Economic crisis and the crisis of national identity in Slovenia: toward a new notion of social order

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-306
Author(s):  
Ana Ješe Perković ◽  
Tjaša Učakar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The People ◽  
The Times

This paper addresses the influence of the economic crisis on national identity in Slovenia. It first analyzes the creation of the contemporary national identity following independence in 1991 that was established in relation to a negatively perceived Balkan identity, which represented “the Other,” and in relation to a “superior” European identity that Slovenia aspired to. With the economic crisis, the dark corners of Slovenia's “successful” post-socialist transition to democracy came to light. Massive layoffs of workers and the bankruptcies of once-solid companies engendered disdain for the political elites and sympathy for marginalized groups. The public blamed the elites for the country's social and economic backsliding, and massive public protests arose in 2012. The aftermath of the protests was a growing need among the people for a new social paradigm toward solidarity. We show that in Slovenia the times of crisis were not times of growing nationalism and exclusion as social theory presupposes but, quite the contrary, they were times of growing solidarity among citizens and with the “Balkan Other.”

scholarly journals Az európai identitás kérdése az európai fiatalok körében

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Katics
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Added Value ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigates the presence of the European identity with a particular focus on youth in EU member and candidate states. It introduces the most important theoretical and some of the recent empirical works on the subject, and offers a statistical analysis based on the data of the Eurobarometer survey between 2011-2019. This period involves the time of the migration crisis and the end of the financial and economic crisis, which gives an added value to the research. The empirical findings touch upon the relationship of the national identity and the European identity in the countries in question, and a special focus is made on EU citizenship.

scholarly journals The Existence of Indonesian Language in the Digital Era in the Perspective of Philosophy of Science (Axiology)

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrina Rosada Dhuhuriyah ◽  
Aprilia Dewantari ◽  
Tiara Alifia Rahmatika ◽  
Gisela Rose Karita ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Linguistic Rules ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Times

Indonesian is the identity of all Indonesian citizens. Language itself is very important for human life. With language, we can communicate with one another, considering that humans are social creatures who cannot live without each other's help. However, the use of language should not be underestimated. The use and pronunciation must be properly understood so that there are no misunderstandings or other unwanted things. The development of the times and globalization have affected the existence of languages that are currently starting to lose their authenticity. One example is the use of slang as a daily word until the authenticity (original word) is slowly forgotten. As well as the use of foreign languages that are more attractive to the millennial generation. The lack of interest of the younger generation in learning linguistic rules is also one of the factors in changing the existence of Indonesian. The background of the research is about the existence of language, especially Indonesian to the changing era. The purpose of writing this paper is to show the public, especially the millennial generation the importance of maintaining the existence of linguistic rules. Because as good citizens we must maintain and preserve our national identity.

While the City Sleeps

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Caimari
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The City ◽  
Deep Crisis

This chapter explores the public opinion strategies adopted by Buenos Aires police in the context of a deep crisis of consensus in the 1920s and 1930s regarding their right to use force. In so doing, it tackles a question transcending this case: how can police forces act as the guardians of a social order they themselves might perceive as unjust, and still earn the respect of those who suffer from its injustice? The answer lies within the process of the symbolic construction of an idealized police officer, one able to remain connected with those he claims to protect. In this case, the connection between the police and the people was woven using fiction, mass media, and other key elements of popular culture.

What Is to Be Done?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Ackerman
Keyword(s):  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The Times

This chapter argues that the bottom-up tools developed by Progressives to generate and register the interests of the public have not kept up with the times. Progressives must now move beyond the innovations that their predecessors have successfully entrenched in the living Constitution. Without renewed critique and reconstruction, it is all too likely that these earlier achievements will degenerate into farce or tragedy. Like it or not, we face the very same issue posed by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 1: “It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force”.

scholarly journals Perlindungan Konsumen dan Kualitas Pelayanan Transportasi Online di Kota Tangerang Selatan

Wajah Hukum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Pendi Ahmad ◽  
Bima Guntara ◽  
Dadang Dadang
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The South ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Transportation Service ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Times

