"... за тебе сякаш съм невидим": бездомничеството и (не)случващите се социални взаимодействия

Author(s): Dimitar Panchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2019

The following article’s aim is to problematize the way in which the encounters (or rather the lack of interaction in such encounters) in urban spaces takes places between representatives of the so-called ‘problematic groups’, such as the homeless, on one hand, and the representatives of the so-called ‘normal’majority, on the other hand. By using the perspective of symbolic interactionism (Blumer 1969) and the theory of molecular performatives (Petkov 2001) as a starting point, the main focus of the article will be on the strategies by the means of which members of the majority exclude those from perceived problematic groups from situations of social interaction. In this way, the socially ascribed stigma of the latter is upheld, but this also serves as an affirmation of their unequal position, hence the main point will be not to show the frequency of these encounters, i.e. how often do they take place, but rather, through the use of detailed descriptions, to show that they do take place.

"GERMAN WORLD" OR THE ORIGINAL CULTURE: SWISS-GERMAN CULTURAL RELATIONS IN 1930-1940

Author(s): Dmytro Vedenieiev,Victoriya Pechyborshch / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

The objectives are to analyze the development of the relations in the sphere of the culture between Switzerland and Germany in the 1930-40’s and to determine the reasons for termination of the cultural dialogue between the countries after the arrival of national socialists in German and conditions of its recovery after the Second World War. The historical-genetic and comparative methods were chosen for the study. With the use of the historical-genetic method, the evolution of the German-Swiss cultural relations in the first half of the XX c. was explored. Appeal to the comparative method has enabled to draw the conclusions about the features of the bilateral cultural relations between Switzerland and Germany in the period between the two world wars, during the war of 1939 – 1945 and post-war years. Scientific novelty of the proposed article is that for the first time in Ukrainian historiography an attempt to explore the development of the cultural relations between Switzerland and Germany in 1930 – 40's was made. Conclusions. The main reasons of the Swiss efforts to withdraw from the involvement in the German cultural world in the late 1930's – 40's were memories of the First World War, when the conflict between the French and German communities had put in jeopardy the peace within the Swiss society, and a desire not to create the pretext for the global public accusations against Switzerland of its involvement in the crimes of the national socialists, which could raise doubts about the issue of Swiss neutrality. The background for the restoration of the cultural dialogue between the countries was the desire of Swiss to support the formation of a new democratic regime in the neighboring country, which was realized through the activities of both individual private artistic associations and institutions, and the work of the Swiss diplomacy, which through the analysis of the cultural situation of the particular German states was searching for the potential areas and ways of cooperation.

"Méwilo" i "Freedom" Muriel Tramis jako pierwsze gry postkolonialne

Author(s): Filip Jankowski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the chapter entitled “Muriel Tramis’ »Méwilo« and »Freedom« as the First Postcolonial Games, Filip Jankowski examines two digital games accomplished by Muriel Tramis, a game designer from Martinique. The games picture the situation of African-Caribbean slaves and their descendants in a pioneering manner in terms of the medium used. “Méwilo” (1987) and “Fredom” (1988) were created under the influence of the philosophical thought in Martinique, shaped by the pioneers of postcolonialism such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, as well as their critics impersonated by Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau. Both games differ in terms of applied convention. “Méwilo”, which is a thorough documentary game, focuses on questioning the following inhabitants of the city of Saint-Pierre, the day before the devastating eruption of the Montagne Pelée volcano in 1902. The opposition between the black inhabitants of Martinique and their metropolitan torturers, although strongly outlined, is subject to problematization in both games. Among the main characters of the Tramis' works are black anti-heroes who imitate the French in their ambivalent attitude to the African-Caribbean community. Hence, they reflect the phenomenon of mimicry described by Homi Bhabha. All things considered, Jankowski argues both games to feature apparent postcolonial themes.

"Nowe" perspektywy dla Europy

Author(s): Jürgen Habermas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 764/2019

"Žena od Batha i njena priča"

Author(s): Mary S. Bache / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 28/2018

"Žena od Batha" predstavlja osobe podređene autoritetu, autoritetu religijskih tekstova i njihovih mizoginističkih kodova. Iako "Žena od Batha" ostvaruje materijalnu dobit, moglo bi se ustvrditi da ne zadobija autoritet sve dok ne dobije priliku javno se izraziti tokom hodočašća, ne riskirajući odmazdu. Kad zauzme pozornicu, drugi hodočasnici postaju njena publika, uzimajući u obzir njen glas, ono šta ona priča, ali kako komentira njhove priče. "Priča Žene od Batha", kao i većina ostalih, sastoji se iz dva dijela, proslova i same priče. Takva struktura odražava Chaucerovu ideju simetrije kakvu je već pokazao u Troilu i Kresidi. U Proslovu "Žena od Batha" samu sebe portretira kao žrtvu patrijarhalnog svijeta, a kako se pokušava nametnuti prozivaju je ‘pokvarenom ženom’. Međutim, u "Priči" ona predstavlja situaciju u kojoj autoritet preuzima žena, a glas razuma zamijeni arogantnu nametljivost. Pomoću takvoga kontrasta, možemo shvatiti vrijednosti i kodove vladajućeg ponašanja u datom društvu. [...]

