"Dashed Hopes and Good Intentions": A Bourdieuian Reading of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Author(s): Ebrahim Salimi-Kouchi,Mohsen Rezaeian / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Pierre Bourdieu's investigation into the mechanism of power relations in any given society emphasizes that culture is firmly embedded in social lives of agents. An agent engages in some social competitions, struggling with others and his or her own limits. Applying the metaphor of "game" to social life, Bourdieu believes that people, in order to accumulate more capitals, participate in intense social competitions. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf raises some questions about the nature of power, language, and their intersection. The lives of the characters are not far removed from how they experience power relations in a college campus, a microcosm of American society. Putting into practice Bourdieu's theory of practice, this article analyzes the influence of the accumulation of capitals in the lives of George and Martha, the role of the imaginary child as a part of American dream and its significance to the couple's lives, and ultimately the use and abuse of language in their ways of communication.

"Rabovačky" v závere prvej svetovej vojny a ich ohlas na medzivojnovom Slovensku

Author(s): Miloslav Szabó / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2015

In the last days of the First World War soldiers returning home, along with civilians, attacked representatives of the Hungarian state and wealthy individuals, especially Jews. They expelled them from their homes and looted them, or they simply destroyed their property. In some places regular Hungarian troops executed the leaders of these rioters. This study seeks to offer an alternative to the prevailing interpretation of the looting, which emphasize the social or ethnic motivations of the economically and nationally oppressed Slovak rioters. Instead, it examines the reversal of the perpetrators and victims that was carried out not only immediately after the looting had occurred, but repeatedly throughout the whole interwar period. This is to be seen as an expression of the growing anti-Semitism, because the Jews were ultimately accused of the murder of allegedly innocent Slovaks.

(Micro)evidences: a history of the violent sequence

Author(s): Viorella Manolache / Language(s): English / Issue: 3(13)/2016

The present study capitalizes the specific meanings of the handbook term, defining the vague and imprecise (imprinted by ambiguity) frame of violence, in order to assign it a visual dimension (a history). Hence, the attention given to the concept of violence which represents both a resource marked by regularity, predictability, latency or action and an interactional model impregnated by disorder and re-ordering, but equally influenced by exciting signals and by a control / normalization impulse. Establishing a connection based on the equivalence between the handbook allegation found in International Handbook of Violence Research and the spectra of violence from the movie A History of Violence, the present study’s conviction is that violence can be accepted as an extreme episode of disorder, a chaotic sequence or as an imposed precipitation.

(Ne)etičnost i (ne)legalnost upotrebe dronova u ratu protiv terorizma

Author(s): Ivica Kelam,Darija Rupcic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 73/2016

Powerful increase in the use of drones in fight against terrorism through the tactic of targeted killings, especially after the arrival of President Obama to power, causes increasingly ethical and legal issues. The intention of this paper is to investigate exactly these issues. The basic hypothesis is that the US use of drones in war against terrorism is a major threat to international security, human rights and democracy. Instead of reducing the threat of terrorism, drones uses additionally incites hatred and desire for revenge, since it leaves severe adverse consequences on the lives of civilians. The expected contribution of this paper lies in the demystification of drones activities and questioning the many dangers that the use of drones in the fight against terrorism carries.

15 TEMMUZ DARBE GİRİŞİMİ GECESİ TRT’DE OKUTULAN DARBE BİLDİRİSİ METNİNİN SÖYLEM ÇÖZÜMLEMESİ

Author(s): Yusuf Söylemez / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: Special/2016

During the coup attempt on July 15, the TRT building was occupied and the coup text, which was taught by force of arms, was analyzed and the situation of overlapping with the discourse of the publications of the FETET / PDY terrorist organization on this side from Process of 17-25 December was tried to be revealed. Data were collected by the method of document examination and the obtained data were analyzed by discourse analysis. It is thought that the work will be beneficial in terms of political discourse studies.

