"PESCO - PM2 - ESDC" COULD E-LEARNING BRING CLOSER TOGETHER EU's SUCCESS STORIES?

Author(s): Ilias KATSAGOUNOS,Jochen Rehrl / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2018

The publication of the EU Global Strategy in 2016, led to the development of several new instruments one of them, being the permanent structured cooperation (PESCO), that had already existed for a decade but was waiting for the right moment to be implemented. PESCO can be considered the biggest project for European security to date, which brings together the EU Member States, the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and the European External Action Service, the main actors when it comes to the Union’s foreign and security policy. The authors argue that the Open PM2 methodology should be used to manage PESCO. The necessary education and training for project managers and team leaders should be offered by the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and its 140 network partners, under the auspices of the Open PM2 Centre of Excellence by using the well-established and widely recognised e-learning management system of the number one CSDP training provider. The article provides concrete solutions and a detailed training needs analysis.

"Posłańcy w społecznych transakcjach". Co można wyczytać z pocztówek?

Author(s): Julita Makaro / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2011

The article presents the postcards as a source of knowledge about the social reality for a sociologist. The first part contains a description of postcards, the discussion of visual studies and the theoretical justification of postcards’ status as a data. The analyzed object consists of two parties: the iconic recto and verbal verso. What we see on the postcards and then read – explains the second part of the article in which I empirically examine the usefulness of this type of sources, analyzing the photographic presentation of the city on one hand, and contents appearing on greeting postcards on the other. Keywords: Postcards; Visual data; Verbal data; Photography; Old center; New center; Image of the city.

"Quo vadis Domine?" K typológii súčasných náboženských a duchovných identít na Slovensku

Author(s): Tatiana Zachar Podolinská / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 2/2007

The contribution is focused on the research of recent forms of religious and spiritual identities in Slovakia after the revolution in 1989. The core of the study is devoted to the distinction of rural (local) and urban (translocal) religious /spiritual identities. The author further pays attention to the process of „local privatization“ of transcendendal stories in the process of so called local approximation (1. topographic, 2. chronological or 3. personal). The author mention also process of „local deprivatization“, or local deproximation as manipulated process of locally neglected stories/events/narratives. The next part of the study is devoted to the translocal and transtemporal character of urban spiritual identities. Following the various forms of conversions and institutional/private forms of religiosity/spirituality she designs a new typology. At the very end of the contribution she challenges the thesis of modernity of A. Giddens.

"Robotnicy Bogiem silni" - perswazja w kazaniach szczecińskich bp. Kazimierza Majdańskiego

Author(s): Maria Kabata / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2019

The teaching of Bishop Kazimierz Majdański is rooted in the long history of Polish preaching, initiated, among others, by Rev. Piotr Skarga, St. Andrzej Bobola, Abp. Jan Paweł Woronicz. The character of the discussed sermons consists above all of the respectful attitude of the speaker for the cultural heritage, his concern for religious and social life in the diocese, as well as certainty in the values being held to, biblical references, and breaking schematism. The aim of this paper is to show the language mechanisms which in the preacher’s intention are to build a community and sense of regional identity of the Szczecin workers. Analyses were conducted on the examples of sermons from 1980–1987 delivered to the Szczecin shipyard workers on the anniversary of the December 1970 events and the 1980 strikes.

"Sacro pellegrinaggio". Visits to World War I Memorials on the Soča/Isonzo Front in the Interwar Period

Author(s): Petra Kavrečič / Language(s): English / Issue: 40/2017

The paper presents a case study of visits to World War I battlefield sites (monuments, sacred zones, cemeteries) on the Soča/Isonzo front. The focus is on acknowledging the motivations related to the construction of monuments and the role and interest of the Italian authorities when influencing and encouraging these visits. The paper will also attempt to determine the importance of this practice in the case of memorial sites at the Soča/Isonzo front. Additional issues addressed in the paper include how common visits to these sites were in the interwar period, who the primary visitors were and if and how this activity resonated in the tourism sector, and how tourism reflected the Italian national narrative in the contested border region.

"Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review" 05/2005

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 05/2005

"Solidarity" - A Contribution to Social Movement Theory

Author(s): Marek Latoszek / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2006

This article is an attempt to link the attributes of "Solidarity" with the movement's place in the theory of social movements. The evolutionary paradigm has left a gap with respect to selection and systematisation of these movements. The historical approach must be adopted in order to fill in this gap. It is therefore necessary to focus on "Solidarity" as a special case in the context of the history of nation, within the framework of the totalitarian macro-formation produced by the solutions adopted after World War II. "Solidarity's" contribution was not limited to one country only. It also helped to trigger more general transformation and globalisation processes. The rationality of "Solidarity" is rooted in systemic contingencies which required the development of an effectivemethod-sit-in strikes-but also negotiations with the regime. However, the democratic culture rooted in national tradition was the decisive factor. In the West, the state was already being viewed as an obsolete form, whereas the lesson which was learned from the Polish experience was that the sovereign state is essential for reform and modernisation. The validity of this lesson was confirmed in practice. The author argues that "Solidarity" did not fit into the schematic distinction between "old" and "new" movements. Class interests were not a priority, neither were the interests of minorities, as they are in the West.

