scholarly journals Vera Bácskai and urban history: life, work and impact

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Erika Szívós ◽  
Katalin Szende
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
European Association ◽  
Special Section ◽  
International Networks ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Great Share ◽  
Life Career ◽  
Life Work ◽  
Instrumental Role

Abstract This special section pays tribute to Professor Vera Bácskai (1930–2018), an outstanding Hungarian urban historian, one of the founders and former presidents of the European Association for Urban History. Vera Bácskai was an influential personality whose work and personal impact inspired generations of younger scholars. She played an instrumental role in the institutionalization of modern social and urban history in her homeland, while she also had a great share in creating the international networks and organizations that define the framework for European urban history to this day. The introductory article reflects on her life, career and impact, and it offers a thematic introduction into the articles of the special section.

Touching the Past to Remember the Past

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-397
Author(s):  
Meghan J. Dudley ◽  
Jenna Domeischel
Keyword(s):  
Social Memory ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Article

ABSTRACTAlthough we, as archaeologists, recognize the value in teaching nonprofessionals about our discipline and the knowledge it generates about the human condition, there are few of these specialists compared to the number of archaeologists practicing today. In this introductory article to the special section titled “Touching the Past to Learn the Past,” we suggest that, because of our unique training as anthropologists and archaeologists, each of us has the potential to contribute to public archaeology education. By remembering our archaeological theory, such as social memory, we can use the artifacts we engage with on a daily basis to bridge the disconnect between what the public hopes to gain from our interactions and what we want to teach them. In this article, we outline our perspective and present an overview of the other three articles in this section that apply this approach in their educational endeavors.

scholarly journals Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alf Hornborg ◽  
Joan Martinez-Alier
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Environmental Distribution ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Empirical Case Studies

This article introduces a Special Section on Ecologically Unequal Exchange (EUE), an underlying source of most of the environmental distribution conflicts in our time. The nine articles discuss theories, methodologies, and empirical case studies pertaining to ecologically unequal exchange, and address its relationship to ecological debt.Key words: Ecologically Unequal Exchange, ecological debt, political ecology This is the introductory article in Alf Hornborg and Joan Martinez-Alier (eds.) 2016. "Ecologically unequal exchange and ecological debt", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 23: 328-491.

scholarly journals The rule of soft law

Focaal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (56) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo M. Zerilli
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Normative Status

This introductory article aims to clarify why soft law is an interesting field to explore from a legal anthropological perspective and to point out a number of issues this theme section suggests taking into consideration. The article provides the context for the theme section, inserting soft law within global legal concerns and processes. It outlines the emergence of the notion of soft law, and summarizes the controversies it has raised among legal scholars and law practitioners. Then it explains why, despite the elusive character of the notion and its uncertain normative status, as soon as we move beyond a number of emblematic concerns for law practitioners, soft law mechanisms and practices appear to be a vantage point to explore the emerging transnational legal order, and particularly the relations among state, supra-state, and non-state (private) forms of regulation. Finally, the article introduces the articles in the special section of this issue by highlighting the ways in which they empirically deal with soft law practices and global legal pluralism in a variety of social fields and contexts, using ethnographic sensitivity and imagination.

Introduction to the special section: minority politics and the territoriality principle in Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Dembinska ◽  
László Máracz ◽  
Márton Tonk
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Conflicting Pairs

Territorial arrangements for managing interethnic relations within states are far from consensual. Although self-governance for minorities is commonly advocated, international documents are ambiguously formulated. Conflicting pairs of principles, territoriality vs. personality, and self-determination vs. territorial integrity, along with diverging state interests account for this gap. Together, the articles in this special section address the territoriality principle and its hardly operative practice on the ground, with particular attention to European cases. An additional theme reveals itself in the articles: the ambiguity of minority recognition politics. This introductory article briefly presents these two common themes, followed by an outline of three recent proposals discussed especially in Eastern Europe that seek to bypass the controversial territorial autonomy model: cultural rights in municipalities with a “substantial” proportion of minority members; the cultural autonomy model; and European regionalism and multi-level governance.

scholarly journals On “Works” by Nikolai Solovyov Being Prepared at the IWL RAS

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-243
Author(s):  
Viktor I. Shcherbakov
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Future Edition ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Ideas

