The Condition of Women in the Aromanian Community in Romania

Situaţia femeilor în comunitatea aromână din România

Author(s): Ioana Vrăbiescu,Carmen Mezincescu,Delia Panait,Irina Ilisei / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: comunitatea aromână; aromâni; istro-români; megleno-români; macedo-români; vlahi; romanitate balcanică; fârşeroţi; epiroţi; gramusteni; moscopoleni; model patriarhal

Din cuprins: Aromânii – origini, deplasări, aşezare istorică, statutul în cadrul Imperiului Otoman; Numele; Aşezarea în România; Identitatea colectivă şi situaţia prezentă: acţiunile pentru obţinerea recunoaşterii culturale şi politice; Dimensiunea de gen în comunitatea aromânilor: căsătoria şi obiceiurile familiale – succesiunea, grupul domestic extins; căsătoria endogamă; adulterul, divorţul, văduvia; Investigaţie asupra statusului femeii în comunitatea aromână.

CNCD Decision on Failure to Ensure Appropriate Working Conditions to a Union Leader

Hotărârea CNCD cu privire la neasigurarea unor condiţii normale de prestare a muncii unui lider sindical

Author(s): Consiliul Naţional pentru Combaterea Discriminării CNCD / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: condiţii normale de prestare a muncii; hărţuirea; O.G. nr. 137/2000; lider sindical

Obiect: neasigurarea unor condiţii normale de prestare a muncii, aplicarea incorectă a măsurilor disciplinare, hărţuirea, neplata liderului sindical şi desfacerea contractului de muncă. Reclamatul a invocat faptul că prin apariţiile în presă a petentului s-a afectat imaginea societăţii. Analizând articolele invocate de reclamat, se constată că ele au un limbaj adecvat, şi reclamă unele nereguli care ţin de activitatea unui lider sindical (cum ar fi întârzierea acordării salariilor, temerea privind trimiterea în şomaj a angajaţilor). Petentul a fost sancţionat disciplinar în mod repetat, iar reclamatul a declarat că ar fi „un refuzat al sorţii, care ar trebui internat la Socola”. CD CNCD hotărăşte: Neasigurarea unor condiţii normale de prestare a muncii, hărţuirea reprezintă discriminare conform art. 2 alin. (1), art. 2 alin. (4), coroborate cu art. 6 lit. e) şi g), respectiv art. 2 alin. (5) al O.G. nr. 137/2000, republicată; 2. Sancţionarea reclamatului R.C., director general SC A. SA, cu avertisment.

Citizenship, between the National and the International: Notes on a Case

Cetăţenia între naţional şi internaţional. Discuţii pe marginea unui caz

Author(s): Aurora Ciucă / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: citizenship; community law; European citizenship; refugee; stateless persons; the EU Court of Justice; the Rottmann case

The application of EU law to cases involving the granting and loss of the citizenship of a member state is a delicate issue, now considered for the first time by the European Court of Justice. While member states do enjoy sovereignty in deciding who is a national, are these powers unlimited? Being an EU member confers each of the 27 states a special legal identity, which makes it necessary to answer the question concerning the limits of this power. The Rottmann case, which is the starting point for this discussion, shows why it is necessary to reassess the distinction between situations that pertain to domestic law and situations pertaining to international law. Specifically, the illicitly obtained German citizenship of a former Austrian national was rescinded after he automatically lost the citizenship of his country of birth. This immediately leads to a loss of European citizenship as well. In reaching the conclusion that community law is applicable in this case, the Court decided to enforce the community principle of proportionality at national level.

SOCIO – HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-RULE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

DRUŠTVENO-ISTORIJSKI RAZVOJ LOKALNE SAMOUPRAVE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI U XX STOLJEĆU

Author(s): Mirko Pejanović / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: self-rule, Austro-Hungarian rule, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Revolutionary Councils; The Second Session of AVNOJ in 1944; communal systems; pluralistic democracy; Bosnia and Herzegovina;European Charter of Local Self-Government; Dayton Peace Accords

This paper gives a complete picture of the socio-historical development of self-rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the twentieth century. The paper’s subject is structured in such way to cover the periods of the Austro-Hungarian rule, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Anti-Fascist Resistance in World War II and during the socialist development of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1945 to 1990. The period of self-rule’s development after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s gaining of independence and during the Dayton Peace Accords implementation at the end of the 20th and beginning of 21st centuries is independently listed. At the turn of the century, Bosnia and Herzegovina entered the social and historical the EU ascension process. A part of this process is the establishment if the European standards of development of self-rule based on the European Charter of Local Self-Government. In the second half of 1950s, the local self-government statutory autonomy of municipalities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina had been introduced within the concept of social self-government that lead to optimal territorial organization of municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With 109 municipalities having the status of a local government, Bosnia and Herzegovina began its development as an independent and sovereign state on the basis of multi-party pluralistic democracy. Apart from minor changes, caused by the Dayton Peace Accords, the territorial organization of municipalities and their role in the performing the duty of local authorities in the interest of citizens, will become a constant in the public trust towards the local selfgovernment institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Performing the duty of local authorities in municipalities and cities is giving a significant contribution to the development and functioning of the entire political system in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