"Stigmata: Segreguime Edukacia e Rromengi ande Centralo thaj Easto Europa"

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romany / Issue: 2/2004

Romani-language translation of the executive summary of the recently published ERRC report "Stigmata: Segregated Schooling of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe"

"Szkoła białoruska" w polskiej literaturze romantycznej

Author(s): Mieczysław Jackiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: I/1996

"The dangerous classes”: Hugo Grotius and seventeenth-century piracy as a primitive anti-systemic movement

Author(s): Eric Wilson / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2010

This essay discusses the historical and textual representations of piracy in the writings of Hugo Grotius, primarily De Indis/De iure praedae (1603-1608) and the Commentarius in Theses XI (c. 1600). Contrary to popular belief, Grotius, in stark contrast to Jean Bodin, was not an advocate of the constitutionally homogenous Nation-State. Rather, his central concept of divisible sovereignty, the lynchpin of the constitutional theory of his early writings, unambiguously presents us with the object of the heterogeneous State. In Grotian theory, the State may be “read” as a composite construction, with a residual degree of inalienable sovereignty accruing at each unit-level. Even if only unconsciously, Grotius describes a concurrent para-political sub-division of the state between institutional Government (the “magistrates”) and civil society, one that constitutes an operational system of governance within the Nation-State. Like his contemporary Johannes Althusius, Grotius’ theory allows for the emergence of a wholly “private,” albeit lawful, mode of authority. This is most apparent in Grotius’ treatment of the mercantile trading Company and its Privateering operations. The corporatist theory of sovereignty permits the Company’s private agents of violence, the legally ambivalent Privateer/Pirate, to be invested with a requisite degree of sovereignty. The Grotian theory of divisible sovereignty, investing the seventeenth-century Pirate band with legal personality, serves as a vital historical precursor to the quasi-statist (trans-) national criminal cartels of the twenty-first century. The Grotian Pirate/Privateer/Just Avenger, therefore, is a “nomad”: a liminal entity that simultaneously transverses both geographical and juro-political spaces, rendering him or herself in-determinable.

"This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world”: Potosí and the political ecology of underdevelopment, 1545-1800

Author(s): Jason W. Moore / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2010

By the 1570’s, Potosí, and its silver, had become the hub of a commodity revolution that reorganized Peru’s peoples and landscapes to serve capital and empire. This was a decisive moment in the world ecological revolution of the long seventeenth century. Primitive accumulation in Peru was particularly successful: the mita’s spatial program enabled the colonial state to marshal a huge supply of low-cost and tractable labor in the midst of sustained demographic contraction. The relatively centralized character of Peru’s mining frontier facilitated imperial control in a way the more dispersed silver frontiers of New Spain did not. Historical capitalism has sustained itself on the basis of exploiting, and thereby undermining, a vast web of socio-ecological relations. As may be observed in colonial Peru, the commodity frontier strategy effected both the destruction and creation of premodern socio-ecological arrangements.

"Values Focused Social Work Practice" Master’s Degree – a Model of Pedagogical Good Practice

Author(s): Alexandru Neagoe,Loredana-Marcela Trancă,Dănuț Sorin Bălăuță,Florina Luiza Vlaicu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Given that there are beneficiaries of social work with spiritual concerns, the training of specialists able to respond adequately to such concerns or needs is appropriate. Thus, the present paper aims to signal the existence of educational programs, at university level, oriented towards the above-mentioned area, namely specific disciplines addressing the relation between social work and religion or spirituality. More specifically, the paper intends to present a successful Masters program, "Values Focused Social Work Practice", organized at the West University of Timisoara, as a good practice model in the field of social work education, with interdisciplinary and with spiritual components.

"Vigyázó szemetek ezentúl Moszkvára vessétek”

Author(s): Ilona P. Farkas / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2017

Scheibner Tamás: A magyar irodalomtudomány szovjetizálása. A szocialista realista kritika és intézményei 1945–1953. Ráció Kiadó, Budapest, 2014, p. 316.

