Locuire și spațiu în romanul românesc (1845-1947)

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Maria Chiorean ◽  
Mihnea Bâlici ◽  
Cătălina Stanislav ◽  
Andreea Mîrț ◽  
Ovio Olaru ◽  
...  

This article aims to investigate the depiction of living space(s) and architecture in the Romanian novel between 1844 and 1947. It has a descriptive dimension, discussing the construction of fictional worlds through a series of key-issues: a fascination with urban spaces (with the centralization/ provincialization of urban imagery), the function allowed to women vs. men in various social spheres (certain rooms, certain public fora), the disintegration of urban families, precarious living on the fringes of urban society etc. The authors map the occurrence of such new phenomena or spatial mutations, commenting on their historical context and scope (through statistical analysis). At the same time, there is a more reflexive, theoretical side to our research. Drawing on the work of theorists like Bertrand Westphal, Henri Lefebvre, Nirmal Puwar, and Habermas (to name but a few), this article asks many vital questions pertaining to geocriticism and sociocriticism alike: what is the difference between a place and fictional space; how can we define the public and the private sphere in the Romanian novel through issues like political participation and representation, exclusion, agency, and the right to leisure; how exactly do social norms and relationships contribute to the construction and the organisation of novelistic space?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 542-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Kanyamuna

A whole-of-government monitoring and evaluation system (WoGM&ES) is a robust system that not only provides an integrated and all-encompassing framework of M&E practices, principles and standards to be used throughout government institutional structures, but also functions as an apex-level system for information and draws from the component systems in a framework meant to deliver essential M&E products tailored to satisfy information needs of users [1]. To implement a successful WoGM&ES, a supportive policy environment is crucial for any organisation, governments inclusive. The Zambian government is currently rolling out an ambitious WoGM&ES to strengthen its public sector accountability, feedback and learning functions. It was the objective of this study to investigate the policy environment in Zambia in respect of M&E practice in the public sector. In that regard, particular policy aspects were considered and these included assessing the availability of an M&E plan; whether the difference between M (monitoring) and E (evaluation) was recognised; and if the need for M&E autonomy and impartiality was mentioned. Others were to determine if feedback mechanisms were explicit as well as whether there was integration of M&E results in planning and budgeting processes. The study findings have shown that the policy environment to support a thriving M&E practice in the Zambian public sector was still fragmented and weak. While efforts by government to put policy measures were in place, evidence of transformational shift to implement these measures remained weak. However, it is promising that, in many ways, Zambia was on the right path regarding the introduction and articulation of policy provisions in support of M&E and broadly in promoting a culture of results.     


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-395
Author(s):  
Agostino Marchetto

