« Love man love woman – the tale of Master Đức » : le genre comme destin sacré

Author(s): Thi Thanh Phuong Nguyen-Pochan / Language(s): French / Issue: 24/2019

Through an analysis of the movie “Love man love woman” directed by Nguyễn Trinh Thi en 2007, our paper will examine how the media performance allows to demystify the “sacred destiny” fiction of the transgender male mediums within worship of Mother-Goddesses in Vietnam. This analysis is part of the gender performance perspective as well as the semio-pragmatic approach of the media narrative. It is placed in a broader context of hegemonic culture and the mediatization of normative heterosexual discourse.

Świat po dekolonizacji a główne nurty polityczne i ekonomiczne. Wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Krzysztof Prendecki / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2007

Węzeł palestyński. »Nowy antysemityzm«, islamofobia i pytanie o nie-islamofobiczną Europę

Author(s): Monika Bobako / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 26/2017

Throughout twentieth-century European history Jews and Arabs, as well as Jews and Muslims, have been presented as engaged in a “civilizational” conflict that is not only political but also quasi-metaphysical. This article examines the impact of the conflict on attitudes to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and considers the Islamophobic implications of the “new anti-Semitic” discourse, focussing in particular on a variant of this discourse developed by Alain Finkielkraut. The text argues that both the struggle against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as well as the struggle against the mechanism that, in certain circumstances, creates a kind of negative feedback loop between them, requires not only opposing anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim prejudices, but also a broad critical reconsideration of the concepts of Europeanness that lie at their foundation. The author suggests that a good starting point for this reconsideration might be a postcolonial reading of the Jewish intellectual tradition as exemplified in the works of Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and that focuses on the figure of the Mizrahi Jew.

Wybrane konteksty edukacji europejskiej w Wielkiej Brytanii i Polsce. Próba porównania

Author(s): Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Europeanism exceeds the political and social mindset, it also provides the way of thinking about Europe, the Europeans, their identity, culture and homogeneity, which is paradoxically constituted on the basis of heterogeneity (“unity in diversity”). One may distinguishes two contrary approaches towards the UE: Euroscepticism and Euroenthusiasm The first orientation is very vivid in the British society and it is reflected not only in the words of politicians but also in the mood of the nation,expressed in the Brexit referendum. The latter orientation is common among Poles who enjoy the privilege of joining to the exclusive club.The European and citizenship education reflect these antagonistic approaches. The aim of the paper is an attempt to reconstruct and analyse the contemporary debate on citizenship education in the perspective of European Union. The analyse of educational trends about Europe and Europeanism is significant if Brexit is taking into the consideration.

Wyróżniki tożsamości miast podlaskich w opinii ich lokalnych liderów

Author(s): Ewa Glińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 23/2012

Cities in Poland are increasingly taking action to create recognizable territorial brands in order to improve their competitiveness and gain a position in the perception of various groups of customers of local offer. In the strategic process of self-image management set of features, competitive advantages, or particular features of the identity of the village/town/city plays an important role, around which the desired image of the city is created. The selection of these features is not an easy task, and therefore local authorities should be recourse in this matter the opinion of the local leaders. The aim of this paper is to present the results of the research of leaders from seven cities from Podlaskie voivodeship, whose task was to formulate the list of the most important attributes of their own village, which should be particularly prominent in its promotional activities. The research method used in this study were focus group interviews.

XX. YÜZYILIN BAŞLARINDA AZERBAYCAN EDEBİYATINDA TÜRKÇÜLÜK, TURANCILIK

Author(s): Aynur Celilova / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 42/2019

