Canis lupus politicus – dyskurs polityczny związany z ochroną wilka we współczesnej Polsce

The authors analyse the political dialogue regarding wolf protection between pro-nature nongovernmental organizations, hunters and politicians in Poland. Despite strong pressure of hunting lobbies legal status of the wolf has changed significantly, from animal heavily persecuted after Second World War to species strictly protected in whole country since 1998. In 21st century opposition towards wolf protection is fuelled by hunters and politicians connected with them. The analysis shown that strong voice of non-governmental organizations is needed to sustain wolf protection in Poland.

België en de Europese integratie, 1945-1955 : Een overzicht van de onuitgegeven bronnen

Res Publica ◽

10.21825/rp.v21i1.19429 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 163-169

Author(s):

Mark Van Den Wijngaert ◽

E. Lamberts ◽

P. Van De Meerssche

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

European Integration ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Study Centre ◽

History Of ◽

The article gives a review of inedited sources dealing with the Belgian contribution to European integration in the years 1945-1955. Such sources are kept in the Algemeen Rijksarchief (the Belgian Central Archives), in the Parliament, various ministerial departments, the Navorsings- en Studiecentrum voor de Geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (the Research- and Study Centre for the History of the Second World war), study centres of the major political parties, a number of non-governmental organizations as well as the private archives of a number of politicians.

Interwar Democracy and the League of Nations

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.013.16 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Andrea Orzoff

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Radical Right ◽

Great Power ◽

World War ◽

European Democracy ◽

International Discourse ◽

Historians and contemporaries saw interwar democracy as incomplete, illegitimate, and inept. The League of Nations has been similarly characterized. Yet democracy endured across the Continent, threatened far more by Nazism than by internal actors. The League’s democratic internationalism failed to prevent a second world war, sanctioned Great Power imperialism, and neglected minority problems especially in Eastern Europe. But the League’s Secretariat shaped international discourse on humanitarian norms for the rest of the century, working with institutions and non-governmental organizations to bring about real good. This essay offers a tour d’horizon of interwar European democracy and democratic internationalism. While not minimizing the destructive influence of the radical right, it notes that in many cases seemingly undemocratic groups, institutions, and practices ended up stabilizing democracy.

The development and institutionalization of Romani representation and administration. Part 3c: religious, governmental, and non-governmental institutions (1945–1970)

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905990903386629 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 105-122

Author(s):

Ilona Klímová-Alexander

Keyword(s):

Catholic Church ◽

Political Representation ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

Political Group ◽

Governmental Institutions ◽

Administrative Structures ◽

This article is the fifth and final in a Nationalities Papers series providing an overview of the development of Romani political group representation and administration, from the arrival of Roma to Europe up to 1971, the landmark year of modern transnational Romani politics. The article concentrates on the period between the Second World War and 1970 and the emergence of the following phenomena which distinguish this period from those covered in the previous articles: some limited Romani participation in non-Romani mainstream political or administrative structures, an international Romani evangelical movement, reconciliation between Romani political representation and the Catholic Church, national institutions created by various governments to aid the administration of policies on Roma and rapid growth of non-governmental organizations addressing Romani issues.

The Development and Institutionalization of Romani Representation and Administration. Part 2: Beginnings of Modern Institutionalization (Nineteenth Century—World War II)

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905990500088354 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 155-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ilona Klímová-Alexander

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

World War Ii ◽

Second World War ◽

Main Body ◽

World War ◽

Time Period ◽

Second World ◽

Main Pattern

This article is the second in this series, following “Part 1: The Legacy of Early Institutionalism: From Gypsy Fiefs to Gypsy Kings”, which covered the period from the arrival of Gypsies to Europe until the mid-nineteenth century and was published in Volume 32, Number 3 of Nationalities Papers. Part 2 describes the birth of the first modern forms of ethnically-based political and social organizations established by Romani elites from the nineteenth century up until the Second World War (WWII). The main pattern of the development of Romani representation and administration until the mid-nineteenth century—as described in Part 1—distinguished between institutionalization from within and without. In the time period described here, the pattern changes because the majority of organizations and institutions established in order to represent and administer Roma are started upon the initiative of Romani leaders. Some are, however, created under the umbrella or patronage of non-Romani authorities or organizations and their activities are controlled by these patrons; others are created in (various degrees of) cooperation with non-Romani authorities or organizations and a few are created and operate independently. In addition, during this period the first few non-Romani non-governmental organizations start to take interest in the plight of Roma, and some organizations are specifically created to address their plight and lobby “on their behalf.” The other pattern of the development that emerges in this period is the gradual ascent of the institutionalization to higher levels. While until the nineteenth century most of the Gypsies organized themselves locally and regionally (with the exception of the Polish Office of the Gypsy Kings and the Chief Voivods in Transylvania and Hungary), in this period we see the first attempts by Roma themselves to expand the institutionalization countrywide and even internationally. These patterns are again explored in the conclusion (and summarized in Table 1), while the main body deals with the various arrangements in a more or less chronological and geographical order.

Will the World’s Glass after the Coronavirus Pandemic Be Half-Empty or Half-Full?

