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Anxious City: The Fears and Apprehensions of Citizens and Tourists in Modern Urban Areas

Anxious City: The Fears and Apprehensions of Citizens and Tourists in Modern Urban Areas

Author(s): Bożena Kilian / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: anxiety; fear; city; globalisation; tourism

In today’s world numerous dangers seem to threaten human lives. Modern society is claimed to be fearful and anxious, hence it is exposed to perils that are neither comprehensive nor controllable. Both global and local threats, such as economic crises, unprecedented technological advancement, terrorism or climate change and the increasing instability in the job market, crime or otherness influence everyday existence of modern man, who becomes increasingly apprehensive. The persistent atmosphere of fear is additionally nourished and sustained by the ubiquitous message presented by the media, which selectively focus on the negative broadcast. Modern cities, which are now perceived as a location where otherness is to be rather feared than praised and cultivated, are believed to be places which encapsulate almost all contemporary fears. First and foremost, they are scenes where the fear of crime takes its toll. Not only does it shape the structure of the city, as it leads to the establishment of the so-called gated communities, occupying closed and guarded estates, but primarily the relationships among different formal and informal social groups existing within the city. Feared are those of different race, religion, nationality, social status, gender, and even age. Being other, feared are also those coming to cities as tourists. In the face of the fact that city tourism is on the increase one could suspect that this is entirely safe and entertaining pastime; however, the analysis of urban tourism leaves no doubt that it also brings certain dose of fear and anxiety. The article aims at presenting various fears and anxieties experienced within urban area by both tourists and citizens.

More Politics than Business

More Politics than Business

Author(s): Dimitrije Boarov / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The paper deals with economic relations between Serbia and Russia in the early 21st century in the context of the “European path“ designated by Serbian politics and traditional “political friendship“ between Serbian and Russian peoples on the Slavic and Orthodox basis. The main hypothesis is that, in essence, economic relations between Russia and Serbia are of marginal significance not only for the Russian Federation, but also for the Republic of Serbia, and that they provide almost no basis for the expansion of cooperation between the two countries or, more precisely, do not offer any realistic perspective in which Serbia’s economic cooperation with Russia would be an alternative to its inclusion in the European Union.

Bulgarian School Hygiene at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Cultural Images, Professional Roles and Practices

Bulgarian School Hygiene at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Cultural Images, Professional Roles and Practices

Author(s): Gergana Mircheva / Language(s): English

This text examines the institutionalisation of norms for proper physical and mental status of Bulgarian school youth at the beginning of the 20th century. The analysis focuses on two interrelated issues: how certain cultural images of (un)fit body and (ab)normal mind reasoned the introduction of professional (medico-pedagogical) roles in the Bulgarian secondary schools, and how such images prescribed “health selection” in the production of individual and collective identities: “student” – “(school) youth” – “people”/“nation”/ race”).

American-Bulgarian Economic Cooperation Forum: Expanding Investment and Trade - How Can Institutions Help?

American-Bulgarian Economic Cooperation Forum: Expanding Investment and Trade - How Can Institutions Help?

Author(s): Stephan Kyutchukov,Daniela Bobeva,Svilen Parvulov,Stephan Hadjitodorov,Valeri Kostov / Language(s): English

The collection of papers presents recommendations to be considered by governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve their coordination and effectiveness in trade and investment promotion activities. The papers were presented at a forum, that brought together approximately 30 representatives of American and Bulgarian institutions involved in promoting bilateral trade and investment. It was organized at the initiative of the Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States — Mrs Snezhana Botousharova - with support from the Open Society Fund. The objective was two-fold: - to identify those factors that currently constrain American investment in Bulgaria and hinder trade expansion; and, - to define a framework of actions to be undertaken by the Bulgarian and American institutions to promote expanded bilateral economic cooperation.

THE PENITENTIARY AT SREMSKA MITROVICA

THE PENITENTIARY AT SREMSKA MITROVICA

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Serbia; prison; Sremska Mitrovica; KPZ Sremska Mitrovica; quality of life; security; lawfulness; social resettlement; outside world contact; personnel;

The conditions of life and work of the entire personnel should be improved by raising their pay and providing other incentives for their committed, conscientious and lawful work; Personnel should be stimulated at all times to add to their knowledge and to improve their vocational skills by attending vocational development, training and education courses and seminars and by offering examples of positive management in order to encourage humane treatment and enhance efficiency and commitment; Personnel should be educated or specialists engaged to deal with special categories of prisoners; The acute problem created by the absence of the social worker should be solved by engaging a part-time or volunteer worker or in any other appropriate and feasible manner; Workshops and programmes should be designed to educate personnel in the skills of constructive conflict-solution; In selecting personnel, due account should be taken of the applicant’s social and emotional competence.

