Balkanizam duha

Author(s): Vintilă Mihăilescu / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Bilo je to ranih 1990ih, u Briselu, srcu Evropske unije. Tamo sam prvi put čuo izraz: »nacije evropske vokacije«. Vocation, calling, Beruf… nemačka reč je najizražajnija, a znači u isto vreme »vokacija« i »profesija«. Neke nacije su, prema tome, evropske po vokaciji (ukorenjenoj, valjda, ne u božijoj volji, kao što je slučaj sa Veberovim protestantima, nego u njihovoj istoriji); kod takvih nacija biti Evropljanin je neka vrsta profesije. A šta je sa drugim nacijama, koje s njima ne dele ovaj Beruf? I ko to odlučuije o tome ko ima a ko nema takav Beruf? Ali ono što me najviše intrigira jeste šta Beruf može da znači u ovim slučajevima.

Mračna intimnost: mape, identiteti, činovi identifikacije

Author(s): Aleksander Kiossev / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Ono što je odrednici »Balkan« zajedničko sa ostalim klišeima jeste svojevrsni automatski esencijalizam – to je geografski metonim koji pretpostavlja postojanje negeografskog referenta. U političkim raspravama, novinskim napisima i svakodnevnim razgovorima, ovo je očigledna, nesporna pretpostavka: upotreba imena ukazuje da Balkan postoji kao region sa izvesnim identitetom uspostavljenim uz pomoć izvesnog broja zajedničkih karakteristika.

Južnoslovenski identitet i sušta stvarnost rata

Author(s): Ugo Vlaisavljević / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Ne bi trebalo da nas zavede paradoks, naime, da nacionalisti tvrde da su njihove nacije ukorenjene u drevnosti i da su očigledno prirodne, kada su one, u stvari, sasvim skorašnje nove i neobične konstrukcije. U jednom od svojih poslednjih intervjua, koji je dao Đankarlu Bosetiju (Bosetti) (1993), Karl Poper (Popper) se zalagao za intervenciju u Bosni i za primenu principa »rat ratu« prema terorizmu koji je počeo da se širi u regionu bivše Jugoslavije posle pada komunizma.

Nemoguće Bekstvo: Rumuni i Balkan

Author(s): Adrian Cioroianu / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Čini se da što je život na Balkanu mukotrpniji, želja da se živi negde drugde biva snažnija – što dalje od Balkana i što je moguće bliže Zapadu, daleko od ovog politički, ekonomski i mentalno žigosanog regiona. Rečeno sa manje retorike, to je bila kolektivna drama Rumuna u poslednjih 150 godina; to je drama koliko onih Rumuna koji izigravaju zabrinutost realnom ili mogućnom sudbinom svog naroda, toliko i onih koji se pokazuju ravnodušni spram apstraktnih kolektivnih drama, ali, u isti mah, traže istorijske izgovore za svoje večite žalopojke.

MODE OF EXERCISE OF THE NATIONAL MINORITIES RIGHTS IN SERBIA

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

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance from Novi Sad in the course of August and September 2002 carried out a research on the status of collective rights of national minorities in Serbia. That research covered 36 municipalities in Vojvodina and 16 municipalities in Central Serbia, that is municipalities inhabited by the largest number of national minorities according to the 1991 census.7 The goal of research was to establish the level of enforcement of collective rights of national minorities as prescribed by the domestic legislation and international standards. The research covered guaranteed collective rights of national minorities in the following areas: 1. The right to use mother tongue and alphabet 2. The right to education in mother tongue 3. The right to nurturing national culture and tradition 4. The right to information in mother tongue 5. The right to effective participation of national minorities in public life. This research was carried out by the two teams. One worked in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, while the other worked in Central, or more precisely, Eastern Serbia, Sandžak and South Serbia. Their work was divided in view of high concentration of minorities in those areas.

