PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5937/POLITEIA0-29337
Ranka Perić-Romić
{"title":"Rehabilitation of urban heritage in the service of ethno-national divisions on the example of Sarajevo and Banja Luka","authors":"Ranka Perić-Romić","doi":"10.5937/POLITEIA0-29337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/POLITEIA0-29337","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the impact of the process of rehabilitation and revitalisation of the cultural and historical heritage of Banja Luka and Sarajevo on the strengthening of ethno-national policies /patterns of a divided society. Special attention will be paid to the processes of preserving the urban centres/historical cores of the mentioned cities, which are recognisable as places of separation and distancing for 'non-belonging' ethnic groups. In that sense, the rehabilitation of the urban heritage of Banja Luka and Sarajevo will not be exclusively problematised as preservation and aestheticisation of cultural and historical heritage 'per se', but as a kind of instrumentalisation of urban space for the purpose of over emphasising ethno-national identities in the post-war period. The survey will be primarily based on a comparative analysis of available data on the development of urban centres so far. The survey results indicate that the mentioned instrumentalisation of urban heritage is manifested through the planning and construction/renovation of specific facilities that (un)justifiably fit into the existing cultural and historical context characteristic of these cities. From that perspective, it is noticeable that the cultural and historical cores of Banja Luka and Sarajevo today have a far more significant role in promoting ethno-national identities and divisions than was the case in the past. The character of these processes does not have exclusively intentional features, but is conditioned by other current policies of urban development that do not have an ethno-national background.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"10 1","pages":"23-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71027369","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.25159/2663-6689/8336
Godfrey Maringira
{"title":"Gangs: Spatialities and Socialities in South Africa","authors":"Godfrey Maringira","doi":"10.25159/2663-6689/8336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6689/8336","url":null,"abstract":"The “making” of gang relationships has remained at the periphery of research, yet it is critical in understanding the continuity and sustainability of gangsterism in different contexts. This paper examines the ways in which young men involved in gang violence forge and sustain their relationships in the streets of a black township in South Africa. I argue that the “making” of gang relationships is never easy; rather, it is characterised by violence within and outside gang membership. The article asserts that, within gangs, violence is a technique which sustains their relationships, as it acts as a source of social and emotional support—especially in a context characterised by fractured families as well as social and economic marginalisation. The paper draws from an ethnography of walking the township streets, being in gang streets, talking to gang members, engaging with and observing young men involved in gang violence.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69125438","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-138-153
A. Mikhalev
{"title":"Borders, “Low Geopolitics”, and the Soviet Heritage in Modern Inner Asia","authors":"A. Mikhalev","doi":"10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-138-153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-138-153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"96 1","pages":"138-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69327671","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-154-183
R. Turovsky, M. Sukhova, Elizaveta Luizidis
{"title":"New Players in Party Systems of Old Democracies: Is There a Threat to Political Stability?","authors":"R. Turovsky, M. Sukhova, Elizaveta Luizidis","doi":"10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-154-183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30570/2078-5089-2020-96-1-154-183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"96 1","pages":"154-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69327734","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5937/politeia0-25401
N. Đukić
{"title":"Immunization paradigm of culture: The question of the origin, nature and essence of culture","authors":"N. Đukić","doi":"10.5937/politeia0-25401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/politeia0-25401","url":null,"abstract":"In the article that follows, we phenomenologically analyze the immunization nature, origin, and essence of the culture. In the introductory part of the article, we analyze the trauma of birth and the psychological mechanism of consciousness, showing that the immunization character of culture is a function of the immunization character of consciousness. In the first part of the article, we analyze the intentional character of consciousness to explain the intentional character of culture. In the second part of the article, we give a brief overview of the Sloterdijk immunization paradigm. In the third part of the article, we analyze the immunization function of the culture. Finally, the concluding part of the article points out the theoretical significance of the immunization paradigm of culture.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"10 1","pages":"69-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71026781","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5937/POLITEIA0-29407
Anđela Pepić
