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The article provides a compact review of the early modern science views of the nature of science, scientific method and knowledge, rationality and objectivity with respect to masculinity and femininity. Following primarily Galileo and Bacon's work, the author is interested in pointing out the most important ideas of the historically fixed ways of how people imagined the acquisition of knowledge, presented nature, understood the role of researchers, as well as what metaphors they applied in defining knowledge. Due to the vast and diverse material, the aim is not to sketch a complete and detailed portrait of the ideal of modern science, but to explore to what extent gender-related issues were of any significance here.
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In the article the author reflects on the meaning of politics in a new materialist framework. She concentrates predominantly on two political dimentions – space and time. With reference to that, the author develops the concept of politics of squatting. Its spatial aspect is investigated along the lines of the notion of heterotopia, coined by Michel Foucault, and its temporal aspect is analyzed through the concept of heterochrony (Foucault) and Darwinian evolution as interpreted by Elizabeth Grosz. The concept of politics of squatting is then juxtaposed with nomadism (vide Rosi Braidotti). Finally, the author provides a case study by elaborating on the anti-gender campaign that began in 2012-2013 in Poland from the perspective of politics of squatting.
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The concept of a "woman figure" by Emmanuel Lévinas, is an example, in which the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" serve to determine the character of a certain proposition of a Subject. Lévinas introduced sexual characteristics into the neutral subject, yet he is incon-sistent in his treatment of the idea of a Woman and, moreover, he assigned subjectivity to a single gender: the masculine. Nonetheless, the criticism of Lévinas’s model of femininity from a feminist viewpoint is neither simple nor clear. Lévinas continually evades such criticism. He re-established the body and sensuality as key aspects of meeting with the Other. And also, he criticizes the Western ontological tradition as a theoretical source of violence against the Other, since – as he claims – on a high level of abstraction it appears that thematisation itself is a violence. At the same time, Lévinas proposes ontology of a "woman". In relation to this, one needs to ask the question: why does Lévinas, whilst stating the need to be freed from ontology, at the same time create an ontological woman? And additionally, what are the philo-sophical and ethical consequences of the phenomenology of femininity that are presented by Lévinas?
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The article offers a reading of the representation of the masculinity crisis at the end of the 20th century in selected British novels. The works by Irvine Welsh, Graham Swift, Niall Griffiths, and Ian McEwan are situated against the development of pro-feminist men’s writing and masculinity studies, as well as the mythopoetic men’s movement and Robert Bly’s bestselling Iron John: A Book About Men (1990). The article foregrounds the sense of an impasse that permeates the novels and that echoes the general feeling of in-betweenness characteristic for the turn of the century.
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This article is based on current research into the culture of young working class housewives at home with young children. The research is conducted by tape-recorded interviews in their homes and covers many aspects of women’s personal experience both before they were married and in their present situa-tion. The article will concentrate on their present role as housewives and mothers and their understanding of this role in relation to their previous ex-perience as wage labourers. It focuses on the isolation of women within the privatized sphere of the home, and attempts to present isolation as one of the ways which these women experience oppression and to locate the experience within the structures of capitalism. Although it is recognized that there is no simple way of ‘reading’ accounts of subjective experience, I would hold that they do point to the sites of structural contradictions, however indirectly. I also think, as is argued by Sheila Rowbotham (1973), that women’s subjective experience reveals a ‘sense of oppression’, and this oppression I would see as having a material basis.
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Rapid urbanization in all parts of the world has contributed to the fact that today more than 50% of the world population lives in cities. In the area of the Danube and the Adriatic-Ionian European macro-region we should expect the continuation of the process of further urbanization and population concentration. We can also expect continuation of littoralization. The increasing concentration of population ultimately raises the question of improving the quality of life in cities, as well as the question of their effectiveness in all dimensions. The rapid technological advances, particularly the development of computerization and telecommunications, offer new connectivity options, specialization and cooperation between cities through the concept of creating polycentric metropolitan regions and the concept of smart city. Since the cities have the role of drivers of development, in countries in the area of the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian European macro-region, it is possible to achieve broader development effects in the entire observed area through cooperation and smart specialization. To achieve this, it is necessary to actively promote the concept of globalization thinking, local action and regional planning.
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The aim of the article is to present the rare and uncommon perspective in social work definied as a scientific or academic discipline, but also as support-ive activities. The author includes women’s/gender/feminist studies to analysis concerning professional social work, social policy, social law etc. The article presents the acts of oppressions described by contemporary theories what appear in help’s practice. It explains the roots of these mechanisms and points the possibilities of solutions.
