Online Euroscepticism in the European Parliament elections of June 2009
The RECON team at the Jagiellonian University Krakow (JUK) has recently experienced a great interest for their research on the changing identity of the so called ‘New urban middle class’ (‘Nowe mieszczanstwo’) in Poland. So far, the research and its major findings have attracted attention not only from academia, but also from the Polish newspapers Gazeta Krakow, Gazeta Wyborcza and Gazeta Wroclawska, as well as the radio station Polskie Radio Wroclaw and Internet fora.
The debated research is part JUK’s studies on constructing and reconstructing collective identity including qualitative analyses of collective identity formation in Poland. Paweł Kubicki and Marcin Galent studied the young urban population, by conducting qualitative empirical research on the newly emerging urban class in Kraków and Wrocław. The research revealed that European identification could enforce local identification.
Read more about the project here: http://www.habeaslounge.pl (in Polish)