{"title":"Remembering work: The 'Čajavec' company workers after privatisation","authors":"Anđela Pepić","doi":"10.5937/POLITEIA0-29407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/POLITEIA0-29407","url":null,"abstract":"The working class was, at least formally, a formative basis of the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The transformation of the system from the Communist to the capitalistic one led to its alienation, poverty, and social exclusion. This transformation, as part of the neoliberal globalisation, occurred through the introduction of the so-called 'shock therapy' measures: liberalisation, privatisation, and stabilisation. Large industrial complexes and leading stateowned companies in the SFRY were the subject of, often dubious, privatisation processes. Through such processes, workers, who were once owners and motors of companies they worked at, are now stripped of the ownership and the opportunity to work at the same companies. The majority of research on postCommunist economic transformation focuses on changes to the system, on economic aspects of privatisation processes, and on introduction of market economy. Yet, there are few research focusing on the privatisation and transformation from a workers' perspective. This paper attempts to fill in this gap by providing a different angle to the current studies of transformation of the SFRY and its successor states. Through interviews with former workers of privatised and/or closed factories and industrial complexes (using the local company of 'Rudi Čajavec' as an example), the research presented in this paper analyses workers' attitudes and sentiments towards the labour in the Communist Yugoslavia and the labour today, as well as towards the privatisation processes accompanying the latter.The research gives a voice to the workers, and, by looking at the past, gives a worker-centred approach to imagining labour in the future.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"10 1","pages":"171-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71027040","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.25159/2663-6689/4663
M. Musitha, M. A. Mafukata
{"title":"The Impact of Perceptions of Tribalism and Ethnicity on Public Administration in South Africa: A Case Study of the Vuwani in the Vhembe District","authors":"M. Musitha, M. A. Mafukata","doi":"10.25159/2663-6689/4663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6689/4663","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the impact of perceptions of ethnicity and tribalism on public administration in South Africa with reference to the protests of Vuwani communities in 2016 against their area being re-demarcated to fall under the LIM 345 municipality (later named the Collins Chabane Local Municipality) dominated by Xitsonga speakers. The study adopted qualitative and exploration designs and used a literature review and key informant interviews in order to obtain secondary and primary data respectively. This study revealed that Vuwani communities feared domination by the Xitsonga-speaking majority in the proposed new municipality. The council of the proposed new municipality consisted of 72 councillors, 74 per cent of which were Xitsonga-speaking councillors and a mere 26 per cent were Tshivenda-speaking councillors. It also found that perceptions of ethnicity and tribalism in Vuwani had rendered public administration ineffective, thus bringing service delivery to a halt for several months. The study recommended that policy-makers should abolish majority representation based solely on regionalism and should seek to forge national unity. It concluded that the establishment of public institutions based on ethnic homogeneity had the potential of bringing about peace and stability in areas characterised by ethnic disparities.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69124977","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5937/politeia0-25516
A. Janković, Dalibor Savić, Mirjana Damjenić
{"title":"Material status of families with four or more children: Doboj case study","authors":"A. Janković, Dalibor Savić, Mirjana Damjenić","doi":"10.5937/politeia0-25516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/politeia0-25516","url":null,"abstract":"The material status of families with four or more children in the municipality of Doboj is analyzed, starting from the general assumption that most of these families belong to economically and socially disadvantaged social groups. The paper aims to analyze some of the indicators of the financial status of families with four or more children, and to compare them with those related to the 'average family' in the Republic of Srpska. The analysis is based on the findings of a survey conducted in the municipality of Doboj from the end of July 2017 to the beginning of February 2018. The paper first analyzes the basic indicators of material status - income, property, consumption, and household equipment, and then the overall material status of multi-member families expressed through a composite index.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"10 1","pages":"29-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71026874","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}
PoliteiaPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.5937/POLITEIA0-28829
B. Vukojevic
{"title":"The relationship of generation Z with religion","authors":"B. Vukojevic","doi":"10.5937/POLITEIA0-28829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5937/POLITEIA0-28829","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been an increased interest in research into religiosity of different generations, especially Millenials. In this paper, we will examine the relationship of Generation Z to religion. As the most numerous population, characterised by insecurity and concern for the socio-economic and security aspects of the world in which we live, by digital mediation and socialisation accompanied by the availability of the Internet, by racial and ethnic diversity, and by supporting individual freedom and sexual amorphousness, they are the first post-Christian generation as well, shaping the world like no other generation to this day. Given the aforementioned, the subject of our research is the religious and spiritual values that this generation cultivates. The paper uses secondary data derived from the Pew Research Center research, as well as studies based on qualitative and quantitative research comparing different generation cohorts. The paper consists of three parts, with the first part presenting the sociological characteristics of Generation Z, the second one explaining the popular concepts of modern religiosity together with the respective pieces of criticism, and the final one observing Generation Z as representatives of the post-Christian world. Considering the overall social transformation that accompanies this generation, in conclusion we find that Generation Z treats religion and elements of religion as trends, that there is a search for 'religious shortcuts', i.e. that it channels its spirituality through rituals and ceremonies that meet their current needs and are not necessarily related to one religion.","PeriodicalId":32317,"journal":{"name":"Politeia","volume":"44 1 1","pages":"139-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71027172","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}