"ЛЕГАЛИЗОВАНИ" ОБЛИЦИ КОРУПЦИЈЕ У СРБИЈИ – АНОМИЧНА СТАЊА ДРУШТВЕНЕ ЕНТРОПИЈЕ

Author(s): Vladan P. Stanković,Ilija Zindović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2012

The subject of this research will be phenomena of "legalized" form of corruption. The name we gave to all those forms of social behavior that anomical escape incrimination, are not defined precisely by laws, a cause of increasing social anomie, and ultimately lead to destruction, entropy and disintegration of society. The study will include a spatial framework of the Republic of Serbia, during the time interval since 2000. onwards, with a look in the 90's of the last century, and follows a period of transition from socialism, and post-socialism, to this wild and unrestrained form of capitalism. Methods that are used in the study were: a sociological method (observation, comparative method), Legal (dogmatic-normative, method of the target interpretation) and the logical method of generalization and concretization.

"Лицето на българщината": Националният събор за народно творчество в Копривщица и неговите медийни отражения

Author(s): Lozanka Peycheva,Lozanka Peycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 12/2022

The article examines the National festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa – a culmination of the assembly-singing movement – by looking for sustainable media representations of the folklore festivals, which has already been held for twelve editions (between 1965 and 2022). The mechanisms for organization and media coverage are sought in the chronological lines before and after 1989. The focus is on the discourses and presentation of the festival as a manifestation of collective and national identity, “the face of Bulgarianism”

"Пиша, когато има с кого"

Асистираното самонаследяване на писателя-маргиналист

Author(s): Todor Petkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

I will present the final stage of my study on socioanalytic conversations that I have had with a Bulgarian marginalist writer as a man who turns to creating literature in a situation when he ‘has no one to turn to’. There are the problems of reliability of the obtained data (especially those in the direct autobiographical narrative): firstly as a possible product of the author’s imagination and hence the need for developing methods of literary socioanalysis, secondly because of the effects of personal closeness between the conversers, and thirdly in relation to the endogenous look at the case that is provided by this very closeness. IN the course of socioanalytic conversations and later in the process of analyzing the data from them, the need came up of complementing the initial hypothesis that ‘he writes when he has no one to turn to’, The presentation of his smaller texts before a reading and understanding audience has its doubtless therapeutic role but the work of creating and publishing larger works is more important for overcoming his fractal identity. It came out that this work goes along not only with the underlying presumption ‘he writes when there is someone for who to do it’ (strictly speaking, it is valid also for his smaller texts) but mostly ‘he writes when there is with who to do it’. His successful self-inheritance took place with this last principle, and hence one can make direct conclusions about future therapeutic techniques that go beyond this particular case.

"Пространства на идентичност - рефлексии върху българската философска култура"

Author(s): Atanas Stamatov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 9/2019

"Просяк бях, направо просяк"

Бездомничеството и "убягващата ни социална уязвимост"

Author(s): Dimitar Panchev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This article is based on the ‘Roma, homelessness, inequality’ research study, which is a part of the “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and the work with the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol. The article focuses on a craftsman from the neighborhood of ‘Stolipinovo’ and his life history as a homeless man in France, where he decides to leave shortly after suffering a work-related accident. The choice of a research case is dictated, on one hand, by the experience of the craftsman as a homeless person and, on the other, by his distinctive position as ‘The Carpenter of Stolipinovo’, which he occupies in the social space of the neighborhood. Secondly, this choice is dictated by the singularity and exclusivity of this experience, because, although homeless, this experience is undoubtedly marked by the presence of a place that he nevertheless inhabits, to which he returns several times, and which is maintained and renovated over time by the locals with whom he shares a common physical space. In this sense, the unprivileged position of the homeless, i.e. the lack of any opportunity to invest in the future, even the ability to plan in the short term, is more like a landmark vector of a biographical trajectory that serves as a starting point and, at the same time this moment of fractured experience, as the data shows, always is thought about relationally, because even in the position of a homeless person, at least according to the constructed narrative, he loses neither his distinctiveness nor his biographical illusio, contrary to what is expected, even though homelessness is thought of as one of the extreme forms of social vulnerability and social inequality. Hence the definition of his experience as a form of ‘elusive social vulnerability".