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The city of Zagreb is the largest city in Croatia and its capital. It has the same powers as other cities, including the powers of a capital and the powers of a county. Within the reforms of 2005, cities with more than 35,000 inhabitants (17) were given the status of a major city, and were given the same powers as all county seats. Since 2001, the so-called decentralized functions were taken by 33 cities. Forms of institutional strengthening of cities include widening their functions and financial capacity, strengthening their autonomy and focus on the economic development. Previous changes have not significantly strengthened the capacity of Croatian cities for development and regional cooperation. Even the larger cities are focused on their internal problems, while cooperation at regional level is not very prominent. Only strong units with considerable capacities develop more meaningful cooperative ambitions, including regional cooperation. It is necessary to redefine the territorial structure, wherein we can observe between 120 and 140 possible urban centers of varying size and importance. So far, only Zagreb - despite its governance problems - because of its size and power has the capacity to cooperate with other cities in the region and in Europe in general.
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In the period between 70s and 90s of the twentieth century, the city of Sarajevo had a remarkable boom in its development. Implementation of three development projects contributed to this fact: the project of protection of the environment; the project of territorial expansion of Sarajevo with 10 municipalities and the project of organization of the XIV Winter Olympic Games in 1984. The rise in the development of Sarajevo was stopped in the war against the existence of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the siege of the city between 1992 and 1995. Reconstruction of the city of Sarajevo in the post-war and post-Dayton period took place with the help of foreign donations. Municipal infrastructure and housing facilities were rehabilitated. The rebuilding of the economy had an unfavorable flow within the course of privatization of state-owned companies. A strategic issue for the development of the city of Sarajevo in the post-Dayton period referred to the definition of the political-constitutional and legal position of the city of Sarajevo. The influence of historical forces in the process of implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement had led to the signing of the Protocol on the Organization of Sarajevo in 1996 by the two ruling parties at that time: the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and the Croat Democratic Party (HDZ), and Deputy High Representative of the international community. With this protocol, the city of Sarajevo had lost its own jurisdictions from the pre-war time. It also lost its urban-territorial wholeness. From ten municipalities it had before the war, Sarajevo was reduced to four municipalities in the narrow urban core. It also lost its original powers and own revenue. Authority in the area of municipal infrastructure, utilities and urban planning were transferred to the Sarajevo Canton. Such chain of events in defining the con¬stitutional-legal position of the city of Sarajevo was treated in the literature as the process of reduction of jurisdiction and territorial reach of Sarajevo in the post-war period.Despite significantly limited jurisdictions, the city of Sarajevo emerges as a successful carrier of inter-city and regional cooperation. It has developed cooperation with most capitals of SEE countries. This paper brings an overview of the contents of cooperation agreements which Sarajevo has signed with the major cities of the countries of Southeast Europe. In the last two decades, inter-city and regional cooperation have been focused on the areas of culture, sports and tourism. What is still missing are cooperation projects between Sarajevo and the capitals of SEE countries in the fields of economic development, development of utility infrastructure and the construction of roads and railways. In the coming years, which are the years of integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the European Union, Sarajevo as BiH’s capital and its largest city has an important role in the creation of development projects and their implementation through collaboration with major cities in the region of Southeast Europe and in the area of the Danube and the Adriatic-Ionian European macro-region.
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Regional development today is multi-dimensional, and as such it becomes a strategic pro-blem of all countries. There are many possible solutions to the regional dilemma of susta-inable development within functional implementation and establishment. However, as no solution in economic development is currently superior, it is necessary to find and select the new modalities of operationalization at the local level, where cities will have the initiative in effective regional governance that will expand and realize the development dimension. The development dimension of cities should stimulate and increasingly develop the productive activity of available production capacities and ensure their productive linking in rural areas. Work must begin with determining the content of a good public regulation, in service of la-unching and implementation of projects for reindustrialization of determined areas within the European macro-region, with the goal of faster and more productive employment. We have treated an example of the strategic direction for development of economy in the Danube region with the case study of the city of Bac, with emphasis on food production and processing, and the survival and promotion of traditional crafts with respect to environmental protection and improved correlation of knowledge and skills with greater support for entre¬preneurship in Bac municipality. This is a complex activity on research of differences in needs, interests and results which necessitate appropriate institutional-organizational arrangements.
