Unutarnja zemlja i Bosanski Hrvati – nova izdanja
Review of: "Unutarnja zemlja i Bosanski Hrvati – nova izdanja" by: Drago Bojić
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Review of: "Unutarnja zemlja i Bosanski Hrvati – nova izdanja" by: Drago Bojić
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Egzistiranje mnoštva identiteta na jednom prostoru je različitost koja predstavlja specifičnost i određenu komparativnu prednost u društvenom bivstvovanju, u odnosu na drugi homogeniji areal. Na Balkanu različitosti identitetskog postojanja su nešto od čega se ne može pobjeći i što je, često, uzrokovalo konflikte i sukobe. Konfliktnost prouzurkovana nerazumijevanjem različitosti identiteta je pratilac životnih zbivanja na balkanskom prostoru. U drugim identitetskim obilježjima se nerijetko vidjela opasnost po sopstveno egzistiranje. Kada se dublje uđe u suštinu konfrontiranja identiteta zapaža se da je konfliktnost posljedica određenih predradsuda i sterotipija, prema onom drugome ili trećemu. Pored toga, obilježje međuidentitetske konfliktnosti na Balkanu nosi specifi čnosti nepoznavanja kulturno identitetskih svojstava drugih. Kultura mira u balkanskom suživotu je nešto što se konstituiše na razumijevanju, toleranciji, nestereotipizaciji, i prije svega, poznavanju drugosti. Naravno, stereotipi će postojati, ne samo u prošlosti i sadašnjasti, nego i u budućnosti. Kada se tome doda još i mitomanija u objašnjenju i tumačenju međuidentitetskih odnosa na Balkanu nastaje konfuzija koja kulminira destrukcijom i konfl iktnošću. Temeljnu odrednicu kulture mira čini obrazovanje i odgajanje, prije svega, mlađih generacija ne na streotipijama i mitomaniji, nego na promišljanju koje poštuje i uvažava različitosti, a zasniva se na sopstvenom misaonom, racionalnom i emocionalnom iskustvu. Rezultanta toga procesa dovešće do konstituisanja zajedničkog identiteta, koji će biti širi od onog regionalnog – balkanskog. Širi identitet će biti zasnovan na vrijednostima, a ne na interesima.
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Tema čuda aktivno postoji u diskursu suvremenoga folklora. Ona se iskazuje kroz različite vrste priča – kroz kanonske tekstove, najčešće folklorizirane zbog usmene forme širenja, legende i predanja, priče o osobnim doživljajima ili prepričavanje iz “druge” ili “treće” ruke. Tijekom moga kraćeg istraživanja imala sam mogućnost promatrati i slušati razmjene takvih priča koje su stariji ljudi prepričavali jedni drugima na njihovim “sijelima” uz rakiju i dobru trpezu. Područje moga istraživanja bilo je selo Ljubače nadomak Tuzle, u sjeveroistočnoj Bosni. Stanovnici ovoga sela uglavnom su katolici. To selo inače je poznato po dugoj tradiciji u kojoj se spaja religiozno s praznovjernim, realistično s fantastikom i gdje je teško odrediti gdje prestaje pagansko, mitsko i kršćansko, religiozno. Naglašena vjera mjesnoga stanovništva u opreci s nekim kultnim i praznovjernim praksama učinila mi se posebno zanimljivom za istraživanje čuda i čudesnog u njihovim usmenim narodnim predajama, legendama i skaskama. S jedne strane, čudo kao događaj i priča integrira religioznu zajednicu – ono legitimira njezinu tradiciju, ritualne postupke i kultna mjesta, utvrđuje grupni identitet. S druge strane, međutim, čudo ima i svoje individualno-psihološke dimenzije – to su osobni religiozni doživljaji sa visokim emocionalnim intezitetom i ključnim značenjem za svakoga pojedinca. Shvaćeno i na taj način, čudo se javlja kao subjektivna kategorija, činjenica psihičkoga. Naravno, otada se problem njegove istinitosti/neistinitosti pokazuje kao pitanje osobnoga izbora i osobne interpretacije. Čudo je ono što se doživljava, prima i kasnije prepričava kao čudo. U ovome radu bit će razmatrane upravo osobne dimenzije čuda, postavljajući pitanja što ono znači običnome čovjeku, kako se interpretira i osmišljava i kako se odnosi prema izboru životne strategije i sopstvenoga identiteta.
