The Hungarian Professional Theatre in Greater Romania, 1918–1930

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-90
Author(s):  
Pompilia Burcică
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Company Directors ◽  
Class Status ◽  
New Nation

In this article Pompila Burcică traces the work and legal conditions in which Hungarian theatre professionals – company directors and actors – operated as a national minority of middle-class status in Greater Romania after 1918. Their attempts at representing Hungarian culture in the public space, as revealed in their business correspondence with the Romanian state, placed theatre professionals not at the vanguard of a collective action on behalf of a minority and its cultural life, but at the forefront of civic engagement and individual private initiative that led to economic recovery and development, thus illustrating the array of civic choices and economic opportunities for minorities holding Romanian citizenship in a nation state. The article focuses on two issues: the work environment for minorities that helped them adjust professionally and negotiate and exert a civic identity in the new nation state; and the degree to which a cultural field such as theatre was actually treated as an economic entrerprise, free of political interference. These civic and economic concerns accounted for the success of these theatre entrepreneurs, operating their businesses under the control of a paternalistic state.

scholarly journals ZNACZENIE JĘZYKA W KREOWANIU WIZERUNKU MIASTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Marta Koszko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Composition

Cities are the main centres of social, cultural life and economic development. They have always attracted newcomers not only because of new opportunities but also because of the feeling of belonging and uniqueness which people need. The attractiveness of a particular urban centre mainly rests on its image, which is created in relation to its own unique identity. The language of the city, which is present in the public space in the form of the linguistic landscape and which reflects the socio-cultural composition of the city, creates the identity. Both socio-cultural composition of a city (hence the languages spoken in the public space) and the linguistic landscape can create an image of a city which is either open for an interaction or presents limited interactional potential.

scholarly journals PEMAKNAAN RUANG TERBUKA PUBLIK TAMAN BUDAYA YOGYAKARTA SEBAGAI PUSAT KESENIAN DAN KEBUDAYAAN DI YOGYAKARTA

NALARs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Serafiani Turkaemly Eka Putri
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
The City

ABSTRAK. Tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana makna ataupun nilai dari Taman Budaya Yogyakarta bagi masyarakat mengingat keberadaannya sebagai pusat kesenian dan kebudayaan di Yogyakarta. Setiap ruang publik seharusnya tidak hanya hadir secara fisik akan tetapi dapat memberi rasa atau makna tersendiri bagi kota (“places” matter most), bagaimana suatu ruang publik dapat memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat kota akan adanya sebuah wadah interaksi sosial antar masyarakat. Taman Budaya Yogyakarta merupakan salah satu ruang publik yang dijadikan masyarakat sebagai tempat berekreasi serta aktivitas seni dan kebudayaan. Taman Budaya Yogyakarta atau yang dulu disebut dengan Purna Budaya, pertama kali dibangun pada tanggal 11 Maret 1977 di daerah kawasan Universitas Gadjah Mada. Taman Budaya dibangun kembali pada tahun 2002 di Kawasan Gondomanan. Metode yang digunakan adalah dengan melakukan wawancara secara online melalui aplikasi WhatsApp serta metode studi pustaka. Hasilnya, diketahui bahwa Taman Budaya Yogyakarta memiliki makna kultural, makna sosial (interaksi individu dengan lingkungannya), makna pentingnya relasi antar manusia, dan memiliki makna harmonisasi kehidupan sosial dan budaya. Makna suatu ruang publik bisa terbentuk dari tatanan serta keadaaan fisik ruangnya. Kata kunci: Makna, Ruang Terbuka Publik, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta ABSTRACT. This study aims to find out how the meaning or value of the Taman Budaya Yogyakarta for the community, given its existence as a centre for arts and culture in Yogyakarta. Every public space should not only be physically present but can give a sense or meaning to the city ("place" matter most), how public space can meet the needs of the city community for a place of social interaction between communities. Taman Budaya Yogyakarta is one of the public spaces used by the community as a place of recreation and artistic and cultural activities. Taman Budaya Yogyakarta or formerly called Purna Budaya was first built on March 11, 1977, in the area of Gadjah Mada University. The Cultural Park was rebuilt in 2002 in the Gondomanan Region. The method used is to conduct online interviews through the WhatsApp application and literature study method. As a result, it is known that the Taman Budaya Yogyakarta has a cultural meaning, a social meaning (the interaction of individuals with their environment), the importance of relationships between people, and meaning of harmony in social and cultural life. The meaning of a public space can be formed from the physical structure and condition of the space.Keywords: Meaning, Public Space, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta

