scholarly journals Danube as a symbol of Europe. Perception of the river from varied geographical perspectives

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0260848
Author(s):  
Tomasz Padło ◽  
Paweł Struś ◽  
Agnieszka Gil
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Correct Recognition ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe ◽  
Vast Range

The Danube is promoted as a pan-European river, what can be justified for instance by the vast range of its drainage basin, covering 19 countries on both sides of the historical border diving Eastern and Western Europe. Differentiation of imaginations of Danube course from the perspective of 7 European cities, based on research covering 1577 respondents, conducted between 2005–2007 and 2016–2018 has been presented in the paper. Maps presenting the generalized imagination of river course have been generated for each city. It has been proved that in spite of substantial political, economical and symbolical importance of this river for big part of Europe, the course of Danube remains unknown for inhabitants of its Western part, in parallel to more correct recognition of the river by students from Eastern Europe. It has been shown that the perception does not change despite the progressing integration processes.

Ten Theses on Emancipation

2019 ◽  
pp. 354-356
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This concluding chapter presents ten theses on emancipation. One, emancipation is the principal event of modern Jewish history. Two, the term “emancipation” was historically polysemous: it referred to the liberation or elevation of numerous groups. Three, the emancipation process commenced around 1550 when Jews began to receive extensive privileges in eastern and western Europe and in some instances rights in a nascent civil society. Four, there were two legislative models of emancipation: conditional and unconditional. Five, there were three regions of emancipation: western, central, and eastern Europe. Six, the Ottoman Empire comprised a fourth region of emancipation. Seven, the equality of Judaism was fundamental to the Jews' equality. Eight, emancipation mobilized Jews politically. Nine, emancipation was ambiguous and interminable. Ten, emancipation was at the heart of the twentieth century's colossal events.

scholarly journals More Competitiveness of the Port of Koper Through Supply Chain Integration

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-257
Author(s):  
Igor Trupac ◽  
Elen Twrdy
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Current State ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe ◽  
Strategic Goal

With the European Union growing eastwards and with the establishment of important production facilities in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the hinterland potential is bound to grow even more. The strategic goal of the Port of Koper is to become one of the best ports in the Southern Europe, to develop from a handling port into a commodity distributional centre. Penetrating and exploiting these markets demands cooperation (integration) with the existing inland terminals (logistic centres) and establishing of new ones positioned between Eastern and Western Europe. This paper aims to present and analyse: (I) supply chains of the flow of goods through the Port of Koper to/from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, (II) the current state and strategies to optimize the flow of goods, (III) market potential, investments in new terminals and capacities. KEY WORDS: Port of Koper, strategies, goals, supply chains, integration, new terminals, market potential, investments

scholarly journals Exchange of Views on the Article “In Search of the Global East” by Martin Müller

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-166
Author(s):  
Ovidiu Tichindeleanu ◽  
Douglas Rogers ◽  
Andrejs Ļevkins ◽  
Yulia Gradskova ◽  
Marina Sokolovskaja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This section presents exchanges between intellectuals from Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and North America who kindly agreed to read and comment on Martin Mueller’s article “In Search of the Global East”, relying on the situation in their own academic disciplines, work experiences, and the twists and turns of their scientific research and creative challenges. Researchers, academic teachers, exhibition curators, writers, and architects reflect on the power and influence which geographical names exert on academic life, politics, and culture. Starting from Mueller’s article on the Global East, as well as his other text wherein he expresses his skepticism of the concept of post-socialism, the commentators, evaluating Mueller’s arguments critically, raise a number of fundamental questions. Among these questions is the need to historicize scientific concepts, the issue of the regularly-reproducible misunderstanding (or even exclusion) of the East by Western intellectuals, the tasks the inclusion of the Global East in the overall geographical picture will contribute to, as well as the question of whether the concern that the Global East is not sufficiently heard in the world is narrowly academic. This indirect debate between the author of the key text in this thematic issue and his commentators is significant as an episode of the joint search for a more democratic, creative, and inspiring future for the region that unites Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia.

scholarly journals Coherent Selves, Viable States: Eastern Europe and the “Migration/Refugee Crisis”

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dace Dzenovska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ethical Failures ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This essay argues that what is at stake in debates about the difference between eastern and western Europe in the context of migration and asylum politics is the definition of a politically- and ethically-acceptable threshold of “too many,” which takes on concrete contours in relation to historically-formed understandings of coherent selves and viable polities. The argument derives from placing analysis of the alleged political and ethical failures of eastern Europe alongside those limits of refugee/migrant intake that are considered politically legitimate and ethically justifiable from the mainstream liberal democratic perspective. The essay proposes that in order to understand the European political landscape in relation to migration, it is necessary to undertake relational analysis of the different configurations of the Europe-wide tension between inclusion and exclusion, as well as analysis of the modes of power that differentiate between these configurations of inclusion and exclusion on moral grounds.

