scholarly journals Incomplete past in the whirlwind of balkanization: Reflections of „Eastern issue“ in the historical perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-71
Author(s):  
Safet Bandžović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Western World ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Eastern Question ◽  
Ottoman Balkans

The past and present are inseparable, "holding hands". Breakthrough epochs always influence re-thinking of the perpetrator. Everything that happened has more perspective. The dramatic flows of the 19th and 20th centuries in the Balkans, even in Bosnia and Herzegovina, can not be universally perceived as separate from the wider European / global context, geopolitical order, influence and consequences of extreme interest logic, deosmanization and balkanization models. Long-term processes outperform different time periods and spatial boundaries. In them appearances, mental circles and ideologies are slowly changing. This also applies to the content of the relief sections of the "Eastern Question" and its sleeves, whose controversial paradigms, along with policy and instrumentalized science, transcend the boundaries of the centuries and continents. The view that Muslims are "aliens" in Europe is part of a mentality known and under his mask. What is known to the foreign public, especially in the "Western world", is known about the "Ottoman Balkans" and Muslims, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosniaks, which presents serious doctrine, but also what produces quasi-narratives and tendentious publications has never been insignificant. Each historiography is a product of one's own time, whose interests often determine not only questions that, especially influential scientists, set a complex past, but also answers, resisting its different perceptions. Prejudices and negative stereotypes, whose powerful social crisis generators and wars, immune to counter-arguments arising from opposing experiences and knowledge, articulate and uncritically articulate into historiographical interpretations. The truth to which it strives is a "whole" is not in one place and in the historiography of one nation, it requires a multiperspectival narrative.

scholarly journals Addressing inequality in Malaysia through corporate social intrapreneurship

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Asrif Omar Che Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration ◽  
Social Sectors

Inequality has been a long standing issue in Malaysia, although the situation has been statistically improving over the past 40 years. From a Gini coefficient of 0.51 in 1970, the government has done considerably well to bring the figure down to 0.39 in 2016. Efforts toward improving the situation are aplenty, but there is room for improvement in terms of the coordination and collaboration of initiatives that are carried out within the public, private, and social sectors. This paper explores the idea of corporate social intrapreneurship as a potential vehicle to mitigate inequality in the country for the long term. Through the analysis of existing literatures and data on the subject, the aim is to first of all, provide a historical and global context on how the roles of corporation have evolved over the years, discuss the transformative views on social intrapreneurship against traditional corporate social responsibility, and offer considerations to further corporate social intrapreneurship initiatives through public-private partnerships in Malaysia.

scholarly journals Family Types and Intimate Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 878-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Tur-Prats
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Types

This paper examines the long-term determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) by analyzing its relationship with traditional family structures: stem families in which one child stays in the parental household and nuclear families in which all children leave the household upon marriage. My hypothesis is that coresidence with a mother-in-law increases a wife's contribution to nondomestic work, which may decrease the level of violence. I find that areas where stem families were socially predominant in the past currently have a lower IPV rate, and use differences in inheritance laws in medieval times as an instrument for the different family types.

scholarly journals Between deosmanization and balkanization: refugee’s steps of bosniak history

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-74
Author(s):  
Safet Bandžović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
Eastern Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

The past and the present are inseparable, one interprets the other. Many "long-lasting" processes go beyond local frameworks and regional borders. This also applies to the complex "Eastern question", as well as the problem of the deosmanization of the Balkans, whose political geography in the 19th and 20th centuries was exposed to radical overlaps. Wars and persecutions are important factors in the history of Balkan Muslims. In the seventies of the XIX century, they constituted half of the population in the Ottoman part of the Balkans. With war devastation, a considerable part was killed or expelled to Anadolia between 1870 and 1890. The emergent "Turkish islands" in the Balkans after 1878 were increasingly narrowed, or disappeared due to the displacement of Muslims. Multiethnic and religious color of the Balkans disturbed accounts with simple categorizations. The term "balkanization" signified, after the Balkan wars of 1912-1913, "not only the fragmentation of large and powerful political units, but became synonymous with returning tribal, backward, primitive, and barbaric." The Balkanization of "Ottoman Europe" and the violent changes in its ethnic-religious structure led to discontinuity, the erosion of history, as well as fragmentation of the minds of the remaining Muslims and their afflicted communities, the lack of knowledge of the interconnectedness of their fates. The emigration of Bosniaks and other Muslims of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds from the Balkans to various parts of the Ottoman Empire, and then to Turkey, during the XIX and XX centuries, had a number of consequences.