THE PENITENTIARY AT SOMBOR

THE PENITENTIARY AT SOMBOR

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Serbia; prison; Sombor; KPZ; quality of life; security; lawfulness; social resettlement; outside world contact; personnel;

The personnel shall be permanently encouraged to upgrade their knowledge and professional capacity through examples of positive management and by attending courses of inservice training, additional training, counselling, etc; The personnel should be trained to deal with special categories of prisoners or specialists should be engaged for the purpose; On selection and recruitment of the staff their personal suitability for the job should be primarily taken into account; At least one women officer should be employed full-time in the security service; More people should be employed full-time in the reformative training service with a view to enabling the existing staff to fully dedicate themselves to the prisoners' reformative training; admission procedures, therefore, should be entrusted to newly admitted professionals who would consult the existing staff whenever necessary; If appropriate to the prison's needs, more people should be engaged full-time in the training and employment service so as to avoid frequent overtime and thus improve relationship among the prison staff; Conditions of life and work of the prison personnel should be improved by providing more adequate salaries and employment benefits in view of the exacting nature of the work.

THE REFORMATORY AT KRUŠEVAC

THE REFORMATORY AT KRUŠEVAC

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Serbia; prison; Kruševac; VPD; reformatory; minors; quality of life; security; lawfulness; social resettlement; outside world contact; personnel;

The personnel should be permanently encouraged to improve their knowledge and professional capacity by attending in-service courses, as well as special training and seminars that would help them to fulfil their duties and obligations in a human, committed, professional, fair and efficient manner; Full-time engagement of professionals qualified to deal with special categories of juveniles such as mentally disadvantaged juvenile or drug users should be considered; More specialists in adolescent problematic (psychologists, educators, social workers, jurists, etc.) should be employed on permanent basis; In the process of personnel's selection and recruitment, particular attention should be paid to candidates' personal and emotional suitability for the job; The personnel's everyday living should be improved through increased salaries and other benefits.

UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 - BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA. The Ties that Bind - Social Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 - BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA. The Ties that Bind - Social Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Nicola Nixon,Stephanie Roels,Lucia Desigis,Miroslav Divčić,Hans Fridberg,Marija Ignjatović,Karla Koutkova / Language(s): English

Despite the progress that has been made since the end of the 1992-1995 conflict in BiH, the country’s social fabric is still weakened and frayed. Levels of social trust are very low. In contrast to what one might assume – that levels of trust and social cohesion would be increasing, as the conflict recedes into the past – evidence suggests that over the past few years trust levels have been worsening. This low social trust manifests itself as a considerable development challenge in BiH, in particular in light of the country’s aspirations to join the European Union in the near future. // Social trust is something that binds societies together and helps them function. It makes people’s interactions with one another, and with institutions and service providers, smoother and more efficient. A lack of trust, in contrast, has the tendency to make those processes more laborious and fractious. Together with civic participation and norms of reciprocity, trust is a crucial component of social capital. // They are the features of society that facilitate cooperation between people that results in mutual benefit. The concept of social capital arises, therefore, from the assumption that relationships matter: that understanding the different constellations of social networks and the functioning of everyday social ties is essential to interpreting – and ultimately intervening to change – broader social processes. // The report finds that BiH’s social fabric is characterised by fragmentation and segmentation rather than cohesion and solidarity. BiH has a web of localised strong ties, based on strong family relations. Such strong ties do have their advantages. For example, they can provide support in times of need. To that extent, it is clear that in their immediate networks people care and look out for each other to a great extent in BiH. // Those with higher education have more diverse networks, highlighting the importance of strengthening the education system in BiH and improving retention levels. Yet, for the benefit of broader society, a lot more needs to be done to build broader, more integrative and wider-spanning ties, incorporating members of other communities, ethnicities, social classes and both genders.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Author(s): Vilmos Voigt / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

V4 Trade and FDI Observer

V4 Trade and FDI Observer

Author(s): Radomír Špok,Erich Kříž,Katalin Antaloczy,Magdolna Sass,Patryk Toporowski,Karol Frank / Language(s): English

Keywords: economy; trade; Visegrad Group

The Polish Institute of International Affairs recommends you the report: V4 Trade and FDI Observer prepared under the project: V4 Trade and FDI Observer, financed by the International Visegrad Fund. PISM was represented in this project by Patryk Toporowski, PISM analyst, who was responsible in substance for a section on Poland. The report is the result of work of the small team of experts from the Visegrad Group countries: the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Editors of the whole document are Tamás Szemler (ICEG European Centre) and Andrea Éltető (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The aim of the quarterly is the analysis of current trade and investments of the Visegrad Group countries, including the wider economic context and a longer time horizon.

