OBSTACLES FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE ASHKALI COMMUNITY INTO THE SERBIAN SOCIETY

Author(s): Snežana Đurđević / Language(s): Issue: 1/2014

The Ashkali community copes with serious problems in order to integrate into the Serbian society. It is considered to be the most vulnerable community among the other Internally Displaced Persons. The magnitude of their problem is very often hidden, as many of them have not registered with the authorities. Non-registration causes many other problems and prevents their access to some fundamental rights, such as employment, education, health and social assistance. Most of them live in truly deplorable conditions, and due to the lack of education and language differences they are often subject to discrimination. It is necessary to undertake measures for their registration and further protection within the society.

REVISTĂ A UNIUNII SCRIITORILOR DIN ROMÂNIA, SERIE NOUĂ, OCTOMBRIE 2015 NR. 10 (1602) ANUL XXVII

Author(s): Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu,Livius Ciocârlie,Daciana Branea,Vasile Popovici,Smaranda Vultur,Alexandru Budac,Graţiela Benga-Țuțuianu,Alexandru Oravițan,Alexandru Ruja,Marian Odangiu,Snejana Ung,Vladimir Tismăneanu,Lidija Dimkovska,György Dragomán,Radka Denemarková,Paul Eugen Banciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2015

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„To se musí vidět!“ Oděsa v české dobové percepci*

Author(s): Petr Lozoviuk / Language(s): Czech Issue: 4/2017

Odessa, virtually since its establishment in 1794, has been perceived by both foreign and Russian visitors as a “remarkable” city. Many dimensions of this remarkableness were related to the particularities of this urban space, especially its architectural, geographic and demographic dispositions. The study aims to present the Czech perception of this remarkable city and its inhabitants in the context of a chosen period. This is firstly done using the background of primary sources of information, i.e. observations and comments of selected personalities of Czech cultural life of the last third of the 19th and early 20th centuries who either visited this city or spent some time there. This is then followed by the part addressing our main analytical interest, which is the comparison of the specificity of the “Czech” image of Odessa with the image found in foreign texts of a similar type.

Zápisník vymahačův aneb Romové optikou vymahače

Author(s): Jaroslav Sus ml. / Language(s): Czech Issue: 1/2018

This article brings a from many sides very controversal but usefull information of the Roma community discovered by an enforcer, who is in a daily touch with many different members of this community. This paper doesn´t show the opinion of the journal editor.

The 2012 phenomenon in South-West France

Author(s): Véronique Campion-Vincent / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The 2012 phenomenon is discussed, especially its development in The Two Rennes and Bugarach Area in South-West France. First the ideas and beliefs of the “alternative seekers” and the growth of an expectation of spiritual renewal on 21st December 2012 are presented; together with the transformation of this expectation into the prediction of a total disaster and especially the treatment of this prediction as an “entertaining” subject in the mainstream. Later the cluster of myths and beliefs that has grown since the 1950s around Rennes-le-Château and inspired the Da Vinci Code (2003) is discussed, together with the growth of personal development workshops linked to the sacralized Pic of Bugarach nearby, that have brought an exceptional concentration of alternative seekers in this area. Finally, the article presents the situation’s evolution in the last days of 2012 in Bugarach, marked by the mobilization of the authorities, a massive presence of the media and the almost total absence of the expected “visionaries”. Prospective remarks will be presented to conclude.

Mihaela Noroc and Her View on Women Around the World

Author(s): Ligia Tomoiagă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Mihaela Noroc’s The Atlas of Beauty is a phenomenon of today’s world. Her endeavour is singular, as she cannot be easily considered as representing one of the traditional types of travel writing: South and West journeys; colonial journeys; symbolic journeys; mythical journeys; or intellectual journeys. She goes for the old-fashioned soul of her ‘models’. She is fascinated by their reality, their humanity, and their strength. The Atlas convinces by its intrinsic un-biased and non-ideological authenticity. In a sense, Mihaela Noroc is a true follower of Madame d’Aulnoy’s literary journeys in Spain in 1691: neither of them passes any judgment on their subject. The Atlas is not an instance of travel for travel’s sake, either. It does not dwell in an idealistic hope that the more we travel the better we connect, and that the more we understand others, the more we understand about ourselves. The picaresque character is given by the fact that the author is somehow cast out of any society, and, therefore, his/her comments contain more truth. The picaroon is alone, trying to make a living in a world that is based on stereotype and indestructible social traditions. Mihaela Noroc is a picaroon, free of prejudices, non-judgmental, and true

