Justice on Trial

Das Recht vor Gericht

Author(s): Hans Richard Brittnacher / Language(s): German / Issue: 23/2014

Keywords: Justizroman; Ferdinand von Schirach; Kriegsverbrechen; Zweiter Weltkrieg; judiciary novel; Ferdinand von Schirach; war crimes; World War II

Im Justizroman als einem Subgenre des Kriminalromans wird der Konflikt von (gewalttätiger) Begierde und (normierender) Kontrolle im Ritual der juristischen Verhandlung anschaulich. Dabei bezieht der Justizroman seine versöhnliche Dimension aus der Zähmung der Gewalt durch das juristische Verfahren, also die vom Rechtswesen garantierte und vom Justizroman beschriebene Sühnung der Tat. Ferdinand von Schirach thematisiert in seinem Roman Beweiserhebung und juristische Verhandlung in einem brutalen Mordfall. Zwar führt die Verhandlung zum Sieg der Wahrheit, dokumentiert aber andererseits auch das Versagen der Justiz, die mit einer Gesetzesnovellierung eine 'kalte Amnestie' nationalsozialistischer Täter ermöglichte.

Döblins "November 1918"

Döblins "November 1918"

Author(s): Jörg Jungmayr / Language(s): German / Issue: 23/2014

Keywords: Alfred Döblin; November 1918; Konversion zum Katholicismus; Sozialismus; November 1918; conversion to Catholicism; socialism

Döblins Arbeit am letzten Band des Erzählwerks November 1918 fällt zeitlich mit der Entscheidung des Autors zusammen, zum Katholizismus zu konvertieren. Der Aufsatz geht der Frage nach, inwieweit das Bekenntnis zum Christentum in die Gestaltung der Figuren Rosa [Luxemburg], Karl [Liebknecht] und Lenin einfließt. Der Einsatz von Satan als einer kontrastiven Gegenfigur dient dazu, die Tiefenstrukturen von Karl, Rosa und Lenin freizulegen. Gerade in der Figurengestaltung der Rosa zeigt sich, dass religiöse Erfahrung kein Bruch mit sozialistischen Überzeugungen, sondern eine Erweiterung politischer Potenziale bedeutet.

An Author's Business Model

Das Geschäftsmodell eines Schriftstellers

Author(s): Alexander Ritter / Language(s): German / Issue: 23/2014

Keywords: Vormärz; Charles Sealsfield, literarische Soziologie; sociale Felder; amerikanischer Kapitalismus; literary sociology; social fields; American capitalism

Der konservativ-liberale Österreicher und Ordenssekretär Carolus Magnus Postl (1793–1864) emigriert 1823 aus Gründen der restriktiven Verhältnisse während der Restaurationszeit in die USA. Als Charles Sealsfield wird er mit seinen politischen Amerika-Romanen zu einem bekannten Schriftsteller des Vormärz. Die paradigmatische Qualität seines literargeschichtlichen Falles besteht darin, dass er zur Etablierung seiner neuen Identität als Amerikaner ein Geschäftsmodell entwickelt, mit dem er sich jene ›sozialen Felder‹ (Pierre Bourdieu) als südstaatlicher Grundbesitzer (›slaveholding plantation owner‹), Publizist (Buchautor/Journalist) und Aktionär erschließt, die ihm den Aufstieg in die Honoratiorengesellschaft von USA und Schweiz ermöglichen.

Goethe's "Torquatto Tasso" as a 'Vita-Nova'-Drama

Goethes "Torquato Tasso" als ›Vita-Nova-Drama‹

Author(s): Tihomir Engler / Language(s): German / Issue: 23/2014

Keywords: Goethe; "Torquatto Tasso"; 'Vita-Nova-Drama'; Künstlerdrama; pastorale Tradition; Identitätsbildung; artist's drama; pastoral tradition; identity formation

Ausgehend von dem Verständnis von Torquato Tasso als Künstlerdrama und der italienischen Pastorale-Tradition wird Goethes Drama in diesem Beitrag als ein ›Vita-Nova-Drama‹ gedeutet. Der Kernpunkt einer solchen Deutung liegt in Goethes Versuch, im Tasso auf der Folie des geistigen Erben der italienischen Pastorale lebenspropädeutische Hilfe an seine Zeitgenossen zu leisten. Diese erfolgt dadurch, dass er im Drama, durch den Rückgriff auf die historische Tasso-Gestalt bzw. den Renaissance-Stoff, die Möglichkeit der humanen Identitätsbildung innerhalb des eigenen zeitgenössischen historischen Horizonts thematisiert.

Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization behind the Burning Man Event

Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization behind the Burning Man Event

Author(s): Inna Čábelková / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2014

review of: ------------------------------ Katherine K. Chen (2009). Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization behind the Burning Man Event, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 240 pages

SOCIAL PROTECTION FLOORS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND A FAIR GLOBALIZATION

PISOS DE PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL PARA LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL Y UNA GLOBALIZACIÓN EQUITATIVA

Author(s): Martha Elisa Monsalve / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: financial garantee; social security; global standard

The necessity to find ways to financial and sustainable social security had being a real concern that demanded to give an instrument to be adopted for all Member States and make possible by taxes It would be evaluated the effects in the real extending of benefits as was de conception of this Recommendation 202/12

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND REPRESENTATION OF WORKERS IN BRAZIL: A CRITICAL SUMMARY OF BRAZILIAN MODEL

LIBERTAD SINDICAL Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE TRABAJADORES EN BRASIL: UNA SÍNTESIS CRÍTICA DEL MODELO BRASILEÑO

Author(s): Schwarz Rodrigo Garcia,Thome Candy Florencio / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: Brazil; collective bargaining; freedom of association; trade union; Brazilian trade unionism of State; worker representation.

This article aims to explain, critically, the trade union model and the worker representation model in Brazil. It shows that in Brazil the union organization and the worker representation model were historically generated from a corporatist conception, based in the model of union organization called “oneness”, which determines the existence of only one trade union organization representing a professional category on the same basis territorial (the trade union monopoly), and which aimed to transform the unions into organs of collaboration with the State, and that, despite the redemocratization of the country, the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 retained intact the structural basis of this model, a "trade unionism of State" which has three main areas: the official unions, the trade union monopoly and the compulsory trade union contribution. Therefore, the Brazilian union structure is often seen as an obstacle to dialogue and social consensus, with a significant deficit of representation, which limits the effective exercise of freedom of association and the potential of collective bargaining.

FRANCE, UNEMPLOYMENT TO ZERO, THE MIRACLE CURE: SIMPLIFICATION LABOUR LAW

FRANCE, VERS LE CHOMAGE ZERO, LE REMEDE MIRACLE: LA SIMPLIFICATION DU DROIT DU TRAVAIL

Author(s): Marc Richevaux / Language(s): French / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: necessary easing of the Labor Code - other legal standards - competitiveness of the companies - social regression

One often presents the Labor Code like a brake to the competitiveness of the companies, it is to forget that they are as subjected to good of other legal standards even more constraining as the Labor Code. Behind the semantic tip of the request for easing of the Labor Code like means of job creation, which is really searched by holding EC speech it is the social regression.

THE ALGERIAN INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND ITS IMPACT ON ECONOMIC GROWTH (1974 - 2011)

LE SECTEUR ASSURANTIEL ALGERIEN ET SON IMPACT SUR LA CROISSANCE ECONOMIQUE DE (1974 - 2011)

Author(s): Sadi Nour el Houda,Achouche Mohamed / Language(s): French / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: insurance, economic growth, causality, cointegration.

The objective of this paper is to determine the factors affecting the level of insurance using different models and econometric techniques on data for the period 1974-2011. The results of the MCO indicate that the real density depends positively on real GDP per capita, the liquidity ratio and the life expectancy and negatively on the level of study. The test of Granger causality does not indicate a causal relationship between the real density and real GDP per capita. The application of the VECM indicates the presence of long and short-term relationship between actual density and GDP per capita. premiums, in Algeria, and especially to analyze the causal relationship between the insurance sector and economic growth,

LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL LAW IN THE SYSTEM EDUCATION IN AFRICA: A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN TOGO

DROIT LINGUISTIQUE ET SOCIAL DANS LE SYSTÈME ÉDUCATIF EN AFRIQUE

Author(s): Agbefle Koffi Ganyo / Language(s): French / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: School bilingualism- instruction language- language policy- mother tongue languages- official language

The introduction of mother tongue languages in primary schools in Togo has been stopped since 25 years because the different projects concerning that policy has not grown. But we all know that the question of mother tongue languages in the schools is very important for any human being community. It means that any community cannot run away from that important question. This paper wants to show the very important place of mother tongue languages in school in Togo according to the point of view of the teachers in the primary schools.

FOR THE REDACTION OF A STATEMENT REGARDING THE ELDERLY´S RIGHTS.

