scholarly journals Traditional Music as the Sound of Space: Examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Amra Toska
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Musical Expression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Elements Of Style

The connection between the traditional music and its ambient through the existing physical space, a product of nature and human activity, is reflected in the social and musical behaviour (elements of style), acoustic phenomena and rules, and in the inner architecture or structure of the particular traditional musical expression.

Feminist Interpretations of Action and the Public in Hannah Arendt’s Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Noémi Bíró
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Feminism ◽  
Definition Of

"Feminist Interpretations of Action and the Public in Hannah Arendt’s Theory. Arendt’s typology of human activity and her arguments on the precondition of politics allow for a variety in interpretations for contemporary political thought. The feminist reception of Arendt’s work ranges from critical to conciliatory readings that attempt to find the points in which Arendt’s theory might inspire a feminist political project. In this paper I explore the ways in which feminist thought has responded to Arendt’s definition of action, freedom and politics, and whether her theoretical framework can be useful in a feminist rethinking of politics, power and the public realm. Keywords: Hannah Arendt, political action, the Public, the Social, feminism "

scholarly journals Memory and Conflict: Interviews with Youth of the Bosnian War

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Future Outlook ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
The University ◽  
Media Project

This paper was part of a multi-media project presented at the University of Gdańsk in September 2015. It examines the preliminary findings of interviews conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and over Skype in July and August of 2015. Eight participants—ranging in age, gender, religion, ethnicity, place of origin, and other profiling components—answered questions regarding past memories of childhood interrupted by the 1992-1995 war, how those memories affect personal identity and current views on the social, political, and economic conditions of BiH, and future outlook with particular attention focused on reconciliation. All names have been changed. For reference purposes, the list of abbreviations and bibliography is included at the end.

scholarly journals HERZEGOVINIAN TOBACCO HERITAGE: THE FLOURISHING OF PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT SMAGGLING AND FOREMOST SMUGGLING ROUTES

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 69-94
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Industrial Processing ◽  
Production Development ◽  
Tobacco Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tobacco Cultivation

This article analyzes the historical - geographical features and changes in tobacco cultivation in Herzegovina (region of Bosnia and Herzegovina), for a period of 17 century until the late 20th century. The aim of this paper is to investigate the importance of tobacco, both in terms of economic and social significance, and the valorization of rural areas in Herzegovina. Special attention was paid to the smuggling of products, focusing on the time and route of smuggling routes. During the Austro - Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the most important period for the production of tobacco and the social and economic prosperity in rural areas, but also smuggling tobacco during this period, and the most intense, and the fight against it. In this period began in the industrial processing of tobacco and manufacturing cigarettes. Since the 1970s appears outflow of population from rural to industrial centers, both locally and in Western European countries. It happens layering the villages, leaving the agricultural lands and start a negative impact on agricultural production which causes the marginalization of tobacco production.

scholarly journals Srebrenica is not a Metaphor

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-64
Author(s):  
Sarina Bakić
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Temporal Dimensions ◽  
Further Development

The author will emphasize the importance of both the existence and the further development of the Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center, in the context of the continued need to understand the genocide that took place in and around Srebrenica, from the aspect of building a culture of remembrance throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). This is necessary in order to continue fighting the ongoing genocide denial. At first glance, a culture of remembrance presupposes immobility and focus on the past to some, but it is essentially dynamic, and connects three temporal dimensions: it evokes the present, refers to the past but always deliberates over the future. In this paper, the emphasis is placed on the concept of the place of remembrance, the lieu de memoire as introduced by the historian Pierre Nora. In this sense, a place of remembrance such as the Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center is an expression of a process in which people are no longer just immersed in their past but read and analyze it in the present. Furthermore, looking to the future, they also become mediators of relations between people and communities, which in sociological theory is an important issue of social relations. The author of this paper emphasizes that collective memory in the specific case of genocide in and around Srebrenica is only possible when the social relations around the building (Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center) crystallize, which is then much more than just the content of the culture of remembrance.

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence in the service of man: medical, social and economic aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 619-626
Author(s):  
Svetlana Gennadevna Karamysheva ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev ◽  
Elena Mikhailovna Kiseleva ◽  
Alexandra G. Polyakova ◽  
Sergey Barinov
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
A Company ◽  
Robotic Technologies

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies have recently been increasingly used in various areas of human activity. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to consider the medical, social and economic aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in various spheres of human activity. The reason for people turning to the above-mentioned innovations is to expand a number of human capabilities, increase labor productivity, reduce the negative impact of the human factor, etc. The social aspect of the use of robotic technologies should also not be underestimated. The economic aspects of the use of artificial intelligence and robotic technologies are the possibility of optimizing the number of labor resources, replacing a whole staff of auxiliary workers, which can significantly reduce the salary fund in general and the costs of a company using such technologies, in particular.

