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Hegemony – Counter Hegemony: A Gramscian Analysis of Israeli Settlement Activity

Author(s): Tuğçe Ersoy / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The settlements, a fact on the ground by today, have had considerable effects both on Palestinian life and on the peace process. Notably, in the quality of irreversible entities, they have emerged as obstacles before a two-state solution. This article is an attempt to analyze the settlement activity in the occupied territories through the Gramscian concept of hegemony. On the first hand, the study will apply the concept of hegemony to the Israeli settlement policy by demonstrating the changing political climate within the country and the ideological attitudes towards the occupied territories. By doing so, the study will seek to reveal how Israel’s settlement activity has become hegemonic. It will also discuss whether Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians in the occupied territories, which culminated in the First Intifada in 1987, have created a counter-hegemonic alternative in a Gramscian sense.

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Review of “Ten Myths about Israel” by Ilan Pappé

Author(s): Hazal Muslu El Berni / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The review of: Ilan Pappé, “Ten Myths about Israel” (London: Verso Press, 2017). ISBN-13: 978-1786630193, pp. 192. [Turkish Translation: Ilan Pappé, İsrail Hakkında On Mit (Ankara: Nika Yayınevi, 2018). ISBN- 13: 9786059386258, pp. 224.]

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Kamu Yönetiminde Şeffaflık Dönüşümü

Author(s): Ramazan Şengül / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 5/2018

In many countries, privacy in public administration has begun to be seen as one of the major problem areas since the 1980s.In a period when the individual and the society are in the forefront with the information society,the public administrations which are built on the culture of privacy and have a problematic appearance in terms of efficiency and democratic control, demands for transition in the direction of transparency are now expressed more strongly. Transparency, which is the basic component of good governance, has become a quality indicator of the public administration of a country. Transparency-based management practices enhance citizens' confidence in the public policy and state, and at the same time have the power to strengthen public accountability. Transparency, as a result of the positive outcomes that it possesses, is a priority target of transforming public administrations.In this context,our study examines the transition of transparency in public administration.First, the process of transition from privacy to transparency in public administration is considered. In this process, the right to information, which is the building block of transparent administration, has been examined separately and its role in the transparency process has been clarified.Later, the effects of the transparency policies on the public administration were focused. By analyzing the transparency limits and the changes that transparency laws and practices have brought about in public institutions,the results of transparency policies are revealed.

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Osmanli Devleti’nde Devşirme Sistemi

Author(s): Abdullah Demir / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2017

In the pre-Ottoman Turkish and Islamic states, slave people were used in state service. The Abbasids, the Seljuks and the Anatolian Seljuks, the slaves that were seized during the wars were Muslimized and, after a good education, were employed in various state services, especially military service. The Ottomans continued this tradition from the previous Islamic states.

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Kultura u aktuelnim politikama Europske unije

Author(s): Edin Veladžić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1/2018

The current cultural policy of the European Union is based on several key documents, and one of the most important is the European agenda for culture in the globalized world. That strategic document represents a turning point of the Union's intensified engagement in the field of culture. With three interrelated sets of goals, the Agenda has pursued a strategic direction of action in this area and the further development of EU cultural policies. The first set of objectives relates to the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, the second to the promotion of culture as a catalyst for creativity within the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Employment and the third to promoting culture as a vital element in the international relations of the Union. The culture has also occupied an important place in the EU enlargement policies, and an important dimension of current Union policies is cultural rights. In the EU institutions of culture are increasingly seen as an instrument in the fight against poverty. In its new approaches, the Union places a special focus on access to culture and participation in cultural events. All previous studies have shown that the area of culture shows an impressive growth potential. And the latest research done for the Union's needs has confirmed a significant share of culture in the EU economy. According to these analyzes, the share of cultural and creative industries in the overall GDP of the Union is 4.5%, while the percentage of employees in that sector reaches 3.5% at Union level. One of the relatively recent developments in EU policies is the establishment of macro regions. So far, three strategies have been adopted for the Danube, Baltic and Adriatic-Ionian regions, and culture has found a place in each of them. It is evident that today we see the European Union‟s cultural policy in different areas, not necessarily in the field of culture and heritage. In this respect, it is worthwhile to set out rules related to tax policy, regulation of intellectual property, copyright and related rights, the movement of cultural goods and regulations on the protection of competition.