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This paper initially refers to the image and branding of cities. City branding is a source of sustainable competitive advantages and is traditionally focused on the image of the city, from which develops the attractiveness of the city to live in it, for the influx of visitors and investments and for development of export businesses. This paper develops a model of inte¬grated development, marketing and branding of cities, final results of which are manifested in the favorable image and brand equity of cities. Case study of the City of Sarajevo points to the need and justification of the use of an integrated model of development, marketing and branding of cities. The main restrictions in its application relate to the undefined constitu¬tional and legal position of the City, which limits its control capacity to apply this model. By method of expert analysis, the brand identity of the City was assessed, and differences were noticed in the identity for individual target groups of the City. The contribution of this paper is reflected in overcoming the often present approach which reduces city branding to the image of the brand, and branding activities to communi¬cation with promising and illustriously worded messages. This paper promotes the marketing of a city based on branding in which branding means the process of creating value for the target groups of city in services, with their tangible and intangible attributes, which, in addi¬tion to functional, also include psychological and emotional attributes, while defining brand equity as the value contribution for the target groups arising from the power of the brand. Limitations of the research are related to the lack of primary research and a low level of marketing and branding of the City of Sarajevo, which made the case study quite limited in its findings. Future research should focus on empirical analysis of the identity of cities and the City of Sarajevo, and on topics related to the implementation of the integrated model of development, marketing and branding.
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The article presents the works of Polish female artists belonging to the curato-rial-artistic project FEMININE. It can be also called a kind of ongoing interven-tion. The first exhibition took place in 2011 in the gallery Wozownia in Toruń and has continued since then. The cycle functions uninterrupted, deeply em-bedded in the concrete ideas closely related to the feminist art and the female experience entangled in the body, biology and emotions, already reworked in the artistic, cultural and social context. All artists invited to take part in FEM-ININE project have been carefully chosen for several important reasons. First of all, the decision has been made due to the subjective, individual choice and the aesthetic, ethical preferences of the curator. Secondly, it is also important that these talented artists – for various reasons – do not belong to the main-stream of the contemporary art. The presentation of the exhibitions which follows has taken the form of short, personal impressions, created spontaneously after the first contact with the works. Hence, it is more of a notebook with important notations which can be treated as a first step towards deeper scientific analysis, yet to be done.
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The EU Strategy for the Danube Region emphasizes the various problems and challenges of long-term development of the macro-region. Besides uneven socioeconomic development, insufficient investment in infrastructure, environmental problems and so on, it also empha¬sizes the climate change that represents one of the major threats to current and future quality of life and safe development of countries, regions, cities and towns of the macro-region. Natural disasters (floods, landslides, hails, droughts) that in the last decade hit many towns and cities of the member states of the macro-region require a greater degree of cooperation in the field of adaptation to climate change, both within individual countries as well as between them. In this paper we present the status and activities in the field of adaptation to climate change in the Danube macro-region of Europe, and in Slovenia at the state level and the level of cities and towns. In doing so, we give the main emphasis to the status and trends that are characteristic of the Gorenje statistical region, which is located in the area of gravitational influence of Ljubljana metropolitan region. In the paper, which summarizes the results of the international project C3-Alps, we present the vulnerability of settlements and transport infrastructure in the Gorenje region to climate change as well as the possible scenarios of adjustments of settlements and transport infrastructure to the influence of climate change. In the final part of the paper we present a vision, concept and strategy for adaptation to climate change in the Gorenje region.
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The role of European cities is approaching its peak importance in times of global crisis. The reasons for this are their financial, intellectual, institutional and political capacities and influence. This advantage of cities is combined with shortcomings of demographic hyper concentration, social segregation, financial blunders and security threats. Dynamic changes are increasing, and are accompanied by centripetal forces that direct the flow of population towards the town centers, finance and investment towards big cities, while smaller towns in many cases lag behind. The role of cities and towns is of particular importance in the European countries in transition, such as the countries of Central and South East Europe, with all their advantages and disadvantages. The complex network of still undiscovered links between large cities - especially capitals - with their functions as the basis of networking, along with the growing emergence of large metropolitan areas as economic regions and the lack of polycentrism as a national spatial policy, could emerge as a critical and challenging issue for the governments of the major cities of South East Europe (SEE). Functional pro¬file of a city and its economic structure, together with a system of public services, technical equipment and capacities, jointly contribute to the level of its competitiveness. Cooperation and networking of capitals in the SEE is a topic of importance not only for this part of Europe but also for Europe as a whole. The system of city management in SEE therefore requires modernization instead of politicization.
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BGD is a new paradigm for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of urban water systems (blue component) and the green urban areas (green component - green infrastructure) as a synergy network, rather than as separate systems. It encourages effective solutions to improve the quality of urban life and adaptation to climate change. Innovative methodology in refreshing existing and planning new urban areas is developed and implemented by EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology), through its “cli¬mate” program KIC (Knowledge Innovative Communities), coordinated by the first author. The combined effects of climate change and increasing urbanization require skillful planning and remodeling of existing urban centers. BGD offers a way for the development, testing and implementation of solutions that connect science and innovation with broader deve¬lopment. The project opens many doors for regional and international cooperation, through a network of centers in Europe and the world, for the purpose of exchanging knowledge and experiences.
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