Between Banat

Author : Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023906

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Between Banat by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali Pdf

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, and prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab critique to locate queer desire amid heteronormative imperatives. Showing how systems of heteropatriarchy and Arab nationalisms foreclose queer Arab women’s futures, she draws on the transliterated term “banat”—the Arabic word for girls—to refer to women, femmes, and nonbinary people who disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.” By attending to Arab women’s narration of desire and identity, queer Arab critique substantiates queer Arab histories while challenging Orientalist and Arab national paradigms that erase queer subjects. In this way, Shomali frames queerness and Arabness as relational and transnational subject formations and contends that prioritizing transnational collectivity over politics of authenticity, respectability, and inclusion can help lead toward queer freedom.

Author : Daniel Flaut,Šárka Hošková-Mayerová,Cristina Ispas,Fabrizio Maturo,Cristina Flaut
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030306595

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Decision Making in Social Sciences: Between Traditions and Innovations by Daniel Flaut,Šárka Hošková-Mayerová,Cristina Ispas,Fabrizio Maturo,Cristina Flaut Pdf

This book explores several branches of the social sciences and their perspectives regarding their relations with decision-making processes: computer science, education, linguistics, sociology, and management. The decision-making process in social contexts is based on the analysis of sound alternatives using evaluative criteria. Therefore, this process is one that can be rational or irrational, and can be based on knowledge and/or beliefs. A decision-making process always produces a final decision, which may or may not imply prompt action, and increases the chances of choosing the best possible alternative. The book is divided into four main parts. The concepts covered in the first part, on computer science, explore how the rise of algorithms and the growth in computing power over the years can influence decision-making processes. In the second part, some traditional and innovative ideas and methods used in education are presented: compulsory schooling, inclusive schools, higher education, etc. In turn, the third part focuses on linguistics aspects, and examines how progress is manifested in language. The fourth part, on sociology, explores how society can be influenced by social norms, human interactions, culture, and religion. Management, regarded as a science of the decision-making process, is explored in the last part of this book. Selected organizations’ strategies, objectives and resources are presented, e.g., human resources, financial resources, and technological resources. The book gathers and presents, in a concise format, a broad range of aspects regarding the decision-making process in social contexts, making it a valuable and unique resource for the scientific community.

Author : Mihai I. Spariosu
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847006923

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Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands by Mihai I. Spariosu Pdf

This crossdisciplinary collection of essays combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-examine the most influential contemporary theories of intercultural relations and their application in various domains including historiography, sociology and cultural studies. A particular focus lies on Central Europe, historical Banat and Transylvania, but also on the current public policies toward ethnic and religious minorities as well as recent immigrants. It argues that much more complex approaches are needed, both historically and conceptually, in exploring intercultural relations. Thus, the political decision-making in East Central European countries and the European Union as a whole could benefit from a well-informed historical perspective by learning from the successes and errors of their predecessors.

Author : Tomasz Kamusella,Motoki Nomachi,Catherine Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137348395

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The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders by Tomasz Kamusella,Motoki Nomachi,Catherine Gibson Pdf

This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region, which is also home to most of the world’s Slavic-speakers. This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy, making this book of great interest to historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.

Author : Hans Henrik Knoop,Antonella Delle Fave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789400746114

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Well-Being and Cultures by Hans Henrik Knoop,Antonella Delle Fave Pdf

This anthology focuses on empirical studies comparing cultures in relation to central positive psychological topics. The book starts out with an introductory chapter that brings together the main ideas and findings within an integrative perspective, based on a broad theoretical framework encompassing interdisciplinary and methodological issues. It gives special emphasis to some open issues in the theory and assessment of culture-related dimensions, and to the potential of positive psychology in addressing them. The introductory chapter is followed by two chapters that examine theoretical approaches and instruments developed to assess happiness and well-being across cultures. Following that examination, five chapters are devoted to the relationship between well-being, cultures and values. The second half of the book prominently investigates well-being across cultures in the light of socio-economic factors. This book shows that positive psychology, now officially well into its second decade, is providing still finer-grained perspectives on the diversity of cultures along with insights about our shared human nature, uniting us for better or worse.​

Author : T.N. Michalakopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351431293

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Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2000 by T.N. Michalakopoulos Pdf

This text looks at mine planning and equipment and covers topics such as: design and planning of surface and underground mines; geotechnical stability in surface and underground mines; and mining and the environment.

