scholarly journals Introduction

Aspasia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Peter Hallama
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Men And Masculinities ◽  
State Socialist

This introduction to Aspasia’s Special Forum on the history of men and masculinities under socialism demonstrates the interest and originality of applying critical men’s studies and the history of masculinities to state-socialist Eastern Europe. It reviews existing scholarship within this field, stresses the persisting difficulties in analyzing everyday performances of gender and masculinities in socialist societies, and argues for adopting new approaches in order to get closer to a social and cultural history of masculinities. It puts the contributions to this Special Forum in their broader historiographical context—in particular, concerning studies on work, family, violence, war, disability, and generational change and youth—and shows how they will contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics and everyday performances of gender in state-socialist societies.

scholarly journals Freedom of Culture in and after Yugoslavia. An Interview with Branka Prpa

Südosteuropa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Nießer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract The historian Branka Prpa was the director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade after Slobodan Milošević’s regime ended in 2000. Jacqueline Nießer spoke to Prpa about how she set about reforming Belgrade’s Historical Archives during Serbia’s democratic opening-up under Zoran Djindjić. Prpa has fostered preservation of the cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia, so the focus of the interview was cultural freedom in and after Yugoslavia. The historian elaborates on how culture both then and now has been in conflict with politics, her remarks leading on to a discussion about how a future may be imagined in the 21st century. The interview was conducted during the COURAGE project, which between 2016 and 2019 has researched the cultural heritage of dissent in the former state socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals By Force of Power

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (S1) ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
György Péteri
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of ◽  
Client Relations ◽  
State Socialist

Patron-client relations were a ubiquitous feature of cultural and academic life under the state socialist social order, as were networks crisscrossing the borderlines between the domains of political power and scholarship. Awareness of and due attention to such relations and networks, this article argues, is a sine qua non of any reliable history of economics in the communist era. Pioneering projects, publications presenting innovative new approaches, individual careers yielding significant works of domestic and international acclaim were as much dependent on the support and protection of the politically powerful as on genuine talent and diligence. State socialism was not the kind of social order that would typically enable a spectacular scholarly development just “by force of thought.” The article focuses on the story of one particularly important patron in Hungary over the field of economics, a true communist grand seigneur: István Friss. It shows how his contribution has been systematically neglected, suppressed by both the historical and the memoir literature, and it presents archival evidence highlighting the vital importance of Friss’s patronage for the work and careers of such leading economists as András Bródy and, particularly, János Kornai.

scholarly journals Patrimonio Paleobiológico siglo XXI: Nuevas técnicas, nuevas ideas para una nueva sociedad

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Eloísa Bernáldez-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Communication Techniques ◽  
Paleontological Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

<p>Paleontological heritage of Andalusia is one of the cultural and natural wealth most neglected of the universities and Spanish government. After years of efforts by some paleontologists decided that the new communication techniques can help you understand the value of this heritage in the knowledge of our environment and our species. The fossil history has always been well received and understood by society, we cannot say the government, and in this situation a group of paleontologists have decided to present a project to disseminate this heritage through new techniques and virtual informative new approaches. Six flagg-fossil will be the subject of study and dissemination techniques in an upcoming virtual IAPH project to introduce the natural and cultural history of Andalusia for more than 500 million years ago until today.</p>

scholarly journals Shaping the Discourse on Modernity

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
Joris van Eijnatten ◽  
Ed Jonker ◽  
Willemijn Ruberg ◽  
Joes Segal
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Practical Reality ◽  
History Of

In this opening article, the editors of History, Culture and Modernity provide an overview of recent debates relating to “modernity”, inviting prospective authors to participate in a reflexive conversation on this contested concept, which is, at the same time, a practical reality. Modernity is on endless trial, suggesting evaluation and permanent criticism. The most disputed aspects of modernity range from its supposedly secular character and its strong connection to western science. Responses to these and other conspicuous features of modernity include Romanticism and various critiques of Enlightenment rationality, but also artistic modernism and the postcolonial attack on Eurocentrism. New approaches to the study of modernity try to accept its ambiguity, rather than reaffirm the conventional binary approach, and pay more attention to global and experiential aspects. A cultural history of modernity can help to expand such new approaches.

scholarly journals 1989 as a mimetic revolution: Russia and the challenge of post-communism

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sakwa
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Different Order ◽  
Political Logic

Various terms have been used to describe the momentous events of 1989, including Jürgen Habermas’s ‘rectifying revolution,’ and my own notion of 1989 as a type of ‘anti-revolution’: repudiating not only what had come before, but also denying the political logic of communist power, as well as the emancipatory potential of revolutionary socialism in its entirety. In the event, while the negative agenda of 1989 has been fulfilled, it failed in the end to transcend the political logic of the systems that collapsed at that time. This paper explores the unfulfilled potential of 1989. Finally, 1989 became more of a counter- rather than an anti-revolution, replicating in an inverted form the practices of the mature state socialist regimes. The paucity of institutional and intellectual innovation arising from 1989 is striking. The dominant motif was ‘returnism,’ the attempt to join an established enterprise rather than transforming it. Thus, 1989 can be seen as mimetic revolution, in the sense that it emulated systems that were not organically developed in the societies in which they were implanted. For Eastern Europe ‘returning’ to Europe appeared natural, but for Russia the civilizational challenge of post-communism was of an entirely different order. There could be no return, and instead of a linear transition outlined by the classic transitological literature, Russia’s post-communism demonstrated that the history of others could not be mechanically transplanted from one society to another.

Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation.

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-413
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of
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