Long-term outcomes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Mulder ◽  
Berton Bouma ◽  
Michiel Winter
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Medical Therapy ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Western World ◽  
Corrective Surgery ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
The Past

Due to tremendous improvements in corrective surgery, and medical therapy, survival of patients with congenital heart disease has improved dramatically over the past decades, with an estimated 95% of such patients in the Western world currently reaching adulthood. Nonetheless, patients with congenital heart disease have decreased long-term outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality compared to their healthy counterparts.

scholarly journals Introduction: The Making of Sámi Religion in Contemporary Society

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
Trude Fonneland ◽  
Tiina Äikäs
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Museum Displays ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
The 19Th Century

This Special Issue of Religions approaches “Sámi religion” from a long-term perspective seeing both the past religious practices and contemporary religious expressions as aspects of the same phenomena. This does not refer, however, to a focus on continuity or to a static or uniform understanding of Sámi religion. Sámi religion is an ambiguous concept that has to be understood as a pluralistic phenomenon consisting of multiple applications and associations and widely differing interpretations, and that highlights the complexities of processes of religion-making. In a historical perspective and in many contemporary contexts (such as museum displays, media stories, as well as educational programs) the term Sámi religion is mostly used as a reference to Sámi pre-Christian religious practices, to Laestadianism, a Lutheran revival movement that spread among the Sámi during the 19th Century, and last but not least to shamanism. In this issue, we particularly aim to look into contemporary contexts where Sámi religion is expressed, consumed, and promoted. We ask what role it plays in identity politics and heritagization processes, and how different actors connect with distant local religious pasts—in other words, in which contexts is Sámi religion activated, by whom, and for what?

scholarly journals The eastern question in the parliament of the United Kingdom in 1876

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Milos Kovic
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
British Government ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Eastern Question ◽  
Almost All

This article scrutinizes the attitude of the British political elites towards the Eastern question, in the year of the beginning of the Serbian liberation and unification wars of 1876-1878. It is based on diverse sources, Hansard?s Parliamentary Debates being the most important one. The Eastern question, as geopolitical problem of the future of the Balkan and Levantine lands from which the Ottoman Empire was gradually retreating, has been considered through the confrontation of Great Britain and Russia on the wider Eurasian stage, especially in relation to their conflict in the Central Asia. The article is mainly devoted to the different interpretations, debates and conflicts in the British Parliament and public opinion, provoked by the Serbian uprising in Herzegovina and Bosnia, atrocities in Bulgaria, and the beginning of the Serbian-Turkish Wars. The divisions went mainly through the party lines. Behind almost all events in the East, the Conservatives perceived the hand of Russia and League of the Three Emperors (Dreikaisebund). These ?foreign influences? were attributed mainly to Russia and Serbia, as the alleged Russia?s tool in the Balkans. Thus, according to the Conservatives, the Serbs and Russians were to blame for the sufferings of Bulgarians in the hands of the Turks. Additionally, they were repeating that Turkish crimes were committed in self-defence, and that the numbers of victims were hugely exaggerated by the Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian propaganda and the British liberal press. The Conservatives had similar attitudes towards the atrocities committed by the Turks in the Eastern Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Liberals, on the other hand, were insisting that the main causes of these uprisings and wars were national feelings, economical problems, and the misrule of the Turks. They were directing their moral indignation not only to the Turks, but to the British government as well. According to the Liberals, by despatching of the British fleet in the vicinity of the Ottoman capital, the British government encouraged the Turks and made Great Britain co-responsible for the atrocities committed in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals Greek-Albanian Relations, the Past, the Present and the Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Glevin Dervishi
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heavy Lift ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Lift Off

Abstract Greek-Albanian relations can be considered as a complex relation, but at the same time with the highest potential for success in the region compared to the relations that Greece has established with the other immediate neighbours in the Balkans. These relations has passed through a continues fruition developments and sometimes with hindering situations that are deeply rooted in the history of the two nations. This can be noticed from some fundamental historical moments such as the creation of the Modern Greek state and the Albanian state, which have a constant influence in the way how current relationships are setup. It can be considered as an interdependent, vital and vibrant relation built upon a complexity of challenges, ready to generate new challenges and imposed balances, at least in the historical perspective. Greece and Albania share a similar history in many aspects, but at the same time, there are unifying and distinguishing aspects between the two countries and nations, like everywhere in the Balkans; history mostly divides nations rather than unites them. Referring to the historic ground of this relation, in this paper we will reveal the key factors that bear the heavy lift off the past, which prevails rather than the desire to have a better future.

scholarly journals Европа на сцената на современата македонска драма

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Наташа [Nataša] Аврамовска [Avramovska]
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Break Up ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
The Voice ◽  
East West

