Emplacing hate

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maida Bilkic
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Online Database ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Social Tensions ◽  
Territorial Status ◽  
Spatial Resources

Abstract In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the 1992–1995 war is the foundation on which its citizens are building their future. Contested spaces marked by violence are (re)created by means of graffiti frequently conveying locally hegemonic (re)narrations of legitimacy and attestation. Following the lead of scholars like Wee (2016), Stroud (2016), Rubdy and Ben Said (2015), this paper scrutinizes how the ongoing struggles of Bosnia-Herzegovina are constituted and sustained through/in the intersection of language and space. The first set of analysed graffiti is taken from an online database and the second is collected during fieldwork in areas where territorial status is especially fraught. I offer a three-part analysis of the key ways explicitly partisan and sometimes intimidating messages are realized through the subtle interplay of semiotic and spatial resources. Turbulent graffscapes (Stroud, 2016) of Bosnia-Herzegovina are materializations of linguistic violence (Tirrell, 2012), generating hateful places which sustain and potentially deepen social tensions between ethnic groups.

Island Nation, US Territory and Contested Space: Territorial Status As a Social Determinant of Indigenous Health in Guam

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1069-1088
Author(s):  
Tressa P Diaz ◽  
Lana Sue I Ka‘opua ◽  
Susan Nakaoka
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Territorial Status

Abstract The United Nations and International Federation of Social Work affirm the right of all people to determine their political status, preserve their environments and pursue endeavours for well-being. This article focuses on CHamoru, Guam’s Indigenous people, and examines distal social determinants of health (SDOH) in the contested spaces of US territorial status and non-self-determining Indigenous nationhood. Published multi-disciplinary literature identified ways in which territorial status functions as an SDOH unique to non-self-determining Pacific Island nations. Indicated is the use of structural approaches that address mechanisms of US power and control, including economic policies that ‘defacto’ promote coca-colonisation and non-communicable diseases risk. Critical race theory centres race, colonisation and subversive narratives. In line with fourth-generation SDOH action-oriented research, we posit a CHamoru critical race theory model that weaves Indigenous, social work and public health perspectives. Lack of community input is a limitation of the current research. To assure relevance, the model will be vetted through community discussions. Our discussion guide may be tailored for other Indigenous communities. Social workers may play a meaningful role in promoting health equity through participatory action-oriented, cultural–political social work that upholds Indigenous self-determination and survivance in contested spaces.

scholarly journals Victor Taki, Русско-Турецкие Войны и Образование Бессарабской Области (1812-1822): Политика Автономии и Колонизация / The Russian-Ottoman Wars and the Creation of the Bessarabian Region (1812-1822): The Policy of Autonomy and Colonization

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Social Tensions ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The One

In the first decade following the annexation of Bessarabia, the Russian authorities simoultaneously pursued two different approaches without fully realizing their contradictions. On the one hand, they sought to win support of the Bessarabian nobility by recognizing their land titles in the former Hotin reaya and proclaiming local autonomy based on the law of the land. On the other hand, they sought to colonize the underpopulated lands of Southern Bessarabia by inviting transdanubian Bulgarians and other ethnic groups. Although both approaches envisioned the transformation of the new province into a new homeland for the co-religionist Balkan peoples, their combination provoked social tensions between the the Bessarabian landowners and the colonists. The paper argues that the prolonged conflict between the two groups ultimately illustrates the uncertainty of Bessarabia’s status in the political geography of the Russian empire during the first decades after 1812.

scholarly journals Sociolinguistic Situation of Turkic Ethnicities Deported to Kazakhstan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
S.Zh. Tazhibayeva ◽  
◽  
I.A. Nevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
International Project ◽  
Online Database ◽  
The 1960S

The article discusses the sociolinguistic situation of the Kazakhstani Turkic communities deported to Kazakhstan in the 1930s and 1940s. Different Turkic ethnicities had been forcibly relocated from their historical places of living to Southern regions of Kazakhstan. The results of the research are based on a sociolinguistic survey and oral interviews that have been conducted in 2013-2018 within the framework of the international project ‘Interaction of languages and cultures in post-Soviet Kazakhstan’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. A free-license online database with the obtained sociolinguistic data was created, allowing filtering the data according to 191 parameters. Special attention is paid to Azeri and Meskhetian Turks belonging to most numerous Turkic ethnic groups living in contemporary Kazakhstan. Azeri people were allowed to return to their historical homeland in the 1960s. The Meskhetian and Hemshilli Turkish communities did not get permission to return to the regions of their historical settlement in Georgia. They found the second homeland in Kazakhstan got integrated into its cultural and socioeconomic life.

‘Fever Phobia’ Persists in Many Ethnic Groups

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
BETSY BATES
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Fever Phobia

Suicidal Behavior in Four Ethnic Groups in The Hague, 2002–2004

Crisis ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Burger ◽  
Albert M. van Hemert ◽  
Willem J. Schudel ◽  
Barend J.C. Middelkoop
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Attempt ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Emergency Service ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Specific Rate ◽  
Completed Suicide ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Psychiatric Department

Background: Suicidal behavior is a severe public health problem. Aims: To determine the rates of attempted and completed suicide among ethnic groups in The Hague, The Netherlands (2002–2004). Methods: By analyzing data on attempted and completed suicide (from the psychiatric department of general medical hospitals; the psychiatric emergency service and the municipal coroners). Results: Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years were at highest risk for attempted suicide (age-specific rate 545 / 100,000 and 421 / 100,000 person-years, respectively). Both rates were significantly higher than in the same age group of Dutch females (246 / 100,000 person-years). Turkish (2%) and Surinamese (7%) had lower repeat suicide-attempt rates than did Dutch (16%) females aged 15–24. Significantly lower suicide-attempt rates were found for Surinamese than for Dutch females aged 35–54 years. Differences were not explained by socioeconomic living conditions. The ratio fatal/nonfatal events was 4.5 times higher in males than in females and varied across age, gender, and ethnicity strata. Completed suicide was rare among migrant females. No completed suicides were observed in the Turkish and Surinamese females aged 15–24 years. Conclusions: The study demonstrates a high risk of attempted suicide and a low risk of completed suicide among young Turkish and Surinamese females.

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