Tăvălugul istoriei și sita de ceară a memoriei vii

Author(s): Adela Nechita / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Rolul activ al muzeului în societatea contemporană

Author(s): Natalia Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The museum, in its canonical understanding, is defined both internationally and through Romanian legislation, as having a salient role and place in society. However, despite this approach, museums have transformed and reinvented their values, policies and practices, surpassing the boundaries imposed by their definition and gaining an active role in the community, with all its challenges, visions and responsibilities. The new cultural paradigms cause significant changes in the contemporary cultural phenomena. Through their relationship with the publics, museums have imposed themselves on the cultural realm, becoming an active information and education factor, complementing the formal educational system. The traditional museum, focused on the research, conservation and interpretation of objects and collections, coexists with the modern museum, centred on people, as an agent of information production, but also as a catalyst for forming opinions and mentalities.

Corectitudinea politică în societatea multiculturală

Author(s): Ana-Daniela Leonte Farcaș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

Political correctness has become one of the most controversial topics regarding migration. This practice was established due to the movements for equality that emerged in the twentieth century and is based on the desire to respect the rights of all communities or individuals exposed to the risk of being discriminated against. Despite the fact that it relies on current axiological foundations, through the language restrictions it imposes in order not to damage the image and interests of the discriminated persons, a number of criticisms can be brought, which, objectively viewed, may require a reinterpretation and a revision on how it is implemented.

Am Rand der Ränder von Karl-Markus Gauß’ Schreiben: Italien

Author(s): Iginia Barretta / Language(s): German Issue: 1-2/2020

While reading Karl-Markus Gauß’ literary works one learns to see Europe in a different light. His depiction of the continent draws a different cartography of it, where border-territories, border-knowledge and the peripherical become central, and vice-versa. Among Gauß’ preferred peripheries a specific area stands out as the centre of his narrative: Southeast Europe. Central Europe instead, otherwise conventionally considered as the continent’s geographical, political, cultural and power core, occurs only as a contra point to this. There is a country, however, which, although is not a part of Gauß’ narrated Southeast, frequently appears in his works: Italy. By looking at its different representations in selected writings of the author, this article aims to investigate why and how Italy emerges on Gauß’ otherwise southeast-centred personal map. While on the one hand, for example, the author problematizes rather concealed episodes of Italy’s fascist past or criticizes the regionalism of the Lega Nord, on the other hand, he casts light on unknown border-crossing facts of Italy’s history, culture and geography by narrating mostly unknown Italian intellectuals, places and minorities. In this way, Gauß’ depiction of Italy presents an ambiguous, complex, transboundary, and eventually unexpected, unknown country. It may be exactly because of these aspects that Italy takes a favoured place at the edges of Gauß’ border-writing.

Harmonické soužití kultur v Hispánské Americe podle Alfonse Reyese

Author(s): Alice Lukešová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 57/2018

The text is focused on Alfonso Reyes’s statement on the race question and racial prejuidice. In Hispanic America, people from different worlds, with habits and traditions that diverge, coexist. This fact does not consitute an obstacle, on the contrary, the multicultural society is considered by Alfonso Reyes to be fundamental for the cultural identity of the area. Hispanic America, in comparison with other parts of the world, adopted a more tolerant approach to the diverseness. Their knowledge based on hundreds of years of experience with cultural diversity can be a valuable source of inspiration for the European culture that felt into crisis in the twentieth century.

