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{"title":"System transformation in central and Eastern Europe, economic development and subjective well‐being","authors":"Jakub J. Macewicz","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.14","url":null,"abstract":"One of the vital questions connected with the system transformation in Poland and other former Soviet Bloc countries is whether the overthrow of the communist system was caused by the poor state of their economies or rather people's struggle for their civil rights. However, the “either/or nature” of this question is disturbed by another possibility: it might have been a relatively good state of the economy which made the overthrow possible. Moreover, there is no doubt that the introduction of free market and democracy resulted in many positive changes in people's lives: from the increase in life expectancy and subjective well‐being to the growth of civil liberty. Yet, economic development and (more broadly) modernity also produce extensively described negative effects which, at certain point, seem to “neutralise” their positive ones. Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries seem to follow this path.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114725784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"II. Regional identity under transformation: About the notion of identity","authors":"Arto Mutanen","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.03","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of identity has been used in many different situations: we have, for example, the notions of national identity, regional identity, professional or vocational identity, personal identity, etc. Identity is an identity of something, and the identity occurs in a concrete environment. The identity consists of natural and cultural properties. Constitution of identity is bridge building between the two kinds of factors. For example, national identity is a construction of natural and cultural factors. The construction is done by human beings. This is a general structure of the notion of identity: identity is human construction.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125493117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A book about an unproclaimed empire","authors":"T. Kačerauskas","doi":"10.3846/LIMES.2010.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/LIMES.2010.19","url":null,"abstract":"Prof. Zenonas Norkus known as an excellent lecturer and author of the books devoted to philosophy of history (Historika. Istorijos įvadas, 1996), to Max Weber in the context of rational choice (Max Weber und Rational Choice, 2001), to regional political order from sociological viewpoint (Kokia demokratija, koks kapitalizmas? Pokomunistinė transformacija Lietuvoje lyginamosios istorinės sociologijos požiūriu, 2008) surprised the scientific society with a new book An Unproclaimed Empire. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology (2009) for some reasons. Firstly, this book confirms the reputation of the author having exceptionally broad interests that cover phenomenology (doctoral thesis), theory and history of sociology (sociological approach in different books, as well the book Norkus 2001), philosophy of history (Norkus 1996), certain problems of analytical philosophy (lectures, as well the book Norkus 2001), political philosophy and social economics (Norkus 2008). Despite these unusually broad interests for a person, who represents a time of specialized work instead of Renaissance epoch, every his book is an exercise of sharp investigation by an interdisciplinary scalpel. This big book (474 pages) devoted to one question (whether GDL had been an empire?) is not the exception, too. By answering to this historical-philosophical question the author uses the criterions of empire’s sociology. In this way a narrow question raised by Norkus ploughed up the broad scientific field including philosophy, history, and sociology. Secondly, the philosophers usually deal with such global problems of human kind as principles of being, cognition of the world or universal morality. That is why the author calls himself modestly a sociologist instead of a philosopher whereas in the company of the historicists he calls himself a worker of the train instead of a soldier of the front in an ironic way. Although he refers in this way to the used historical literature instead of historical sources, Norkus introduces a new historical conception by following the thesis that GDL had been an empire. By grounding his thesis Norkus uses all kinds of scientific weaponry including comparison, sociological data, analytical argumentations, as well historical approach (concerning both the development of a concept and of a society). I suppose, after such kind of an offensive in the historical front instead of being in the rearguard, no local historicist could ignore this book in the field of his research.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122098059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The features of the resumption and set of Lithuanian catholic church in the first decade of the re‐establishment of independence","authors":"V. Pruskus","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.12","url":null,"abstract":"In the article the singularity chances of Catholic Church as the institute after the re‐establishment of Independence are analyzed. Two influences of the Church, inside and outside growing, conditioned by the present economic, social and cultural transformations are researched. The topics of public globalization processes, born out of religious pluralism, to which we have to react, considering having concrete Churchy heritage of acting that was formed by historical experience and concrete circumstances are also analyzed. It is also spoken about the Catholic Church in terms of government and political life.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124301596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interpersonal communication value in globalizing community","authors":"Irina Shebanova","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.08","url":null,"abstract":"The attention in this article is paid to social changes in terms of global information processes and the influence of these changes on the appearance of some new forms of socialization. The transformation period of modern society is in many ways determined by informational processes which are based on modern means of communication and technology. The evolution of these technologies transforms interpersonal communication, it being the vital need and universal value.