KAKO SE OSTVARUJU PRAVA NACIONALNIH MANJINA U SRBIJI

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

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and Humanitarian Centre for Integration and Tolerance from Novi Sad in the course of August and September 2002 carried out a research on the status of collective rights of national minorities in Serbia. That research covered 36 municipalities in Vojvodina and 16 municipalities in Central Serbia, that is municipalities inhabited by the largest number of national minorities according to the 1991 census.7 The goal of research was to establish the level of enforcement of collective rights of national minorities as prescribed by the domestic legislation and international standards. The research covered guaranteed collective rights of national minorities in the following areas: 1. The right to use mother tongue and alphabet 2. The right to education in mother tongue 3. The right to nurturing national culture and tradition 4. The right to information in mother tongue 5. The right to effective participation of national minorities in public life. This research was carried out by the two teams. One worked in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, while the other worked in Central, or more precisely, Eastern Serbia, Sandžak and South Serbia. Their work was divided in view of high concentration of minorities in those areas.

Plnenie medzinárodných záväzkov SR v oblasti ľudských a menšinových práv v roku 2000

Author(s): Miroslav Kusý / Language(s): Slovak Publication Year: 0

In the year 2000 the half time of existence of the current governmental coalition as such and the Dzurinda's government in particular was balanced. Also those who have presented themselves until now as governmental permanent critics if they do not belong directly to radical political opposition they could not let a whole series of remarkable successes of this government unacknowledged, starting, of course, with foreign policy followed by economy (accepting Slovakia into the OECD) and stabilisation of rule of law by participation policy (presence of the Hungarian minority in the governmental coalition), by rehabilitation of political culture and even by fight against crime - as is for instance praised by Milan Zitny in the article Home in the half time (Domino Forum 44/2000, p. 2). Even some moderate representatives of political opposition admit some undeniable successes of this government. In both cases this positive statement was accompanied by ambiguous but. followed by a fusillade of objections and disappointments, even invectives and offences of honour.

Comparative Analysis of Public Attitudes towards Syrian Refugees in Turkish Cities of Ankara and Hatay

Author(s): Güneş Gökgöz,Alexa Arena,Cansu Aydin / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Out of 2.8 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, about 10% of these people reside in 22 refugee camps situated within Turkish cities (AFAD, 2013; UNHCR, 2016; Sirkeci, 2017). The remainder of the Syrian refugee population in Turkey lives in urban areas amongst the local population. Major cities such as Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, as well as the cities located on the Turkish-Syrian border such as Gaziantep and Hatay, host the highest numbers of refugees (Directorate General of Migration Management (DGMM), 2016). Consequently, Syrian refugees are highly visible in most of the Turkish cities where they reside.

Predodžbe o franjevcima u savremenoj bošnjačkoj književnosti

Author(s): Ena Begović-Sokolija / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

The topic of Franciscanism in literature is not reserved solely for Ivo Andric (although ‘Andric’s Franciscans’ have been extensively written about within literary criticism), nor is it reserved for Croatian literature in general. This work, from imagological prospective, offers the reading of fifteen texts from modern Bosniak literature that vary in genre and which remember Bosnian Franciscans – historical personalities (Anđeo Zvizdović, Matija Divković, Juraj Dragišić, Ivan Frano Jukić, Grgo Martić, Matheus Bartl (Mato Banjalučanin), Miroslav (Tomislav) Filipović / Majstorović, Ljubo Hrgić, Ivo Marković), but which also offer an image of Bosnian Franciscanism, in Bosniak visure. It has been shown that the ideas and images of Bosnian Franciscans in poems, short-stories, novels and dramas of Bosniak literature are mainly positive, but even when they’re not – they are understandable and expected if one bears in mind the questions that are the subject of imagological consideration of the text: WHO, TO WHOM, WHEN and HOW is one speaking. The work concludes that between several views of the ethnic (cultural) identity being realized (also) in literature (from Karahasan’s garden to Lovrenović’s rainbow colours to Spahić’s “poetry of kaleidoscope”) it is not impossible to talk about all of them within one text i.e. about Bosniak literature at the same time and that Bosniak authors too are meritorious for the symbolical imaginarium of Franciscanism within the identification fields of Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature.