POR UNA DECLARACIÓN DE DERECHOS DE LAS PERSONAS MAYORES

Author(s): Gomez Pilar Munuera,Bracho Carmen Alemán / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: rights, elderly, needs, citizens.

The need to set a statement relating to the elderly’s rights that could beconnected to a legislation with the aim to guarantee the protection of the former, ispresented herein. The existence of some omissions within the recognition of the elderly’srights has been confirmed despite the international and national laws adopted regardingtheir human rights based on the fact that they are people included under the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights of 1948. Elderly people have passed from being respected dueto their age and position, to a situation of social exclusion and a lack of legal protection. Thesetting of a bill of rights regarding the elderly shall be addressed institutionally in order toprevent the continuous acts infringed against elderly people causing damage to their dignityas human beings. Currently it is difficult for them to achieve that their participation shall berespected and they lack the conditions of equality that the rest of the citizens enjoy to claimand enforce their rights.

THE REGULATION OF TELEWORK IN SPAIN

LA REGULACIÓN JURÍDICA DEL TELETRABAJO EN ESPAÑA

Author(s): Carrillo Djamil Tony Kahale / Language(s): Spanish / Issue: 2 (31)/2016

Keywords: Telecommuting, teleworking, new technologies, Spain, collective agreements.

Law 3/2012, of 6 July, on urgent measures to reform the labor market, promoting new ways to develop the workforce. In this sense, it accommodates teleworking as being a particular form of work organization that fits perfectly in the productive and economic model pursued by this reform. On the one hand, to promote flexibility of enterprises in the organization of work. Furthermore, increasing employment opportunities and, finally, to optimize the relationship between work and personal and family life. The study focuses on determining whether telecommuting is configured as homeworking or teleworking under the provisions of Article 6 of Law 3/2012, of 6 July, on urgent measures to reform the labor market and promoting permanent contracts and other measures to promote job creation, which gives a new wording of the former Article 13 of Legislative Royal Decree 1/1995 of 24 March, approving the revised text of the Statute Law approved Workers; which is currently governed by Article 13 of Legislative Royal Decree 2/2015 of 23 October, approving the revised text of the Law of the Workers' Statute is approved.

Past and present economic choices from the perspective of ethics – a case study

Decyzje ekonomiczne w świetle etyki – studium przypadków

Author(s): Małgorzata Chmielewska,Tomasz Hermanowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: business ethics; corporate culture; organizational behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility

By adopting an empirical and rational approach, this article investigates the influence of ethics on decision-taking in business based on case studies dating back to 50 years ago. It contrasts theoretical principles of ethics and the actual market activities of businesses by taking a closer look at two ethically controversial events from the automotive and pharmaceutical industry where human life and health was at risk. The foregoing analysis demonstrates that, where profit maximisation is at stake, businesses are prompted to take advantage of imprecise laws or absence of legal provisions, and manipulate data to protect its interests at the expense of product liability and consumer/patient safety.

Income inequality and poverty problem in multiethnic population of Malaysia

Problem nierówności dochodowych i ubóstwa w wieloetnicznym społeczeństwie Malezji

Author(s): Paweł Gliniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: Malaysia; poverty; income inequalities; ethnic groups of Malaysia

The objective of this article is to analyze income inequality and poverty issue among ethnic groups in Malaysia. The government in spite of the historic, social and economic determinants inherited from British colonists, has managed this problem efficiently. This was achieved thanks to actual focus on the matter, during the long term development programs realization since the early 70s. These programs’ implementation caused an immediate outbreak of violence targeted to the wealthiest Chinese in 1969. Nowadays Malaysia can be an example of the country that is managing successfully with inequality and poverty reduction together with the high economic growth. It has to be highlighted that during the decades of income inequality elimination between Bumiputera and other ethnic groups, the political and social inequalities raised. Presently, they have an effect on Malaysian economy and population and also impact the country destabilization.

Business communication in Poland: sales promotion, advertising, public relations and virtual communication

Business communication in Poland: sales promotion, advertising, public relations and virtual communication

Author(s): Hanna Lewicka / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: Poland; communication; business; channels; advertising; public relations; customers; social media

Business communication is a key activity for every business, as every business has to deal with its external and internal environment. It describes many business activities and can be taken under consideration from different perspectives, but still the basic communication activities can consider any company in the world. However, the cultural aspect determines the realization of every activity. In different countries the way a business communicates with customers, or business actors do it within the company, differs respectively to national traditions, values and beliefs. The aim of the following article is to present, analyse and explain the way of business communication in Poland. As every country, it has a specific characteristics that is distinctive only for its own, which deeply affects various aspects of business communication. The typical and mainstream ways of realizing the activities in the country will be presented including advertising practice and media regulations which also affect this area of communication. The article will focus on the external communication in Poland, taking under consideration four areas: sale promotion, advertising, public relations and virtual communication. The analysis will start from short elaboration of what the essence of business communication is and the current country characteristics in terms of economy. The article will form a useful material for foreign studies purposes and may also be helpful in further comparisons with other countries.