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116062175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"I. Cultural images : Time and space: A comparative historiography of the Hungarian and Slovakian national philosophies: A central European case","authors":"Béla Mester","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.01","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyses a well‐known phenomenon, that of the 19th century Central European so‐called “national philosophies”. However, the philosophical heritages of the Central European countries have their roles in the national identities; historians of philosophy in these countries know; our philosophies have common institutional roots with our neighbours. The paper deadlines paradigmatic problems from the Hungarian and Slovakian philosophy: the Latin language in philosophy, the different role of Kantianism and Hegelianism in the national cultures, and the problems of canonisation.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124132310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The locality of the “global village” in the aspect of communication: Pro et contra m. McLuhan","authors":"Jovilė Barevičiūtė","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.18","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the concept of a “global village” in the aspect of communication. In the first part of the article this concept is introduced without undertaking any judgments and following a position of a judicial researcher. In the second part the conditions of the possibility of a “global village”, regarding the crucial differences of globality and villagicity and their incompatibility, are questioned. A thought is raised whether M. McLuhan's “global village”, which is constituted by contemporary information and communication technologies and treated as new media, should be assessed as a “global city”, attaching to globality some essentially new and unaccustomed meanings, inspired by the traditional socio‐cultural structural transformations to the networkful nonstructural systems.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121462852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transforming borders functions in the Lithuanian‐polish‐Belarusian borderland","authors":"Basia Nikiforova","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.13","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an attempt to give an answer to the question: what are the consequences of the weakening factor of territorial belonging and how it in fact realizes in the Lithuanian‐Polish‐Belarusian borderland? In such a small territory as Lithuanian‐Polish‐Belarusian borderland it is possible to investigate two opposite, reciprocal processes: disappearances (the Lithuanian‐Polish borderland) and strengthening of borders (the Lithuanian‐Belarusian and Polish‐Belarusian borderland). Borders as markers of division have different functions. Using a “boundary narrative” we will analyse such functions as “border‐door”, “borderwall”, and “barrier”. A method of a free narration about a life on border will allow to create the generalized image of the inhabitant of a border zone, its way of life and to reveal its peculiar features. These peculiar features we will analyse in the case of Lithuanian‐Polish‐Belarusian borderland.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132621740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"III. The challenges of cultural images in the transforming space: The main skills and competences of multilingualism in the context of the European Union","authors":"Irena Vankevič","doi":"10.3846/limes.2010.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/limes.2010.06","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents multilingualism and multiculturalism as one of the main aims of the European Union (EU) and deals with the issue of political and cultural globalization. More and more young people describe themselves as cosmopolites. Multiculturalism is especially noticeable in the sphere of languages. Languages are fundamental for Europeans wanting to work together. They go to the very heart of the unity in diversity of the EU. It is important to nurture and to promote our linguistic heritage in the Member States but we also need to understand each other, our neighbours, our partners in the EU. Speaking many languages makes businesses and citizens more competitive and more mobile. The EU policy of official multilingualism as a deliberate tool of government is unique in the world. The EU sees the use of its citizens’ languages as one of the factors which make it more transparent, more legitimate and more efficient. At the level of culture and of enhancing the quality of life, too, the EU works actively to promote the wider knowledge and use of all its official languages throughout the Union. The ability to speak foreign language and multiculturalism are inseparable parts of the EU integrations. There are certain skills and competences that a multilingual, multicultural European citizen must acquire in order to become a full‐fledged EU member.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130601706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Belarus: A borderland civilization or civilization outskirts? Sociological reflection","authors":"L. Titarenko","doi":"10.3846/2029-0187.2009.1.64-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3846/2029-0187.2009.1.64-81","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of civilizations plays an important role in the current scientific literature. Some authors select a particular number of civilizations. For other authors it is an open question how many civilizations exist: the answer depends on the criteria applied. The paper discusses the concept of the borderland civilization that relates to the countries (space) and people (cultural communities living in this space), situated “between” the two “key cultural groupings” (in Samuel Huntington's sense) and inevitably combines some features from both of them. The author argues that, firstly, the population on today's Polish‐Lithuanian‐Belarusian border constitutes a particular borderland civilization where the local identity dominates over national or ethnic identities. Although other identities might be in use here, the population of this borderland region primarily considers itself as “local” where multi‐ethnic, multi‐cultural and multi‐religious communities have existed for centuries. Secondly, the current Belarus itself can be viewed as a case of a borderland subcivilization: throughout its history it has been constantly influenced by Latin (Western) and Byzantine (Eastern) civilizations that resulted in Belarusian cultural pluralism, high level of religious and ethnic tolerance, and local self‐identification of the population. Therefore, there is no “choice” for Belarus to belong to one “pure” civilization: it is destined to exist in the borderland. From this approach, current Belarus is not “civilization outskirts”: it is a sub‐civilization with all the attributes such as culture, values, ideas of history, and supra‐national socio‐cultural community of people.","PeriodicalId":256919,"journal":{"name":"LIMES: Cultural Regionalistics","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123811082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}