THE POSITION OF THE ROMANIES IN A LOCAL COMMUNITY

Author(s): Emilija Cicić / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Romanies in Kragujevac have a destiny similar to those in other cities of Serbia: as a group, they are at the most extreme margin. Living isolated from the social trends, in an almost parallel world, they do not have any social power. The society doesn’t show interest in them and their problems, while only some individuals have an understanding of civil and collective rights. Many Romanies are not able to realize the basic civil and collective rights because they are not aware of them. More often than not, the institutions in charge, which should protect their rights, tend to reject them, rather than provide them with necessary help. The position of Romanies has got additionally worse with the wide-spread pauperization of society. A substantial number of Romanies who had been working in “Zastava” were fired. They are now either registered with the Bureau of Employment, or selling goods at the flea market. Some categories of the Romany population are in an extremely difficult position: refugees from Kosovo, deportees from the Western countries, and child beggars without parental guidance or care.

Položaj nacionalnih manjina u političkom sistemu

Author(s): Katarina Crnjanski-Vlajčić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

U radu su obrađeni ključni aspekti ostvarivanja prava pripadnika nacionalnih manjina u Bosni i Hercegovini. Prikaz osnovnih prava nacionalnih manjina garantovanih međunarodnim dokumentima dat je u oblasti društveno-političke participacije i ostvarivanja prava na kulturnu autonomiju (pravo na njegovanje sopstvene kulture, pravo na obrazovanje, informisanje i službenu upotrebu maternjeg jezika). iako u ovom radu nisu posebno isticani problemi nacionalnih manjina na prostoru Bosne i Hercegovine, jasno je da postojeći sistem zaštite njihovih prava ostavlja prostor za dalje unapređenje.

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Coming to Terms with Liberal Democracy by the Populist Radical Right Parties of Western Europe: Evidence from European Parliament Speeches over Minorities and Migration

Author(s): Caner Tekin / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Populist radical right oppositions to international migration from Islamic countries are argued to undergo a discursive change from ultranationalist and religious constructs to –misleadingly– liberal argumentations, claiming that European liberal democracy is under threat of migration (Brubaker, 2017, pp.1191-1226; Hafez, 2014, pp.479-499; Börzel & Risse, 2018, pp.83-108; Börzel, 2016, pp.8-31). The present study aims to demonstrate how these ‘liberal’ grounds for objecting migrations exist at European (supranational) level, and explores the conceptions of liberal democracy used by pan-European radical right in opposition to migrant and minority rights. Therefore it asks how mainstream populist radical right factions represented in the European Parliament debate migrant and minority rights and what conceptions of liberal democracy emerge within their debates. It orients this question to two plenary sessions held in the European Parliament, in the shadow of the EU’s refugee crisis, to discuss the situation of fundamental rights and terrorism in Europe. Recent refugee debates in the EP have the potential to shed light on this issue, as the way populist radical right parties reject the EU’s minority, migration, and asylum policies feature exclusionary conceptions degrading the substantial meaning of liberal democracy.

The Gurdwara of Baghdad and the Forgotten History of Sikhs in Iraq

Author(s): Wedech Areshpreet / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Most Iraqis and scholars on Iraq do not know that Baghdad has significant importance for the Sikh religion. Until 2003, Baghdad had a gurdwara (Sikh place of worship); some evidence exists of a historic Sikh community in Iraq. This article explores both the history of the Gurdwara of Baghdad and the Sikhs who lived in Iraq, and also the activities of Sikh humanitarian organizations in contemporary Iraq.

Christians in Iraq

Author(s): Thomas Schmidinger / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Unlike Syria and Palestine, Iraq was never a predominantly Christian land. Nevertheless, Iraq has a long history of Christian presence and one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Christians, like Muslims and Jews, always played an important role in Iraqi society and even politics. Although the number of Christians declined in recent years, the diversity of Christian denominations in Iraq is still remarkable.

Albanci o zadarskim Arbanasima

Author(s): Aleksandar Stipčević / Language(s): Croatian Publication Year: 0

U neposrednoj blizini grada Zadra u Dalmaciji smjestilo se naselje Arbanasi, koje je dobilo naziv po katoličkim Albancima koji su se onamo doselili iz okolice Skadarskoga jezera u prvoj polovini 18. stoljeća. Sve do današnjih dana sačuvali su doseljeni Arbanasi svoje gegijsko narječje, kao i mnoge značajke narodne kulture.