This article is an announcement of the future collected works by Nikolai Ivanovich Solovyov (1831–1874), literary critic, publicist and art theorist of the 1860s. A brief history of the issue is presented, main achievements of the predecessors in the elaboration of Nikolai Solovyov’s literary heritage are indicated, a brief outline of his literary activity is given, and an attempt is made to present Solovyov’s main ideas. The collected works of Soloviev (in three volumes) being prepared at the Department of Russian Classical Literature of the IWL RAS will be the first scientific publication of his works. This edition will include all the literary-critical, historical-literary, journalistic, polemical, philosophical articles by Solovyov, as well as the most significant popular science works of historical and general cultural interest. In addition to the texts originally published in periodicals, later versions of articles from the author's collection Art and Life (1869) will also be presented, for which a special section is intended. The edition will be provided with a scientific commentary and an annotated name index. The first volume of the edition will begin with an introductory article, which will include an essay on the life and literary activities of Solovyov (by Viktor Shcherbakov). At the end of the article, the basic principles of preparation of the future edition are outlined.

scholarly journals Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Aet Annist
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Insight Into

This introductory article offers a theoretical frame for the current special section, discussing protests’ value for analyzing performance, power, expansion, and exclusion, and contributes its own case study from the ongoing anti-logging protests in Estonia. While arising from power imbalances, protests hold powerful tools for achieving their aims. The introduction considers protests’ ability to expand in space, through time, and beyond topics, and to capture wider support, creating communities in the process. At the same time, considering the contexts of protests, it also demonstrates how such movements get caught up in the normative features of human sociality, reproducing the existing power relations, including those the protests aim to challenge. The Estonian case study enables further insight into this by analyzing dispossessions that protests both aggravate and suffer from.

scholarly journals Drawing Lessons from the Past

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Sierp
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
National Level ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The One ◽  
Eu Studies

This introductory article to the special section on “Europe’s Changing Lessons from the Past” argues for a close analysis of acts of public remembrance in Central and Eastern European countries in order to uncover the link between the issue of public memory and long-term processes of democratisation. In countries facing a period of transition after the experience of war and dictatorship, the debate over its memory is usually as much a debate about a divisive past as it is about the future. While it is part of a sensitive political scrutiny that is related to different ideas on how to ensure sustainable peace, it also provides the basis for the recreation of a common sense of belonging and identity. The often resulting coexistence of different memory traditions creates two clearly identifiable levels of conflict: one on the national level and one on the supranational one. In mapping change in Central and Eastern Europe, this special section aims at making the connections between the two visible by on the one hand questioning the sociological turn in Memory and EU Studies and on the other, pinpointing the necessity to concentrate on processes and not only on their results.

scholarly journals Rethinking sociality and health through transfiguration

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Hadolt ◽  
Brigit Obrist ◽  
Dominik Mattes
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Do So

In this introductory article to the Special Section, we intend to literally bring sociality to (bodily) life and ask what medical anthropology might gain by using the lens of sociality for a better understanding of the phenomena it is concerned with. Conversely, we probe how the field of health and illness – including themes concerning embodiment, vulnerability, suffering, and death – might help to further spell out the notion of sociality both conceptually and methodologically. Drawing on the contributors’ ethnographic enquiries into contemporary health phenomena in East Africa, South America, and Western Europe, we do so by bringing sociality into conversation with transfiguration. By this we refer to: (1) the constantly unfolding processes of particular extended figurations encountering, affecting, and becoming enmeshed in each other; as well as (2) the (temporarily) stabilized figurational arrangements emerging from these enmeshments. It is our hope that this notion of transfiguration will help render visible the modalities through which human engagements with each other and the world form diverse arrangements. Moreover, we aim to better understand the processes by which these arrangements – which we term ‘extended figurations’ – interact with each other, change over time, and possibly vanish and make way for others. A detailed appreciation of the workings of these extended figurations, we believe, can significantly enhance our comprehension of the particular processes of change that stand at the center of our ethnographic interest. In this sense, the concept of transfiguration constitutes one possible way of structuring the messiness and complexity of sociality for analytical purposes.

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