scholarly journals ACTUALIZATION OF HISTORICAL MEMORY IN THE DEBATE ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORICAL IMAGE OF A TOWN

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-266
Author(s):  
Алина Полякова
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Local Newspaper ◽  
Kaluga Region ◽  
Historical Image ◽  
The Town ◽  
Shed Light

Статья посвящена анализу стратегий аргументаций, которые используют стороны, участвующие в обсуждении практик сохранения исторического и архитектурного облика города. В статье проводится анализ аргументационных и риторических стратегий на примере конфликта, возникшего вокруг разрушения историко-архитектурной среды города Боровска в Калужской области в 2018 году. Исследование основывается на публикациях федеральных и региональных СМИ. Обращается особое внимание на оформление стратегий аргументации сторонами конфликта, которая отражается в городской газете. В анализе выделены типы аргументов участников столкновения (активисты-градозащитники, администрация города, местные жители) и типы отношения к историческому облику города. В статье подчеркивается, что речевые акты участников можно рассматривать как часть исторического и социального дискурса. Это позволяет включить в исследование проблему исторической памяти местного сообщества, которая раскрывает лежащую в основании конфликта необходимость обновления опыта исторического облика города через сохранение его архитектурного комплекса. The article focuses on the argumentation strategies that were implemented during the discussion concerning the practices of preservation of the historical and architectural heritage of the town of Borovsk in Kaluga region. An analysis is provided of the arguments and rhetoric during the clash that followed the destruction of the historical and architectural heritage of Borovsk in 2018. The research is based on the publications of federal and regional media. It specifically pays attention to the formation of the argumentation strategies that were employed by all sides of the conflict in a local newspaper. Arguments that the participants (activists defending the urban heritage, the local administration, and the town’s inhabitants) used during the clash and types of attitudes towards the historical image of Borovsk are all emphasized in the analysis. The article considers the participants’ speech acts as a part of historical and social discourse. This approach will allow to shed light on the problem of the historical memory of the local community and point towards the necessity of the renewal of the historical experience of the town and its architectural heritage.

scholarly journals Town and Places of Memory: the Case of Idrija

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
Robert Jereb
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Brass Band ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Technological Capital ◽  
The Town

The evolution of Idrija, the oldest mining town in Slovenia, has always been affiliated with the extraction of mercury-rich ore, which is why the settlement was shaped as an agglomeration alongside the mining shafts and objects. The extraction of mercury also brought about the flow of knowledge. Knowledge, as well as attitudes towards it, gained great importance in the town, being considered a technological capital, and one of the founding characteristics of the Idrija habitus, which also encompasses a wide spectrum of the town’s imaginarium. Parts of this are definitely the heritage of mining, architectural heritage, and non-material (living) heritage, represented primarily by Idrija lace, the Miners’ Brass Band, and culinary specialties (žlikrofi). The characteristics and achievements of the mining activity, local culture and community are all listed on the UNESCO world heritage list. The most important places of the imaginarium of the town are the restored individual important objects and machinery, and certain places which held an important historical memory and thus became the founding identity of the network. Everything that was left out, and remained unrestored, dislocated from the visual field, is slowly fading from the consciousness of the community, despite the fact that some of these places held an important historical value, and thus they are losing an identifying role and symbolic meaning to the community. The image of the town has, for centuries, been dual: the mining and bourgeois bottom of the valley and the miners’ dwellings in the margins. Such a memory of the town is slowly fading away, although individual exceptional buildings and devices, in which the heritage of the town and mining are concentrated, still stand out.

scholarly journals Town and Places of Memory: the Case of Idrija

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-233
Author(s):  
Robert Jereb
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
Mining Town ◽  
Brass Band ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Technological Capital ◽  
The Town