Author : Silviu Ota
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004281578

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The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th-14th Centuries) by Silviu Ota Pdf

Winner of the 2016 George Bariţiu Prize In The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th – 14th centuries) Silviu Oţa highlights the interactions between different ethnic groups as reflected in burial customs and funerary practices. The book will deal with the Banat as a whole (as opposed to the Romanian, Serbian or Hungarian parts of the region) since the modern political borders are not identical with the cultural boundaries in the Middle Ages. On a more general level, the goal of this book is to analyse the social dynamics in the region. The author rejects the idea that any of the "archaeological cultures" identified in the Banat (e.g. the Bjelo Brdo culture) may be associated with any single ethnic group. Winner of the 2016 George Bariţiu Prize from the Romanian Academy for outstanding contribution to the development of Romanian culture and science in the area of history and archaeology. The prize, named after the towering figure of George Bariţiu (1812-1893) in nineteenth-century Romanian political and cultural life and former president of the Academy, is awarded for originality of the work, its contribution to its field, and its impact at the national level of the field development.

Author : Popovici Vlad
Publisher : Mega
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9786065432512

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Studies on the Romanian Political Elite from Transylvania and Hungary (1861–1918) by Popovici Vlad Pdf

The present work contains a number of prosopographic and statistical studies regarding the elite of the Romanian national movement in Transylvania between 1861 and 1918, chronologically ordered in the form of chapters and accompanied by a high number of tables and graphs. The interested reader should find the entire composition of the Romanian national movement’s leadership, minimal biographical data about the members of the elite (year of birth, denomination, place of residence, profession and so on), as well as the analysis of some statistical indicators meant to illustrate its evolution. This book was not intended to be a history of the Romanian political elite in Transylvania and Hungary, nor a substitute for the lack of such a history. Its content is rather technical, being conceived firstly for historians, mainly for those outside Romania, whose access to the multitude of local biographical sources is limited. It can be viewed as a commented catalogue of part of the elite.

Author : Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković,Thede Kahl,Biljana Sikimić
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783732906949

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Boyash Studies: Researching “Our People” by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković,Thede Kahl,Biljana Sikimić Pdf

The Boyash, also known as Rudari, Lingurari or, inclusively, as “oamenii noștri” (our people), are an ethnic group living today in scattered communities in the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the Americas. What brings the disperse communities of Boyash together is their Romanian mother tongue, (memory of) traditional occupation, common historical origin, and the fact that the majority population considers them Gypsies / Roma. A marginal topic until now, at the crossroads between Romani and Romanian studies, the Boyash studies are today an interdisciplinary field dealing with the experiences of the Boyash over time, in Romania and all the places where they have settled. The editors of this volume intend to mark two centuries of scholarly interest in the Boyash by bringing together researchers from different fields, summing up existing literature and bringing new research to the forefront.

Author : Caroline Mezger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192590473

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Forging Germans by Caroline Mezger Pdf

Forging Germans explores the German nationalization and eventual National Socialist radicalization of ethnic Germans in the Batschka and the Western Banat, two multiethnic, post-Habsburg borderland territories currently in northern Serbia. Deploying a comparative approach, Caroline Mezger investigates the experiences of ethnic German children and youth in interwar Yugoslavia and under Hungarian and German occupation during World War II, as local and Third Reich cultural, religious, political, and military organizations wrestled over young people's national (self-) identification and loyalty. Ethnic German children and youth targeted by these nationalization endeavors moved beyond being the objects of nationalist activism to become agents of nationalization themselves, as they actively negotiated, redefined, proselytized, lived, and died for the "Germanness" ascribed to them. Interweaving original oral history interviews, untapped archival materials from Germany, Hungary, and Serbia, and diverse historical press sources, Forging Germans provides incisive insight into the experiences and memories of one of Europe's most contested wartime demographics, probing the relationship between larger historical circumstances and individual agency and subjectivity.

Author : Xosé M. Núñez Seixas,Eric Storm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474275217

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Regionalism and Modern Europe by Xosé M. Núñez Seixas,Eric Storm Pdf

Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists. This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical – and at times controversial – subject of regionalism in modern Europe.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754060385196

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119551922

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Communist Activities Among Aliens and National Groups by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Aliens
ISBN : MINN:31951D00988485Y

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Communist Activities Among Aliens and National Groups by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Also considers legislation to authorize Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport and ban immigration of aliens engaged in subversive activities.

Author : Sharon Joffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134847792

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The Clairmont Family Letters, 1839 - 1889 by Sharon Joffe Pdf

This book is the second of two volumes in an edited collection that brings together the unpublished letters of the extended Clairmont family, for the first time. The letters, housed in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library, inform our understanding of the Shelley-Godwin circle through the experiences and thoughts of their descendants. The correspondence also enables us to see into the contemporary social history of nineteenth-century families living in Europe and Australia, dealing with subjects such as the conflicts in Europe, woes in the European financial markets, and the effects of Australian pioneer life on immigrants to that country. The Clairmont Family Letters, 1839–1889 improves upon scholarship made by other Shelley and Clairmont collections and is furnished with editorial notes and apparatus from Dr. Sharon Joffe. These volumes will be of significant interest to scholars in British Romanticism.