Azerbaijan literature constitutes an important part within the Turkish World Literature and incorporates a variety of literal tendencies and traditions. Roots of Azerbaijan poems comes from masters such as Nizami, Hâkanî’, Nesimî, Fuzulî, Hataî, Kuşçuoğlu, Seyid Azim; and Vagif, Vidadi, Zakir, Sabir, Cavid, Hadi, Vahid. Azerbaijan Turks’ poems have gained richness since 13th century to today. The role of these genuine poets’ works is considered as important for the current position of contemporary Turkish poems. Since the beginning of 20th century, especially in the liberal atmosphere of 1905 manifest, a lot of Turkist, Turanist poets have raised. As it is known, Turanism is an expression of Turkist ideology and aims to unite all the Turkish states under the Turan state. A. Hüseynzade was the leading name of Turkism and Turanism ideology in Azerbaijan and in the whole Turkish world. Theoretical framework of Turkism was decided by Hüseynzade Ali Bey and Ziya Gökalp and a lot of poet have started to reflect this ideology to their works directly or indirectly since the beginning of the 20th century. To mention their literary works is necessary in order to define the nationalist tendencies in Azerbaijan. Ahmet Cevad, Mehemmed Hadi, Hüseyn Cavid and Almas Ildırım were some of the examples reflecting Turkist ideology in Azerbaijan. Ahmet Cevad and Hüseyin Cavid were deported in 1937. Almaz Ildırım was also an emigrated poet living in exile in his whole life. In this paper we will give brief information about their life and art.

Yahudi Diasporası’nın Filistin’e Göçü Ve İsrail Devleti’nin Kuruluşu

Author(s): Sevda Örücü / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2018

For centuries, Jerusalem has been in a position to be regarded as the heart of the Middle East, which has an important place in the center of the military and political policies of the leading countries in the world because of its geopolitical and geostrategic meaning and the value attributed by Christians, Jews and Muslims. In view of this reality, the work clarifies how the Jewish people have been able to clarify the diaspora life of the Jewish people, and how the Jews can do this, with the effect of this particular situation on the history of the Jews, the history of Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel. For this reason, explaining the concept of diaspora, por Diaspora such as a large-scale concept by downloading a special Jewish Diaspora as is described. After the Jewish Diaspora, the Jews migrated to Palestine, the birth of Zionism, the entry of Palestine into the British Mandate, the UN decision on Palestine, the foundation period of the State of Israel and the period until that period, both the Middle East and Europe and other continent countries. The events affecting the whole are explained in this study. The aim of the study is to give a new source to the literature on this subject and to evaluate the problem that has existed for centuries.

Yearbook of Slovakia's Foreign Policy 2009

Author(s): Peter Brezáni / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2010