Individual costs and effects of investments in higher education

Indywidualne koszty i efekty inwestycji w wyższe wykształcenie

Author(s): Krzysztof Natalli / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: costs of investments in higher education; effects of investments in higher education; rate of return of investments in higher education

The main purpose of the paper is to present individual costs and effects of investments in higher education. It should allow to choose which particular costs and effects should be taken into account in the calculation of rate of return of individual investments in higher education. Studies of rate of return of such investments would help in adjusting the studies programmes and could affect the decisions of choosing the studies subjects.

The state family policy in Poland after 2008

Polityka rodzinna państwa we współczesnej Polsce

Author(s): Joanna Szczepaniak-Sienniak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: family policy; state (government); social policy

The aim of this article is to draw attention to changes in family policy in Poland after 2008, primarily the increased involvement of the state (government) in the family matters. This state of affairs is noteworthy for two main reasons. Firstly, it seems that such a significant increase in activities of Polish government for families had not been since 1989. So far in the transformation reality of our country withdrawal of the state institutions of social tasks could be rather seen. Secondly it should be noted that this increased involvement falls in a period of economic crisis, and thus occurred despite the particular challenges to the economy and the risks for the possibility of state interference in the affairs of society. These changes and their conditions are worth noting, inter alia, in the context of a discussion which is recently animated on the basis of social policy and economics on the directions of transformation of the tasks of the modern welfare state.

Genia Silkes’s Reminiscences on the Fourth Anniversary of Ringelblum’s Death

Artykuł wspomnieniowy Geni Silkes w czwartą rocznicę śmierci E. Ringelbluma

Author(s): Katarzyna Person / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2015

Keywords: Emanuel Ringelblum; Genia Silkes; Warsaw ghetto; resistance movement

Introduction to the text "Two Meetings with Emanuel Ringelblum" by Genia Silkes

SISIC AND SOURCES OF THE CROATIAN HISTORY

ŠIŠIĆ NAD VRELIMA HRVATSKE POVIJESTI

Author(s): Zlata Živaković- Kerže / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 13/2015

Keywords: Ferdo Sisic; life and work; historians; university professor; scientific-research and political activity; sources of the Croatian history

Ferdo Sisic (Vinkovci, March 3, 1869 – Zagreb, January 21, 1940) was engaged in history during his secondary education and especially as a student of philosophy. Right upon completing his studies, on September 15, 1892 he was appointed for a teacher of Kr. Senior grammar school in Gospic. Next year he was transferred to Senior general-program secondary school in Zagreb. From October 3, 1894 he was teaching history and geography in Osijek. He earned his PhD in 1900, two years after he habilitated in the area of the Croatian history in the class of Dr. Tadija Smiciklas and was appointed for private assistant professor of the Croatian history from the 12th to 15th century at the Faculty of Philosophy. Because of that in 1903 he was transferred from Osijek to Kr. classics-program secondary school in Gornji grad, Zagreb. On October 2, 1906 he was appointed for an assistant professor of the professor’s chair (current Department) for the Croatian history and in that way he took over position from historian Tadija Smiciklas. Through the entire period of his educational and pedagogical work he was writing and researching tirelessly, filling in data and historical facts as well as correcting results and in that way he blazed the new trails in searching for more authentic picture about the Croatian past. He was writing about the articles, discussions and books of many local and foreign writers in newspapers and magazines. Besides scientific and educational work, he was also engaged in politics for a short period but unsuccessfully. Although he did not write a complete and extensive scientific synthesis, he made a couple of shorter and longer reviews of the Croatian history and with his opus he belongs to the greatest Croatian historians.

THE EARTH, MATTER AND SYMBOL IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS

THE EARTH, MATTER AND SYMBOL IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS

Author(s): Marcel Bunea / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: Earth; Site; Non Site; Nature; Land Art; Earth Art

Earth as a means of expression is a being used in various form: sand, cliffs, mud, etc. beginning with the second half of the sixties. Earth Art and Land Art are two ways of expressing the matter of using natural materials in the artistic process. Art emerges from the non sites (gallery) in natural locations (lang site)