It is a common belief in Poland that peasants were an ignorant, disorganized mass with no ability to fight for their rights. Apart from a few exceptions, little is written about peasant revolts in Poland. There is very little awareness... more
It is a common belief in Poland that peasants were an ignorant, disorganized mass with no ability to fight for their rights. Apart from a few exceptions, little is written about peasant revolts in Poland. There is very little awareness that they even rebelled at all. This stems primarily from misunderstandings about the nature of peasant revolts. The manorial serfdom economic model adopted in Poland required its own specific tactics of resistance. Knowledge about the nature of peasant revolts on Polish territory and the strategies employed allows us to see and understand their scale. It then becomes clear that the peasants were not such a passive mass.
The paper seeks to examine in depth all the epigraphical (mainly some passages of the Law Code of Gortyn) and narrative (chiefly some passages of the Aristotleʼs „Politics“) sources in order to establish an inventory with respect to the... more
The paper seeks to examine in depth all the epigraphical (mainly some passages of the Law Code of Gortyn) and narrative (chiefly some passages of the Aristotleʼs „Politics“) sources in order to establish an inventory with respect to the exceptional clemency of the legislation and the jurisdiction of Cretan cities towards individuals of slave status. In the second step, the aim is to bring elements of explanation, by using also archaeological data. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/klio.2017.99.issue-1/klio-2017-0003/klio-2017-0003.xml?format=INT
Data produced on the internet represents to certain interests a valuable commodity for academic research and commercial marketing. However, the reporting of scandals such as the Cambridge Analytica data breach anger the public who are... more
Data produced on the internet represents to certain interests a valuable commodity for academic research and commercial marketing. However, the reporting of scandals such as the Cambridge Analytica data breach anger the public who are metaphorically acting as serfs to produce data that is harvested for frequent unethical use. This was not the future internet envisaged decades ago. Challenging this serfdom is Gaspard Koenig, founder of the Génération libre think-tank. He provocatively advocates enacting cultural change where liberalist ideas of data ownership are weaved into legislation and can be drawn upon by internet users to control the use of their data. Incorporating his views, this chapter examines the question if internet user data should be the property of the user and how a future internet may look like if it does. It uses Inayatullah’s (2015, 2009) Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) futures method to illustrate both the current data serfdom problem and a suggested alternative future internet where data is considered the user’s property.
