and canine specificity. Because contemporary training methodologies are beginning to be influenced by the non-anthropocentric way of thinking that characterizes "the animal turn," these ch…
Post-Communist Canine: A Feminist Approach to Women and Dogs in Canine Performance Sports in Poland
The article attempts to present the complexity of relationships between women, capitalism, democracy, and competitive dog training in post-communist Poland. The article documents the correlation between increased involvement of women in competitive canine sports in Poland after 1989, changes in the methods of dog training, and the transformation in politics from totalitarianism to democracy. The correlation suggests that in the early years of dem…
Of Dogs and Shepherds: Sheepdog Culture and the American Pastoral
This text analyzes American sheepdog culture through the lens of American pastoralism, taking its cue from the obvious connection between pastoralism and shepherds, but also locating elements of the American pastoral – in particular the tension between nature and civilization and ambivalence towards technology – in the development of sheepdog trials in the US, the figure of the American shepherd, the shepherd’s attitude to the dog and the trainin…
Nonneutrality of Money in a Social Perspective
The concept of nonneutrality of money is one of the most controversial concepts in the economic theory. Existing theories demonstrate that money is neutral (purely monetary phenomena do not yield real outcomes), but they are based upon assumptions that are unacceptable from the point of view of the complexity of social reality. Rejection of the assumption that the only motive of economic activity is to maximize wealth allows to notice a variety o…
My dog and I, we need the park: More-than-human agency and the emergence of dog parks in Poland, 2015-2020
The article analyzes the emergence of dog parks in Polandi, on the basis of stories from local media, with emphasis on how dog park proponents justify the need for establishing dog runs. Even though official arguments present dog parks as an amenity that offers training opportunities for dogs, the guardians' activism is motivated by the recognition of their dogs' needs for off-leash play and social interaction with others dogs. The guardians ofte…
Be More Dog: The human–canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
One way of conceptualizing the changes that have taken place in the methodology (or methodologies) of dog training in the past two decades - towards methods that are, very broadly, kinder and gentler - is to speak of a growing respect for the dog's subjectivity and canine specificity. Because contemporary training methodologies are beginning to be influenced by the non-anthropocentric way of thinking that characterizes "the animal turn," these ch…
When pigs fly: Emotional support animals, service dogs and the politics of legitimacy across species boundaries
This paper probes the distinction between the so-called emotional support animals (ESAs), a term that is specific to the USA and that has recently been the subject of significant media attention, and service animals. The attention devoted to ESAs has largely taken on the form of jokes and critical comments related to the absurdity of the 'political correctness' that makes it possible for pigs to fly in the passenger cabin of airplanes and llamas …
From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness
The article explores the link between cuteness and animality, focusing on depictions of so-called animal odd couples, with emphasis on the effects cuteness may have for manipulating and flattening the life stories of real animals and obscuring the trauma that leads to the creation of cute imagery. After analyzing the vision of interspecies harmony in Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom, the article locates a shift away from the dominance of the subl…
Introduction. Discordant Harmonies: Interspecies Relations in the United States
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging wordAnd the sky is not clouded all day.Brewster Higley, “Home on the Range” The lyrics to the popular folk song “Home on the Range,” first composed in 1873, depict a picturesque “utopia among pristine nature,” in which the promise of harmony between humans and animals forms the appeal of the American West as a place where one may wan…
Nonneutrality of Money in a Social Perspective
The concept of nonneutrality of money is one of the most controversial concepts in the economic theory. Existing theories demonstrate that money is neutral (purely monetary phenomena do not yield real outcomes), but they are based upon assumptions that are unacceptable from the point of view of the complexity of social reality. Rejection of the assumption that the only motive of economic activity is to maximize wealth allows to notice a variety o…
Nonneutrality of Money in a Social Perspective
The concept of nonneutrality of money is one of the most controversial concepts in the economic theory. Existing theories demonstrate that money is neutral (purely monetary phenomena do not yield real outcomes), but they are based upon assumptions that are unacceptable from the point of view of the complexity of social reality. Rejection of the assumption that the only motive of economic activity is to maximize wealth allows to notice a variety o…
Of Dogs and Shepherds: Sheepdog Culture and the American Pastoral
This text analyzes American sheepdog culture through the lens of American pastoralism, taking its cue from the obvious connection between pastoralism and shepherds, but also locating elements of the American pastoral – in particular the tension between nature and civilization and ambivalence towards technology – in the development of sheepdog trials in the US, the figure of the American shepherd, the shepherd’s attitude to the dog and the trainin…
Post-Communist Canine: A Feminist Approach to Women and Dogs in Canine Performance Sports in Poland
The article attempts to present the complexity of relationships between women, capitalism, democracy, and competitive dog training in post-communist Poland. The article documents the correlation between increased involvement of women in competitive canine sports in Poland after 1989, changes in the methods of dog training, and the transformation in politics from totalitarianism to democracy. The correlation suggests that in the early years of dem…
Innovations and income inequalities – a comparative study