The development of the times and the rapid pace of globalization that is getting faster make humans need adequate transportation facilities so that a technology in the field of online-based transportation has developed using an application via a smartphone. Based on the Regulation of the Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia Number 118 of 2018 concerning the Administration of Rental Vehicles and Regulation of the Minister of Transportation Number 12 of 2019 concerning Safety Protection of Motorbike Users Used in the Interest of the Community, online transportation is now a new and alternative breakthrough in fulfilling the needs of the public. do not have private vehicles as happened to the community in South Tangerang City. However, the presence of online transportation in the community forgets something that is so important, namely its protection as a consumer. This study aims to determine consumer protection for users of online transportation services in South Tangerang City according to Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection and to determine the quality of online transportation services in South Tangerang City. The research method uses qualitative methods using an empirical juridical approach. Data samples were taken from key informants such as PT. Karya Anak Bangsa (Go-Jek) Application, PT. Indonesian Transportation Solutions (Grab), online transportation drivers, and of course the people of South Tangerang City who are directly involved in the implementation of consumer protection and service activities on online transportation in South Tangerang City. Meanwhile, the supporting informants in this study were the South Tangerang City Police and the South Tangerang City Transportation Agency as government agencies that indirectly knew about consumer protection and the quality of online transportation services in South Tangerang City. The results of the study found that consumer protection for online transportation users in South Tangerang City was quite good, this can be seen from the results of interviews with online transportation service providers such as Gojek and Grab that have implemented SOPs (Standard Operational Procedures) when consumers experience losses both formal and material and also There are no reports from the public to the South Tangerang Police who feel aggrieved as a consumer of online transportation. In addition, the quality of online transportation services in South Tangerang City is quite good, but there are still some consumer complaints such as the driver asking to be canceled, the driver canceling unilaterally, the driver coming too long to pick up, the driver using a different vehicle, and the time to arrive at a different destination. longer than the estimated time in the application.

scholarly journals Managing Public – Private Partnership Market in the Times of Economic crisis

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna K Krześ-Dobieszewska
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Times ◽  
Universal Nature

The article focuses on the issues and problems caused by the economic crisis of 2008 for public-private partnership (PPP). The challenges faced are presented from the point of view of a public entity, a private partner and a financial institution, as well as the relationships between these parties and the influence of economic issues on these relations. The most crucial of these challenges seems to be: the pressure on public finance and growing difficulties in financing the public infrastructural investments, the rise of the economic risk of investments and the necessity of sufficient and appropriate transfer and management of risk, and finally – the lack of interest of financial institutions to finance long-term liabilities. The aim of the author is to provide a precise description and diagnosis of the issues mentioned above, which might improve the strategic management of PPP market as well as management of projects. The article is based on experience, documents and working papers concerning the countries and markets of the European Union but the presented conclusions should be of more universal nature.

Declining Trust in Elites and Why We Should Worry About It – With Empirical Evidence from Germany

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoria Kaina
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People

‘WITHOUT TRUST WE WILL NOT SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS,’ WARNED Johannes Rau, the former German Federal president in his last ‘Berlin speech’ in May 2004. As one reason for an alarming loss of trust in Germany, creating a serious obstacle to necessary changes, he identified an irresponsible, egoistic and greedy behaviour among parts of German elites. Actually, Johannes Rau did not blame only political elites but also elite members in other sectors such as business, trade unions or mass media. His statement implies that parts of German elites are causing a decline in trust in Germany by losing touch with the people. Likewise, various observers in the public discourse argue that the immoral, cynical and increasingly incompetent behaviour of several elite members especially fosters a crisis of trust in Germany by creating a diffuse climate of distrust, pessimism, uncertainty and Zukunftsangst.

