"Novi talas" u percepciji novih generacija

Author(s): Marija Ristivojevic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2013

The paper represents an analysis of contemporary ideas about new wave music formed by generations born after 1980, in the "post-new wave" period. The ever more evident tendency to revitalize and re-actualize the new wave phenomenon at the local level, as well as the identities which stem from it, is indicative not only of the importance of this musical concept but its interdependence with the local community. The echoes of different contemporary narratives about this phenomenon influence the forming of a set of notions about, on the one hand, new wave itself, and on the other – notions about Belgrade of that time period, among generations which form their opinions and perceptions of it indirectly, and after the fact. The aim of the paper is to an- swer the question of the extent to which young people today are familiar with new wave and what the concept represents for them.

"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.

"Немачко удружење Адам Беренц" и ревитализација етничког идентитета Немаца у Апатину

Author(s): Aleksandar Krel / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2010

At the time of the violent interethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia, ethnic Germans in Serbia became publicly active for the first time after decades of "ethnic mimicry", founding ethnic German societies. It is through these societies that the process of revitalization and (re)construction of their ethnic and cultural identity has been taking place. There are about a dozen such societies active in Vojvodina today, one of them being the Adam Berenz German Society in the town of Apatin. The paper looks at the conceptualization and symbolization, analysis of ethnic strategies and presentation of modalities by means of which the Apatin association seeks to preserve and revive certain specific ethnic and cultural elements of the German ethnic community.

"Раноантичка насеља" и гвоздено доба централног Балкана: питања етничког идентитета

Author(s): Ivan Vranic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 3/2011

In the Balkan archaeologies, ethnic identity has been traditionally treated as a stable and monolithic category, readily recognizable in the material culture. The issue of "ethnogenesis" of the Palaeo-Balkan "peoples" is the dominant topic and the basic research subject in culture-historical archaeology, today regarded as the consequence of the modern European nationalisms. Starting from the constructivist point, the paper seeks to examine the interpretations of ethnicity in the Balkan Iron Age, on the example of the so-called "early Classical settlements" – a series of mutually very similar fortified settlements located in the vast lands of the Balkan hinterland, today in the territory of several modern states. These settlements are broadly dated into the period from the 5th to the 3rd centuries BC, and have traditionally been interpreted as the final phase of the ethnogenesis of the Palaeo-Balkan communities, supposed to have been living in "tribal states", whose population has been recognized as "people" or even "nation". In the traditional literature, the ethnic characteristics have been readily recognized, projecting directly the modern socio-political structures onto the communities of the past that could have been founded on completely different group identity or political organization. The paper deals with the issue of the political aspects of these interpretations in variousBalkan countries, favoring certain Palaeo-Balkan communities, and an attempt is made to contextualize these nationalistic narratives into the present.

(Nie)pamięć zbiorowa Polaków jako skuteczna regulacja emocji

Author(s): Michal Bilewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2016

Bilewicz applies notions borrowed from the psychology of emotions to understand collective (im)memory in Poland, with a particular focus on defensive reactions to new historical data on Poles’ negative behaviour. Based on James Gross’ concept of emotion regulation, Bilewicz elaborates a model of downregulating collective moral emotions (such as guilt and shame). He then applies this model to the debate on the Jedwabne pogrom. He also outlines systematic social psychological studies that support his proposed emotion downregulation model. The article concludes with a discussion of alternative ways of presenting negative history – ways that overcome those defensive emotion regulatory processes.