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Съдебна власт или конспирация? Възникването на гражданина-следовател в контекста на центрираната около правова държава и борба с корупцията политика

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Съдебна власт или конспирация? Възникването на гражданина-следовател в контекста на центрираната около правова държава и борба с корупцията политика

Author(s): Lea Vajsova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 48/2017

The thesis of the current article is that it is diffi cult to distinguish conspiracyin some of its manifestations from the logic of the judiciary. I will attempt to show that the difference between conspiracy and judiciary is a consequence of the positioning of that logic in locations, discursively gifted with the right to value something as truth. Undoubtedly, the judiciary power discourse is one of the leading political perspectives in Bulgaria since politics are centered around the rule of law and the fight against corruption. In order to unfold my mainthesis, I attempt a reconstruction of the anticorruption discourse based on the works of Ivan Krastev and Nadège Ragaru. I demonstrate its development on a global scale and its entry in post-communist Bulgaria. What I find particularly interesting in Ragaru’s observation is that the anticorruption fight relies on civil society and in that sense, constructs a “civil society”, which in the frame of the juridical discourse begins to duplicate the practices of the investigator.

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Zapomniana metafora AIDS

Author(s): Grzegorz Niziolek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

Taking Susan Sontag’s incomplete exploration of the cluster of AIDS-related metaphors as a point of departure, Niziołek juxtaposes the view of the AIDS crisis as a ‘plague’ with the metaphor of the Holocaust, which gay rights activists used as a tool to mobilize an active political stance in the fight against the epidemic. Niziołek examines the significance of this metaphor on the psychological, historical and political level.

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Introduction

Author(s): Olena Korolchuk,Marina Bilуnska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This issue of the magazine “Geography, Politics and Society” hides a wide range of topical problems related to the conducting of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Ukraine. The modern collection of scientific works of the Ukrainian researchers-scientists presents information about their researchers and studies of the other countries’ experience. In addition to this, they show the results of their own implementations and the received achievements in the development of new approaches to improve the socio-humanitarian sphere, which needs close attention of scientists, managers, citizens in the modern living conditions of the country. […]

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Social Protection of ATO Participants and their Families in Ukraine: An Analytical Review and Promising Measures

Author(s): Tetiana Kotenko,Yuliia Horemykina / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The current situation in Ukraine concerning the guarantee of social protection and providing social services for ATO participants by state and non-governmental organizations is analyzed. Legislative strengthening of social protection of ATO participants is revealed. The current state of the providing of social services for ATO participants and their family members, the effectiveness of the use of resources (financing) for 2014–2016 on the basis of a comparative analysis of the costs on social protection in the expenditures of the Consolidated Budget of Ukraine and presented as a share of GDP, in Ukraine and the European Union countries for 2011–2014, are evaluated. The problems in the field of social protection for ATO participants and and promising measures in this field such as the evaluation of the effectiveness of national and regional social programs for ATO participants and the evaluation of the public expenditures for the social protection of ATO participants and the evaluation of the quality of social services for ATO participants are grounded.

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Analysis of the State Governance Mechanism in the Sphere of Social Protection for Participants of the Antiterrorist Operation in the East of Ukraine

Author(s): Maryna Bilynska,Oleksii Kondratenko / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

This article contains a piece of scientific and theoretical analysis of social and legal relations in state governance in the sphere of social protection for participants of the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine. In considers specific elements of social protection for ATO participants and their family members as well as the structure of the state governance mechanism hereof. The paper also overviews and characterizes specific types of state governance mechanisms in the sphere of social protection for ATO participants. At the same time, the text demonstrates a scientific investigation into a comprehensive state governance mechanism in the sphere of social protection for participants of the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) in the east of Ukraine and their family members.

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Tracing the Form of Compassion: Homelessness in Leslie Scalapino’s “bum series.”