The contribution starts with a status quaestionis which concerns its title about the hermeneutics of Vatican ii, well based in historical background. The roots are grounded in the difference between “event” and “occurrence” – in italian “evento” e “avvenimento”. This is linked with the change in the perspective of historiography realized in the first part of the last century. The vision of continuity (see “Annales”) was put aside, introducing the one of “events”, which are linked with “ruptures” and not continuity in the course of history. With this frame we can understand that in the one of the Church there must be consideration for the hermeneutics expressed finally in the formula of the title closed by a question mark, that is: D.H.: rupture or reform and renewal in the continuity of the unique subject the Church? The answer is: no rupture in discontinuity but reform and renewal. The initial input of the contribution are the speeches of Pope Francis in the U.S.A. and U.N., an answer to the actual Sitz im Leben as far as religious freedom in nowadays society, 50 years after D.H., in a moment in which more attention is given to the texts of Vatican ii, concretely avoiding to consider “the Council of the Press” (Pope Benedict) instead of the one “of the conciliar Fathers” (= participants). The procedure of the author is certainly inspired by the volume Vatican ii. La liberté religieuse, ed. by J. Hamer and Y. Congar. The first point of attention therefore in the analysis is “homogeneous evolution of the pontifical doctrine on the matter”. It is a fundamental vision which allows even a dogmatic evolution, if it is homogeneous. In fact, the Declaration represented a development of the doctrine, a step forward in the progress of civilization, a progress in the catholic doctrine but in the line of no contradiction. And at this point the thoughts of the two fundamental pillars allowing this step forward are presented; they are J. Courtney Murray and P. Pavan. Very important is the Courtney’s statement in this regard, the following: “The doctrine of D.H. is in plenitude traditional, but it is also new, in the sense that tradition is always a developing and progressive tradition”. The author presents later on some essential elements of the right to religious freedom, with the most important and solemn affirmation in the text (N. 2): This Vatican Council declares that the human person has the right to religious freedom. It is truly an historical affirmation in the life of the Church and also for the human family. It follows the study of the relation between religious freedom and the public powers and the illustration of the education to exercise freedom under the light of the Revelation. In the final part of the essay the author analyses…some consequences of D.H. without forgetting a judgment about the actual situation of religious freedom in the world which is becoming always more serious and worrying. Here two citations of Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Secretary of the Relations with the States of the Papal Secretariat, are exemplary, that is: “Unfortunately we have to admit that for years the question of the violence against Christians was not taken in serious consideration. – He concluded: Even if we cannot speak of persecution in the old continent [Europe] nevertheless we must not underestimate the rather alarming phenomenon of the intolerance of religious character”.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 134-149
Author(s):  
Vladimir Nizov

The article discusses problems of the constitutional regulation of property rights and property itself. The research has been narrowed down to the features of public property regulation in the Russian Federation. The relevance of the research is explained by the process of the reform in the public property administration in Russian Federation, which has transferring of the state property to some legal entities of public law as distinguished feature. The author proposes the historical analysis of the property regulation’s development and the role of the Constitution in this process. The comparative instruments are used to show the main preconditions and trends of public property regulation in Russia and other countries. The author argues the Russian Federation is going on the process of the property regulation construction and the modern stage sees the Constitution as a main axiological filter for that. Meanwhile, the Russian legal system has several obstacles in this way: the limitation of the direct force of the Constitution, the spoiled separation of power, etc. The importance of the system of the check and balances in the property administration is noted. Thus, the research explains the differences between the system of the separation of power in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Russia. The author discloses the distinguishing features of the public property the state needs to account in the process of the property transition to public law entities. The critic overview of detailed property regulation in the Constitution’s text is expressed. The author notes constitutional provisions that regulate property issues are features of the post-socialist states. The difference between property rights and sovereign rights is also enclosed in the article. The justification of the right to administrate public property is provided, the research explains the importance of the justification in public property administration and its role in democratic societies, especially in the Russian Federation. The privatization and decentralization of the public property administration are needed to be explained the effectiveness and stability of these decisions. Additionally, the author argues that public property must have more concrete regulation because it needs more complex rules for just and effective administration. The conclusion of the article explains the linkage between the constitutional ideal and the development of public property regulation.


This singular production has hitherto been found only in a small lake in Carniola, called Sitticher See, and has never yet been met with in other large lakes of the neighbourhood, although these be known to communicate with the former by subterraneous channels. The specimens which have as yet reached either the public or private collections are so few, that all the descriptions hitherto given by Laurenti, Scopoli, Herman, Schneider, and Gmelin, have been found equally defective and erroneous, especially as to the anatomical con­struction, which, indeed, those able naturalists have scarcely had opportunities of investigating. This defect probably gave rise to a difference of opinion concerning the class to which this animal is to be annumerated; some considering it as a species arrived at its degree of perfection, while others maintain that it is the larva of some kind of lizard hitherto unknown. The principal object of this paper is to offer so circumstantial a description of the different parts of this animal as to enable physio­logists to determine the point hitherto undecided. The specimen from which this description was taken measured about thirteen inches in length, and one inch in diameter; the fore part of the head was flat and narrow, somewhat resembling the bill of a duck : the upper lip projected considerably beyond the lower one. No external traces of nostrils, ears or eyes could be discovered. Of the latter, however, some indications are thought to have been perceived on a living specimen. On each side of the occiput was an opening, like those of fishes; and over them certain branchial appendages, similar to those in tadpoles and other larvæ of amphibious animals; whence probably arose the difference of opinions concerning the nature of this animal. From the description here given, we are to infer, that the construc­tion of these parts, when carefully examined, differs materially from those as well of fishes as of tadpoles or other larvæ.


