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The paper analyzes the strategies of people in agriculture, especially in the mountain regions where the fragmentation of land is significant. The quantity of land there is also limited. This leads to important consequences for the agrarian development. The culture of keeping the lands of the predecessors burdens the market of agricultural lands. The renting of lands depends on the types of plants to be cultivated as the law for renting lands allows contracts for the max of five years and for the farmers it is insecure to cultivate perennial plants on such lands. In this situation the survival of the small-scale farmers depends on their ability to coop and support each other. The article describes the emergence of a coop for bioproduction of roses, mint and milk in the “Valley of Roses”, Karlovo and Gabrovo regions, the solidarity between the farmers, the stimuli and barriers to their activities. It reveals the culture of mutual support based not so much on economic but rather on other incentives such as love to nature and environment, strong desire to prove that bioproduction could develop in the country and that bioproducts are the future for Bulgarian agriculture. It is a different coop in comparison with the socialist collectives. The now established coop unites the farmers for education, qualification, market and mutual support for objectives, but each farmer produces his/her products alone. The farmers sell the products together and each one depends on the culture of others' conscious cultivation of bioproducts. Until now, the experience has been positive and the coop has sustainable development. This is also due to the creation of three professional organizations – the coop as a producing unit, organization for distributing knowledge on organic production and a certifying organization of bioproducts. The survival of the coop depends on farmers’ hard work and solidarity, the strong will to survive, the hope for future significant agricultural support and subsidies when the European Union enlargement involves Bulgaria and the improvement of the economic situation in the country that could bring better buying abilities of the population.
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The paper deals with the most important contributions in studying cultural influences on organizations. The interest of social scientists in this topic began in the 1960s, based on the belief that it was necessary to overcome the dominant parochialism of US researchers in organizational theory and practice. Increasing internationalization of business activities, especially in the 1970s, imposed the need for large-scale studies and for finding practical solutions to the completely new problems encountered by multicultural organizations whose number was constantly rising. In spite of numerous and serious difficulties in every cross-cultural organizational study, several decades of development in this field have produced important theoretical and empirical contributions, enabling further advances in this scientific and practical discipline.
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It is assumed that considerable ethnic distance is an empirical manifestation of the ethnonationalistic political pattern still dominant in contemporary Serbian society. The results of our research of ethnic distance on a non-representative sample of Medical School students (University in Belgrade) confirm this assumption. We discuss a specific sample –future medical professionals who are a priori expected to be free from all kind of prejudice, while the physician-patient relation implies a complete and unreserved engagement of the medical professional, disregarding patient’s race, nation, religion, sex/gender, age etc. Nevertheless, the findings indicate considerable distance among students toward certain ethnic, national and racial groups. The authors point to the importance of bioethics in the education of future medical doctors since, among other things, bioethics reflects various dimensions of specific interaction/communication in the physician-patient relation. Finally, the authors emphasize the significance of bioethics in critical reflexion of a priori and unquestionable authority of the “white coat”.
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Here a preliminary hypothesis is used, viz., that the concept of ‘’postsocialist’’ public interests is disputed in each and every aspect, implicating that a new theoretical and heuristic framework is needed for urban planning. This framework ought to be developed in a way to render it acceptable as a common denominator for the majority of urban actors, on the one hand, and to help balance individual (partial) and collective interests in the preparation and implementation of planning decisions at various planning levels, on the other. Under the current conditions of transition, there are very few elements that could in advance and with certainty be ascertained of public or general interest. The quality and societal relevance of planning decisions would basically depend on the quality of planning communication and interaction, also being relevant for the developing of a public interest. In the contribution, it is particularly emphasized that, following the collapse of the former (‘’socialist’’) public interests, the very legitimacy of planning is endangered as well. We direct attention to a number of new approaches, with a view to make use of their respective rational, productive, emancipatory and modernizing potential. Here, it is almost the last ‘’resort’’ for one to insist on the publicity and public control in planning decision-making, especially in terms of the role of laymen – versus the more powerful and influential stakeholders – as the key direction in developing of new modes of planning. In this context, of crucial importance is to develop a new theoretical articulation of the concept of ‘’postsocialist’’ public interests, as this concept is constituent for developing democratic planning during the transition period. The key aspect here pertains to balancing a large number of emerging and legitimate individual interest vis-à-vis public (collective, common, and similar) interests. This also applies to developing new institutional and organisation arrangements and support that are needed, to direct the ‘’societal game’’ of individual interests to collective public purposes. Particularly, effective arrangements of the kind are needed to prevent the ‘’game’’ ends in destructive outcome, in the first place for the already well established public interests that will predictably keep such status.