The evolution of Idrija, the oldest mining town in Slovenia, has always been affiliated with the extraction of mercury-rich ore, which is why the settlement was shaped as an agglomeration alongside the mining shafts and objects. The extraction of mercury also brought about the flow of knowledge. Knowledge, as well as attitudes towards it, gained great importance in the town, being considered a technological capital, and one of the founding characteristics of the Idrija habitus, which also encompasses a wide spectrum of the town’s imaginarium. Parts of this are definitely the heritage of mining, architectural heritage, and non-material (living) heritage, represented primarily by Idrija lace, the Miners’ Brass Band, and culinary specialties (žlikrofi). The characteristics and achievements of the mining activity, local culture and community are all listed on the UNESCO world heritage list. The most important places of the imaginarium of the town are the restored individual important objects and machinery, and certain places which held an important historical memory and thus became the founding identity of the network. Everything that was left out, and remained unrestored, dislocated from the visual field, is slowly fading from the consciousness of the community, despite the fact that some of these places held an important historical value, and thus they are losing an identifying role and symbolic meaning to the community. The image of the town has, for centuries, been dual: the mining and bourgeois bottom of the valley and the miners’ dwellings in the margins. Such a memory of the town is slowly fading away, although individual exceptional buildings and devices, in which the heritage of the town and mining are concentrated, still stand out.

Free Expression and Judicial Power in Colombia, India, and South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Sandra Botero ◽  
Rachel Ellett ◽  
Thomas M. Keck ◽  
Stephan Stohler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Judicial Power ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Judicial Authority ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract The growth of judicial power globally has renewed scholarly debates about who benefits from increased judicial authority. Using original data, we examine the full universe of constitutional free expression decisions issued by three apex courts—in Colombia, India, and South Africa—across three categories of disputes that feature a diverse array of rights claimants. By so doing, we shed light on the limits of elite-driven accounts of judicial empowerment. We find that even where constitutional courts are empowered by elites seeking to advance their own interests, activist courts can develop a practice of rights-protection that benefits a diverse range of less powerful actors. Moreover, regardless of whether the speech claimants are elite or non-elite actors, these three apex courts regularly rule in favor of free expression for dissenting or unorthodox speech acts. In sum, where issues are peripheral to the governing regime’s core interests, relatively powerless actors are sometimes able to use legal processes to advance their rights and interests.

scholarly journals Free or paid: the uses of Roses Citadel (Catalonia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Josep Burch ◽  
Modest Fluvià ◽  
Ricard Rigall ◽  
Albert Saló ◽  
Gabriel Alcalde
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Economic Analyses ◽  
Social Use ◽  
The Town

Purpose The Roses Citadel is a bastioned fortification that has archaeological remains from the Greek, Roman and medieval periods in its interior. Currently, the area inside the Citadel is used for a wide range of activities; some directly related with the heritage item, others associated with its use as a public space for the town. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic interest of charging an entrance fee vs the alternative of free access and offers a framework to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach The proposal is to consider the marginal cost of increasing the number of users and to carry out a travel cost analysis. It is vital to take into account the results of specifically economic analyses, but the evaluations of social policies should also be considered, and should have a considerable weight in decision making. Findings It is proposed that free entry would bring about an increase in the number of visitors and users of Roses Citadel. In turn, this increase would lead to a greater social use of this heritage asset, and a chance for the least privileged sectors of society to use the site more. Financial resources for the maintenance of the asset would not be raised through entry fees, but through contributions relating to the increase in the social consideration of the site. Originality/value In the context of a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of paying an entry fee for heritage assets, the example of Roses Citadel provides several factors for consideration. It shows that payment of an entry fee affects use of the site by society, and particularly by the local community, whereas free access leads to a wide range of opportunities for use.

scholarly journals 3D MODELING FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ITS HISTORICAL MEMORY

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W3 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
M. Campi ◽  
A. di Luggo ◽  
S. Scandurra
Keyword(s):  
Point Cloud ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Laser Scanner ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Original Structure ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Current State ◽  
Virtual Reconstruction ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

The object of this paper is one of the most ancient palaces of Naples, Palazzo Penne, a fourteenth-century residential building located on a small high ground which originally was in the outer fringe of the built up area in a privileged position enabling to enjoy the landscape and gulf beauty. This building, which today is in the heart of the historical center, was the subject of an extensive analysis and documentary research, as well as of metric laser scanner survey carried out by the group researchers working at the Interdepartmental Centre of Research Urban Eco of the University of Naples Federico II. <br><br> Starting from <i>scan to bim</i> systems the creation of a parametric model of the current state of the building is completed, by bringing the point cloud elements back to objects to which historical and construction data can be associated. <br><br> Moreover starting from acquired data, the 3D model shows the reconstructive hypothesis of the original structure and the virtual reconstruction of the building based on traces found on-site and on the comparison with coeval creations allowing to properly hypothesize the design of point features.

scholarly journals Traces of French Culture in Palanga: The Historical Context of Palanga Botanical Park, Personalities, and Memory