Author(s): Małgorzata Myk / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

The article examines American avant-garde poet Leslie Scalapino’s poem “bum series,” included in 1988 collection way. Devoted to the theme of homelessness, “bum series” problematizes a poetic gesture of forging an ethical response to suffering, focusing on scrutiny rather than representation. I offer a reading of the poem alongside François Laruelle’s non-standard philosophical reflection, presented in his 2015 General Theory of Victims, according to which the ethical role of the intellectual needs to be rethought beyond the impulse to speak for the other, or to represent the other’s suffering. I trace similarities and differences between Laruelle’s and Scalapino’s positions. Whereas Laruelle’s abstract critique re-emphasizes “overexposure” that turns suffering into an image used by the media-savvy intellectuals, Scalapino’s poetic writing moves towards a nuanced investigation of the ways in which our perception of suffering is formed. Scalapino’s sense of ethics entails recognition of one’s implication in mechanisms of representation, emphasizing one’s accountability for one’s actions as well as conceptualizations. I also identify a speculative trajectory that informs Scalapino’s neo-objectivist experimentation with the non-hierarchical form of writing.

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Service user involvement in social work and beyond. Exploring its origins and destinations

Author(s): Peter Beresford / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

This article offers a critical analysis of service user involvement in social work by exploring the modern history of its development. It does this by examining: a) the increasing pressures for more democratic politics and societies during the course of the twentieth century, making connections between efforts to widen suffrage and extend individual and collective rights; the development of representative and participatory democracy and, the emergence of new social movements, including those based on identity and relations with welfare, and b) the impacts on and relations of these with social work. It charts four key stages in the development of user involvement in social work specifically and public policy more generally, exploring by reference to the UK as a case study and international experience, both obstacles in the way of inclusive and effective user involvement and ways in which it seems to be being advanced more effectively.

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Problemy społeczne a mobilizacja społeczna. Inspiracje dla pracy socjalnej w świetle teorii ruchów społecznych

Author(s): Grzegorz Foryś,Krzysztof Gorlach / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

The authors try to answer the basic question concerning the issue of usefulness of social movements in the area of social work as an academic discipline. Theories of social movements have used two types of theoretical achievements. On the one hand we have in mind three perspectives used in sociology to reconsider the nature of society, namely: the organism, the battle-field (in two forms: the conflict and the exchange) as well as the theater. Moreover, the fourth perspective might be added under the frame of social movements, namely: the protest. As a result, some mechanisms of generating of social problems might be perceived in this context. On the second hand, theories of social movements introduce the issues of various types of social mobilizations treated as mechanisms of social problems solutions. The structure of article has been based on some key concepts, such as: society, social change, social problem, social movement and social mobilization. Such a conceptual and theoretical perspective has had a major task to enable various analyses in the area of social problems as well as social change and the role of social movements in this context. However, the main goal of the article has been mainly focused on the broadening of analytical frames that might be useful in the description and explanation of social problems without providing interested researchers in exact tools to analyze particular methods and ways of action in the area of social work.

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Analiza Czarnych Protestów jako przestrzeń dla pracy socjalnej. Masowa mobilizacja kobiet z perspektywy feministycznej pracy socjalnej

Author(s): Radosław Nawojski,Magdalena Pluta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2018

The aim of the article is to look at the social mobilization of women in the Black Protests, which have been going on in Poland since 2016, as a space where women’s problems were articulated. The analysis of movement from the perspective of feminist social work makes it possible to capture experiences that interweave individual problems and structural limitations on many levels of social life: citizenship, law, labour market or health.

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Bezpieczeństwo danych osobowych w cyberprzestrzeni – Big Data

Author(s): Agnieszka Stępień / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2.3/2018

Cyberspace has become another area of human activity. On the basis of international law, it has not been possible to work out a coherent approach how to provide safety. In addition, the development of cyberspace has led to increased activity of ordinary people in that area. This article presents the most important elements of personal data, methods of collecting them. Rising Big Data is without a doubt not only a valuable source but also a source of many risks.

