Resistance in the Deceleration Lane. Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice by Marzena Kubisz
Abstract
Paweł Jędrzejko's review article on Marzena Kubisz's Resistance in the Deceleration Lane. Velocentrism, Slow Culture and Everyday Practice, Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag 2014)
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University of Silesia in Katowice Faculty of Philology Institute of English Cultures and Literatures Department of American and Canadian Studies Poland
Pawel Jedrzejko, Ph.D., D. Litt, Associate Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, is the Chair of the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia in Katowice and the director of the University of Silesia Press. A member of his home Institute’s faculty since 1995, Paweł Jędrzejko has performed the functions of the Academic Secretary of the Institute, and Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Recruitment at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Currently, he is a member of the Open Access Advisory Board at the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. In the years 2003–2008, he had served as a IASA Member At-Large and currently is a member of the Executive Council of the Organization. A co-founder and co-editor of the Review of International American Studies, Jędrzejko is also an author of over a hundred publications, including two authored and five co-edited books, numerous journal articles and book chapters. He co-edited all of the existing issues of the Review of International American Studies. An ocean-going yachtmaster and a musician, seeking refuge from the stringencies of academic life, he goes sailing, sings sea shanties in the vocal sextet Banana Boat, plays the guitar, or devises plans for future sailing expeditions.
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