Scripts in Rural Élites’ Attitude as Narrative Barriers in the Hungarian–Roma Interethnic Relations in Szeklerland (Romania)

Author(s): Zoltán Bíró A.,Ágnes Sárosi-Blága / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2021

Relying on an interview-based research conducted in Romania’s Szeklerland area, in settlements with a significant Roma population where the majority of the inhabitants are of Hungarian ethnicity, the present study investigates the non-Roma rural élites’ attitude towards the local Roma population. The regional relevance of the topic is indicated by the fact that the importance of the Roma population’s social integration is present in social publicity, while at the same time the three decades following the 1989 socio-political turn in Romania witnessed only a few attempts at the planning and launching of programmes aimed at the Roma population’s social integration. In the course of the past three decades, the regional institutions and élites have repeatedly shuffled off the professional thematization and practical addressing of this issue, whereas in principle they emphasized the importance of social integration. This study aims to explore some of the components making up the background of the above-outlined ambivalent attitude. With the script analysis method, we intend to look into what scripts rural elite actors adopt in building the narratives on the Hungarian–Roma attitude and what role this narrative creation has in the case of the élite belonging to the Hungarian ethnic majority.

Mobilising for Action: Introduction to the Special Issue

Author(s): Mark Harvey,Marie McEntee / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Mobilising for Action (MFA) is a transdisciplinary project consisting of social researchers and community knowledge holders and practitioners, largely situated in Aotearoa|New Zealand, but also including researchers from the United Kingdom who are investigating the social dimensions of ngahere (forest) health in Aotearoa|New Zealand. Our research focuses on the people and communities who are affected by or at risk of being affected by the plant diseases kauri dieback and myrtle rust.

Walking, Sensing, Knowing: An Ethnography on Foot Around Forest Biosecurity Interventions in Te-Ika-ā-Māui

Author(s): Maria Blanca Ayala / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Walking has gained prominence in social sciences as a source of inspiration for scholarly narratives and methodological experimentation with embodied ways of knowing. Walking across biosecurity research facilities and declining forests has been an essential part of the fieldwork that informed my doctoral research and this article. My steps followed those of the experts in forest pathology or traditional Māori healing, involved in the research and management of microorganism-induced plant diseases in Te-Ika-a-Māui (Aotearoa|New Zealand). Whether we looked at the progress of phosphite treatments, the attempts to reproduce the infection within controlled settings, the fatal evolution of the disease in the wild, or the discharge of tree patients treated with an experimental rongoā, my companions directed my attention toward different aspects of a shared reality. This article discusses some of the ways in which biosecurity in Aotearoa is being shaped by the cohabitation of science and mātauranga Māori. Walking around, I argue that social scientists must adjust their pace and attune their methods to better account for increasing and overlapping socio-environmental emergencies.

Neoliberal Knowledge Production in Aotearoa New Zealand: Confronting Kauri Dieback and Myrtle Rust

Author(s): Katja-Soana Ehler,Courtney Addison,Andrea Grant,Susanna Finlay-Smits / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The detection of kauri dieback and myrtle rust pathogens in Aotearoa|New Zealand prompted the government to fund research and engagement into what has been constructed both as a biosecurity risk and a threat to species of profound cultural significance. Researchers, iwi, public sector staff and community members are now working across projects and locations to build an understanding of these two plant pathogens and to develop protections for the trees they target. This paper combines interview material from two projects within Ngā Rakau Taketake’s Postcolonial Biosecurity Possibilities remit to investigate the factors that enable and constrain plant pathogen research and practice. Actors in this space discuss the difficulty of working around gaps in basic research, a fragmented and competitive research sector, and expectations of a technological fix for a complex pathogen and its varied ecological relations. We argue that these accounts illustrate the ongoing effects of Aotearoa’s neoliberal turn, which continues to shape knowledge production and, in turn, what it is to be a researcher in Aotearoa. While the effects of these reforms have been well documented in relation to higher education and other spheres, their impact on the sciences has received less scrutiny. Foregrounding the views of those involved in kauri dieback and myrtle rust highlights the everyday manifestations and material environmental consequences of a pervasively neoliberalised research landscape.

