scholarly journals The First “Mrs. Japanese” of Slovenia between the Two World Wars

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-197
Author(s):  
Klara Hrvatin
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Woman ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Second World

The paper’s main aim is to bring forward Marija Skušek (born Tsuneko Kondō Kawase 近藤常子(1893–1963) and her presentations and transmission of Japanese culture to the Slovene (at that time Yugoslav) public as the first Japanese citizen who was naturalised in Slovenia. It focuses mainly on the period from 1920, when she first entered the country, until the Second World War, drawing special attention to one of her main activities––giving lectures in the years 1930–1931, and on a smaller scale 1935–1936, mostly presented to the public under the title “A Japanese about a Japanese Woman”. Such lectures testify to the Japanese-Slovenian cultural exchanges, and the cultural milieu in Slovenia in which she acted. The author takes into consideration newspaper and journals sources discussing her activities and in particular the data available from the “Archive on Marija Skušek–Tsuneko Kondō Kawase”, recently re-discovered at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum of Slovenia, where her original lecture’s manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper clips and photos are collected.

scholarly journals Architecture and Recreation as a Political Tool—Seaside Architectural Heritage of the Worker Holiday Fund (WHF) in the Era of the Polish People’s Republic (1949–1989)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Wojciech Bal ◽  
Magdalena Czałczyńska-Podolska
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Second World ◽  
New Facilities

The Worker Holiday Fund (WHF) was set up just after the Second World War as a state-dependent organization that arranged recreation for Polish workers under the socialist doctrine. The communist authorities turned organized recreation into a tool of indoctrination and propaganda. This research aims to characterize the seaside tourism architecture in the Polish People’s Republic (1949–1989) against the background of nationalized and organized tourism being used as a political tool, to typify the architecture and to verify the influence of politics on the development of holiday architecture in Poland. The research methodology is based on historical and interpretative studies (iconology, iconography and historiography) and field studies. The research helped distinguish four basic groups of holiday facilities: one form of adapted facilities (former villas and boarding houses) and three forms of new facilities (sanatorium-type, pavilion-type and lightweight temporary facilities, such as bungalows and cabins). The study found that each type of holiday facility was characterized by certain political significance and social impact. Gradual destruction was the fate of a significant part of WHF facilities, which, in the public awareness, are commonly associated with the past era of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) as an “unwanted heritage”.

scholarly journals The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur”

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-199
Author(s):  
Regina M. Frey
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Christian Worldview ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

At present, there is no societally relevant political newspaper in Germany that is based on a Christian worldview. The Rheinischer Merkur, founded in 1946 shortly after the end of the Second World War and shut down by the German Bishops’ Conference in 2010, was a newspaper of this kind. It went beyond the Christian milieu in the fulfilment of its mission in the public arena. The closure of the Rheinischer Merkur obscures even today the decisive role it played in the elaboration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the substantial quality of the paper. This essay sketches the history of the Rheinischer Merkur and its self-understanding, as well as its decline, locating these in the context of the journalistic autonomies and media-ethical tensions to which every journalistic medium is subject.

Understanding Private and Public Partnerships

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Luke Strongman
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public And Private Partnerships ◽  
Second World

New public management organisations tend to import managerial processes and behaviour from the private sector, and have been doing so in the post-Keynsian era. Increasingly those economies that were nationalised for large collective rebuilding programs after the Second World War were being deregulated and new models of management based on private enterprise and monetary accountability became the norm. This chapter provides an overview and contextual commentary on the origins of the public and private, the current era of public management, describes the characteristics of public and private partnerships; the factors of partnership performance, the characteristics of success and limitations, and concludes with a contextual discussion of Public and Private Partnerships.

scholarly journals A lost war in living memory: Japan’s Second World War

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARUKO TAYA COOK ◽  
THEODORE F. COOK
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Second World

We examine the strata of memory in Japan’s recollections of the wartime experience and explore the shaping and releasing of memory in Japan, seeking to penetrate and recover individual Japanese experience. Individual memories that seemed tightly contained, when released were told with great emotional intensity and authenticity. That there has been little public discourse does not mean that individual Japanese have forgotten that war, but that the conflict – a war with no generally accepted name or firmly fixed start or end – seems disconnected from the private memories of the wartime generation. Japan was defeated thoroughly and completely, and in the history of memory we see no well-established narrative form for telling the tale of the defeated. In Japan's public memory of the war, War itself is often the enemy, and the Japanese its victims. Such a view is ahistorical and unsatisfactory to nations and peoples throughout Asia and the Pacific. The prevailing myths during Japan's war, developed and fostered over 15 years of conflict, and the overwhelming weight of more than three million war dead on the memories of the living forged a link between a desire to honour and cherish those lost and the ways the war is recalled in the public sphere. Enforced and encouraged by government policies and private associations, protecting the dead has become a means of avoiding a full discussion of the war. The memorials and monuments to the Dead that have been created throughout Japan, Asia, and the Pacific stand silent sentry to a Legend of the war. This must be challenged by the release into the public sphere of living memories of the War in all their ambiguity, complexity, and contradiction without which Japan’s Memory can have no historical veracity. Moreover, the memories of the Second World War of other peoples can never be complete without Japan’s story.

Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Shanken
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Relations Campaign ◽  
American Institute Of Architects ◽  
Second World

Breaking the Taboo: Architects and Advertising in Depression and War chronicles the fall of a professional interdiction in architecture, precipitated by the Second World War. For much of the history of their profession in the United States, architects——unlike builders and engineers, their main competition——faced censure from the American Institute of Architects if they advertised their services. Architects established models of professional behavior intended to hold them apart from the commercial realm. Andrew M. Shanken explores how the Great Depression and the Second World War strained this outdated model of practice, placing architects within consumer culture in more conspicuous ways, redefining the architect's role in society and making public relations an essential part of presenting the profession to the public. Only with the unification of the AIA after the war would architects conduct a modern public relations campaign, but the taboo had begun to erode in the 1930s and early 1940s, setting the stage for the emergence of the modern profession.

Fragmented memories in a fragmented country: memory competition and political identity-building in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 910-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Moll
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Second World ◽  
Historical Periods

Bosnia and Herzegovina is politically fragmented, and so is the memory landscape within the country. Narratives of the 1992–1995 war, the Second World War, Tito's Yugoslavia, and earlier historical periods form highly disputed patterns in a memory competition involving representatives of the three “constituent peoples” of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks – but also non-nationalist actors within BiH, as well as the international community. By looking especially at political declarations and the practices of commemoration and monument building, the article gives an overview of the fragmented memory landscape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, pointing out the different existing memory narratives and policies and the competition between them in the public sphere, and analyzing the conflicting memory narratives as a central part of the highly disputed political identity construction processes in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper also discusses the question whether an “Europeanization” of Bosnian memory cultures could be an alternative to the current fragmentation and nationalist domination of the memory landscape in BiH.

scholarly journals MUSEUM BAWAH AIR M. V. BOELONGAN: SEBUAH GAGASAN PEMBAHARUAN MUSEUM

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dwi Kurnia Sandy ◽  
Kusumastuti Salma Fitri
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
World War ◽  
Current Management ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Second World

Museum is not only a place for storing various artifacts, but also as a media of learning. However, the current management of museums in Indonesia is still not serving visitors well. Museum is not only located on the land, but there are also underwater museums. The plan of build an underwater museum has been discussed by museum practitioners and academics. Many locations and objects that could be used as underwater museums in Indonesia, one of that is the M.V Boelongan Shipwreck. This ship was sunk by Japanese Army during the Second World War. Nowadays, M.V. Boelongan has been an attractive destination for tourism activities, such as diving. To make it more benefit, not only in economic, but also in education and preservation, build and design this shipwreck as museum is one of the best solution. It could give the chance to everyone to see the shipwreck without diving. This museum should be plan to have a modern design, easier to educate and entertain the visitors, and also to preserve it as a heritage. M.V Boelongan is a part of Indonesian maritime history, the important values should be preserved and published to the public. Selain menjadi tempat penyimpanan berbagai artefak, museum juga menjadi media pembelajaran. Namun, saat ini pengelolaan museum di Indonesia masih kurang melayani pengunjung. Museum terdapat di darat dan di perairan. Isu pembuatan museum bawah air sudah menjadi pembahasan di kalangan pecinta museum. Banyak lokasi dan objek dapat dijadikan museum bawah air di Indonesia, salah satunya adalah Kapal M.V. Boelongan. Keberadaan M.V. Boelongan menjadi sebuah daya tarik pariwisata, diantaranya wisata selam. Pembuatan museum bawah air adalah salah satu alternatif yang dapat memberikan manfaat di bidang ekonomi, pendidikan dan pelestarian. Museum Bawah Air M.V. Boelongan memungkinkan pengunjung yang tidak dapat menyelam tetap dapat menyaksikan keberadaan M.V. Boelongan di bawah air. Museum akan dirancang sesuai dengan perkembangan zaman, baik dari sisi pengelolaan maupun perancangan. Hal ini sejalan dengan paradigma museum yang sejak lama digadang-gadang, yaitu membuat museum yang mengedukasi sekaligus memberikan hiburan bagi pengunjungnya. Selain itu, dengan adanya museum dapat melindungi keberadaan bangkai kapal dan menjadi salah satu cara untuk menjaga kelestarian M.V. Boelongan. M.V Boelongan adalah bagian dari sejarah kemaritiman di Indonesia. Tinggalan budaya materi ini patut dilestarikan dan disampaikan nilai-nilainya

scholarly journals Świat wynalazków i odkryć naukowych w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym — wybrane strategie dyskursu popularnonaukowego w prasie

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 131-150
Author(s):  
Marcin Poprawa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Popularization Of Science ◽  
Second World

World of scientific discoveries in Polish popular press 1918–1939. The main strategies of popularization of knowledge in media discourseThe author of the article has two research objectives. The first one is to describe and analyse main strategies of popularization of science in Polish press 1918–1939. The article also highlights some aspects, tendencies and reception of media text media discourse: picture of the world of science and achievements, strategies used by journalists to write about difficult topics e.g. translating difficult problems into easier stylistic form, used by them rules of “Plain Language”. The second purpose of the article is to overview historical, cultural context and hidden implications persuasive strategies in the public discourse about the role of science in Poland before the Second World War.

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