A Historic First

2021 ◽  
pp. 216-241
Author(s):  
Wilfredo Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the nature, processes, and effects of Donald Trump's social media uses, Twitter in particular, to cyberbully individuals, groups, and organizations. Trump's discourse constitutes his role as a “cyberbully” and the “targets” of his attacks. Trump's social media discourse also illustrates how power, intimidation, and aggression are contextually situated within the relationship between the president and the public. The president's social media messages—which for historically marginalized groups such as women, nonwhites, and nonwhite immigrants constitute their everyday lived experiences—additionally function to preserve communication systems that keep those groups in marginalized positions within a white supremacist ideological framework. As a result, this discursive environment creates a form of “presidential cyberbullying” where the most influential person in the United States, and the world, consistently employs a modern communication technology not to uplift and unite, but to attack and aggress many of the people whom he is charged with serving.

Minoritization and Pluralization

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanildo A. Burity
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Unintended Effect ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
William Connolly ◽  
Definition Of

The emergence of Pentecostalism on the Brazilian scene has raised new questions about the way religion relates to the definition of a “people,” how religious minorities can be politically and legally integrated into the mainstream of national identity, and to what degree the state-religion relation is constitutive of society in a context of increasing sociocultural, religious, and political pluralization. The argument draws on the concept of minoritization proposed by William Connolly, against the background of Laclau’s problematic of the formation of a people as a hegemonic actor. An analysis of Pentecostal discourse on “the public” and “the people” reveals that Pentecostalism minoritized itself in response to perceived exclusion and this accentuated pluralization within it. An unintended effect of this logic was the fluidity of the boundary between sacred and profane, religious and secular. In a context of growing cultural, social, and political pluralization, these discursive practices have the potential to lead either to the aggiornamento of Pentecostalism or to the regressive closing of a populist right-wing discourse.A emergência pentecostal na cena pública brasileira tem colocado novas questões quanto à forma como a religião se relaciona à definição de um “povo,” como as minorias religiosas podem ser politica e legalmente integradas ao filão principal da identidade nacional, e em que medida a relação entre religião e estado é constitutiva da sociedade, num contexto de crescente pluralização socio-cultural, religiosa e política. O argumento desenvolve-se em torno do conceito de minoritização proposto por William Connolly, com base na problemática laclauniana da formação do povo como ator hegemônico. Uma análise do discurso pentecostal sobre “o público” e “o povo” revela que os pentecostais minoritizaram-se em resposta a uma percepção de exclusão e que a minoritização acentua a pluralização no interior do pentecostalismo. Um efeito não-pretendido dessa lógica é a fluidificação da fronteira entre sagrado e profano, religioso e secular. Num contexto de crescente pluralização cultural, social e política, essas práticas discursivas têm o potencial de aprofundarem o aggiornamento do pentecostalismo ou de seu fechamento regressivo num discurso populista de direita.

scholarly journals National–European identity and notions of citizenship: A comparative study between Portuguese and Greek university student teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Apostolidou ◽  
Gloria Solé
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Positive Perspective

This paper reports a study of prospective teachers' views about Europe, and European and national identity, in Greece and Portugal. The paper analyses written responses to a closed multiple-choice questionnaire provided by 33 Greek and 35 Portuguese prospective teachers following courses in Ioannina and Braga universities in early 2018. First, students were asked to answer 15 closed questions related to their perceptions of national, European and other identities. More specifically they were asked to choose among different associations of Europe and different levels of how their country is integrated into Europe. Also, they were asked to choose their preferred 'identification with particular identities' (Villaverde Cabral and Machado Pais, 1998) and to articulate their notions of citizenship by commenting on different criteria for the naturalization of immigrants. Finally, they were asked to predict the future of the European Union by answering an open question. Data analysis focused on the 2018 data and on comparisons with existing data sets, collected in Greece and Portugal since 1994, relating to perceptions of national and European identity and to notions of citizenship. The authors expected to find change over time in data on attitudes in the two countries, reflecting the impacts of the recent economic crisis in both Portugal and Greece and the refugee crisis, particularly in Greece. Portuguese participants were found to manifest a more positive perspective on Portuguese–European integration than had been the case in earlier data sets, while at the same time wishing to preserve some specific aspects of national identity. The Greek students were found generally to be consistent with their pro-European viewpoints, but at the same time there seems to have been an increasing distrust of the European Union after the experience of the 2010–18 economic crisis – indications of which were apparent in some earlier findings .

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