A ĐE JE TO NAŠE? BOŠNJACI-SANDŽAK-BOSNA

Author(s): Ismet Dedeic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 65-66/2015

Selmanaga Kardović, ratnik s Galipolja, bio je jedan od glavnih junaka mog djetinjstva u Rožajama. On je izrazitim govorničkim darom zarazno privlačio publiku, a posebno pričom o tom Galipolju, bitci nad svim bitkama iz Prvog svjetskog rata. Tada je Turska uspjela da zadrži strateške moreuze Bosfor i Dardanele i porazi ujedinjene snage Britanskog Kraljevstva i Francuske. Pričao bi Selmanaga da su napadači granatama preoravali i zatrpavali linije branilaca, ali bi ovi, kad krene pješadija, uvijek iznova iznicali iz čudesnih podzemnih tvrđava i fanatično išli prsa u prsa, iza čega bi Galipolje ostajalo prekriveno hiljadama, a ponekad i desetinama hiljada mrtvih.

A modern political education. Nonviolent perspectives

Author(s): Claudia SECCI / Language(s): English / Issue: 3(13)/2016

The article deals with a nonviolent perspective of political education and with some theories that may conjugate these two domains: Nonviolent Culture and Political Education. Methodologically an approach rooted in the theoretical and bibliographical research has been privileged. The discourse investigates the causes of the actual political disaffection, and follows the purpose to highlight the irrevocable role of a structured nonviolent perspective (like Gandhi’s one), in the rehabilitation of politics. Nonviolence does not remove Marxist elements of legitimation in their entirety – as Gramsci’s theory will highlight – provided that they correspond the “conquest of violence” that needs to succeed first and foremost in the “intimate” individual’s awareness. Moreover, the importance of contemporary ecological theories, which embed the nonviolent perspective in a general epistemological view, will be also discussed to reaffirm the crucial significance of the latter. Through this path, different authors, hailing from diverse backgrounds, such as philosophical, pedagogical and anthropological studies, show meaningful affinities and matching points, presenting, in some case, political education in terms of education and training of the “political emotions”. The reflection highlights the relevance of an expanded political participation and experimentation through praxis, as ways of an actual political education, in the belief that emphasizing the pedagogic dimension of political activity, means nothing less than searching for its deepest fundament.

A RECONSIDERATION OF FOUCAULT’S “MARXISM” IN RELATION TO THE THOUGHT OF LOUIS ALTHUSSER

Author(s): DEB J. HILL / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

The purpose of this paper is to supplement existing studies that have explored Foucault’s “Marxist” inclinations by means of a focused consideration of the thought of the person who challenged Foucault with an entirely different version of Marxism – his friend and mentor, Louis Althusser. My argument here is that “Marxism” has been treated largely as a singular category within the literature, meaning that an understanding of the points of difference and agreement Foucault had with competing versions of Marxism has been conveniently ignored. As I maintain within this paper, one cannot fully understand the nature of Foucault’s relationship with “the Marxist tradition” – and his comments about various aspects of this tradition – without understanding Althusser’s own “rereading” of what could be regarded as dubious versions of Marxism. As I further contend, Foucault’s recalcitrant attitude towards traditional orthodoxies of scholarship and method owes much to Althusser’s articulation of Marx’s anti-humanist, anti-historical, and anti-Hegelian revolution in thought and practice.

A RESEARCH ON PRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA: OPINIONS OF FACEBOOK USERS

Author(s): Gülsüm Çalisir / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Element of violence which was seen almost every day in all media but in no way could be prevented is reflecting a bitter side of life. Today that we called age of information, technology rapidly improved, and thanks to this there found solutions for a lot of matters, we are unfortunately are living violence more heavy day by day. Consequently, elements of violence lived are taking part in television and computer screens, and magazine and newspaper pages. Although it is an unapproved and unwanted matter of fact, violence’s existing in life is keeping this phenomenon fresh in media’s agenda.