Perceptions of civil rights, security and the “war on terror”: East and West compared

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åse B. Grødeland
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Terrorist Threat ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
The Law ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This article explores the tension between civil rights and security by examining the perceptions of the general public and elites in Eastern and Western Europe on (i) the terrorist threat; (ii) external pressure to stay within or step outside the law when combatting terrorism; and (iii) how best to combat terrorism. Large scale qualitative and quantitative data collected in Western and Eastern Europe before the terrorist act in Norway in 2011 and the Russian intervention in Ukraine and subsequent annexation of the Crimea in 2014 suggest that at the time terrorism was perceived as a greater threat in Western than in Eastern Europe. Further, Europeans felt that the US had extended pressure on their countries to combat terrorism by stepping outside the law. While ordinary citizens believed that terrorism should be fought by introducing more security — if necessary at the expense of civil rights — elites emphasized the need to protect civil rights while combating terrorism. Finally, European Muslims claimed that the terrorist threat was exaggerated and that protecting civil rights is more important than combating terrorism.

scholarly journals Landscape and climat changes in Eastern Europe in the early Pleistocene

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
V. V. Pisareva ◽  
M. A. Faustova ◽  
I. S. Zyuganova ◽  
N. V. Karpukhina ◽  
A. L. Zakharov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Quaternary System ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Lower Boundary ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Late Pliocene ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

The systematization of the original and published data on the geology and paleogeography of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene of Eastern Europe was carried out due to the lowering of the Quaternary lower boundary to the level of 2.6 million years ago and the inclusion of the Gelasian stage in Quaternary system. It was revealed that at the bound of the Gauss-Matuyama paleomagnetic epochs, the profound landscape and climate changes took place. The rhythmic fluctuations of the climate intensified against the background of the general trend towards cooling and aridization. Subarctic landscapes appeared during the period from 2.6 to 1.8 Ma, which corresponds to the Gelasian stage (the Praetiglian and Tiglian stages of Western Europe or the Paleopleistocene of Eastern Europe). In the Eopleistocene (1.8–0.78 Ma) and Early Neopleistocene (0.78–0.42 Ma), the climate became colder while the structure of natural zonality repeatedly underwent a complex restructuring and gradually approached to the modern one. The presence of glacial deposits was noted in Eastern Europe already in the Paleopleistocene. The traces of at least three independent glaciations were revealed in the Eopleistocene, and four glaciations were suggested for the Early Neopleistocene. Based on the data from stratotype sections, paragenetic relations between heterochronous sediments in glacial and periglacial areas were established and Early Pleistocene paleogeographic events in Eastern and Western Europe were correlated.

scholarly journals The representation of the Eastern and the Western Europe as the Metaphore of East and West in Dracula by Bram Stoker (Postcolonial Approach)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulad Aji Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Bram Stoker ◽  
The West ◽  
East And West ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

<p>This research analyses some issues related to the representation of the Eastern and the Western Europe as the metaphore of East and West and the postcolonial issue reflected on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The aims of this research are to reveal Eastern and the Western Europe as the metaphore of East and West and the postcolonial issue reflected onthe novel. This research applies theory of Orientalism and theory of ambivalence as the main theories. This research is qualitative research. </p><p>From the analysis, it can be concluded that <em>Dracula</em> by Bram Stoker implicitly contains the issue of the East and the West by representing Eastern and Western Europe. The Eastern Europe representations are exotic landscape, tradition and superstition, and lustful. The Western Europe representations are the technology and rationality, and protagonist characters. The narrative of Dracula is also the representation of the West domination over the East through the monolith stigmatization. It reflects the strength of the West as well as the flaw of the West in taking information about the East. As the result the text remains ambivalence.</p><p>Keywords: Ambivalence, East, Poscolonialism, Representation, West </p>

scholarly journals Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 5134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Sovová ◽  
Esther J. Veen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Social Practice Theory ◽  
Allotment Gardens ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Economic Need ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

While urban gardening and food provisioning have become well-established subjects of academic inquiry, these practices are given different meanings depending on where they are performed. In this paper, we scrutinise different framings used in the literature on food self-provisioning in Eastern and Western Europe. In the Western context, food self-provisioning is often mentioned alongside other alternative food networks and implicitly framed as an activist practice. In comparison, food self-provisioning in Central and Eastern Europe has until recently been portrayed as a coping strategy motivated by economic needs and underdeveloped markets. Our research used two case studies of allotment gardening from both Western and Eastern Europe to investigate the legitimacy of the diverse framings these practices have received in the literature. Drawing on social practice theory, we examined the meanings of food self-provisioning for allotment gardeners in Czechia and the Netherlands, as well as the material manifestations of this practice. We conclude that, despite minor differences, allotment gardeners in both countries are essentially ‘doing the same thing.’ We thus argue that assuming differences based on different contexts is too simplistic, as are the binary categories of ‘activist alternative’ versus ‘economic need.’

scholarly journals Gender Dimension Of Waves Of Democratization: Abortion And Reproductive Right Between Eastern And Western Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Iza Desperak
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Transition Processes ◽  
Charles Tilly ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Transitional Processes ◽  
Eastern And Western Europe

This paper focuses on the gender dimension of the transition processes of Western and Eastern Europe, which is viewed from the perspective of democratization processes, i. e. waves of democratization. Adding gender perspective to the analysis, results in the reconceptualization of the democratic approach to the transitional processes. As proposed by Charles Tilly, it requires an alternative approach such as de-democratisation. Some examples of countries with a chosen Western and Eastern European transitions system include: Spain, Portugal, Poland, and Romania. During the last fifty years, they showed how politics concerning reproductive rights, especially on the issue of abortion, differentiate between the real shape and the direction of transition processes which leads either to democratization or its complete opposite.

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