A kontaktusalapú előítélet-csökkentés lehetőségei és korlátai

Egy intervenció tapasztalatai

Author(s): Anna Kende,Nóra Anna Lantos / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

Intergroup contact is the most effective method of prejudice reduction according to a vast number of studies conducted in various intergroup situations. However, it is not contact, but its optimal conditions which are difficult to attain in societies lacking a general acceptance of egalitarian social norms, facing strong segregation, large status differences, and endorsing strong prejudicial attitudes. Therefore, the optimal conditions for intergroup contact are rarely available when attempting to reduce prejudice against Roma people in Hungary. We present two studies in which we tested the influence of an intervention based on intergroup friendship – a highly positive example of intergroup contact – to reduce anti-Roma prejudice among university students. The research builds upon the so-called “fast friends” method which refers to a short closeness generating procedure based on mutual self-disclosure which creates an experience resembling real friendships. First year psychology students participated in our first study (N = 132) within an experimental, an extended contact, and a “control” group. We found some overall improvement in attitudes based on the comparison between the pre- and the post-test questionnaire results. In a second study (N = 61) we tested whether the findings of Study 1 were the direct result of the intervention, or its indirect influence through promoting non-prejudicial institutional norms. This time we worked with an experimental and a naïve control group, and found significant differences in attitude change between the groups along some attitudinal variables and in the perception of institutional norms. We discuss the scope and limits of anti-Roma prejudice reductions methods.

A Teleki ’44 Projekt interjús gyűjteménye

Author(s): Tamás Adler,Szilvia Lelkes / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2016

Introduction to the collection of the Teleki '44 project

Afrika Iç-Göçü Ve Post-Kolonyal Vatandaşlik

Author(s): Y. Kerem Arslan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2012

This paper attempts to define the migration movements based on ethnic identity in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the motives behind them. Although these movements, which have lasted from the colonial period, play an important role in the formation of work-oriented, cultural, or political identities, they also appeared as a basis and as a breakpoint in the creation of national identities during the post-independence era. In the process of building national identities, particularly in Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda, the migrations in the region, the displacements, and the refugee movements stemming from civil wars and ethnic conflicts constituted the main axes of contemporary regional problems. The foundation of the emergence of racial or ethnic classifications, whether intra-society or intersocieties, should be searched for in the replacement of cultural identities based on the division of labour in the colonial period by the more strictly drawn political divisions. By examining the implementations of colonial rule, this paper seeks to analyse the instruments of the reproduction of social and political differentiation in a type of society that generally emerged as bi-polar, such as Rwanda and Burundi. Finally, this study aims to put forth a pattern of regional migration movements.

Albania-Serbia relations in the Eyes of the Albanian Public 2015

Author(s): Alba Çela / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015

Albania and Serbia share a difficult historic baggage. The dissolution of Yugoslavia and conflict in Kosovo and the subsequent independence of Kosova have been a powerful rollercoaster for the two countries which claim to be home-seat to the largest ethnic groups in the Balkans. However even between Serbia and Kosova some signs of normalization due to the EU sponsored dialogue are starting to materialize beyond symbolical handshakes and right into important bilateral deals. The results of the survey which you can access in this publication portray a lot of positive potential for improvement of the bilateral relations more likely starting with the ‘easy parts’: cultural cooperation and getting to know more about each other. Most important citizens seem fully aware of the importance that these relations have for the future of the entire region as well as for the European integration project that the region also shares.

All Roads Lead to Guča: Modes of Representing Serbia and Serbs during the Guča Trumpet Festival

Author(s): Marija Krstic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2012

In this paper I research a famous Serbian music event, the Dragačevo Trumpet Festival, better known as the Guča festival, by analysing festival’s photographs. I use visitors’ photographs available on one of the websites dedicated to Guča, www.guca.rs and media data, in order to question how the festival’s photographs visually represent the Serbs by discussing several motifs found in the images: festival itself, carnivalesque, national(-istic) elements, and Roma and Serb dualism. The main goal of the paper is to explain and show how Guča festival found its place in modern Serbia and contributed inventing modern European Serbia in spite of its rural, folk, barbarian and sometimes nationalist representation.