A Rose by Any other Name is Still a Rose…or Is It? On Gender Roles in Contemporary Japan

Author(s): Magdalena Ciubancan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Although it is a rather recent research area, the study of gender as a social and cultural construct has enjoyed wide popularity, but it has been generally understood as the study of the condition of women and the changes that it has been subjected to throughout the time. However, in recent years we have witnessed a change in the way in which men’s roles are constructed, shifting from the masculine image of a powerful man to that of a rather feminine male. Starting from the Japanese journalist Maki Fukasawa’s terms of “herbivorous men” and “carnivorous women”, the present paper analyses the way in which this gender shift is illustrated by the top buzzwords that are selected each year by the Jiyuu Kokuminsha Publishing House and presents a number of theories that might explain the reasons behind this process. Furthermore, we find evidence to support the adoption by Japanese men of a new image, distinct from that of their fathers and grandfathers, and we identified certain commercial items that have been traditionally addressed to women but which are now increasingly used by men.

A struggle in the peripheries: a few remarks on devolution in the UK

Author(s): Lukasz Sorokowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/2014

The paper looks at the major issues underlying devolution in the United Kingdom, i.e. a process whereby the historically diverse areas and regions constituting the seemingly uniform state have been slowly striving for independence, along with the formation of local, regional and even national identities. Hinging on the idea of ‘multicultural citizenship’, the paper seeks to analyse the ongoing public discourse centered on the gradual transfer of centralized London-based power to local and regional bodies across the UK. This discourse forms the pivotal background of devolution, overtly pointing to the idea of the so-called ‘new opening’ of the entire British political scene, clearly promoting the notion of strengthening the position of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and English regions as increasingly autonomous geographical and cultural areas as part of a weakening monolith by the name of the United Kingdom. Resting almost entirely on historic tensions between British identity and Scottish identity, it is made clear that the Scottish public debate has basically neglected the issues of the assimilation of its cultural minori¬ties with the ‘post-devolution’ reality. The devolution discourse stems from the rancorous debates and polemics which have taken place throughout the three hundred years of the Scottish and English Union, covering several social and political contexts, including the growing demands voiced by the SNP. Indeed, it has a major impact on the formation of Scots’ national distinctiveness alongside Scotland’s gradual emergence as a separate part of the British Isles.

ABD İSTİHBARATINDA YAŞANAN DEĞİŞİMLER

Author(s): Sait Yilmaz / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 13/2012

Dünyada istihbaratın güvenlik, dış politika, savunma, özel şirketler ve teknoloji ile dansı her gün yeni örnekler ile başımızı döndürüyor. Geçtiğimiz döneme Wikileaks, El Kaide lideri Bin Ladin’in öldürülmesi damgasını vururken, Arap Baharı adı verilen Orta Doğu ayaklanmaları ile savunma-sosyal medya-istihbarat işbirlikleri bir kez daha öne çıkıyor. Siber alanda her gün yeni bir teknolojik gelişme ile karşılaşıyoruz. 11 Eylül 2001’den beri Batılı istihbarat servisleri büyük bir değişim geçirmekte, yeni güvenlik ortamına adapte olabilmek için teknolojiyi önlerine katarak yarışmaktadırlar. Görüntü ve sinyal istihbaratı için uzayda yapılan yarışa, ekonomik istihbarat alanındaki yarış eklendi. Son 50 yıldır istihbarat alanındaki reform girişimleri sadece teşkilat düzenlemeleri ile istihbarat örgütlerinin bir yere varamayacağını göstermiştir. İstihbarat reformları sadece prosedürel değişim değil, yeni durumlara kendini adapte edebilecek şekilde kültürel değişimi de gerektirmektedir. Bu makalede önce istihbarat alanında reform çalışmalarına daha sonra CIA’dan başlayarak, Amerikan istihbarat sisteminde son dönemde yapılan çalışmalara yer vereceğiz.

