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This paper investigates political parties’ attitudes towards the past. It explores the ideological inspirations and patterns of behavior of the parties founded in Poland after 1989, which were more or less consciously ‘borrowed’ from the political groups operating in the interwar and Communist period respectively. The parties have been found to draw both upon democratic and authoritarian traditions. In addition to examining the ideological declarations and public utterances made by politicians, and proposals for systemic solutions, the paper also looks at political practice in the broad sense. The aim of this work is to determine how political traditions could help to shape the political identities of contemporary parties and to identify the historical references favored by political groups in post-1989 Poland. It portrays the political parties’ stances on tradition and shows how they are used in political rivalry.
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The article presents the place of children’s literature in literary systems across time, regarding its position in the context of two key categories of the present-day discourse: the world literature and the global literature. Since in 1932 Paul Hazard proclaimed “the universal republic of childhood” in his Books, Children and Men, scholars such as Zohar Shavit or Emer O’Sullivan have discussed the changes concerning children’s literature itself as well as ways of approaching it.
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The present article discusses some specific aspects of the diplomatic activity of Dimitar Rizov as Bulgarian sales agent in Skopje during the period 1897-1899.
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Review of: Francis Collet "Historie des idées de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Précis de culture générale"; Ellipses Édition Marketing S.A., Paris 2009, 544 pages; by: Karol Kuźmicz
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After the Ilinden Uprising in 1903 the principle of maintaining the church status quo was introduced in Macedonia. Its initiator was Hilmi Pasha, the chief inspector of Rumelian regions.
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Nationalism is a reality that is not strictly about solid institutional politics but experienced in all extents of social life. If it was on just institutional politics, daily and “ordinary” people’s nationalism would be reduced to simple party followings and votings. This reductionist approach indispensably leads critique of nationalism to consider it as if it is only an elite project that is formulated from above to drive masses. Instead, I will argue, in this article, that nationalism comes from below as well and is, in fact, a classifying language that defines power in social relations contextually. Nationalist classification is based on appraising events, relations and, above all, peoples in their full totality with the terms of oppositions like good-bad, effective-ineffective, pure-polluted, all of which are claimed to be natural categorizations of the nation. They serve, however, as the providers of a social division between us and those not us. Nationalism in Turkey is of sharp insistence on nation’s uniqueness and purity, though, left very ambiguous in respect of constituents of these qualities. I suggest that uniqueness and purity are inventions based on creation of fictional threat or problem, by which idea of wrongdoings and impurity for the nation is imagined, chased, controlled, and, if possible, terminated. They are constructed instantly by the creation and prosecution of impurity and supposed to be given until the next creation. Furthermore, I think that the nationalist language based on such creation of impurity is of its correspondence in daily life in a way that the extent of ordinary peoples’ tendency to construct the opposition around those like them and those not and to practice life with the terms of it makes them nationalist subjects, even if they are not aware to be so. In this regard, it seems promising to think about the nationalness of daily life with these unintentional national figures.
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Timeline of the Arab Revolt: December 2010 – June 2011
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