2019 ◽  
pp. 103-144
Author(s):  
Ana María Restrepo Rodriguez

La reivindicación de la identidad afrodescendiente en la ciudad de Medellín ha sido, y sigue siendo, un largo proceso de disputa por la ciudad. Desde las décadas de los setenta y ochenta la percepción de una comunidad afrodescendiente, y por lo tanto de su diferencia, obligó a conformar lugares de socialización desde los que se empezaron a dar procesos de identificación y autorreconocimiento. En la década de los noventa y en años recientes, otras estrategias han hecho evidente la presencia y la disputa por el reconocimiento y el derecho a pertenecer: la movilización social y la fiesta irrumpen en el espacio público, activan campos de poder cultural e interpelan a los otros para reivindicar la diferencia, otras memorias de la ciudad y del ser medellinense. Abstract: The identity claims for the afro-descendant people in the city of Medellin has been, and it is still so, a long process of dispute for the city. Since the decades of the seventies and eighties the perception of an afrodescendant community, and therefore of its difference, forced to shape places for socialization. In these places the process of identification and self-recognition began. In the decade of the nineties, and in recent years, other strategies have made evident the presence of afro-descendant communities and its dispute for recognition and for the right to belong: social mobilization and celebration burst in the public space, activating fields of cultural power, claiming the difference to the-others, anothers memory of the city and about being a medellinense. Keywords: territory, territoriality, territorialization, afro-descendant identity, cities, social mobilization, memory, Medellín.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Gellert

COVID-19 is exploiting U.S. political and cultural polarization in the first presidential election to be driven by epidemiology and public health. Medical science is on the ballot as Americans’ views on economic re-opening fracture according to party affiliation. The difference between pro aggressive versus incremental re-opening, mask wearing and social distancing is rooted in respect for, or denial of, the science of epidemiological pandemic disease control. Political leaders at multiple levels, and in particular the president, have politicized the wearing of face masks and so intentionally obscured and misinformed the public regarding the objectively and scientifically proven value of these protective measures. The presidential election rests at a fundamental level upon an individual choice of whether to accept or “believe” value-neutral, evidence-based science or an unethical decision to be swayed by political disinformation. The persistent and highly dysfunctional political and cultural polarization of the U.S. is now enabling and reinforcing the ethics of science denial, while driving the nation’s public health fate and near- to medium-term economic outcomes. However, mask wearing, social distance and sheltering are not political expressions, and the right to freedom of expression does not include behaviors that produce or could produce serious, and in the case of this pandemic, deadly impact on other citizens. One does not have the right to forms of political or other expression that kill or make ill other individuals.


Author(s):  
Liudmyla Mamchur ◽  
Valerii Syttsevoi

Keywords: orphan work, copyright, work digitization, public domain, propertyrights of the author, term of copyright The authors insist on the need todifferentiate the terms «orphan work» and «public domain work». It is connected withthe necessity to follow reasonable balance between the property interest of the authoror his successors and the public interest in reasonable use of the work in order to improvethe current legal field.It is substantiated that the existing copyright system, which provides to pay royaltyfor every use of the work for its author for 70 years or more, conflicts with theneeds of society in modern digital age. It is necessary to get permission from the copyrightholder to digitize a work to make it available. For orphan works it is difficult.The traditional copyright system should provide an exception for orphan works. It isformulated that permission to use such works must be granted by a specially authorizedstate body if there is any evidence that the user has taken all possible measuresto find the copyright holder, but has not been successful.Analysis of the content of theoretical and legal definitions of the terms «orphanwork» and «public domain work» shows that the presence or absence of ongoing protectionof property rights of the author is a key factor in the difference. Such rightsare still valid for orphan works, and therefore the permission of the right holder touse such a work is required. Meanwhile, the «public domain work» includes workswhich the term of copyright has expired. Therefore, the work can be used without permission.So, the approach that an orphan work becomes public domain is incorrect.On a basis of analysis of legislation conclusions is drawn that it is inexpedient touse too voluminous definition of the term «orphan work». It is argued that the systemof issuing permits for use of orphan works by the state bodies at request of a potentialuser must be defined in legislation.