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U radu je elaborirana uloga obrazovnih sistema u Bosni i Hercegovini u afirmiranju nacionalnih ideologija u različitim periodima njene historije. Za vrijeme austrougarske vladavine konfesionalno školstvo predstavljalo je stabilnu osnovu za afirmaciju srpskog nacionalnog identiteta kod pravoslavnog stanovništva u Bosni i Hercegovini. Državne škole su bile prihvatljive katoličkom stanovništvu jer nisu bile u suprotnosti s njihovim interesima. Obrazovni sistem za vrijeme vladavine Kraljevine SHS i Kraljevine Jugoslavije imao je za cilj nacionalnu homogenizaciju, što je rezultiralo diskriminacijom drugih i drugačijih. Homogenizacija i diskriminacija nisu zaobišle ni socijalistički period, u kojem je afirmiran srpsko-hrvatski nacionalni identitet, i to u nastavnim planovima i programima historije, srpsko-hrvatskog jezika i drugih predmeta. Muslimanima (Bošnjacima) nije bilo osigurano pravo da uče o vlastitoj historiji, kulturi i književnosti.
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New technologies in globalized conditions, new methods of education emerged and thanks to them, young generation`s education and training are being done. That is to say that every nation knows that the aim is to preserve its own values and to teach and educate young generation with the right intentions. One of the national cultural wealth of the Kyrgyz people`s unique epic “Manas” protected as our famous inheritance for centuries. Our pedagogues must convey this historical, cultural and literary heritage and richness to the new generation. Kyrgyz nation had been persecuted before the birth of Manas. Kyrgyz people were expelled from Ala –too and dispered in the four sides of the Earth. Foretunately, Manas was born when Kyrgyz nation was in a difficult situation and in a fear of extinction. It`s not said for nothing in the famous epic Manas “Kulaaly taptap kush kyldym, kurama zhyiyp jurt kyldym”. Manas made these scattered people to be in a harmony and brought other nations to the Ala-too. It is possible to see many different public names and nationalities in the epic Manas. Manas gathered more than ten nations to form a people`s unity and willingness offering them freedom to live on their own. Clans such as: kypchak, teit, kytai, kalmak, mogol, kydyrsha, nogoi, zhediger, kazak, bagysh involved to Kyrgyz nation and lived under the same, unique goverment. İt means that Manas was the leader of this nation.
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This article deals with the experience of the Shoah in the countryside as described from two perspectives – Jewish (victim) and Polish (bystander-witness). A key question is how identity is conceptualized in the face of liminal experience in two narratives, namely Tadeusz Nowak’s work belonging to the so-called peasant tradition in Polish literature, as well as the diary of Melania Weissenberg, a Jew who hid in a village. These different narratives are linked above all by the place, as both are set in the vicinity of Dąbrowa Tarnowska. Koprowska discusses the works of Nowak and Weissenberg as examples of literary responses to the Shoah in a local village context.
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Kolarzowa argues that Polish anti-Semitism is a continuous phenomenon that cannot be divided into “anti-Judaism” and “anti-Semitism”. Using the triangulation method, she indicates that all European anti-Semitism is embedded in traditional theological narratives and the resulting social options. She also discusses the reasons behind this continuity of Polish anti-Semitism, including the specificity of Poland’s social structure and the nobility’s objectives in instrumentalizing anti-Semitic discourses. Anti-Semintism was supposed to provide an inclusive option to the lower-ranking groups, while the term ‘nation’ was reserved for the nobility. This explains the prominent role of clergy in this narrative: the clergy was the only group capable of effectively shaping a collective identity of underprivileged social strata and presenting Judaism as an “antimodern,” so that anti-Semitism was associated with the identity of the modern nation.
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In this study, we investigate explanations for differentiation in civic attitudes among immigrant children from different religious groups. We use the 2009 International Civic and Citizenship Study data to explore differences between religious groups on three key civic attitudes: support for democracy, support for gender equality, and attitudes towards the country of destination. We analyse N=5454 immigrant students in eleven European destination countries using OLS regression with origin and destination country fixed effects. Our results, firstly, show that Orthodox Christian and Islamic immigrant children are less in favour of gender equality than secular immigrant children. Different attitudes towards the role of religion in society explain most of this variation. Secondly, Islamic, Protestant and Catholic immigrant children are more likely to think positively of their destination country than secular and Christian Orthodox immigrant children. These differences can be explained by church attendance and attitudes towards the influence of religion in society.
