Temporal Intersections of Mobility and Informality: Simsars as (Im)moral Agents in the Trajectories of Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Germany

Author(s): Hilal Alkan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

During the Syrian conflict that sparked after the insurgency in 2011, 5,6 million Syrians sought refuge in other countries. This article looks into the informal practices that have significance in the trajectories of refugees who fled first to Turkey and then to Germany. These informal practices are directed at the facilitation of spatial and social mobilities between and within these two countries: a) cross-border migrant smuggling and, b) employment and real estate brokerage. The accounts of the research participants point to a differential moral worth attached to these two modalities of informal facilitation: they value the work of smuggling and detest the idea of other types of brokerage. These views are in direct contrast to the views by the respective states, and the article discusses the reasons behind the asymmetry of moral assessments between the refugees’ accounts and the perspective of the two states. It is argued that refugees’ differential assessment is related to how their experiences of time changed between their flight and settlement in their new homes, as well as their perception of borders.

Szlak Świętej Warmii

Author(s): Wojciech Szalkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2020

Political violence and the Kurdish conflict: A review

Author(s): Marlene Schäfers / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Zerrin Özlem Biner, States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 264 pp., (ISBN 9780812251753). Salih Can Açıksöz, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 272 pp., (ISBN: 9780520305304).Reviewed by Marlene Schäfers, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Andrew Bush, Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020, 240 pp., (ISBN: 9781503611436).Reviewed by Metin Atmaca, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey Mneesha Gellman, Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, 226 pp., (ISBN: 9781138597686).Reviewed by Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena College, United States Seevan Saeed, Kurdish Politics in Turkey: From the PKK to the KCK, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 150 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-138-19529-5 (hbk); 978-1-315-63848-5 (ebk)).Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University Mohammedali Yaseen Taha, Media and Politics in Kurdistan. How Politics and Media are Locked in an Embrace, London: Lexington, 2020, 145 pp., (ISBN: 9781793611031).Reviewed by Kerem Schamberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Yiannis Kanakis, "God First and Last": Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran. Volume I: Religious Traditions, by Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. XIV+188 pp., (ISBN 9783447114240).Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Seyedeh Behnaz Hosseini, The Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political changes and Migration, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 229 pp., (ISBN 978-981-15-2634-3).Reviewed by Hamidreza Nikravesh, Free University of Berlin, Germany Mohammed Ihsan, Nation building in Kurdistan: Memory, Genocide and Human Rights, New York: Routledge, 2017, 194 pp., (ISBN: 9781472466792).Reviewed by Ugur Ümit Üngör, NIOD Institute, University of Amsterdam

Apollonia du Pont, sur les pas des archéologues. Collections du Louvre et des musées de Bulgarie, éd. Faber, Sofia, 2019, 529 p. (Vasilica LUNGU)

Author(s): Vasilica Lungu / Language(s): French Issue: 52/2019

L’objet de ce catalogue est double : en premier lieu, il s’agit de présenter lesgrands étapes de l’exploration archéologique à Sozopol, tout en permettant aupublic de découvrir à travers elles la vie quotidienne de la cité. Pour ce faire, le catalogue, tout comme l’exposition, est divisé en 5 grandes sections qui suiventun cheminement logique depuis le coeur de la ville – le sanctuaire d’Apollon leMédecin sur l’île de St. Cyriaque - jusqu’aux marges de son territoire en explorant l’espace urbain, les nécropoles et les tertres funéraires aristocratiques, offrant ainsi l’occasion de découvrir à travers ces diverses thématiques l’univers fémininet masculin, l’enfance, la religion, la vie culturelle, l’architecture monumentale ou domestique, les activités économiques, les rites funéraires, l’exploitation agricoledu territoire ou celle des mines de cuivre… L’ouvrage commence par une introduction présentant le sujet de l’exposition et s’achève sur une brève présentation de la trajectoire d’Apollonia du Pont entre les guerres de Mithridateet la conquête de Lucullus qui apporte ici un terminus chronologique.

Les hommes illustres de la ville de Rome, texte établi et traduit par Paul Marius Martin, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2016, 199 p., ISBN 978-88-9346- 058-3 (Nelu ZUGRAVU)

Author(s): Nelu Zugravu / Language(s): Italian Issue: 52/2019

Vi sono alcune fonti tardoantiche esasperanti per gli studiosi in quanto se neconoscono pochissimi elementi sicuri: un esempio famoso ne è L’Historia Augusta.Nella stessa categoria si iscrive anche la raccolta di microbiografie nota con iltitolo Les hommes illustres de la ville de Rome. Paul Marius Martin, il curatore dellarecente edizione pubblicata presso Les Belles Lettres nella Collection desUniversités de France e sulla quale ci soffermeremo in seguito, spiega che „presquetout est obscur dans celui-ci: la date exacte de sa rédaction, son véritable titre, son auteur, sa composition même” (p. IX) (si veda anche p. X: „Le titre De uirisillustribus Vrbis Romae n’est certainement pas le titre original, non plus que lestitres de chapitres qu’on trouve dans certains manuscrits”). Di conseguenza, laprovocazione è stata enorme, ma – dobbiamo dirlo sin dall’inizio – l’editore l’hafronteggiata con successo. Con acribia, con spirito analitico, con ampia visione,con ottima conoscenza delle fonti, Martin ha fatto il meglio per offrire le soluzioni più convincenti alle qustioni sollevate da questa fonte tardo-latina.