Affect, and the study of culture

Author(s): Ernst van Alphen / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

In the 1970s, when Iwas astudent of Literary Studies—in the Netherlands called the studies of General and Comparative Literature—Roman Jakobson’s communication model provided the most important framework and mode of thinking for understanding the specificity of literature. Of course, being inter-ested in this specificity and the possibility of pursuing it, was highly modern-ist, although in culture, but not yet in scholarship, post-modernism was already flourishing. Jakobson’s model distinguished between six different functions of the sending of amessage by asender to areceiver of it. His model is analytical, instead of historical, and provided asystematic way of thinking about literary and other cultural texts. Because my interest in literature was inclined to address it by theoretical questions rather than historical questions, Jakobson’s communi-cation model made abig impression on me. And although Jakobson was first of all alinguist, instead of aliterary scholar, his model was one of the most sophisti-cated efforts to understanding the literary text in its difference from other cultural messages. And in addition, it also provided means to distinguish between differ-ent literary genres based on the dominance of other communicative functions.

Dimitrie Cantemir: prinţ între Orient şi Occident- contribuţia în domeniul turcologiei

Author(s): Gulten Abdula-Nazare / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

This article focuses on Dimitrie Cantemir's great personality and the role he played in Turkish culture. it is well known that Dimitrie Cantemir's works were foundations on which Turkish cultured music was based, but also the entire science of Turkology.

Stein’s Anthropological Approach to the Humanities

Author(s): Piotr Janik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Should we approach the lived experience and/or understand the other with the sense of things? If this is the case, how are we to treat the human experience par ex- cellence? Paradoxically, Edith Stein gives a fresh meaning to the Husserlian term “leibliche Selbstgegebenheit.” In contrast to Max Scheler’s account, she develops the “persönliche Note” criterion of authenticity. And against Maetin Heidegger’s existential philosophy, a concern for human existence itself resonates. Based on these three dimensions, this article discusses the idea of “the lived experience” according to Edith Stein, that is, the human experience contemplated by the humanities.

The Quest for Culture in Translation. From Then to Now

Author(s): Adriana Dragomir / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

This article aims to illustrate the undeniable interplay between culture andtranslation, and it attempts to explore the cultural impact on literary translation. Astranslation has always served a special purpose or many purposes at the same time,each time it has been shaped by a certain force, power, or ideology. Approaching aculture implies beginning a process of translation which reveals the power oneculture can exert over another. Furthermore, the article is intended to contribute tostrengthening the bond between literary translation and culture, as translation isnot the production of a text equivalent to another text, but rather a complex processof rewriting the original which runs parallel both to the overall view of the language,and to the influences and the balance of power that exists between one culture andanother.

Unconscious Structures and Cultural Order: Reexploring The Lévi-Straussian Structuralist Project in Contemporary Anthropology

Author(s): Aleixandre Brian Duche-Pérez,Olger Albino Gutiérrez Aguilar / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This article examines Claude Lévi-Strauss’s contribution to anthropology, focusing on his structuralist project and his attempt to decipher the unconscious structures underlying cultural practices. Through the exploration of his legacy, the paper proposes a return to a holistic theoretical approach that transcends the limitations of postmodernity, inspired by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s reflections on the nature-culture duality. The research is supported by acomprehensive analysis of fundamental structuralist texts, comparing and contrasting Lévi-Strauss’s ideas with thoseof other relevant thinkers such as Durkheim, Mauss, and Viveiros de Castro. This approach allows for a deep understanding of the elementary structures of human thought and their manifestation in different cultural contexts. The document reveals the relevance of structuralist theories for understanding the complexity of contemporary cultural practices. Additionally, the analysis highlights the importance of considering indigenous peoples’ perspectives to question traditional ontological divisions and promote a more integrative understanding of culture and nature. Finally, it underscores the need to revisit and revitalize holistic theoretical frameworks in anthropology to address the challenges of contemporaneity. Lévi-Strauss’s work, along with the theoretical innovations of Viveiros de Castro, offers valuable tools for critically rethinking our conceptions of culture, technology, and the environment, proposing a more inclusive anthropology and reflective of its role in today’s world.