Antropologija i žanr: naučna fantastika – komunikacija identiteta

Author(s): Bojan Žikic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2010

Genre production uses the shared nature of cultural communication in order to establish certain kinds and models of cultural identity, and these identities go on to have a social and cultural existence outside genre communication. Anthropology insists on the shared nature of cultural communication, more precisely, on the fact that those who shape the information transmitted in this way have to share its code with the intended recipients. The anthropological study of genres is actually the study of certain cultural artefacts characteristic of the societies and cultures in which they have been created.

Arheologija i etnicitet

Author(s): Staša Babic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2010

The paper examines the history of archaeological investigation into collective identities in the past. Culture-historical approaches fully based upon the concept of cultural group , deeply influenced by the modern understanding of nation-states – unity of territory, material culture, language and ethnic affiliation. The application of this concept led to devastating political abuses of archaeology, most notoriously in the case of Gustaf Kossinna in the Nazi Germany. The realisation that the very essence of thus conceived group identity in the past inevitably leads into the projection of the modern model of nation-state, resulted in thorough reconsideration. Over the last decades, archaeologists are investigating other possible paths of research into the group and individual identities in the past, informed by the constructivist approach.

Autonarracja jako strategia negocjowania tożsamości w tekstach polskich migrantów przebywających w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii po roku 2004

Author(s): Joanna Slósarska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The article explores the shaping of narrators’ polyphonic identities in texts produced by Polish migrants temporarily residing in the UK and Ireland. Examining dozens of works produced between 2004 and 2015, Ślósarska tackles identity in relation to the fundamental determinants of self-narrative strategies. Her methodology is rooted in symbolic interactionism, standard patterns of biographies, and self-narration as a way of understanding and interpreting the world. Her conclusions focus on the function of self-narration in reconstructing individual and ethnic identities by migrants looking for new patterns of adaptation in unstable existential situations; the axiologization of the new experiences is discussed in relation to ethnic cultural memory and to the social and family identity roles developed earlier in life.

autoproletaryzacja w prozie Polaków migrujących do Niemiec, Irlandii i Wielkiej Brytanii

Author(s): Dirk Uffelman / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

This article investigates prose by Polish migrant writers by scrutinizing depictions of low-paid work, not only in the fictional texts but also in biographical sketches about the authors in blurbs and anthologies. Uffelmann adduces sociological studies on the ‘contradictory social mobility’ of Polish work migrants to show that devices of social self-degradation in migrant literature allude to the no-less-contradictory social situation faced by many migrant workers. His methodological approach is rooted in postcolonial theories, especially those that focus on paradoxical appropriations of identity. The main focus of the article is on ‘self-proletarianization’ and its function as an apotropaic twist: writers who ‘proletarianize’ either their protagonist(s) or themselves aim to achieve paradoxical recognition as artists.

Azerbaycan'da Asimilasyon Siyaseti

Author(s): Metanet A. Aliyeva / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 7/2005

19. Yy?da kuzeyi Rus işgaline giren, güneyi ise İran?da kalan Azerbaycan?da Türkler uzun dönemli bir asimilasyon siyasetine tabi tutulmuşlardır. Öncelikle ülke birleşik ve yeknesak kimlik de ikiye bölünmüş, kuzeyde Azeri kelimesi yaygınlaşırken, güneyde Fars baskılarına rağmen Türk adı kalmıştır. Ruslar kendilerini üstün ırk olarak sunup Azerileri ve diğer milletleri kendilerine özendirmek ve benzetmek suretiyle eritme siyasetini tutarken, Farslar İran?daki Türklerin aslında Farisi kökenli oldukları ve asıllarına dönmeleri gerektiği savlarını sürdürmüşler; bu arada her iki tarafta da Türkçenin kullanımı mümkün olduğunca kısıtlanmıştır.