"Ти не знаеш какво е мъчение..."

Социоаналитични аспекти на уязвимостта при социалистическия човек

Author(s): Rositsa Lubenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

Аs starting point of this text served me the hypothesis that social suffering in the so-called socialist man exist which I reached as a conclusion through my work in the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and by the use of the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol . Based on the empirical data gathered during the two-year project, I will try to highlight some of the socioanalytical aspects of the specific vulnerability of the socialist man and to prove that social suffering is a consequence of the habitualisation of the long-lasting state of vulnerability posed by the characteristic socialist governmental measures. The suffering of the people who lived under socialism is a result of the restricted access to certain positions and identities and the inability to invest in them, but also because of their retrospective self-experience as a victim of the political environment and governmental measures. This vulnerability remains symptomatically relevant due to the public's failure to recognize and misunderstand the significance and severity of the experience of the "ordinary" socialist man.

"Тридесет и една...": Извеждане на индикатори на "малкото страдание" през казуса на нереализирания висшист

Author(s): Diana Apostolova / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

This article presents my work on exploring the specific figure of "ordinary" social suffering introduced as a problem by Pierre Bourdieu, but in the context of post-Bourdieu socioanalytical theory, focusing your attention on the case of the "unrealized university graduate" and more specifically on the case of a young woman who lost her biographical illusio, on which I was working in the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability” research project and using the methodology, integrated in the project of socioanalytical protocol. In the course of this article I will discuss the results of my research on the fragility of the human being-project and the specific form of suffering that its loss causes. Applying the micro-perspective of socioanalysis to A.'s specific case as an “unrealized university graduate”, I will attempt to address the following important problem: through A.'s existential knowledge of the suffering she experiences as an individual who has to coerce her will to objectivity and continue to exist “in spite of herself”, as well as by observing her unique situation of suffering and vulnerability, I will attempt to differentiate certain" diagnostic criteria "through which little suffering is represented in her story, and to determine whether she applies and what strategies for overcoming her vulnerability and suffering.

"Тук вече никой не живее"

Социоаналитични измерения на уязвимостта при "обезселеното село"

Author(s): Desislav Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The article presents the results of the socioanalytical work conducted on “The Desolated village” – a case study developed as part of the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability”. The central methodological frame relies on the socioanalytical protocol attached as an Appendix to the text. The first part of the paper offers a brief description of the case and its overall context. The second one thematizes the problem of the psychopathologies of everyday life. The focus of this section falls on the practicological data, which, thought the use of non-classical intentional analysis, is extracted from the functioning of the quantifier “no one” found in the respondents’ narratives. Then, using the gathered socioanalytical insights, a detailed outline of the respondents’ experience is offered. The last section deals with the loss and regaining of the biographical illusio. Through the application of a multimodal analysis the strategies for overcoming the vulnerability and self-inheritance are examined.

"Що на мене...?" - уязвимост при болния като социоаналитичен проблем

Author(s): Denica Nencheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Publication Year: 0

The aim of this text is to present the results from the socioanalytical work conducted as part of the project “'I have no one to turn to!’ - socioanalytical dimensions of vulnerability”. The case study “The ill persons’ suffering” focuses on the life of a woman with breast cancer. The presented empirical fragments will be analyzed thought the analytical and methodological frame set out by the Project of socioanalytical protocol. The first part of the article outlines the context of the study. The following segment will offer some of the characteristic forms of social vulnerability in the respondent’s experience. The focus will be the on the peculiar existential duality in which on one had the illness becomes a habitualized part of everyday life, while on the other it still manages to enter-again and disrupt it anew. The next section will look at the way in which the respondent presents and makes sense of her experience in narrative form. The conclusion will then offer an explication of some of the strategies for self-inheritance and overcoming of the vulnerability.

(De)kanonizujące wymiary powiastki filozoficznej. Casus Jerzego Szaniawskiego

Author(s): Katarzyna Starachowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

The article is an attempt of describing the relation of a philosophical tale as a genre to the canon. It is characterized as (de)canonization: on the one hand the story fights with the existing canon by means of satire, on the other – by such negative references and ironically using the satire against itself – builds it. Such ambivalence, hidden in the structure of realizing the genre – which was shown on the example of stories by Jerzy Szaniawski – is inscribed into the author’s attitude – hermeneutic openness and supporting soft truths.