Në gjurmë të emigracionit shqiptar në Francë

Author(s): Remzi Përnaska,Luan Rama / Language(s): Albanian Publication Year: 0

Emigracioni shqiptar në Francë është një nga emigracionet e hershme pas atij në Greqi (që në kohën bizantine), në Itali, para dhe pas historisë legjendare të Skënderbeut, ose në kryeqytetin e perandorisë otomane, në Stamboll pas pushtimit të Shqipërisë nga kjo perandori. Gjurmët e para të këtij emigracioni i gjejmë në historinë e shënuar të stratiotëve shqiptarë në fundin e shekullit XV dhe gjatë shekullit XVI, epokë kur ata, të nisur nga Durrësi, Shkodra dhe veçanërisht nga Morea e Greqisë, (nga ku morrën dhe emrin stratiotë), u dyndën drejt Italisë e më pas drejt Francës. Qindra e mijra stratiotë, pasi u shquan në luftërat midis principatave dhe mbretërive të vogla italiane, veçanër-isht nën flamurin e Republikës së Shën Markut, “Serenissima”-s, Venedikut, u vunë në shërbim të mbretërve të Francës, duke krijuar kështu valën e parë të emigracionit shqip-tar në Francë.

Die Aktivitäten der albanischen StudentInnen in Österreich bis 1939

Author(s): Kurt Gostentschnigg / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Die ersten albanischen StudentInnen gingen genau zu jener Zeit nach Österreich-Ungarn, als das Osmanische Reich bemüht war, seine Strukturen nach den großen Aufständen in den albanischen Territorien wieder zu festigen. Diese StudentInnen, die aus patriotischen Familien stammten, fanden in der Habsburgermonarchie, die ihnen Bildung und Kultur vermittelte, einen idealen Nährboden zur Entwicklung patriotischer, kultureller und literarischer Aktivitäten zugunsten der Albanischen Frage. Ihre Tätigkeiten waren anfangs individueller Natur, sowohl innerhalb der albanischen Territorien als auch außerhalb in den albanischen Kolonien.

Albanci v slovenijo: Otroci dveh domovin

Author(s): Martin BERISHAJ / Language(s): Slovenian Publication Year: 0

Pisanje o sodobnih diasporičnih procesov smotrno pripomore k razumevanju vloge, ki jo ima albanska diaspora v kontekstu albanske družbe in pri opredeljevanju odnosa, ki se oblikuje “tam nekje” med domovino in Albanci po svetu. V pričujočem članku ki je sestavljen nekako iz dveh” pa pol” delov, se povzame rele vantno literaturo o globalni mobilnosti in modernih diasporah. Deloma se članek osredotoča na konkretni primer albanske diaspore, ki je, kot politični subjekt, prišla na kosovsko prizorišče šele s procesom razkosanja albanskega etničnega prostora in po albanskm osamosvajanj na začetku XX. stoletja.

Kisha katolike dhe mërgata shqitpare. Misioni Katolik Shqiptar në Zagreb

Author(s): Ndue BALLABANI,Albert Ramaj / Language(s): Albanian Publication Year: 0

Historia e migracionit shqitpar është e lidhur ngushtë me historinë e popullit shqiptar, të njejtën kohë edhe me historinë e Kishës katolike te populli shqiptar, përkatësisht me shpërn-guljen e shqiptarëve të besimit katolik në vende e ndryshme të Evropës, por edhe në botë. Shpërngulja e shqiptarëve të besimit katolik ishte një sfidë e re institucionale për kishën vendore, sepse përmes shpërnguljeve individuale apo edhe ndonjëherë kolektive nga vendlindja në vendet e ndryshme, ishte nevojë dhe kërkesë e besimtarëve katolik të shqitparëve, sepse ata në vendet ku jetonin kishin nevojë të kenë edhe shërbimet fetare në gjuhën amtare.