If the foreign policy of any state is to be successful it must have its own form, its own language and be part of public – institutionally framed – discourse. There is, however, no such ‘institutional umbrella’ covering all those responsible for the formulation and implementation of our foreign policy as well as those in Slovakia who are not indifferent to it. Moreover, there is often little will to open such an umbrella ‘over’ our foreign policy. Even the political parties do not pay much attention to foreign policy and thus issues of foreign policy are only occasionally part of the general public discourse. It is, however, the open, coherent and constant exchange of views, opinions, know-how, arguments from experience and/or long-term plans among the groups mentioned that play a crucial role in planning foreign policy. All of these reasons keep convincing us that we need to regularly evaluate where Slovak foreign policy currently is, which important events occurred in the preceding year and what challenges lie ahead of Slovakia in the near future. The Yearbook is in this regard a unique forum primarily focused on Slovakia´s foreign policy. The book provides space for those who make decisions and practically implement them as well as to those who care a lot about the future of foreign policy, such as researchers active in academic circles, think-tanks or non-governmental organizations. The Yearbook is a unique project entering another decade of its existence. It has been contributing for eleven years – and successfully, we are convinced – to the development of a tradition of regular evaluation and analysis of Slovak foreign policy and supporting the cultivation of foreign policy thinking in Slovakia. The publication represents an important, yet at the same time, solitary, and indeed limited, printed book resource keeping record of the development of Slovakia’s foreign policy and the discussion on its further orientation. The Yearbook assesses 2009 as a year rich in events. In 2009, Slovakia celebrated the fifth anniversary of her EU and NATO membership as well as the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. At the same time it was the very first year of entering the Euro Zone. 2009 will also be remembered as a year of important institutional changes within the EU as well as in its practical operation; a year in which we once again elected our representatives to the European Parliament or one in which the Union got its new President and Foreign Minister. Implementation of the Eastern Partnership program was commenced and the integration project in the Balkans continued. In 2009 discussion on NATO’s new Strategic Concept started, while that on Afghanistan still continued. Within the OSCE Slovakia was very actively participating in the organization’s revitalization. It was also a year when debate on mitigation of the impacts of the economic and energy crisis and their associated challenges predominated. A year, then, of another stage in the improvement of the institutional framework of Slovak foreign policy. In the context of all of these events and their impacts on our foreign policy, the second decade of the Yearbook opens with an assessment of our line of action and a presentation of our objectives and interests in the international environment, continues with an analysis of the realization of the priority areas of our foreign policy and is concluded with an assessment of the efficacy of the instruments required for its implementation. The analytical assessment is again supplemented by an evaluation/ presentation of the Foreign Ministry’s representatives. The Yearbook offers all this to the somewhat limited degree characteristic of such publications. The Yearbook opens for the third time with a survey presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. His text evaluates and presents the problems and aspects of Slovakia’s foreign policy that are analyzed in depth by other authors in the Yearbook. Thus the reader is given a unique opportunity to examine the ‘same issue’ from different angles in one publication. The expert section of the Yearbook starts with a text analyzing Slovakia’s performance in an international environment. The first contribution, which by tradition is that of Vladimír Bilčík of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SPFA), covers the crucial events of Slovakia’s performance in the EU – the issue of representation and operation of the key EU institutions as well as a reflection on the first five years of Slovakia’s EU membership. It analyzes the positions and tasks of the Slovak Republic before and during the European Parliament elections, and in the creation of the European Commission as well as those connected with the process of adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon. It also offers a brief summary of the key issues important for Slovakia’s successful performance within the EU in the upcoming period. The security aspects of our foreign policy are assessed by Matúš Korba from the Center for Security Studies. In his text he analyzes the growing disproportion between the political ambitions of Slovakia within NATO and our real military capabilities that is connected with the internal crisis of the reform process within the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic, which was even further exacerbated in 2009. The OSCE revitalization, the future of the European security debate and Slovakia’s role in it are all evaluated by Marcel Peško, the Permanent Representative and Head of the Permanent Mission to International Organizations in Vienna. The section on Slovakia’s performance in an international environment is concluded by a contribution by Milan Lapin, a prominent Slovak climatologist. In his article attention is mostly paid to the assessment of knowledge and activities that were carried out in 2009 and relate to climate changes and variability, including the Fifth National Communication of the Slovak Republic on Climate Change. The second part of the book, devoted to the priorities of our foreign policy, opens with a text by the Director-General for Economic Cooperation and ODA at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Radomír Boháč. In his analysis, he focuses on the fulfillment of a re-established priority of our foreign policy – the economic dimension of Slovak diplomacy – in the context of the global financial and economic crisis and the challenges stemming from it. Urban Rusnák, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic’s project on the External Energy Security of the Slovak Republic, reflects on the gas crisis of January 2009 as well as measures taken in the field of Slovak legislation and infrastructure on the level of national government as well as on the EU level. The analysis of Slovakia’s Central European activities was, as always, written by Tomáš Strážay, an RC SPFA analyst, who reassesses the cooperation principles and mechanisms aimed at rendering cooperation more intensive and more efficient. He also identifies and evaluates the most important challenges faced by the V4 presidency taken up by Slovakia. The key aspects of the Eastern Partnership program, its bilateral and multilateral components, Slovakia’s involvement in it as well as our bilateral activities in relation to the Eastern Partnership states are presented by Juraj Marušiak, a researcher at the Institute of Political Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The final expert section devoted to instruments of foreign policy opens with a contribution by Ján Mihálik from Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia (PDCS) and Peter Brezáni from the RC SFPA, who concentrate their attention on the state of one of the most important bilateral instruments in Slovak foreign policy – development cooperation. The authors offer their perspective on practical fulfillment of objectives set within the official ODA documents, attempt to provide a summary of activities relating to Slovak development cooperation in 2009 as well as a set of recommendations intended to increase the quality and efficiency of Slovak ODA. The expert section concludes with a text by Ondrej Gažovič from the Institute of European Studies and International Relations of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, who evaluates the year 2009 as a year that had brought several factors contributing to clarification of this part of the foreign policy concept against the background of conditions in the Slovak Republic as well as to its institutionalization and practical implementation. The expert chapters are traditionally supplemented by annexes such as a chronology of important foreign policy events, a list of international treaties, information on the structure and representatives of state bodies operating in foreign policy, a list of diplomatic missions and representatives of the Slovak Republic abroad, a list of diplomatic corps in the Slovak Republic, information on military missions abroad etc. We firmly believe that the first issue of the Yearbook in the second decade of its existence will once again find a readership and serve all those who are interested in the past, present and future of Slovakia and her foreign policy. In conclusion, we would kindly like to express our gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic for its cooperation on this project and its support as well as for the fact that thanks to this support we are able to continue building on this much needed tradition.