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Revitalisation Committee – a Form of the Co-management of the Revitalisation Process on the Example of the City of Łódź

Author(s): Justyna Przywojska / Language(s): English Issue: 3.3/2018

The article deals with the current issue of the municipalities’ revitalisation implemented as an integrated and participatory process. Its primary aim is to present the organisation and the operating principles of the revitalisation committee which comprise a form of a participatory management of the revitalisation process. The empirical part of the article is based on the example of the Revitalisation Committee in Łódź. The paper can be expected to function as a source of valuable knowledge for both revitalisation theorists and practitioners. Until now, no research has been conducted concerning the activities in the field of revitalisation committees in Poland.

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Regional Senior Policy as a New Public Policy

Author(s): Bogusława Urbaniak / Language(s): English Issue: 3.3/2018

Senior policy comprises a new public policy included in the strategic documents and conducted at a regional level as the local governments’ response to the changes in the voivodships’ demographic structure. Its development should be associated with the regional development policy. The aim of the following article is to place the senior policy in regional strategies for 2020–2025 as well as to assess its importance in local governments’ strategic activities based on the three types of documents – voivodship development strategie, social policies and programmes related to the aging of the society. The article employs the critical analysis of the relevant documents. The thesis statement, that in the light of the ongoing demographic aging processes local authorities assign a prominent role to both senior policy and designing diverse activities in response to the emerging challenges, found confirmation in the vast majority of the examined cases.

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Can Local Community Be Smart and Inclusive? Governance and Innovations in Local Social Policy in Poland

Author(s): Justyna Przywojska,Iwona Wieczorek / Language(s): English Issue: 3.3/2018

The aim of the article is to explain and interpret social aspects of the concept of a smart city and also indicate methods and tools for creating intelligent community within local social policy. The article will also discuss the paradigm of public governance in local social policy which, as it can be claimed, is a boundary condition for social innovations. In the introductory part of the article we present a review of current concepts of local development, especially the concept of a smart city, we explain the meaning of the term of social innovations and we also briefly characterize the idea and meaning of the paradigm of public governance for local social policy. In the empirical part of the article we describe new global trends in intelligent development of local communities.

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Niektóre niedoceniane rodzaje zagrożeń bezpieczeństwa publicznego w Polsce –wyzwania dla procesów zarządzania

Author(s): Mirosław Kwieciński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8.2/2018

Firstly, the article contains an attempt to define the concept of public safety as necessary as well as the absence of its description in Polish legal literature. Furthermore, after a short characterisation of the social conflict, the author discusses the causes of Polish long-standing social conflicts, paying particular attention to its historical connotations. The author concentrates on the harmful practice that is present in the vast area of the dispute aspects, which is wishfulthinking (katatymicthinking). This is extremely important in shaping and maintaining the public safety. In the next part of the article, the author declares the implementation of the need for a holistic view on the totality of considered safety phenomena, which can be fulfilled only from the perspective of using the achievements of the management sciences. The author highlights the meaning of some kinds of the underestimated public safety threats in Poland, such as numerous symptoms of economic crisis in the USA. This may be threatening to the development of the heavily indebted economies in Europe, not only in Poland, alongside with the whole spectrum of unpleasant social consequences (unemployment due to shrinked export, decrease of the income for ZUS – Social Insurance Institution, increase of the expenses to cover the payment of pension plans for senior workers who are going to retire). The final part of the article discusses the future of the public safety from the perspective of foreseeeable actions of Polish government, in connection with the underestimated world’s recession threat.

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Ochrona przeciwpowodziowa Polski w latach 2007–2016

Author(s): Natalia Gołąb / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8.2/2018

The article refers to the issue of flood protection in Poland in 2007–2016 and the current level of flood risk in the country. The most important definitions (flood, flood protection) and the largest floods (1813, 1997, 2010) that affected Poland were quoted. The subject of flood protection programs was discussed (Program for the Oder 2006, The Upper Vistula River Basin Flood Protection Program, Odra-Vistula Flood Management Project), in terms of their implementation and financing methods. The location of retention reservoirs with a total capacity at maximum damming above 90 [hm3] has been indicated. The flood risk assessment was carried out (RCB method), which indicated that a high flood risk occurs in the voivodships of southern, western and northern Poland. A small risk occurs in voivodships in the area with a small number of watercourses (Świętokrzyskie, Lublin).

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