scholarly journals The Gift of Qurbani Meat: Ethnological Reflections

Illuminatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-209
Author(s):  
Ugo Vlaisavljević
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
The Sacrifice

The article considers two customs traditionally followed by Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Eid Al-Aḍḥā (‘Festival of Sacrifice’ or Kurban Bayram). These are, first, giving a small amount of money, so-called bayramlık, to children as a reward or gift in return for handing out Qurbani meat to neighbors, and, second, giving the meat to non-Muslims. The topic will be explored in the light of Marcel Mauss’s seminal essay on the gift, since Qurbani appears as a gift that identifies, marks and renews the social bonds not only of close relatives, but also of friends and neighbors. In this context too, we will meet what Jacques Derrida calls the aporia of the gift. The slaughtering of Qurbani animal is a true gift, precisely because it is an impossible gift. It may be considered as a giftless giving: although the sacrifice is unthinkable without the slaughtered animal, it cannot be a gift to God. However, after the human act of sacrifice is performed, it is God Who makes the gift to men - because He commands that the victim’s meat must be shared. It is then to be understood not as a returned gift, but as an act of God’s hospitality, which gives to men the very possibility of gift giving. It is argued that the two Bosnian customs draw their ultimate meaning from the divine hospitality vividly experienced in the ritual of sacrifice.

Social Partnership and Distance in Representations of Subjects of Pedagogical Processes (Group Research)

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
Anna Mihailovna Molokostova ◽  
Irina Sergeevna Yakimanskaya ◽  
Milyausha Yakubovna Ibragimova
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Spatial Component ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Diagnostic Sign ◽  
The Social

The environmental approach in the humanities has become widespread due to the request of pedagogical and organizational practice. The spatial component can be diagnosed, built, or adjusted by measuring and controlling the social distance between the subjects of the educational process. The indicator of social distance is a diagnostic sign of trust and security in the educational process. The measured characteristics of physical space, including distance to objects, are used to describe the perceived positions in society and in relation to other participants of interaction. Contradictions and conflicts appear as a result of divergence in perceived social distances that determine the attitudes and norms of interaction between subjects of the educational process. The chapter showed that the conditionally unfavorable environment is characterized by the fact that perceived social distances are more important up to the preference not to see other subjects of the educational process.

scholarly journals Douala as a “hybrid space”: Comparing online and offline representations of a sub-Saharan city

Semiotica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (223) ◽  
pp. 219-250
Author(s):  
Marta Pucciarelli ◽  
Sara Vannini
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The City

Abstract This study investigates the complex relationship between the physical and digital spaces of the city of Douala, Cameroon by comparing its online representation with the social representations emerging orally by locals. Using the results of two existing studies reporting on the online image of the city, we investigate the social representations foreigners and locally relevant people have of Douala and uncover similarities and discrepancies of the two resulting representations. Outcomes from the analysis permit reflection on the implications of these and show an unripe, intermediate stage of the “hybrid Douala,” where the virtual space seems still not to be affecting the way the physical space is experienced, as well as where the gaps in the digital divide are perpetuated. At the same time, strong local ownership of certain digital activities suggests how the online image of the city is in the process of being constructed and developed locally. As the spaces of the city start appearing online, the process of hybridization between physical and digital Douala is slowly taking place and offline and online narratives, now rather separated, will possibly communicate a different image of the city to global online narratives.

Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (01) ◽  
pp. 109-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Abrutyn
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Pain ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Self Harm

AbstractThough anomie is one of sociology’s most unique conceptual contributions, its progenitor, Emile Durkheim, was notably ambiguous about its meaning. Consequently, its use in contemporary sociology has varied wildly. In part, the confusion surrounding anomie stems from Durkheim’s insistence that it iscausedbyderegulation, which has resisted operationalization. Nevertheless, careful consideration of the “four faces” of anomie most prominent in the sociological canon—that is, (1) the anomic division of labor, (2) anomic suicide, (3) Mertonian strain, and (4) the micro-level symbolic-cultural versions—reveals that disruption and disintegration, rather than deregulation, are the common threads woven through each. Drawing from this insight, a new theoretical conceptualization for anomie is offered that defines it as (a) a social psychological force operating at both the (b) individual- or “meso”/corporate unit-level of social reality that results from (c) chronic or acutedisruptionsthat, in turn, generate (d) real or imagined disintegrative pressures. Furthermore, disruptions are not only predicated on the real or imagined loss of social ties (dissolution), but also on the real or imagined loss of attachment to a coherent social reality (disjunction) and/or physical space (dislocation). This recalibration allows anomie to enter into deeper dialogue with a wide range of other phenomena that may in fact share some overlapping elements with anomie related to the pain of potentially losing cherished social relationships and the motivation toward self-harm, anti-socialandeven pro-social behaviors to escape this social pain.

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