TRANSFORMACJE POSTAW WOBEC ARABÓW W SPOŁECZEŃSTWIE POLSKIM Z PERSPEKTYWY CZŁONKÓW SPOŁECZNOŚCI ARABSKIEJ I MUZUŁMAŃSKIEJ

• Main Author: Konrad Pędziwiatr
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wydawnictwa AGH 2020-06-01
• Series: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Subjects: muslims; arabs; otherness; islamophobia; prejudices; islam in poland; strangeness
• Online Access: https://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2020.19.2/human.2020.19.2.89.pdf

In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabs or studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analyses assessing how these attitudes and images are perceived by the minority group. The purpose of this text is to fill this gap and analyse the perception of transformation of attitudes in contemporary Polish society towards Arabs from the perspective of members of the Arab and Muslim communities. The article’s analytical framework builds upon the conceptions problematizing a group sense of alienation and familiarity in the context of human mobility and immobility. In particular, the text shows the usefulness of the concept of otherness and strangeness developed by Ewa Nowicka in the late 1990s for the analysis of the transformation of attitudes towards Arabs and Muslims in Polish society in the last two decades.