ABUSE AND MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN ROMANIA. ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES

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Author(s): Alois Ghergut / Language(s): English / Issue: XIX/2015

The problem of abuse of children with disabilities is a serious issue, but is still not largely recognized by service agencies. Prevention and abuse awareness programs need to include information about the heightened risk of abuse of children with disabilities, and the onset of a permanent disability as a consequence of abuse. In many cases researchers have had difficulty estimating rates of maltreatment among children with disabilities. One reason is that many countries do not collect the same data about maltreated children in the same ways. Another reason is that researchers identify disabilities among maltreated children in different ways. Child maltreatment, also known as abuse and neglect, affects all types of children, but children with disabilities may be at even greater risk of being maltreated than children without disabilities.

Abuse and violence against foreign domestic workers. A case from Hong Kong

Author(s): Akm Ahsan Ullah / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

This paper explores various abuses Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) or migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Hong Kong suffer and the strategies they take up to cope with this abuse. Data were collected from 215 domestic helpers (135 from the Philippines, 30 from Thailand, 41 from Indonesia, and 9 from Sri Lanka) all of whom had been in residence for at least six months. Selected by snow-balling technique, respondents were interviewed with structured and non-structured questionnaires. Research shows that sexual abuse is the most common form of abuse against MDWs followed by psychological and physical abuses. Female employers are the main perpetuators of psychological abuse while the male employers are culpable for sexual abuses. Coping strategies varied widely among the MDWs. Many of them endure the violence to keep the job; some quit the job and others struggle with the decision to stay or quit.

ADMINISTRATIVNO-TERITORIJALNA PODELA SANDŽAKA, KOSOVA I MAKEDONIJE 1913. GODINE

Author(s): Hivzo Gološ / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 63-64/2014

U toku Prvog balkanskog rata (8. oktobra 1912 – 30. maja 1913), vodile su balkanske zemlje: Srbija, Crna Gora, Grčka i Bugarska (članice Balkanskog saveza) rat protiv Osmanskog carstva. Armije balkanskih država su uspele da savladaju armije Osmanskog carstva. Crnogorska vojska oslobodila je Mojkovac (9. oktobra 1912. godine) i do kraja meseca ovladala je područjem Bijelog Polja (11. oktobra 1912. godine), Berana3(16. oktobra 1912. godine), Plava4 (19. oktobra 1912. godine), Gusinja5 (20. oktobra 1912. godine), Rožaja6 (26. oktobra 1912. godine), Pljevalja7 (28. oktobra 1912. godine), Peći (30. oktobra 1912. godine), da bi 4. novembra 1912. godine ušla u Đakovicu istovremeno sa srpskom vojskom. Učestvovala je u zauzimanju Pljevalja 12. oktobra 1912. godine8.

Agresija na Bosnu i Hercegovinu i historijska nauka

Author(s): Enver Redžic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1/1998

Ovaj naslov mogao bi da pokrije tematski obiman program jednog naučnog skupa, a mogao bi da ispuni sadržinu povelike monografije - toliko je u njemu relevantnih pitanja, aspekata, tema i podnaslova. Da bi se, pak, obradila njegova kompleksna supstancijalna sadržinska struktura, biće potrebno neodređeno razdoblje historijske distance, kada će vjerodostojni historijski izvori biti pristupačni istraživačima naznačenog povijesnog perioda. To ne znači da u postojećim okolnostima, općem i konkretnom stanju historijske nauke, nemamo razloga i potrebe za pristup u naslovu istaknutoj problematici.Pri tome smo, međutim, upućeni na govor o historiografskim djelima, koja su našla put do javnosti kada su se ovaj grad i ova zemlja borili za pravo na goli opstanak koji im je agresor sistematski bukvalno ugrožavao. Bio je to način otpora historijske nauke agresiji na BiH.