FROM BRETTON WOODS OVER EURO TO CURRENCY BOARD - THE IMPACT OF THE ABANDONMENT OF A MONETARY POLICY ON THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN BH

OD BRETTON WOODSA PREKO EURA DO CURRENCY BOARDA – ZNAČAJ ODUSTAJANJA OD MONETARNE POLITIKE NA EKONOMSKU SITUACIJU U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI

Author(s): Faris Kalabić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: Some implications of the monetary policy on the economic development; Currency Board; Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a unique country in the World. If one chooses any of these listed plurality of criteria such as a particular cultural heritage on the edge between Occident and Orient, very singular Balkan’s mentality, people of different national or religious traditions “condemned” or privileged to share common place of living, that uniqueness becomes quite apparent. However, the aforesaid uniqueness makes BiH an exclusive state, which has an independent Central Bank defined in the constitution. Actually, very few people in BiH knew this stipulation of the Dayton’s agreement, whereby the monetary police of the new state was determined. For the majority of the people such decisions appear logical, since the state and the citizens shared an overwhelmed desire for stability after dramatic war experiences, but also since the memories on hyperinflation before the war was still live. This was a pivotal argument for introducing Currency Board as assurance for stability of currency and following the positive experiences of Argentina nobody did objected it. The price of such stability was never a subject of a public discussion and although currency board is the key element of economic live and development, its crucial significance for national economy has not been brought up, neither by the economic experts nor through public media.

THE FRAMEWORK FOR LEGITIMACY AND ANALYSIS OF FASCISM’S IRRATIONALITY

OKVIR ZA LEGITIMIRANJE I ISPITIVANJE IRACIONALNOSTI FAŠIZMA

Author(s): Šefik Baraković / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: irrationality; civil society; liberalism; civil dynamics intensity; civil perspectives; liberalism; post-liberalism; totalitarianism; fascism

Irrationality is the structural component and guideline of developed civil system of relations in its perspectives, maintenance, transformation, functionality and particularly justification. The irrationality serves as the basis for the ideology and policy of power. By the means of structuring, the irrationality determines the system of civil relations and, as a factor of their legitimate intervention, has different effects on the levels of civil progress at various times. The intensified civil dynamic by its development that resulted in more complex produced relations, was creating and improving the apace and conditions in which the irrationality was objectively broadened and got the larger degree of incorporation and meaning of “apocalypse”, apart from periods of civil historical development. From historical perspectives, developing and facilitating of civil dynamics were not just expressed and encouraged by the political and ideological developments, but also theoretical generalizations directed to enrich civil processes with appropriate adequate relevance or profiled measure. The relevance was promoted in two ways! In a certain course, it could in the end substantially mediate civil processes and relationships, on the other hand, and also establish and exceed their concretization by giving a possible contribution to the development of character and connections that these processes should have been serving consistently. The numerous theoretical aspects and considerations were formed and developed, starting from relativism, pragmatism, historicism, logical empiricism and other different forms of positivism, whose basis, as stated by M. Horkheimer, is characterized by its inability to comprehend that the child and adults are not only two different complexes of facts. Those facts suggested that the man is undergoing changes, yet remaining the same with himself, and in the way of it and doing so, the positivist logic remains the logistics of civil systems! With increased or reduced sensitivity and referenced legitimacy, the historically determined theoretical considerations used to achieve and exercise their place in the institutions and processes of civil and social relations. The continuity of civil structures relations intensifies the dynamics of civic disposition! The civil transformations are promoting the domination forms, while it is being assured and determined by the functional intensity of substantially achieved power. In the postliberalism, the supremacy and inviolability agent productively mirrors the established precedence and monopolies in the exercise of civil expediency.