Lituanistica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julija Paškevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Seaside Resort ◽  
French Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

The article focuses on the origins of French culture in Palanga, a Lithuanian seaside resort, that go back to the years of the rule of the Tyszkiewicz family. The emphasis is put on Palanga Botanical Park (created before the end of the nineteenth century) as the most significant trace of French culture present in the resort and the seaside region until now. The specific symbols in the park created according to the will of the Counts Tyszkiewicz reflect the actualities of French culture. The importance of this space in the city is revealed, and Édouard François André’s principles of park creation are discussed in a new context. They are related to the dialogue that has been established between the residents of Palanga, the park, its creator, and his granddaughter Florence André since the first years of the independence of Lithuania. In order to give a meaning to Édouard André’s creation and to the relationship between the two countries, the correspondence between the great-granddaughter of the famous French landscape designer and the former director of the park, Antanas Sebeckas, is disclosed. It reflects the endeavour of these two personalities and its value for the international relations in representing French culture to the public. Florence André’s letters to the author of this article are also an important resource as she explains the reasons why the park plays an essential role in Palanga. It is shown how certain personal life events (Florence André’s wedding ceremony in Palanga, the park created by her great-grandfather) have become an inclusive part of the history of the town and represent intercultural relations and exchanges. The article is also based on some memories and narratives of the members of the local community in which the park features as a symbol and tradition of the city.

Řečové akty omluvy u českých studentů v angličtině (L2): vybrané výsledky pilotáže

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-188
Author(s):  
Marie Vališová
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Pragmatic Competence ◽  
Shed Light

During the second half of the 20th century, there was a shift in focus in second language acquisition research from linguistic competence to communicative and pragmatic competence (Hymes, 1972; Canale & Swain, 1980; Canale, 1983; Bachman, 1990; Bachman & Palmer, 1996; Usó-Juan & Martínez-Flor, 2006). This resulted in a growing number of studies on speech acts in general. Motivated by a lack of studies on the speech acts of apology in conversations of Czech learners of English as a foreign language, my dissertation project aims to shed light on apology strategies used by Czech university students.

Can the Past Serve the Present? The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Megan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nanjing Massacre ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Shed Light

The memorialization of the Nanjing Massacre, constructed almost fifty years after the event, poses challenges for historians. This article asks the simple question: why? Why has the evolution of memory in China and Japan circumvented the issues of Nanjing for nearly half a century before letting it erupt onto the international stage in the past few decades? By examining the circumstances surrounding the opening of Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and its ensuing impact, this article not only attempts to shed light on how the memorial has been misconstrued in global historical memory, and the fundamental historiographical debates surrounding it, but also the utility of memory in historical narrative. When dealing with the ghosts of the past in the politics of the present, is it ever possible to purge historiography and memory of government?

The Making and Unmaking of Local Democracy in an Indian Village

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vani S. Kulkarni
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Deliberative Processes ◽  
Shed Light

This study is an ethnographic investigation of a gram sabha (village assembly), the cornerstone of local democracy, in Soonaghalli, in the Mandya district of Southern Karnataka, India. Observation of the meeting and informal, open-ended conversations with the key actors illuminated how democratic policies that are conceived at the global level are practiced and experienced by local community members. The article speaks to the significance of moving beyond the prevailing politico-institutional framework of democracy that is dominated by concerns about formal regime shifts and focusing on informal practices that contribute to the making and unmaking of democratic governance. The findings shed light on the varied forms that deliberative processes take and on multiple meanings of deliberative cultures, emphasizing the need for a comparative sociological inquiry into democratic practices for a richer formulation of democratic theory.

scholarly journals Social – Cultural Sustainability of a Local Community through Visual Identification on the Example of the Town of Zabok

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Siniša Hajdaš Dončić ◽  
Nikola Đurek
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Visual Identification ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Town ◽  
Public Politics

AbstractIn order for a local community to set up mechanisms for shaping and enforcing public politics which strengthen local communities, historical research that would lead to the identity of a local community must be conducted thus enabling the identification of the community as a tourist destination. Analytical-synthetic method will be used to define the concept of a local community, that is the sustainability of a local community as one element of sustainability in general, as well as the concept of a tourist destination. The identity of a local community may be presented using basic means of visual communication (graphic design, typography, photography, illustration), which if defined and applied appropriately, will improve the distinguished identity of a local community.

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