AİLE ÇATIŞMALARI, NEDENLERİ ve EN YAYGIN ÇÖZÜMLERİ

Author(s): Hüseyin Rehimirad / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 8/2010

Aile ve çiftlerin rastladığı sorunlar, uğradığı zararlar, ailede çatışmamazlıklar ve diğer etkili amiller geçmişten günümüze kadar dikkate alınmış ve incelenmiştir. Şu araştırmanın amacı da evlilik çatışmalarının nedenlerini bulmak gibi sosyolojik bir meselenin çözümüne küçük bir katkıda bulunmaktır.

AİLE İÇİ ŞİDDETE KARŞI KADINLARIN TUTUMLARI: BİNGÖL İLİ ÖRNEĞİ

Author(s): Kasim Tatlilioglu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 32/2016

The most common form is domestic violence against women and children. Violence against women is a common social problem in Turkey. Violence against women includes a variety of different acts, which abused them physically, sexually or emotionally. Today, increasing the presence of many social scientists feel the violence has been the subject of the investigation. This research is conducted on all men and women who reside in the center of Bingöl and their age is 18 and over. The research group is consisted of 524 people 265 of them are women (50.51%) and 259 of them are men (49.42%) residing in Bingöl city center. Two different scales are applied for the purpose of the research. The first of these scales is "Domestic Violence Scale (for women)" and the "Domestic Violence Scale (for men). Both scales are applied separately to men and women. The other one is "Violence Attitude Scale" which is used common for both women and men including 21 questions in the survey. This article contains the findings only "Violence Attitude Scale" obtained from women.

Aktif Spor Yapan ve Yapmayan 12-14 Yaş Ortaokul Öğrencilerinin Şiddet Eğilimlerinin İncelenmesi

Author(s): Pelin Aydin,Adnan Ersoy,Neslisah Aktas / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2015

The aim of this study was to investigate secondary school students’ tendency to violence, doing active sport or not. The sampling group of the study was consisted of 101 girls and 99 boys in the total 200 secondary school students in Kütahya city center of whose ages differs between of 12-14. In the study tendency to violence scale, developed by Göka and colleagues, was used as data gathering tool. In the evaluation of the data SPSS package program for Windows was used and after reliability of the scale was assessed One Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was applied for if the obtained data was showing normal distribution and also as hypotheses tests Independent Samples t Test was applied for pairwise comparisons and One Way ANOVA test was applied for triple or more comparisons. As a result of the study there were no significant differences between students’ tendency to violence according to their ages and sport participation situations, on the other hand there were significant differences according to their class and perceived success in class. This study showed that class and perceived success in class are predictors of tendency to violence.

ALBANSKA ISTORIOGRAFIJA O BALKANSKIM RATOVIMA

Author(s): Afrim Sijarina / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 55-56/2013

U istoriji su, krajem XIX veka i početkom XX veka, dva događaja balkanskih odnosno evropskih razmera, koji karakterišu albansko-srpskocrnogorske odnose. Prvo period istočne krize, koja se karakteriše Sanstefanskim sporazumom i kasnije Berlinskim kongresom. I drugo period balkanskih ratova. Pomenuti događaji u albanskoj istoriografiji su zauzeli važno mesto, te su tretirani od albanskih istraživača iz Albanije, takođe i van nje, naročito sa Kosova i Zapadne Makedonije. Treba istaći da tokom perioda koji razmatramo nije postojala neka trajna granična linija (nego se ona više karakterisala kao granični pojas), koja je u geografskom smislu bila jako ekstremna, porozna, robustna, što je u reljefskom aspektu praćeno nizinama, rečnim i jezerskim dolinama, do planinskih masiva sa strmim padinama i okomitim kanjonima. Takođe, stanovništvo duž ovog graničnog pojasa je bilo mešovito sa obe strane granice, sastavljeno od Albanaca, Crnogoraca, Srba i drugih manjina koji su naseljeni sa raznim okupatorima tokom istorije. U jednom neravnom zemljišnom pojasu, sa mešovitim stanovništvom, u jednoj čudnoj simbiozi primenjivale su se tri veroispovesti, katolička, pravoslavna i muhamedanska.