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Svojih prvih 17 godina života odrastao sam u središtu grada Zagreba, u Petrinjskoj ulici 59a, u prostranom troipolsobnom stanu dvorišne zgrade koja još i danas postoji. Još bliže središtu preselili smo se 1961., na sam Trg bana Jelačića 3.
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This paper analyses Black Hole, one of the most emblematic and complex plays of Goran Stefanovski, written in 1987 and announcing the end of an era – the fall of communism and war in ex-Yugoslavia. The play rereads the story of “Siljan the Stork” by Marko Cepenkov, resetting its initiatory talein the context of agonising socialism. Deconstructing the initial teleological and didactic matrix of the story, the play questions the sense of its redemptive ending in the context of a post-ideological and devastated world. The paper further considers the rupture marked by Stefanovski’s dramaturgy in regard to the traditional normative concept of drama. The play’s hybrid and open form, which constantly reinvents and deconstructs itself, is approached as representative of a new “rhapsodic” poetics of modern contemporary drama.
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Ne možemo proći Zagrebom da ne vidimo kako se ponosno koči naziv Cash & Carry, a vjerojatno je tako i u drugim gradovima.
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1. Nježni otac - Ispitivač: Koji bi stereotip sada mogao da karakteriše bosanskohercegovačkog muškarca u braku? Ispitanik:Više se brine o djeci... (dramski umjetnik, 46 godina) U ovom poglavlju objašnjava se model kako je prikazan nježni otac u patrijarhalnom modelu ponašanja. Zanimljivo je da su muškarci u patrijarhalnim obiteljima vrlo zainteresirani i brižni prema maloj djeci. Čak su toliko blagi da im dozvoljavaju i toleriraju razne nestašluke. Primjer imamo u filmu „Otac na službenom putu“. Maliku tolerira paljenje haljine gospođi koju otac pokušava zavesti.
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U Istru sam dolazio više puta i, osim gradova, velikih i malih, obišao na desetke sela, ali nijedno nije zanimljivo kao Peroj. Nalazi se na cesti što povezuje Fažanu i Barbarigu, par minuta vožnje od mora, pripada općini Vodnjan i nije prostorno veliko, a sa nešto više od 800 stanovnika jedno je od življih u Istri. Ko u Peroj dođe slučajno, na prvu će mu, ako ne zna baš ništa o selu, izgledati kao i mnoga druga istarska: među nove višekatnice zadjenule se kamene kuće, suhozidi i uske sporedne ulice. U donjem dijelu sela stoji predromanička crkva svetog Stjepana, njoj ću se vratiti kasnije. Ne razumijem se baš previše u ovdašnje biljne vrste, ne znam baš je li riječ o fafarinki, kosteli, koprnji, lilaku, pelegrinki, pokriviću i kako već sve zovu debelo stablo ili više njih, gdje su se u posebnim prigodama, za izbora, prigodom suđenja, ili povodom vijećanja o problemima ili planovima, okupljali mještani; uglavnom i Peroj ima ono što u Istri zovu ladonja. Ovdje je to Gromača, od okolne ravni odignuti okrugli brežuljak, debela hladovina s nekoliko klupa u još debljoj sjeni visokog drveća.
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This article makes use of the metaphor of the melting pot in order to explain the manner in which patterns of Irish and American identity are illustrated in the popular novel Brooklyn (2009) by Colm Tóibín.
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In this article, the author tries to shed light on the character of one of the best football players in the history of Gračanica, providing basic data from his sport biography which are not emphasized here. An attempt is made to give a picture of the personality as it remained in the memory and formed in the consciousness of the author as a boy who observed one great sports career during that time with his own eyes and understood it in that specific way. In the background of this lyrically imbued text, one can see the contours and general social ambience and provincial life in the early 1960s, as well as feel a dose of sadness and nostalgia for a famous fellow citizen who is no more.
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