"We Believe Journalism is the Ideal Vehicle For Teaching 21st Century Skills". Is the New Meaning of Media Literacy Worth Spreading? Action Research in Silicon Valley

Author(s): Agnieszka Janiak-Staszek / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

"Westernization and Alienation of the State/Social Order": A Pseudo-Scientific Fairy-tale of Turkish Islamists

Author(s): Deniz Yoldas / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2019

Idris Küçükömer (born 1925 in Giresun, dead 1987 in Istanbul) is a well-known Turkish academic, who tried to figure out the controversial character of the Left-wing movement in Turkey. His main book “The Alienation of the State/Social Order” (in Turkish: Batılılaşma ve Düzenin Yabancılaşması, Küçükömer, 2002) is the dissertation of his principal thesis about contemporary Turkey. Küçükömer is one of the academics/intellectuals who tried to figure out the principal „anomalies” of Turkey with his own perspectives. The controversial character of Kemalism and Left-wing movement of Turkey is the subject of Küçükömer’s works. He tried not only to break out the Kemalist discourse’s falsification but also to create a pseudo-scientific theoretical base for Islamist “Green Kemalist” narration. Küçükömer’s work about the nature of bureaucracy and its transformations between different social systems could be interesting for Post-Soviet countries academic circles. The contribution of the present review is that it brings a present-day perspective on Küçükömer views.

"Where were they until now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town

Author(s): Azra Hromadžić,Jason Danely,Miloš Milenković,Sonja Podgorelec,Tihana Rubić,Željka Petrović Osmak,Paul Stubbs / Language(s): English / Issue: 38/2015

This article delves into Bosnia-Herzegovina, and especially into the town of Bihać, to ethnographically examine the changing nature of the state and family, as visible through practices of elder care. I use my ethnographic data gathered at a nursing home Vitalis in Bihać, and especially the predicament of an elderly Bosnian woman whom I call Zemka, to argue that both the state and family in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina materialize as semi-absent. In the process of unpacking these multiple semi-absences, I reveal the lived effects of changing postwar and postsocialist state, and altering kinship relations as they affect "ordinary" people.

"Wikigender" and "Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation": Digital genres countering inequality and discrimination

Author(s): Michela Giordano / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

Launched on ‘International Women’s Day’ on 7 March 2008, Wikigender is a project created by the OECD Development Centre that aims to facilitate the exchange and improvement of knowledge on gender-related issues around the world. Girls: A No Ceilings Conversation was an event hosted on 17 April 2014 by the Clinton Foundation ‘No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project’, was designed to foster and advance progress for women and girls worldwide. The two projects are investigated here as new types of communication on the World Wide Web. The analysis tries to ascertain whether and to what extent the generic features and discursive strategies of the two new collaborative platforms contribute to the co-construction of information, the dissemination of knowledge and awareness, and the development of a participatory agenda (Jones 2008; Campagna, Garzone, Ilie and Rowley-Jolivet 2012) on themes related to gender as well as resistance to inequality and otherness. An examination of these two examples of on-line communication will entail a scrutiny of new digital genres (Yates, Orlikowski and Renneker 1997), of the genre-specific features of web communication (Gruber 2008), and of the democratizing impetus embedded in their discourse. Promoting the exchange and creation of information and increasing citizens’ access to it enables readers to simultaneously become users, writers and critics; it seems to be the new trend of new web-mediated forms of communication that is resulting in the ‘democratization’ (Fairclough 1992; 1995a; 1995b; 1998) of several types of discourse.

"Young" Heart in "Old" Body. Experiences of Ageing from Older Persons' Perspective

Author(s): Zdenko Zeman,Marija Geiger Zeman / Language(s): English / Issue: 38/2015

Age is a social construct that should be analysed as a flexible, contextual category, while old age is subject to coding and interpreting that create different formal and informal concepts of old age. As a micro-social universe, a home for old and infirm persons functions as socio-cultural framework within which, by analysing the experiences of its beneficiaries, we established the existence of four dominant interpretations of old age: fatalist, affirmative, stoical and relativistic. This work is focused on the authentic voices of old persons and personal experiences of old age and ageing. Contextuality and variability (of the feeling) of age, articulately testified by those experiences, show that perceptions of old age and feeling of getting old decisively depend on a personal vision and interpretation of the experience, that need not be compatible with the actual chronological age.

"Българският дебат" за Голямата война и „нейните преживявания"

Author(s): Snezhana Dimitrova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3+4/1998

"The Bulgarian Debate" for the Great war and "Its Experiences": Ivan Elenkov. Native and Right, Contribution to the History on the Unrealized "Right Project" in Bulgaria during the Period between the Two World Wars. Sofia,1998

"Да наваксаш" или тиранията на избора: намерения и резултати при лондончаните от средната класа през 90-те години

Author(s): Tim Butler / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1+2/1999