Book review

Author(s): María Angeles Ruiz-Moneva / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Book review

Author(s): Spyridoula Gasteratou / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” as a Critique of Technological Utopianism

Author(s): Murat Kabak / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

While there are major works tracing the themes of belonging and longing for home in contemporary fiction, there is no current study adequately addressing the connection between dystopian novel and nostalgia. This paper aims to illustrate how the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood uses nostalgia as a framework to level a critique against technological utopianism in her dystopian novel Oryx and Crake (2003). The first novel in Atwood’s “Madd Addam Trilogy” problematizes utopian thought by focusing on the tension between two utopian projects: the elimination of all suffering and the perfection of human beings by discarding their weaknesses. Despite the claims of scientific objectivity and environmentalism, the novel exposes the religious and human-centered origins of Crake’s technological utopian project. Atwood’s Oryx and Crake is an ambiguous work of science fiction that combines utopian and dystopian elements into its narrative to criticize utopian thought.

Hiroshima, Mokusatsu and Alleged Mistranslations

Author(s): Boris Naimushin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This paper revisits the issue of the importance of context and critical thinking in translation and translation training by examining the linguistic controversy over the translation of the word mokusatsu in the statement of Japan’s Prime Minister Suzuki in response to the Potsdam Declaration. There is a widespread belief that the bombing of Hiroshima in August of 1945 was caused by a translation mistake. The author sides with the opposing view, i.e. that such an approach takes one word of the statement out of context in order to shift the focus of the problem from politics to linguistics. The message of the statement is unambiguous when analyzed in its entirety. As a result, it is obvious there was no translation mistake and the bomb was dropped for reasons other than translation quality. Sadly enough, the myth lives on as a textbook example of ‘the worst translation mistake in history” whereas it should be taught as an example of probably ‘the worst translation myth in history’.

Análisis del discurso en la era digital. Una recopilación de casos de estudio – Book Review

Author(s): Eroulla Demetriou / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Communication among human beings cannot be stopped. More specifically, digital communication is the sign of our times and the main symbol of developed western civilization in the late 20th and early 21st century. Even though the “digital era” was inexorably on the rise in recent decades even before the coronavirus raised its ugly head in 2020, now it is relentlessly bound to increase its presence and keep a firm grip on our daily routine. Digitalization has come to stay and the number of routes deriving from the new circumstances of imposed limitation of human contact, interaction and intercourse are expected to grow and grow: the sky is the limit.

Odkrywanie tego, co ignorowane. O zarządzaniu uwagą w postrzeganiu historii i zjawisk społecznych

Author(s): Krzysztof T. Konecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2020

Demokracja poza centrum. Recenzja studium wyborów lokalnych

Author(s): Wojciech Rafałowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2020

Ruiny dialektyki

Author(s): Michał Pospiszyl / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2020

За Словото, Делото и Творчеството. Ирина Седакова на 65 години

Author(s): Ekaterina Anastasova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

Anniversary

Закъснелият Кафка

Author(s): Maya Razboynikova-Frateva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2021

In "Kafka's Reception in Bulgaria until 1989" Mladen Vlashki combines the modern theory of cultural transfer with the sociological theories of the field and with the system theory. The monograph presents the most essential characteristic of the writer's work, against the background of which the hypothesis of future difficulties in front of Kafka's reception in view of the literary field in Bulgaria acquires density. A solid reconstruction of the trajectories of Kafka's reception in France, England and the United States has been made, which imposes it as a classic of modernity. Compared to the reception in other socialist countries and in the context of the Cold War, additional factors determining the Bulgarian reactions are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the "cases" Minko Nikolov and Dimitar Stoevski.

Ива Кюркчиева. Етнология и футбол. София, 2020

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2021

Хипостази на мотива за маската в гръцката поезия от началото на ХХ в.

Author(s): Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2021

The article examines the work and biographies of Romos Filiras and Napoleon Lapathiotis, representatives of the generation of poets from the first decades of the 20th century, considered to be the forerunners of Greek 1920s poetic cosmopolitanism. It also presents an analysis of the ‘hypostases’ of the mask motive in their work. Opinions of literary critics from different university schools regarding the considered authors are compared.

Book review: Христакуди, Фотини. Проблеми на гръцкия литературен развой 1880-1930. (Етюди върху новогръцката поезия).

Author(s): Borislava Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Book review: Christakoudy, Fotiny. Problems of Greek Literary Development 1880-1930. (Studies on Modern Greek Poetry). Sofia, Ni plus, 2020, 255 p.]

Compte-rendu: Simona Carretta, Bernard Franco et Judith Sarfati Lanter dir. La Pensée sur l’art dans le roman des XXe et XXIe siècles.

Author(s): Antoaneta Robova / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2021

Book review: La Pensée sur l’art dans le roman des XXe et XXIe siècles. Edited by Simona Carretta, Bernard Franco and Judith Sarfati Lanter. Classiques Garnier, 2019, ISBN : 978-2-406-08394-8.

ABOUT THE MEDIA COMPONENT OF MILITARY CONFLICTS - AN EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS OFFERED BY NICOLETA ANNEMARIE MUNTEANU

Author(s): Eugen Străuţiu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The volume entitled Componenta mediatică a conflictelor militare is on the Romanian specialty market since 2018, under the signature of professor Nicoleta Annemarie Munteanu, and in the editorial realization of TechoMedia in Sibiu.This research Vol.ume proposes an inter- and multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between the media and the military organization - especially during military crises and conflicts.From a varied and useful content, remains noteworthy the author's contribution to crisis and conflict-specific media communication strategies: journalistic methods of crisis and conflict prevention (delimited in two categories, private and institutional); journalistic strategies for crisis and conflict prevention; the principles of media communication in crisis and conflict prevention.