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The reasons for researching the works of Yugoslav author Magda Bošan Simin are several: (1) her novel When the Sour Cherries Bloom (1958) was probably the first literary representation of the Holocaust written by a woman author in Yugoslavia; (2) Bošan Simin represents the Holocaust in multiple formats (documentary prose, memoir, autobiographical novel); (3) the book Why They Said Nothing: Mother and Daughter on One and the Same War (2009, English edition 2015) is a narrative comprised of texts written by both Magda Bošan Simin as a Holocaust survivor and her daughter Nevena Simin as a second-generation Holocaust survivor. The research focuses on Holocaust survivors and their post-Holocaust children, issues of memory in Holocaust representation, types of memory, memory mediation, author’s intentionality, gender and identity issues.
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The primary objective of this text is an analysis of Eva Nahir Panić’s biography (she lived from 1918 to 2015) titled Eva, written by Dane Ilić. The protagonist of this story is a Jewish woman born in Čakovec, who married a Serbian officer, survived the Holocaust, went through the camp for the Cominformists, and finally immigrated to Israel. An interpretative category that creates a framework for reading the text is the term “borderline,” which encompasses two meanings here. The first includes borderline situations (such as the Holocaust and the stay in the Sveti Grgur prison camp) which Nahir Panić had to face in her life and which left an indelible mark on her (the burden of her traumatic experience is passed on to the next generation, in Eva’s daughter, Tijana—signifying a postmemory issue). The second pertains to how she functioned in the borders between cultures which directly influenced her fate. With reference to Ewa Domańska’s concept of the rescue history project executed in Poland, I suggest that the life of Eva Nahir Panić, though undoubtedly filled with painful experiences, ought to be considered not in terms of victimization, but of rebirth and affirmation. Nahir Panić’s life story is a highly personalized narrative, which presents her own identity project, and through it the reader discovers the potential of the community. This may also provide a starting point for reflecting on the history of Yugoslavia.
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The paper sums up the results of a project realized by thirteen prominent Czech scholars. The project involved a discussion of priestly identities in the Czech lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The outcome of the project is a book entitled Priestly Identity in the Czech Lands (1820–1938), which is now in print. We understand the term identity to mean a form of belonging to human society defined by a person’s self-consciousness, i.e. the experience of what an individual thinks or feels. By following the latest research in psychology, social psychology and psycho-history, we perceive identity to be both a personal and social phenomenon. For the requirements of our research we understand identity to be predominantly a historical phenomenon. The project is part of a Central European research on identity that deploys biographical and generational methods. The researched types of priests seem to be particularly suitable for this method as the Czech society is characterized by secularization, separation of the national movement from Catholicism, conflicts between the Czech and German populations, modernist movement and foundation of a national Church in 1920.
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“A stranger, always a stranger, unavoidably, in the land of my birth as well as in the land of exile”, said the protagonist of Amin Maalouf’s latest novel The Disoriented, weaved around the recurring Maalouf’s topics such as exile and identity. With an image of an ambassador of migrants, the author examines the relationship between those who left their country because of war, and those who stayed, loyal to their native land but faced with tough choices. This article first tackles the attitude of the French writer towards various notions of the exile concept, and then it sets out some paths of reflection concerning real or supposed affiliations of this novel’s characters trapped between different realities of a multi-ethnic state in which various advocates of tribal views of identity confront each other. Are those who have lost their Orient really “disoriented”? What is the impact of the native affi liation on the identity construction? Who is more “Levantine” in The Disoriented: those who have stayed and replaced their cosmopolitan visions with a narrow affiliation or those who have left in order to live elsewhere taking with them the substratum of a plural identity open for the universal?
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James Joyce once remarked that the soul of a culture is to be found in its music halls; by the same token, the gospels of Postmodernism preach that popular entertainment is as worthy of academic study as any other cultural phenomenon, a laudably democratic stance that neatly side-steps the thorny question of aesthetic value by subsuming it in sociology or history.
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The paper explores the discursive strategies used by participants of Polish nationalist (radical right) organizations when they speak about others: Muslims and homosexuals. The article is based on the critical discourse analysis of 30 biographical narrative interviews with the members of three main Polish nationalist organizations: the National Radical Camp (ONR), the National Rebirth of Poland (NOP), and the All-Polish Youth (MW). Following the reconstruction of more general ways in which various categories of others are discursively constructed by narrators, the body of the paper focuses on two categories, Muslims and homosexuals, which appear most often in the narratives collected. The nationalists present themselves as the concerned defenders of both the European civilization as well as the Polish identity based on components such as religion (seen as the source of morality), tradition and history. Others are presented as a threat because of their otherness, claims and aspirations for power and dominance attributed to them. While Muslims constitute the embodiment of a cultural enemy who threatens the European (Christian) civilization, homosexuals are identified with liberalism seen as the danger destroying Polish identity and the traditional family.