Young People’s Perspectives on How ‘Zhuz’ and ‘Ru’ Clans Affect Them: Evidence from Three Cities in Post-Soviet Qazaqstan

Author(s): Yerkebulan Sairambay / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, elites seeking political power in the newly independent Qazaqstan fostered the use of clan affiliations, such as ‘Zhuz’ and ‘Ru’, in order to develop a Qazaq identity. However, this change resulted in clan politics at both the elite and individual levels, which have become an integral part of today’s clan divisions in modern Qazaq society. The main purpose of this paper is to explore how contemporary young Qazaqs perceive Zhuz and Ru clan-based kinship divisions affect them. The research objectives of this work are achieved through an extensive review of the relevant literature, as well as through a careful analysis of the outcomes of semi-structured interviews (n=20) and online surveys (n=200) with young people from Nur-Sultan, Aqtau, and Shymkent. This article finds that young Qazaqs perceive Zhuz and Ru clans mainly to affect them in terms of employment, marriage, and online media.

Yugoslavism Written in Memorials and Denominations in Lјubljana

Author(s): Peter Mikša / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

The purpose of the article is to present a (chronological) overview of denomination, renaming or abolishing streets and squares, setting up and tearing down monuments, naming and renaming primary schools, etc. of Yugoslav connotation in Ljubljana from 1918 onwards. This kind of establishing of collective memory in Slovenia is most evident in political fractures, such as: fracturing from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and entering the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, when it was necessary to redeϐine the collective memory and clean up the old. This is most evident in renaming streets and institutions or tearing down and putting up new monuments. Or furthermore, the more striking marking of space: the post-war regime in the time of the “second” Yugoslavia. The process was also present during the period of occupation of Slovenia between 1941 and 1945; and during the post-independence Slovenia after the year 1991.

YUGOSLAVYA SOSYALİST FEDERAL CUMHURİYETİ SONRASI ARDIL CUMHURİYETLERDE MİLLİYETÇİLİĞE DAİR DÜZENLEMELER

Author(s): Şahin Keskin / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 43/2019

In the successive republics that gained independence with the dissolution of Yugoslavia, politics and micro-nationalism re-emerged in the Balkans within the framework of identity. With the rise of identity politics, conflicts were based on expansionist nationalism. There is a belief that Yugoslavia ruled communism from its foundation and its dissolution. Although communism, leaders within the Federation have held nationalism at hand. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this nationalism became an ideology and a tool in the administration. Many leaders have used it as a nationalist election campaign for the independence of countries; the constitution proposals were arranged with the sensitivity of this nationalism. Nationalism based on the marginalization in successive republics has removed nations with historical affinity; countries' constitutions and other legal arrangements have been cautious, especially against national minorities. In this study, understanding of nationalism in successive republics and their effects on each other are tried to be examined.

Zadarski Arbanasi: Sjećanje, etnički i nacionalni identitet

Author(s): Dragutin Babić,Šenol Selimović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 15/2018

This article explores the issue of ethnic identity on the example of the Zadar Arbanasi, Catholic Albanians originally from so-called Turkish Albania who settled the area around Zadar during the first half of the 18th century. Though the Arbanasi's ethic identity of has with time dwindled and is turning into "something else", the name and pertaining adjective Arbanasi, Arbaneshe (Arbanasi, arbanaški) are still in use. Based on the interviews conducted using a theoretical framework involving remembrance, memories, assimilation and ethnic identity, this article looks at who the Arbanasi in Zadar and its surroundings are at the beginning of the 21st century, whether their identity is at least somewhat also an ethnic one or if it is just a remembrance of a previous ethnic identity. How did the interviewed members of the Arbanasi community identify themselves in the census? Twenty (20) qualitative semi-structured interviews have been conducted in which the members of this sub-national community explained with much detail how they see historic and current issues that make up their existential and identity reality. An analysis of empirical material using theoretical constructs from the sociology of ethnic relations and ethnic identity and from the cultural approach perspective of political science, have led to the conclusion that the Arbanasi are a subnational identity that is mostly found within the Croatian national core and only occasionally within the Italian one. The results of this research show that the process wherein they were formed as a predominantly Croatian national identity has been coming to an end, especially from since the 1990s onwards.