THE NARRATIVE SYMBOLIC OF 'YOUNG-NATIONAL' PHENOMENON

NARATIVNA SIMBOLIKA „MLADONACIONALNOG“ FENOMENA

Author(s): Adnan Tatar / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: young-national movements; nation; nationalism; ideology; policy methods

Young-National movements represent characteristic phenomenon that in its symbolic belief tends to construct and/or liberate their nations from its usurpers. In international politics, they emerge in a specific period of the collapse of von Metternich’s and resurrection of Wilsonian ideals. They appeared as a movement during 1830s, represented by the Young Italy, yet in the future, the concept of 'Young National' greatly exceeds original Mazzinian ideas and comprehension of nations and its analog perception of the state, politics and history. Symbolism of 'youth' has so far remained a fetish of nationalism insisting not only on the idea of national liberation, but also on the permanent youth voluntarism as a guarantee of national ideological re-production. Through derivation of its name from the vitality’s semiotics, it remains a deeply embroidered category within the socio-political organizations that have a tendency to perpetuate youth as a category of existence for certain community in every form.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

PRIKAZI I OSVRTI

Author(s): Emina Kečo-Isaković,Fuada Muslić-Haseta,Ivan Kordić,Alma Zolota / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Emina Kečo-Isaković - Safet Halilović, Evropske integracije i Bosna i Hercegovina, Sarajevo, 2013. Ivan Kordić - Hidajet Repovac, Esej o književnosti i umjetnosti: filozofsko-sociološki diskurs, Sarajevo, 2014. Alma Zolota, Fuada Muslić - Lada Sadiković „Država u evropskom poretku“, II izdanje, Sarajevo, Zagreg, 2009.

SELFIE CULTURE – AN ESSAY ON INTERNATIONAL GOOD MANNERS IN VIRTUAL CULTURE

KULTURA SELFIZMA – ESEJ O INTERNACIONALNOM BONTONU U VIRTUELNOJ KULTURI

Author(s): Lejla Panjeta / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: culture; stereotypes; selfie; image; screen; communication; touch screen; virtual realm.

The intention of this essay is to discuss the question of good manners, selfie phenomenon and cultural implications that have emerged as a consequence of wide spread new technologies and social networking, touch screen and video. Culture as the inherent feature of a group and individual both is defined by a given space and time and is in constant changing mode. With Wi-Fi technology and communication gadgets, the new conducts and behaviors are being introduced into the traditional cultures. Taking the fast lane of connectivity but in the same time remaining in the slow lane of anonymity is not just a fad of anonymous’ networking of international culture, but the main communicating feature today. What is the quality of new international culture in the virtual space and time defined by picture in motion language of visual communication (film grammar) and technology video devices? Does the culture based on this technology make the new stereotypes? What is the human language for communication in this international culture? Can English be the long lost Babylon dream fulfilled?

DR. SAFVET-BEY BAŠAGIĆ – THE FIRST BH MODERN ORIENTALIST AND OTTOMAN SCHOLAR IN THE TVENTIETH CENTURY

DR. SAFVET-BEG BAŠAGIĆ – PRVI SAVREMENI ORIJENTALISTA I OSMANISTA BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE U XX STOLJEĆU

Author(s): Enes Pelidija / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 3/2014

Within the chosen circle of BH scientists from the first half of the 20th century that had been the most famous educators, benefactors and prominent persons in the world of politics, Dr. Safvet-bey Bašagić can be easily deems as prominent author, historian and orientalist. The path he Dr. Safvet-bey Bašagić took and opus he left give us clear picture. His wide-ranging knowledge and learning stemmed from his curious nature, family pedigree and the awareness to preserve from falling into oblivion the famous events and personalities from history of his homeland and people to whom he belonged.

Hölderlin and the Greeks

Hölderlin i Grci

Author(s): Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

For Hölderlin the Greeks were not just one of his issues but, from the very outset, the only issue. However, there is a crucial moment in his attitu­de to the Greeks. This was when Hölderlin turned, with the same gesture, to the problematic of theatre (is tragedy still possible?) and translation (do the Greeks still speak to us, and can we coax them into doing so?) This was another, but more rigorous method of continuing the work begun long before in the field of mimesis. It was to transpire that Greece is not something that can be imitated

The Condition of Trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Povjerenje u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): Faris Čengić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

In this article, trust in Bosnia and Herzegovina was analyzed using three different approaches: First, trust in institutions was evaluated using Yael Tamir’s remarks regarding cultural content of institutions. It was combined with studies covering corruption made by Transparency International. Se­cond, trust between individuals was confronted to trust between groups based on difference of concepts of intimacy at those two levels. Klaus Offe’s work regarding trust was supplemented to previous point. Finally, obstacles to trust between groups in BiH were looked at through prism of Freud’s superego creation concept.

Dva sveska o filozofiji Immanuela Kanta

Dva sveska o filozofiji Immanuela Kanta

Author(s): Nevad Kahteran / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

Jean-Luc Nancy: How to Regain Community?

Jean-Luc Nancy: Kako opet do Zajednice?