Ciprian Porumbescu. Mică poveste despre rochia Berthei (o incursiune printre manuscrise, ediții etc.)

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 79-96
Author(s):  
Mircea Diaconu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
German Society ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Original Text ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Analytical Recovery ◽  
History Of

A young Romanian composer from the Austrian Bucovina, Ciprian Porumbescu (1853-1883) is an important figure of the local cultural mythology. This fact, we believe, is due to the association of his image with some ill-fated aspects of his life, such as an impossible love, his premature death, his exultant talent, maybe even his ardent patriotism. In my attempts at recovering the past cultural life of Bucovina, I discovered the journal of Ciprian Porumbescu (that probably includes a rich correspondence as well), written around 1878-1883. I am not talking about a journal on creation, nor about one related to political life. That, in spite of the fact that he was arrested for being the president of a student’s society that had a nationalist nature, yet he didn’t hesitate afterwards being one of the leaders of an international German society. Unfortunately, the above mentioned journal is absent from the public space and the history of its recovery and editing is in itself a history of a failure. That is why, this study is an analysis of the different existing editions of it – that could be described as fragmented, or improvised. In what regards the title of the article, it hints at the imprecisions in transcribing the original text, the difficulties posed by the German existing versions and also at the deficiency of the Romanian translations. Yet, besides all of these, the journal of Ciprian Porumbescu is an exceptional biographical document. Thus, the critique of the existing editions could represent a fist attempt at a textual and analytical recovery of the actual journal.

scholarly journals The Role of Religion in Creating and Maintaining Ethnic Identity—The Example of the Kashubs in Poland

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 872
Author(s):  
Monika Mazurek
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Public Space ◽  
National Minority ◽  
The Public ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Official Status

After 1945, the Republic of Poland appeared to be an ethnic monolith. However, this was (is) not the case for the Kashubians, who now live in northern Poland on the Baltic Sea. Presently, Kashubians do not have official status; they are not considered an ethnic or national minority. They create their own identity around language, origin, inhabited territory, and religion. The latter serves to maintain a sense of community—to legitimise the Kashubian language, the axial value of Kashubian ethnic identity. Kashubian religiosity is frequently emphasized in the public space. The objective of this article is to analyse the role of the Catholic religion in building the ethnic identity of Kashubians and legitimizing constructed traditions by the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association. The main purpose of the article is to show the process of ethnicisation of religions. This ethnic non-governmental organisation is aspiring to represent the Kashubian community in the public space in Poland. The results from studies conducted among members of this organization, which concern their views on the link between religious and secular events organised by the Association, will also be presented.

scholarly journals Edificios singulares en mallas regulares. Iglesias en L’Eixample y en La Baixa

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Alba Arboix-Alió
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Common ◽  
Catholic Tradition ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
The Church

<p class="EstiloVLC"><em>A building is considered unique when it outstands within the common fabric of the city due to its form, its nature, and its production and serialization process. If this architectural singularity is accompanied by an urban distinction, the result is much more effective because the compound becomes an urban enclave capable of arranging and hierarchically organising the city. The most illustrative example for historic cities with a Catholic tradition may probably be the church with the public space that materializes around it. For centuries, the sacred building and the atrium that precedes it have represented the city’s reference point and articulating centre of social, economic and cultural life. Nevertheless, if this is more or less evident in old towns consolidated over time; how is this solved in modern cities formed by a regular urban layout</em> <em>whose grid is put before the freedom of the buildings? With Barcelona and Lisbon as case studies, the paper focuses on the implementation and typology of the most paradigmatic churches in the neighbourhoods of L’Eixample Cerdà and La Baixa Pombalina.</em></p>