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The background for the considerations contained in the article is the issue of national identity of Polish children, victims of deportation to the territory of the Soviet Union, which followed the Soviet invasion on Poland on September 17, 1939. The paper particularly highlights the role of education and upbringing the patriotic spirit of young children in the exile (Middle East) in the context of analysis of the content of the primer written by Kubski, Kotarbiński and Zarembina (Jerusalem, 1946) and selected Polish press titles showing up in the East.
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In the article the cultural reflection of the physicality of Donbass has been researched. As the example of such question’s description in the contemporary literature the author chose Oleksiy Chupa’s novel The Tales of My Shelter (Казки мого бомбосховища, 2014). The problem of the researching of Donetsk’s identity consists in the very fact that there is no clear manifestation of it in the modern culture. The heroes of the researched novel are typical inhabitants of Donbass: the “grey” people for whom primitive customs and physical needs are the most important and very often just hidden. Donetsk’s experience of physicality, as the novel of Oleksiy Chupa shows, appeals to the typical existential situation which is ac¬companied by the revision of cultural values and very often leads to the social matrix chang¬ing of the perception of a human.
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Article presents the national attitudes of railway workers in the region mostly inhabited by Polish and German minority. Czechoslovak railway administration with the collaboration of nationalistic organizations (especially Matice osvěty lidové pro Těšínsko a Hlučínsko) tried to increase the number of Czech railway workers and demanded from them contribution to the czechization efforts. The administration used the policy of relocation and other means of pressure on workers of Polish and German nationality to convince them to support the Czech cause, especially by sending their children to Czech schools.
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The Author analyses Sophia Andrukhovych’s novel ‘Siomga’ (2007) – the story of the leading character, Sofija (the author gave the protagonist her own name) is based in large part on body memory. A young woman, whose first experiences with her own carnality and sexuality occur during the years of the political turn, recounts the events of childhood and adolescence, and her world is ruled by emotions and feelings. In her memories, Andrukhovych’s protagonist evokes the images of sexual violence against women and children and the story itself ends with the dismemberment of her body by a man who craved her viscera. Through the act of depraving of the body the author expressed the inability to reconstruct one’s own identity in the Ukrainian postmodern, post-colonial and post-totalitarian reality. The novel can be analysed not only from the perspective of post-colonial and post-totalitarian studies but also within the framework of corporeal feminism.
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A private archive, and especially one of its rare subspecies, a private ethnical archive, represents a great symbolic resource and great social capital, and as such is a very powerful tool in construction of identity and in gaining social power. In this paper, through the analysis of a concrete example, a complex process of private collection of historical documents transformation into an ethnic archive is presented, in order to achieve influence within ethnic community as well as the state as a whole. An attempt has been made to describe this phenomenon, and to identify, isolate and define all the actors in this process, in order to illuminate this rather neglected scientific problem. Particular attention is devoted to describing the socio-political context in which this process takes place.
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This article offers a critical reflection of the regional specificity and dynamics of sex workers’ movement in Europe. While highlighting three different waves of sex workers’ mobilization in the region, it will attempt to provide answers to two interconnected questions: a) what are the main demands, collective identities, and political projects underlying sex workers’ collective self-organization in Europe?; b) In what way do various social and cultural factors, such as the increasing criminalization of sex work, the outbreak of the HIV epidemic, the emergence of the global sex workers’ movement, and the raising popularity of anti-prostitution and abolitionist discourses, affect sex workers’ movement in Europe: forms of self-organization, orientations, and strategies of action, and, eventually, self-identification of sex worker collectives. I will look at the sex workers’ movement in Europe through the lens of International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE), the biggest sex workers’ transnational advocacy network operating in the European region. While drawing on the theoretical notion of frames of collective action, as developed in the social movement studies, I will distinguish four key frames guiding ICRSE’s mobilization and advocacy: frame of “the right to have rights,” frame of “decriminalization,” frame of “sex work as work in late capitalism,” and “inter-sectional” frame.
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