Around the Bloc: Hungarian Capital Reveals Plan for Ambitious Museum Quarter
When completed in 2019 the new museums will significantly increase the city’s attraction to tourists, officials say.
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When completed in 2019 the new museums will significantly increase the city’s attraction to tourists, officials say.
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While the Czech government holds a strongly anti-immigrant line, groups of citizens are organizing via social media to help migrants. Among them is Marie Hermanova. This is her personal story.
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Owner of car may face charges of running a crime gang, says he was not the real target.
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Do kuratorek i kuratorów, krytyczek i krytyków, artystek i artystów, teoretyczek i teoretyków wysłaliśmy zaproszenie do rozmowy o skomplikowanych relacjach między obrazami i protestem. Poniżej publikujemy ich tekstowo-wizualne odpowiedzi. Dziękujemy za Wasze głosy. Mamy wrażenie, że to rozmowa ważna i na czasie
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We asked several curators, critics, theorists, artists to share their thoughts on the intricate relationship between images and protest. Below are their textual-visual responses. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you who accepted our invitation. This is a timely and an important conversation
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B. Polić ‒ Predavanje prorektorata kijevskog sveučilišta na FPN u Zagrebu; A. P. ‒ Gostovanje predstavnika Instituta za privredu i socijalnu politiku iz Hamburga na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Zagrebu; D. Milnović ‒ Apsolventi Fakulteta političkih nauka u posjeti Visokoj partijskoj školi pri CK SKSS u Moskvi.
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The paper discusses the problem of categorizing the concept of ideology, which in contemporary political theory is returning as a concept with a heavily descriptive meaning. This perspective is the retreat from the more common, but pejorative sense of the ideology as false consciousness. The paper attempts to distinguish the descriptiveness or normativity of meanings of historical concepts of ideology. This critical review is to sensitize researchers in the field of social sciences that the applicability of the concept of ideology relates to the conceptual burden. Analyzing these approaches, the author tries to verify the cognitive meaning of the concept.
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This study aims to examine the civilizing impact that a writer should possess under a republican government, as expressed in Germiane de Staël’s works of literary and political theory. The redefinition of the art of writing carried out by Staël is analyzed in the context of French history at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, as it was an attempt to overcome the intellectual crisis caused by the political and cultural changes of that period. The classical opposition between a writer, a philosopher and an orator appears unproductive, as the free and „philosophical” word specific to the republican regime is engaged in the same emancipative and enlightening transfer of energy through the enthusiasm shared both by its addresser and receiver. Philosophy and liberty form one and find their fullest expression in literary production, which is considered as a parole, a vibrant, active word. Literature gains thus the status of an existential experience that shapes the human consciousness. Therefore the writer-philosopher is both the guarantee and the ‘work’ of a republican regime, the vector of a socio-political change, of liberation and lumières.
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The article presents selected political determinants such as neutrality or federalism of political education in Switzerland, specifically taking into consideration their role in building democracy as well as identity and the development of civic competences. This paper also outlines the terminological problems in civic education from the Polish and German language perspective and the institutional and legal determinants used in political education. The conclusions drawn from the analysis can be useful in social studies or in the implementation of innovative system solutions in civic education.
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Review of: Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora by Andrew Junker, 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Richard J. Evans: Eric Hobsbawm. A Life in History. Little–Brown, 800 old., £35. Zeynep Tufekci: Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Yale University Press, 2017. 326 old., $26 Leslie R. Crutchfield: How Change Happens. Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t Wiley, 2018. 228 old., $30
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Article is devoted an actual problem of formation of the person planetary – space type. Necessity of synthesis of historical experience of the people of Russia, Ukraine and the whole world is shown and it is natural the newest – scientific and humanitarian technologies in the field of transformation of the person.
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Despite the fact that most technological achievements of the 20th century were received as promises for a better future, the taming of the atom – one of the most extraordinary of them all– proved to have dire consequences for a great number of people. In March 2011 Japan experienced a threefold catastrophe: the Tōhoku earthquake and following tsunami and the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plant. One month after the earthquake an unprecedented number of people took to the streets of Japan to protest against nuclear power. The writer Yoko Tawada is one of the voices that criticized Japan government’s nuclear politics that prioritized profit over the security of Japan’s people and nature. Her short novel The Emissary (translated by Margaret Mitsutani) imagines a worst case scenario: after an unspecified cataclysm Japan cuts off every connection to the rest of the world, old people seem unable to die while watching the frail young children in their care suffering every minute of their short lives. It is a tale of a generation fraught with guilt over its failure to leave the planet inhabitable for the generations to come.
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The issue of the identity of state participants in international relations since the 1980sbegins to return to scientific reflection on international relations thanks to the changesthat constructivism has brought to the international relations science75. Its view onthe ontological dimension of international reality allows for the analysis of issuessuch as identity, discourse, norms and values in international space, which haveso far remained on the margins of theoretical reflection of mainstream paradigms,such as neorealism or neoliberalism.Thanks to the so-called constructivist turn, identity has become one of the mostimportant issues through which the international reality is analyzed. However,the multitude of constructivist interpretations of international reality, expressedin the existence of several of its varieties (the article adopts a dual division intotraditional and critical constructivism) is a source of multiple interpretationsof the phenomenon of state identity within this paradigm. This multiplicity is atthe same time a source of constructivist problems with the category of identity:a way of examining and explaining, as well as ambiguity in terms of definition.It is worth paying attention to the discursive approach to identities offered byresearchers representing critical constructivism, referring in this aspect to theachievements of the poststructuralist tradition of language studies. Here, the identityof the state appears as a impermanent, processual and contextual phenomenon,agreed and shaped by means of language. This approach to the identity of the stateconstitutes a challenge for those stuck in the positivist or behavioral traditionof scientific paradigms of the international relations science.
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Among the many elements of religious (sometimes radical) proselytism present in the Romanian public schools – the religious symbols mounted in the classrooms, turning classrooms into chapels for religious services, building churches within school grounds, holding religious services in the vast majority of schools during school hours (including holding communion for children during hours allocated to mandatory subjects, often without the consent of parents and never with the consent of students) – in this study I will focus on the religious services held in public schools in Romania, during mandatory school hours. The study covers the civic efforts spanning 15 years, 2004 to 2019, towards raising awareness regarding this illegal situation. It highlights the complicity of public servants and politicians within the public educational system – from school principals to Ministers of Education – with the activities of the Romanian Orthodox Church that violate the fundamental rights of children.I showed that the public authorities in education don’t respect the fundamental rights of the children enrolled in the public system of education and do not consider the superior interest of the child, although they are required to do so by the laws and the Constitution.
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