The Supernatural and Claims of Scientificity in Russian Popular Culture, 1875-1914

The Supernatural and Claims of Scientificity in Russian Popular Culture, 1875-1914

Author(s): Julia Mannherz / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Russia; scientificity; occultism; supernatural; popular culture;

Enthusiasm for science was widespread in the last decades of imperial Russia. So was the fascination with occultism, spirits of the departed and the supernatural in general. It was therefore not surprising that the sciences and the occult should meet in contested fields of scientific investigation and mystic experience.

Biographical Epiphanies in the Context of Laying the Foundations of the Qualitative Thought Collective

Biographical Epiphanies in the Context of Laying the Foundations of the Qualitative Thought Collective

Author(s): Marcin Kafar / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: biographical epiphanies;context of laying;foundations of the qualitative thought collective

Structural changes of the Slovak economy

Structural changes of the Slovak economy

Author(s): Júlia Ďurčová,Dominika Oravcov / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: global value chains; export; input-output analysis; multipliers; value added;

Due to international fragmentation of production in world economy we observe changes in international competitiveness. Intention of countries to participate in new international division of labor based on participation of country in the global value chains reveals lot of opened questions. Understanding effects of exports for domestic production as well as value added creation and employment can provide important development policy insights. Since the differences between gross exports and value added in exports are already considerable and growing, assessing the competitiveness of economies through traditional indicators based on gross export statistics is becoming increasingly less relevant. In order to examine structural and intra-industrial linkages we implement input-output analysis that is based on the use of input-output tables that provide crucial information on value added within individual segments. The results indicate that Slovak industries are strongly linking to foreign demand. Almost all value added of top Slovak exporting sectors is generated by foreign demand. This confirms the high risk of vulnerability to external shocks. The results prove that production multiplier over analysed period decreases, the most in exporting sectors. As expected, the exporting sectors generated lower product multiplication effect for Slovak economy. The sectors with dominant services share multiply more value added by unit of production compared to manufacturing exporting sectors. Moreover, the multiplier of value added for example for construction sector rises. However, the exporting sectors still lagged and their effect on domestic value added is even weakening.

The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

The Bildungsroman and Building a Hybrid Identity in the Postcolonial Context: Migration as Formative Experience in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Author(s): Petru Golban,Derya Benli / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: migration; Bildungsroman; hybrid identity; postcolonial context; Monica Ali; Brick Lane;

Focusing on Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane, and with regard to its major protagonists Nazneen, Chanu, and Karim, the present study reveals the ways in which the author creates characters who face difficulties and are subjected to crises caused by their alienation from their native country, culture and identity, which would lead in turn to their cultural ambiguity, transformation into hybrid individuals, and eventually to experiences of identity crisis in an environment represented by the Bangladeshi community in east London. Monica Ali reveals that identity is under threat within the East End immigrant community; in this respect, she appears to materialize in her fictional discourse various concepts and concerns – such as identity, identity crisis, identity formation, individual subject, developing consciousness, hybridity, ambiguity, mimicry, individual and society – just as Wordsworth would reify in his literary practice his own principles of poetic composition, or as Lawrence would express in his novels the Freudian principles.

Carpenters from Łachwa and Czuczewice

STOLARZE ŁACHEWSCY I CZUCZEWICCY

Author(s): Stanisław Stefan Mieleszkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Łachwa, a small town belonging to Nesvizh Radziwiłł family, and then toSayn-Wittgenstein family (from 1828), located upon the Śmierć (Łachwa) River,near Dawidgródek and Kożangródek in Polesie, was the residence of manydifferent craftsmen, including carpenters. The preserved archival materials,though incomplete, make it possible to reproduce the personal composition ofthe workshop in the years 1742–1860, which makes this manufacture unique inPoland. In that period, approximately 86 people were referred to as carpenters.They were master craftsmen, journeymen and learners.

International Marketing

International Marketing

Author(s): Luminița Nicolescu,Mirela Diaconescu,Alina Irina Popescu,Elena Ecaterina Nicolae / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2019

Objectives: - To present the main theoretical elements that apply in a company’s international marketing in the present globalization conditions - To form and develop competencies related to conducting the main international marketing activities (how to analyse and how to select a foreign market, how to take marketing decisions for foreign markets, etc.)