Yuridika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Adi Al Fatah Wallad

The development of the authorities which have the right stop a certain prosecution and case overriding in Indonesia has led to multiple interpretations, especially relating to the policy of the public prosecutor to postpone prosecution on grounds of public interest. Postponement of a prosecution or investigation should not be known in Indonesian criminal procedure law, but this practice is applied several times when it is related to one of the personnel of the KPK. In fact, the Attorney General once issued a decision to set aside the case of Bibit and Chandra after the pretrial ruling stated that the prosecution of the two men was invalid. Some of these problems have led to the blurring of the concept of stopping and delaying the prosecution and overriding of the case. The termination of the prosecution aims to stop the prosecution process while the delay in the prosecution does not stop the prosecution process but rather to delay it for a certain period of time or until the cessation of the commotion in the community and the case overriding aim to provide legal immunity against perpetrators of criminal offenses which should be based on sufficient evidence to be submitted to the court hearing but not submitted on grounds of public interest.


Author(s):  
K. I. Shneyder ◽  

In modern historiography, the phenomenon of "celebrity" attracts close attention of specialists and experts. The study of this phenomenon is closely related to the history of the emergence and development of the public sphere, publicity, public and public opinion. The article examines the historical context of the formation of the public sphere in Russia in the second half of the 18th – the first half of the 19th centuries; the conceptual points of Jürgen Haber-mas’s model and Antoine Lilti’s theory, which are the main methodological guidelines for investigating the construc-tion of "celebrity" in public space; and the opinions of modern researchers on the issue. The author draws attention to the temporal features of the genesis of the public sphere in the conditions of the existence of an autocratic regime in Russia. The article presents a version of the multifactorial and multi-temporal history of the Europeanization of Rus-sia in the 18th century, which in short period helped integrate Russia into the context of modern European processes. In accordance with it, the society first experienced “Peter's Europeanization”, a purely foreign policy wave, thanks to which an imperial state emerged with the right to participate in European international affairs. The natural conse-quence of the previous period was “Catherine’s Europeanization”, an internal political wave that imported Western axiology, norms and practices of European governance, changes in the everyday life of the nobility, etc. into the country. The article contains an analysis of the concrete historical situation in Russia in the first half of the 19th centu-ry, which determined the time route of movement towards the establishment of a full-fledged public space in the society. In conclusion, the main factors contributed to the formation of the phenomenon of "celebrity" in the domes-tic public sphere are determined.


Author(s):  
Onur Tümtürk

The 2013 Meeting of the World Society for Ekistics was held in Ankara, Turkey around the theme of ‘The Cities, Security and Poverty’1. The proceedings from this international meeting, edited by Meltem Yılmaz and H. Çağatay Keskinok, form an overarching account of the changing power relations in a globalized world, discussing their socio-spatial implications for human settlements with particular reference to the key issues of the weakening public sphere and communality, increasing socio-spatial fragmentation and inequalities, and emerging security problems related to both political insurgencies and environmental degradation. Although the content of the book is not structured around certain sub-headings or themes, it is possible to categorize the 18 distinctive contributions as follows: (i) changing power relations and their implications on the public sphere; (ii) spatial manifestations of changing power relations and urban segregation; (iii) crime and security problems in urban spaces; (iv) ecological transitions, sustainability issues and environmental disasters.


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