Author(s): Marijan Krivak / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

This text analyses the specific Jean/Luc Nancy’s understanding of community, the singular and plural Being and the question of “mondialization”. A small coda added is his note concerning the important subject of Biopo­litics (and bioethics!). Nancy’s attempt at establishing a community is the philosophical construction of an open-ended theoretical, but also of a practical value. Similarly, supporting the singular-plural Being, it is a sign of the attempt of philosophical constitution of a different world, which would be beyond the terror of capital and neo-liberal destruction of the living-world (Lebenswelt) as well as interconnected in relation of Being-together (co-existential analytics). Namely, taking “selfhood” as that Being-constituent, as the foundation of sense/meaning, Nancy want to transform Heidegger’s existential analysis of Here-Being (Dasein) from Sein und Zeit into an all encompassing co-existential analytics. After all, the main question of his efforts is: how to regain community?

Poststructuralism and the Retreat of the Political

Poststrukturalizam i povlačenje političkog

Author(s): Milorad Belančić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

Poststructuralism, probably the most significant orientation in modern French philosophy, based its political intervention on a certain critique of humanism and the legitimizating ideological functions of humanism in a number of political strategies. At first this critique led to what Liotard rightly called a degree of “relaxation.” Nowadays, however, at the beginning of the 21st century, this stage is over, and the neo-liberal interpretation of the end of great narratives, in which exchange (more usually known these days as the global free market) becomes the supreme principle, is itself shown to be a great hegemonistic narrative subject to critique. It is now evident that politics that render us sensitive to and tolerant of differences are conceived in a post-hegemonistic culture in which a democracy of differences is at work.

The Use of Symbols and Myth

Upotreba simbola i korištenje mita

Author(s): Senadin Musabegović / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

The break-up of the former Yugoslavia could be read through the political use of symbols. In the former Yugoslavia, Communist symbols drew their inspiration from the images of war. The nationalist symbols used in the destruction of the Communist order were also fed by war fantasies. This raises a very topical question: how is it that the symbol of a powerful and rigid totalitarian body created a new sense of society and the future. It is my intention in this essay to deal with the symbolic representation of the body during the organized ritual excavation of the pits that formed the mass graves of Serb victims killed during World War II. What particularly interests me is how these rituals were used, following the experience of Communism and “brotherhood and unity,” to legitimize a certain war propaganda in which the national collective coalesced through an eruption of violence.

The return of religion and desecularisation of the world

Povratak religije i de-sekularizacija svijeta?

Author(s): Luka Markešić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

Today religion is a dominant topic not only in discussion held by religious communities, theologians, and philosophers, but also by scholars and politicians of all sorts, be they believers or atheists. We are now witnessing a peculiar rebirth of religion and desecularisation of politics. At the same time, it is evident that the crisis which has affected the European Christianity is much more than a crisis of the Church. According to catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz, it is a crisis of faith in the God and Jesus Christ.

Jean-Luc Nancy: pogled na četiri ogleda

Jean-Luc Nancy: pogled na četiri ogleda

Author(s): Tonči Velentić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

A critical re-examination

Kritičko preispitivanje

Author(s): Abdulah Šarčević / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

A critical re-examination and escape from the hypnotic persistence of political and national narcissism. Here in an Obsolescent Land it is the ever-present limits of the intellect, of the true, within the context and outlook of the experience, actions and sensitivity of Ivo Komšić. The work was composed at a time of horror, of Nazi/context. It bears witness in distinctive manner by simply citing facts, which belong to the language of shame and pain in which people disagree. It is a way of dispelling the spectre of Nazism, of silencing the cries of hatred, of ideology, and of affirming the communicative process of the transitional intellect beyond the fatality of Cain’s city, built as it is on carnage. This is what Ivo Komšić achieves in his literary thought; he manages to give unambiguous expression to the destructive power of conquest and genocide, to the mystery of love and creation, wherein lies only the depths of “human suffering” that belongs, sad to say, to all of time. Modern man is finding a way of breaking away from the frenetic quest for identity, of stripping identity – principally, national identity, which is multidimensio­nal (language, religion, history, values and morality) – of its self-deception, of the danger that gets to us under the aegis of fear and helplessness. Key words: limits of the intellect, language of shame, transitional intellect, frenetic quest for identity, language, religion, history, citing facts

Roland Barthes and the political semiology

Roland Barthes i politička semiologija

Author(s): Srećko Horvat / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 01+02/2007

In 1957. French semiologist Roland Barthes published Mythologies, a collection of essays taken (mostly) from articles in Combat examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Although Barthes’ work is considered to be a key antecedent of cultural studies, in my paper I try not only to give a short overview of Barthes’ Mytho­logies, but to reconsider it as a first attempt to form a political semiology.