Accelerated lignite exit in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece

Accelerated lignite exit in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece

Author(s): Martin Vladimirov,Todor Galev,Radostina Primova / Language(s): English

In light of the ambitious targets for long term decarbonisation set by the European Green Deal, a critical question for decision-makers is how to sustain a coal phase-out that is as swift as possible while also ensuring security of supply, affordable electricity, and a just transition in regions dependent on coal. The aim of this report is to support decision makers in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania to implement a timely phase-out of coal by analysing the impact on electricity systems as well as the local economy, and highlighting policy recommendations to deal with potential issues related to compensation, system security and local economic impacts.

EAP Think Bridge - № 2017-08 - From free trade zones to common economic space

EAP Think Bridge - № 2017-08 -From free trade zones to common economic space

Author(s): Richard Giragosian,Ahmad Alili,Arseniy Sivitsky,Lasha Tughushi,Daniela Gologan,Oleksii Krysenko,Yurii Vdovenko / Language(s): English

While the countries of the Eastern Partnership are not ready to act as a united region politically, there does not seem to be too many obstacles for launching a pragmatic economic cooperation or even a common economic space. Those countries already signed the Association agreement with the Euro¬pean Union should be in the avant-garde of such an integration. However, in reality Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are once again more concentrated on the bilateral track of relations with the EU. Furthermore, these countries have yet to enjoy the advantages of the Free Trade Area with Europe as of now. The prospects of the common economic space within the frames of the Eastern Partnership were examined by a Ukrainian expert Yurii Vdovenko. Meanwhile, the traditional political peace and quiet in the region was not a feature of this summer. July and August turned out to be unusually hot for all six countries. In Azerbaijan the first lady Mehriban Alieva is getting more political weight, this may mean that there is finally an opportunity for a major power change in the country. As for Armenia, a fight to become a prime-minister with new powers as a result of the soon-to-be political system transforma¬tion continues, however, no official statements have been made yet. The rest of the countries were concentrated on their foreign policy games. Belarus, while still experiencing Russian pressure, chooses to put its eggs in several baskets. Georgia hopes to get back on track of the USA interests after Mike Pence visiting the country. As for Moldova, it had to explain the changes made to the electoral system to the Western partners. While Ukraine hosted a number of the important visits and events, however, not resulting in any significant changes. These and other important developments in the region can be found in our analytical reviews. //// CONTENT: ARMENIA: A SUSPENSEFUL SUMMER // AZERBAIJAN: POLITICAL CHANGES TO COME? // BELARUS: BETWEEN “HELSINKI-2“ AND “ZAPAD-2017“ // FIERY SUMMER IN GEORGIA // MOLDOVA ON THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY // UKRAINE: UNUSUAL ACTIVITY INSTEAD OF SUMMER RECESS // ANALYTICA; FROM FREE TRADE ZONES TO COMMON ECONOMIC SPACE

ENSURE ACCESS TO GENERAL COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Civil Society and Private Sector Contribution to Achieving the National Targets of MDG 2 in the Republic of Moldova

ENSURE ACCESS TO GENERAL COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Civil Society and Private Sector Contribution to Achieving the National Targets of MDG 2 in the Republic of Moldova

Author(s): Anatol Gremalschi / Language(s): English

Keywords: education in Moldova;

The survey’s goal consists in making an analysis of the contribution of civil society organizations and of private sector to achieving the targets of MDG 2 in the Republic of Moldova, identification of the constraints faced by non-governmental organizations and private companies while conducting relevant for MDG 2 activities and making recommendations for improving and expanding the collaboration among public authorities, associative sector and private sector in terms of ensuring universal access to preschool and general compulsory education.

Poets who moved the air

Poets who moved the air

Author(s): Michał Burdziński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Stanisław Witkiewicz; Dušan Samuel Jurkovič; vernacular architecture; Zakopane style; Central European modernism

The essence of this comparative study is to look closer, and simultaneously, at the intellectual profiles and creative practices of two outstanding representatives of vernacular architecture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Polish and Czech-Slovak milieux, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Central Europe. The aesthetic being of Stanisław Witkiewicz and Dušan Samuel Jurkovič–in a way, men as institutions of their times–eventually gained the rank of all-cultural phenomena and inscribed themselves with nation-forming notes in the histories of their communities. The article deals with what mechanisms governed them and what processes they themselves managed, and moreover–what effects they evoked in both cases. It turns out, among other things, that the stagnant, invariably repeated statements about the similarities of the two casuses largely miss their internal distinctions. Ultimately, it goes to the point that reveals the great or unfavorable vicissitudes of people’s lives as well as their efforts and achievements.