Beletrizacija kulturne povijesti u istraživačkom prečitavanju prošlosti Mostara (studijski esej o Kajanovim mostarskim vedutama)

Author(s): Vedad Spahic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 11/2014

Ibrahim Kajan's longstanding interest in cultural history of Mostar was published in a book in 2014 called „The City of Great Light” which eventually shaped itself as a literary cultural- historical monograph of the city. Individual texts shaped in the form of vedutas about famous Mostar's buildings, without neglecting urbanistic-architectoral legacy as its primary thematic fixation, quintessentially deal with urban identity and its traditional mainstreaming as well as deviations which are a consequence of urbicidal and culturocide destructions during the last decade of the 20th century and which insidiously exist until present day. Kajan’s code of reading cultural history of the city functions according to the principle of Gadamer-like hermeneutical circle. Participants inside the cyclical mechanism, which strives to logically, aesthetically and interpretatively close itself and establish a harmonious relationship of mutual conditionality, are: writer – city – history – identity.

Benjaminovo djelo u razdoblju biokibernetičke reprodukcije

Author(s): Tonci Valentic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 25/2017

Na jednom mjestu u svom kapitalnom djelu Arkade Walter Benjamin pod slovom K, u odjeljku koji je posvećen snovima, govori o kopernikanskom obratu historijske percepcije koji se sastoji u slijedećem: u prostor-vremenu vremena sna (Zeitraum) individualna svijest sve se dublje okreće introspekciji i refleksiji, dok kolektivna svijest sve više tone u duboki san, napominjući da se svaka historijska epoha okreće snovima na svoj način. Prije je točka interesa bilo "ono što je prošlo" i na to se fokusirao kognitivni aparat, dok danas dolazi do dijalektičkog obrata: "bljesak probuđene svijesti" doveo je do toga da je politika preuzela primat nad historijom; informacije koje primamo iz svijeta tek trebamo pretočiti u sjećanje.

Bezwstydny taniec nie może trwać bez końca

Author(s): Kinga Dunin / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2016

From a sociological perspective, shame is an instrument of social control, while shamelessness is a way to break out from under that control. One strategy of shamelessness is camp, both as a poetics and as a practice. Dunin’s analysis of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story ‘Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer’ as well as Michał Witkowski’s ‘life writing’ attempts to answer how effective this strategy is and to identify its limits.

Biografija kao paradigma etničke i nacionalne emancipacije: životna priča Crnogorca iz Lovćenca kao izvor za proučavanje etniciteta i nacionalizma Crnogoraca u Vojvodini

Author(s): Saša Nedeljkovic / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2012

This paper is an attempt to complement the existing body of knowledge about the Montenegrin community in Serbia through the analysis of the life story of one Montenegrin living in a rural environment in Vojvodina. His life story contains all the hallmarks of identity which have been noted in earlier studies of Montenegrin identity, and sheds new light on certain aspects of it.

Birinci Dünya Savaşı öncesinde Ermeni Faaliyetlerinden Kısa Bir Kesit

Author(s): Durdu Mehmet Burak / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 12/2007

It is impossible to find a pure community or a nation lived alone without associating with another nation on the specified geography in any period of the world history on the Earth. When we look back to the Turkish history the Turks lived together with Chinese, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Greeks and so many odler nations. No doubt that the best and long lasting relations have been exercised with the Armenians. But when the Ottoman Empire began to lose power and the intervention of Europe in almost all subjects occurred in Turkish-Armenian relationships a stage of weakening, worsening stage has begun. At one side the efforts of Westerners to brake the relations of the Armenians from the Turkish society in points of view of religion, cultural, commercial, social and political matters on the other side on the result of the negative activities of the Patriarchy and churches and the Armenian committees established, in and outside the country, organized, equipped and aimed, the Armenian society has been tried to be broken from the Turkish society slowly. Thus the bloody events have begun in most of the times which the Moslems were loosing and harmed. Thousands of Moslems, Armenians have lost their lives at the revolting movements which have begun in East Anatolia and which have been carried to even the capital city Istanbul. The continuous impact of the Westerners and insisting on the reforms on the Ottoman authorities are the main cause to encourage the rebellions to revolt against the Ottomans.