Europe on the contemporary Macedonian dramatic stage As part of the topic I decided to speak about the dramatic opus of Goran Stefanovski, mostly for three chief reasons which are elaborated in the paper:1. The thematic constant of his dramatic worldview is to represent Macedonia (namely, the Balkans and its Slavic population) against the ‘big, white western world’ of Europe and the US. This East-West imagological conditionality and juxtaposition of meanings inside Stefanovski’s dramatic worlds provides the basis for the dramatic conflicts in his plays, including those written during the socialist period of his upbringing (Wild Flesh, Tattooed Souls), when Stefanovski resides in Skopje (Macedonia), and writes in Macedonian, and those written after the break-up of the SFRY (Casabalkan, Euroalien, Hotel Europa), when Stefanovski lives and works in Canterbury (England), and writes in English.2. The imagological thematic constant which runs through the European East vs. West in Stefanovski’s opus is something his writing shares with the thematic preoccupations of other contemporary Macedonian dramatists (such as Jordan Plevnesh, Venko Andonovski, Dejan Dukovski). With that, the plays of Andonovski and Dukovski evidently reference scenes from Stefanovski’s works. Along those lines, it’s safe to say that Stefanovski is the paradigmatic (emblematic) Macedonian playwrighter.3. The play-script for Stefanovski’s theatre productions written during the past decade and a half, as integral parts of international theatre projects and productions, have received a wider international acclaim and visibility by the European theatre audiences. His dramatic works allow for the voice(s) of the other, the silenced Europe, to resonate at the center of the European cultural capitals. With that, the interculturality of these theatre projects (performed at all levels of the production), allows for the articulation of the mutual demonization that generates the imagological, ideological and geopolitical difference which exists between Europe and the Balkans. Europa na scenie współczesnego dramatu macedońskiego W artykule autorka poddała analizie dorobek dramaturgiczny Gorana Stefanovskiego, rozpatrując opus tego twórcy w perspektywie trzech zagadnień:1. Stałym tematem dramaturgicznego oglądu Stefanovskiego jest Macedonia (bądź też Słowianie i Bałkany) w obliczu wielkiego świata Europy i Ameryki. Wschód–Zachód jako kon­strukcja imagologiczna i zestawienie znaczeń stanowi podstawę konfliktu dramaturgicznego w jego utworach: zarówno powstałych w czasach socjalizmu, gdy Goran Stefanovski miesz­kał w Skopju (Macedonia) i tworzył po macedońsku (Dzikie mięso, Wytatuowane dusze), jak i późniejszych, napisanych po rozpadzie SFRJ, kiedy pisarz zamieszkał w Canterbury, podjął tam pracę i zaczął tworzyć po angielsku (Kazabalkan, Euroalien, Hotel Europa).2. Imagologiczną konstantę tematyczną, która sytuuje europejski Wschód wobec Zachodu w dziełach Gorana Stefanovskiego, zestawia autorka z utworami innych współczesnych dra­matopisarzy macedońskich (Jordana Plevneša, Venka Andonovskiego, Dejana Dukovskiego), po czym stwierdza, że Andonovski i Dukovski przywołują w swych utworach sceny z dra­matów Stefanovskiego – w tym sensie Stefanovski jest bez wątpienia paradygmatem drama­topisarza macedońskiego.3. Scenariusze przedstawień teatralnych Stefanovskiego, powstałe w ostatnich piętnastu latach jako integralna część międzynarodowych projektów i produkcji teatralnych, spotykają się z żywym oddźwiękiem i zainteresowaniem europejskiej krytyki i publiczności. Jego twór­czość dramaturgiczna pozwala zabrzmieć głosowi innej, przemilczanej Europy; przy czym in­terkulturowość owych projektów teatralnych (na wszystkich poziomach spektaklu) prowadzi do demonizacji, która generuje imagologiczne, ideologiczne i geopolityczne zróżnicowanie Europy i Bałkanów.

Long-term outcomes

ESC CardioMed ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 770-775
Author(s):  
Barbara Mulder ◽  
Berton Bouma
Keyword(s):  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Medical Therapy ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Western World ◽  
Corrective Surgery ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
The Past

Due to tremendous improvements in corrective surgery, and medical therapy, survival of patients with congenital heart disease has improved dramatically over the past decades, with an estimated 95% of such patients in the Western world currently reaching adulthood. Nonetheless, patients with congenital heart disease have decreased long-term outcomes in terms of morbidity and mortality compared to their healthy counterparts.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF MATIJA MURKO’S RESEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MUSICAL TRADITION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Traditiones ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Drago Kunej ◽  
Jasmina Talam ◽  
Tamara Karača Beljak
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Musical Tradition ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Musical Traditions

The paper presents the research and sound documentation carried out by Matija Murko in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1912–1913 and 1930–1931. It focuses on the importance of Murko’s research and his collected field material in gaining a historical perspective on the past and present musical traditions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its transformations. Murko’s recordings provide some significant insights into the singing of epic songs accompanied by gusle, the sevdalinke performed to the accompaniment of the violin, and the singing of ravna songs. Murko’s recordings are often the oldest and—in some cases—the only recorded evidence of the existence of certain musical practices.

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