Zagrożenia dla bezpieczeństwa społecznego w Bośni i Hercegowinie. Uwarunkowania – diagnoza – prognozy

Author(s): Danuta Gibas-Krzak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2018

Zainichi – „niewidzialni ludzie”. Sytuacja mniejszości koreańskiej w Japonii

Author(s): Zuzanna Grüner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2011

Zaposedanje drugog i manipulacija “ženskim pismom”

Author(s): Nevena Ivanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 59.5/2000

U knjizi Imaginarne zajednice: razmišljanja o porekla i širenju nacionalizma (1983), Benedikt Anderson daje uticajnu definiciju nacije kao “imaginarne političke zajednice”. Iznijansirana verzija Gelnerovog određenja nacije kao tvorevine nacionalizma i temelj narednih studija o procesu izmišljanja/stvaranja nacija, Andersonova definicija opisuje naciju kao sistem kulturnih predstava koji jednoj osobi omogućava da se poistoveti sa širom zajednicom tako što usvaja imaginarno zajedničko iskustvo. [...]

ZAŠTO GUBITI VRIJEME S DINKOM TOMAŠIĆEM?

Author(s): Ivan Rogić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 08/1993

The current interest in Tornašlć's work is not only an archeological obligation of social sciences, but one of the first problems of deconstructionist analysis of a period in which Tomašić was one of the numerous "blind spots". Interest for such analyses is all the greater, because Tomašić, like many others, was a politically engaged scientist - a social reformer - so his "falling into oblivion" was probably more motivated by political interest. Thus reviving curiosity for Tornašlč's work the author continues to analyze briefly his two main ideas: the one about the cultural identity as the basis of the "Balkan crisis", as well as the idea about Balkan societies as societies "under pressure". Both ideas clearly demonstrate that a lack of systematic analyses of cultural and social processes in the past can indeed be perilous, and also that it is neccesary to develop explorative approaches in major issues of modern Croatian society.

Zašto je sve manje viceva o Husi i Hasi?

Author(s): Nihada Džanić Delibegović / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, we encounter the cruel ban of satire in public discourse. In neighboring Croatia, NewsBar is on trial due to its satirical texts. In Serbia, the […]

Zašto je sve manje viceva o Husi i Hasi?

Author(s): Nihada Džanić Delibegović / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian / Issue: 1/2019

Kraj 2018. i početak 2019. dočekasmo okrutnim zabranama satire u javnom diskursu. U susjednoj Hrvatskoj se sudi portalu NewsBar zbog jednog satiričnog teksta. U Srbiji je ukinuta emisija Veče s Ivanom Ivanovićem zbog otvorene kritike vlasti. Naravno, i […]

Zašto se zemlje raspadaju - slučaj Jugoslavija

Author(s): Vladimir Gligorov / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 2014

Vladimir Gligorov je ovu knjigu napisao na engleskom, pre 20 godina, na severu Evrope, pretpostavljamo dosta usamljen u starom univerzitetskom gradu Upsala, u Švedskoj. Te davne 1994. knjige su se još uvek slovoslagale, a ratovi devedesetih su bili u punom jeku: ratu u Bosni se nije video kraj, a rat na Kosovu je još uvek pripadao dalekoj budućnosti. Kao jedna od prvih studija o raspadu Jugoslavije, knjiga Zašto se zemlje raspadaju – Slučaj Jugoslavija je imala ogroman uticaj na zapadne autore koji su se bavili ovom temom. Pred vama je prvo elektronsko izdanje ove knjige na engleskom i njen prvi prevod na naš jezik.

Zionists and ‘Polish Jews’. Palestinian Reception of ‘We, Polish Jews’

Author(s): Michał Sobelman / Language(s): English / Issue: 6/2016

The article discusses the reception of Tuwim’s manifesto in Israel, focusing in particular on the 1940s. The author analyses various critical reponses to the poem expressed by Jewish critics in Palestine. Tuwim’s reception in Israel is presented from a new perspective which has not been explore so far.