Südosteuropa ◽

10.1515/soeu-2020-0018 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 274-281

Author(s):

Dubravka Stojanović

Keyword(s):

First World War ◽

Second World War ◽

The Political ◽

World War ◽

The First World War ◽

Great Crash ◽

Second World ◽

First World

AbstractThe author comments on the political and economic options in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that started at the beginning of 2020. She revisits responses to the crises of the First World War, the Great Crash of 1929, and the Second World War, sorting them into ‘pessimistic’ and ‘optimistic’ responses, and outlining their respective consequences.

Britishness and otherness: Representing and constructing identity in BBC’s Land Girls

Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies ◽

10.1177/1749602018815363 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 90-105

Author(s):

Bonnie White

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

21St Century ◽

Second World War ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

World War ◽

This article situates Land Girls (BBC, 2009–2011) in dialogue with the Second World War and its legacy. Although the series ostensibly deals with the experience of British Land Girls during the war in a melodramatic way, Land Girls is best understood as an anxious commentary on the place of Britain and its cultural institutions following the war. The series uses national, racial and economic others in order to de-romanticise notions of a collective national identity, while simultaneously using those others to help articulate an idealised sense of Britishness for a 21st-century audience.

SPIRITS, POWER AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN LATE-COLONIAL GABON

Africa ◽

10.1017/s0001972012000010 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 82 (2) ◽

pp. 187-211 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John M. Cinnamon

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

The Political ◽

Colonial Administration ◽

Political Imagination ◽

World War ◽

National Politics ◽

Political Events ◽

Wide Range ◽

North Eastern ◽

ABSTRACTThrough narratives of an anti-‘fetish’ movement that swept through north-eastern Gabon in the mid-1950s, the present article traces the contours of converging political and religious imaginations in that country in the years preceding independence. Fang speakers in the region make explicit connections between the arrival of post-Second World War electoral politics, the anti-fetish movements, and perceptions of political weakening and marginalization of their region on the eve of independence. Rival politicians and the colonial administration played key roles in the movement, which brought in a Congolese ritual expert, Emane Boncoeur, and his two powerful spirits, Mademoiselle and Mimbare. These spirits, later recuperated in a wide range of healing practices, continue to operate today throughout northern Gabon and Rio Muni. In local imaginaries, these spirits played central roles in the birth of both regional and national politics, paradoxically strengthening the colonial administration and Gabonese auxiliaries in an era of pre-independence liberalization. Thus, regional political events in the 1950s rehearsed later configurations of power, including presidential politics, on the national stage.

Vom Nachkrieg zum Vorkrieg

10.5771/9783748921240 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Historical Consciousness ◽

Second World War ◽

Political Order ◽

The Political ◽

World War ◽

The historical consciousness of the peoples of Europe is still being shaped by their own national histories. The question of the political order that prevailed during the interwar years has remained a perennial issue among historians. The dominant hallmark of this prelude to the Second World War was the rise of dictatorships and the question of whether we can characterise this period as one of uninterrupted crisis. This collection of studies examines the quest for a new European order and the interconnections between domestic and foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s. It collates different national perspectives in a single volume and asks searching questions about the consequences of the decisions made during the period under examination. With contributions by Dragan Bakić, Maciej Górny, Kurt Hager, János Hóvári, Georg Kastner, Miklos Lojko, Markus Meckel, Ulrich Schlie, Christian Schmidt, Thomas Weber and Werner Weidenfeld.

Conclusion

War Tourism ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501715877.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 213-226

Author(s):

Bertram M. Gordon

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

New Technology ◽

Second World War ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

The Self ◽

The Political ◽

World War ◽

Self Image ◽

The study of memory tourism to war sites should not exclude the study of tourism during wartime. Both are components of war tourism, imparting meaning to war for both victors and vanquished. Both reflect their eras, whether through the gazes of the curious individual or the political and economic configurations sustaining the tourism industry. Germans who described a newfound appreciation of their homeland after touring occupied France show how tourism worked in two directions, impacting not only on the sites visited but also the self-image of the visitor. Local governments in France now reach a larger tourism public with new technology. A powerful hold of Second World War imagery in France continues to face ethical issues of sustainability and trivialization.

The Political Economy of the Anglosphere: Geography Trumps History

The Anglosphere ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197266618.003.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 95-119

Author(s):

John Ravenhill ◽

Jefferson Huebner

Keyword(s):

Economic Integration ◽

Second World War ◽

Preferential Trade Agreements ◽

The Political ◽

World War ◽

Total Trade ◽

Trade Patterns ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Economic integration among Anglosphere economies peaked during the period from 1870 to 1960. Maintenance of Imperial Preferences and the Sterling Area ensured that Britain remained the dominant market for most colonies and Dominions in the early post-Second World War period. Britain’s entry into the EEC, the ending of Commonwealth preferences, and the rapid growth of Asian economies caused the UK’s share in Anglosphere economies’ exports to decline rapidly. Growth in the US market share offset some of this decline until the financial crisis of 2007–8 reversed this trend. The significance of intra-Anglosphere trade has declined substantially – from approximately two-thirds of countries’ total trade in 1913 and in 1947 to just over one-third in 2016. Contemporary trade patterns are shaped more by geography than history. The world economy remains substantially regionalised, especially for manufacturing. Many preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are regional in scope: Anglosphere economies have been prominent participants in these arrangements but their partners are typically neighbouring countries rather than other Anglosphere economies. The EU has been the most active negotiator of PTAs: the challenge for a post-Brexit UK will be to negotiate access to markets equivalent to that currently enjoyed through membership of EU PTAs.