Due to the complexity of relationships between innovations and income inequalities, the choice of measures to be taken in the course of their interaction is very important. This paper presents a regression analysis based on the selected measures of innovativeness (gross domestic expenditure on R&D, number of patent applications, the Creative Economy Index), income inequalities (Gini coefficient, top 3% and top 1% shares of national equalized inco…
Be More Dog: The human–canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
One way of conceptualizing the changes that have taken place in the methodology (or methodologies) of dog training in the past two decades - towards methods that are, very broadly, kinder and gentler - is to speak of a growing respect for the dog's subjectivity and canine specificity. Because contemporary training methodologies are beginning to be influenced by the non-anthropocentric way of thinking that characterizes "the animal turn," these ch…
When pigs fly: Emotional support animals, service dogs and the politics of legitimacy across species boundaries
This paper probes the distinction between the so-called emotional support animals (ESAs), a term that is specific to the USA and that has recently been the subject of significant media attention, and service animals. The attention devoted to ESAs has largely taken on the form of jokes and critical comments related to the absurdity of the 'political correctness' that makes it possible for pigs to fly in the passenger cabin of airplanes and llamas …
My dog and I, we need the park: More-than-human agency and the emergence of dog parks in Poland, 2015-2020
The article analyzes the emergence of dog parks in Polandi, on the basis of stories from local media, with emphasis on how dog park proponents justify the need for establishing dog runs. Even though official arguments present dog parks as an amenity that offers training opportunities for dogs, the guardians' activism is motivated by the recognition of their dogs' needs for off-leash play and social interaction with others dogs. The guardians ofte…
Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska: A Forgotten Economist from Poland
This article investigates the contribution made by Zofia Daszyńska-Golińska (1860-1934)—an economist, feminist and activist—to economic theory and practice. Her career was influenced by the situation of Poland and women at the turn of the 20th century. In her writings, Daszyńska-Golińska covered a wide range of issues, but her greatest accomplishments were in the area of demography, social policy and the role of women in the economy. Unfortunatel…
Between Employment and Nonemployment: The Ambiguity of Work and Leisure in the Contemporary Labor Market
The relationship between work and leisure has significantly changed in various segments of the contemporary, digitalized labor market. This article explores the characteristics of the developments that contributed to an increasing indistinguishability of work and leisure. It also discusses theoretical concepts associated with this ambiguity, namely prosumption, playbor and gamification, taking into account the issue of motivation, remuneration an…
The Elgar Companion to Information Economics
The Elgar Companion to Information Economics dexterously navigates this interdisciplinary field of research which celebrates the crucial contribution of information to decision making, market dynamics, and economic well-being. Offering a wealth of conceptual analysis, this erudite Companion embarks on an intellectual journey exploring the fundamentals of information economics. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Diversity within commonality: A comparative study of the impact of foreign direct investment and trade openness on economic growth
The relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness, and economic growth are complex and analyzed by many researchers. Still, there are some gaps in our knowledge as literature documents positive, negative, and ambiguous impact of FDI and trade openness on economic growth. This paper addresses one of these gaps and focuses on the similarities and differences among countries from Central and Eastern Europe and West Africa. Th…
Introduction. Discordant Harmonies: Interspecies Relations in the United States
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope play, Where never is heard a discouraging wordAnd the sky is not clouded all day.Brewster Higley, “Home on the Range” The lyrics to the popular folk song “Home on the Range,” first composed in 1873, depict a picturesque “utopia among pristine nature,” in which the promise of harmony between humans and animals forms the appeal of the American West as a place where one may wan…
From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness
The article explores the link between cuteness and animality, focusing on depictions of so-called animal odd couples, with emphasis on the effects cuteness may have for manipulating and flattening the life stories of real animals and obscuring the trauma that leads to the creation of cute imagery. After analyzing the vision of interspecies harmony in Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom, the article locates a shift away from the dominance of the subl…
Domestication Western-Style: Fantasies of Harmony and the Violence of Plasticity in Mary O'Hara's My Friend Flicka
Historically, animal characters and animal-child encounters in children's narratives have served largely metaphorical functions. More recently, scholars have become interested in exploring literary human-animal relations as interesting in and of themselves and not purely as background for promoting values and attitudes considered desirable for adolescent readers. The article proposes a reading of Mary O'Hara's novel My Friend Flicka (O'Hara 1941)…
Rank, stress, and risk: A conjecture
Plastic Domestication: Reading Species Stories Through the Framework of Plasticity
This article examines plasticity as a theoretical lens for analyzing non-human animal narratives, focusing on popular animal fiction from the early twentieth century, especially Jack London’s wolf-dog novels. Plasticity – the capacity of organisms to be shaped by environmental pressures – has historically been used to construct species hierarchies, with dogs, particularly wolf-dogs, portrayed as the most plastic and adaptable. This framing often …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works)