Planning Minority Language Maintenance

2018 ◽  
pp. 636-656
Author(s):  
Sue Wright
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Political System ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
Negative Effect

The concept of language “minority” derives largely from the idea of national standard language which developed as part of the nation-state system and its constant search for homogenization. Those who remained outside the processes of linguistic convergence to the standard (for whatever reason) were designated “minority.” They were salient in a political system that prized intragroup communication and were often the object of prejudice and suspicion. State majorities tended either to exclude or assimilate them. Where international law intervened to provide language rights, there was a preference for individual over group rights and for negative over positive rights. And when these weak rights were extended and minority languages accepted in the public space, there was always pressure for a standard—on the nation-state model. However, standardization often has a negative effect, working against maintenance of traditional dialect continua and contemporary heteroglossia. This complexity is worthy of further consideration in any attempt at language policy or planning.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

Public space of the trustworthiness of sociological knowledge: The case of electoral research

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
OLEKSANDR STEGNII
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
The Impact

The paper analyses specific features of sociological data circulation in a public space during an election campaign. The basic components of this kind of space with regard to sociological research are political actors (who put themselves up for the election), voters and agents. The latter refer to professional groups whose corporate interests are directly related to the impact on the election process. Sociologists can also be seen as agents of the electoral process when experts in the field of electoral sociology are becoming intermingled with manipulators without a proper professional background and publications in this field. In a public space where an electoral race is unfolding, empirical sociological research becomes the main form of obtaining sociological knowledge, and it is primarily conducted to measure approval ratings. Electoral research serves as an example of combining the theoretical and empirical components of sociological knowledge, as well as its professional and public dimensions. Provided that sociologists meet all the professional requirements, electoral research can be used as a good tool for evaluating the trustworthiness of results reflecting the people’s expression of will. Being producers of sociological knowledge, sociologists act in two different capacities during an election campaign: as analysts and as pollsters. Therefore, it is essential that the duties and areas of responsibility for professional sociologists should be separated from those of pollsters. Another thing that needs to be noted is the negative influence that political strategists exert on the trustworthiness of survey findings which are going to be released to the public. Using the case of approval ratings as an illustration, the author analyses the most common techniques aimed at misrepresenting and distorting sociological data in the public space. Particular attention is given to the markers that can detect bogus polling companies, systemic violations during the research process and data falsification.

The public and the private: reconfiguring the interrelationship during a civil act

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Natalia Kostenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The subject matter of research interest here is the movement of sociological reflection concerning the interplay of public and private realms in social, political and individual life. The focus is on the boundary constructs embodying publicity, which are, first of all, classical models of the space of appearance for free citizens of the polis (H. Arendt) and the public sphere organised by communicative rationality (Ju. Habermas). Alternative patterns are present in modern ideas pertaining to the significance of biological component in public space in the context of biopolitics (M. Foucault), “inclusive exclusion of bare life” (G. Agamben), as well as performativity of corporeal and linguistic experience related to the right to participate in civil acts such as popular assembly (J. Butler), where the established distinctions between the public and the private are levelled, and the interrelationship of these two realms becomes reconfigured. Once the new media have come into play, both the structure and nature of the public sphere becomes modified. What assumes a decisive role is people’s physical interaction with online communication gadgets, which instantly connect information networks along various trajectories. However, the rapid development of information technology produces particular risks related to the control of communications industry, leaving both public and private realms unprotected and deforming them. This also urges us to rethink the issue of congruence of the two ideas such as transparency of societies and security.

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