East European Politics & Societies and Cultures最新文献

Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia 三个叙述-两次世界大战-一个城镇:东加利西亚战争和种族灭绝的叙述

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/0888325420957080

O. Bartov

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Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust 家:波兰犹太人大屠杀自传体文本中的恐怖暴力场所

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221086867

N. Aleksiun, Karolina Szymaniak

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Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union 你的手上沾满了犹太人的血吗?在苏联遭遇大屠杀余波的犹太红军士兵

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/08883254211020819

A. Shternshis

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A Pole, a Jew, a Mother, a Communist: Tonia Lechtman’s Biography between Home and Exile 一个波兰人，一个犹太人，一个母亲，一个共产主义者:托尼娅·莱特曼的《从家乡到流亡》

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/0888325420972476

Annabel Müller

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Late Bystander Testimonies in East Galicia: Between Memory, Identity, and Loyalties 东加利西亚晚期旁观者证词:在记忆、身份与忠诚之间

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/0888325420968903

Anna Wylegała

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Five Lives of a Holocaust Survivor: On Shifting Identities, the Search for Belonging, and Building Meaning 大屠杀幸存者的五种生活:论身份的转变、对归属感的寻找和意义的构建

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/0888325420958130

Diana Dumitru

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East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine 东欧政治与社会关于俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的声明

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221113388

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Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland 萎缩、转变与强化:波兰公民行动的动态与多样性

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221085308

P. McMahon, Lukasz W. Niparko

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Cultural Liberal and Conservative Mobilizing Potential and Political Participation in Post-Communist Countries 后共产主义国家的文化自由主义和保守主义动员潜力与政治参与

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221083996

P. Pospieszna, Kateřina Vráblíková

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Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina 波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那的公民参与及其不同目标

East European Politics & Societies and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/08883254221081043

Paula M. Pickering

{"title":"Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina","authors":"Paula M. Pickering","doi":"10.1177/08883254221081043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254221081043","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative studies featuring in-depth research have recently pushed back against characterizations of citizens in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) as passive. After mobilizations in 2014, how do citizens in BiH engage in public action, and what factors explain their public participation? This article uses data from an original, nationally representative survey to depict civic engagement and investigate the proposition that citizens engage in civic action when these efforts address their primary concerns—everyday social problems, rather than abstract political ideals. In addition, this article draws on interviews to probe whether civic activists incorporate citizens’ priority concerns in developing strategies for increasing public participation in their work. It finds that most citizens cite their motivation for civic action as tackling concrete everyday problems and helping those in need. Statistical analysis indicates that while the segment of the population that supports civic engagement on conservative values is small, this portion is more likely than the larger portion supporting civic engagement on intractable socio-economic problems to take action. Interviews with civic activists point not only to their efforts to engage citizens by acknowledging their concerns but also to challenges in connecting with citizens. This systematic investigation depicts the nuances of and contradictions in citizen participation in BiH. Citizens engage at modest levels and are often motivated by the norm of helping those vulnerable and addressing everyday problems. However, the small segment of the population concerned about conservative values is more effectively mobilized than a large segment prioritizing socio-economic concerns.","PeriodicalId":403488,"journal":{"name":"East European Politics & Societies and Cultures","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122918610","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}

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