(META)ETYKA A FILOZOFIA PRAWA

Author(s): Monika Zalewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 26/2014

In this paper I have focused on methodological problems of ethics and legal philosophy. My main goal was to determine relation between meta-ethics and legal philosophy. In the first part I tried to describe historical context, how jurisprudence become independent form ethics. Then in second part I examined relations between main disciplines of ethics and legal philosophy pointing out that although there are some similarities, there is even more differences. Finally in the third part I explored relation between meta-ethics and legal philosophy. My conclusion was that the problems of meta-ethics also exists in legal philosophy but the level of significance is lower. The reason for it lays in the specific character of legal norms which existence depends on the will of competent authority in contrast to moral norms which need other, meta-ethical justification.

(Ne)moć reči

Author(s): Slaviša Orlović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3-4/2016

Počev od 2009. godine u Ivanjici se svake godine krajem avgusta održava Nušićijada. Reč je o kolaž festivalu satkanom od muzičkih koncerata, pozorišnih predstava, sportskih događaja, performanasa, izložbi i filmskih projekcija, začinjen ceremonijama i paradom kostimiranih građana kao svojim zaštitnim znakom. Ona predstavlja spoj kulture i zabave, tradicionalnog i modernog, mladosti i iskustva, individualnog i kolektivnog. Poznato je da je Branislav Nušić bio odličan besednik i da je napisao jedan od najboljih priručnika za retoriku na srpskom jeziku Retorika – nauku o besedništvu. Imajući to u vidu u okviru Nušićijade u Ivanjici počev od 2012. godine organizuje se Besedničko veče: „NUŠIĆ I REČ“. Ono se sastoji iz dva dela. U prvom delu ugledna ličnost iz javnog života po pozivu govori „Besedu o Nušiću“ na temu o Branislavu Nušiću kao besedniku i teoretičaru retorike. U drugom delu „U slavu reči“, nastupaju revijalno najuspešniji takmičari u besedništvu u Srbiji u tekućoj godini. U ovoj rubrici Hereticusa objavljujemo besede dr Slaviše Orlovića, redovnog profesora Fakulteta političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu i studenata Olivere Ševo, Stefana Dragićevića i Bojane Petrović, koje su održane 27. avgusta 2016. u Ivanjici. Na kraju je beseda dr Đorđa Sibinovića notarima Srbije. [...]

(Ne)održivost koncepta univerzalnog statusa građanstva: perspektiva multikulturalizma

Author(s): Ivana Vuleta / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 20/2018

This paper deals with the concept of the universal citizenship created in the context of the 18th century Civil Revolutions in america and France. Civil Revolutions defined the frameworks of a modern national state, with the universal status of citizenship as a main instrument of the unification of ci tizens. The problem that this paper puts into the center of research is the resistance of the universal status of citizenship to change, according to the changed circumstances of today. The concept of the universal citizenship firmly adheres to the content of the time in which it was created, and multi culturalism is one of the perspectives that make that content unsustainable. Multiculturalism requires that the concept of the universal citizenship in clude identities that are, as a rule, reserved for the sphere of privacy. The aim of this paper is to clarify what happens when we take some concepts, such as the universal citizenship status, for real, without thinking about the con sequences to which such interpretations can lead us. From the standpoint of the multicultural demands, modern national states very often behave like national hegemons just to save the universal citizenship by adopting ”omni potent powerless” syndrome in response to multicultural demands.

(Ne)premostivi jaz između bogatih i siromašnih, volja za životom i sloboda – Parazit i Joker

Author(s): Goran Gavrić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 04/160/2020

The consequences of chasm between the rich and the poor vary, depending on whether or not it is suffered by an individual or a larger group of people. Although in the case of various social groups it encompasses a larger area of effect, especially if it amasses as a protest, the consequences can be worse for an individual because the individual feels it stronger. In this paper, considered is the notion of existence in two aspects, socio-economic and philosophical, following examples from the films Parasite (2019) and Joker (2019). The focus is placed on the problem of poverty.

(Re)Viewing Maggie and Tess through the Lens of Standpoint Theory

Author(s): Sardar M. Anwaruddin / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Literary critics admire George Eliot’s touching portrayal of Maggie Tulliver in The Mill on the Floss. Many readers prefer to read Maggie’s character as a reworking of Eliot’s own life. In this article, I compare Maggie with another famous literary heroine, Tess Durbeyfield of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Tess is a ‘low-born’ country girl whose suffering begins as soon as her family discovers that they have noble connections. Both Maggie and Tess go through hardship and humiliation due to their sense of responsibility and commitment to do the best for their families. Looking at these two characters through the lens of feminist standpoint theory, I argue that Maggie and Tess’ social locations, imposed gender-roles, and families’ expectations are among the primary causes of their tragedy. As members of the oppressed (gender) group, their epistemologies to understand the reality and to make sense of their social relationships contradict with those of the dominant group—masculine.