In this paper the authors discuss three sets of issues. The first relates to the recent economic crisis, as well as the transitional crisis that preceded it, and is illustrated on the example of the ...devastation of the Sisak Ironworks. The collapse of the Croatian industry is explained primarily as a bankruptcy of political, ideological and economic values from the socialist period and only secondarily as the result of the global economic crisis. The second set of issues is revealed in the interviews with the employees of the Sisak Ironworks who were laid off, whose narratives mostly conceptualize their life without work, who talk about their life while they were still employed, and who consider their future life and work. In all these interviews the word 'hope' is repeated as a kind of a leitmotif. The notion of hope is, in fact, the object of the final set of issues. In recent years, within the humanities and social sciences, the concept of 'hope' was given considerable importance in research, especially in the analysis of individual and collective traumatic experience, such as losing one's job. Thus, the authors present some of the more important theoretical articles about hope, and problematize them based on their own field notes. //ABSTRACT IN CROATIAN: Autorice u clanku otvaraju tri problemska cvorista. Prvo se odnosi na propitivanje recentne ekonomske krize, ali i tranzicijske koja joj je prethodila, na primjeru propasti zeljezare Sisak. Kolaps hrvatske industrije ponajprije objasnjavaju kao politicki, ideoloski i gospodarski bankrot vrijednosti koje su postojale u socijalizmu, a tek onda kao realnu i globalnu ekonomsku krizu. Drugo se problemsko cvoriste otkriva u razgovorima s otpustenim radnicima i radnicama zeljezare u narativima koji uglavnom konceptualiziraju zivot bez posla, u pripovijedanju o zivotu dok je posla jos bilo te u razmisljanjima kako ce zivot i rad izgledati u buducnosti. Kao svojevrsni lajtmotiv ponavlja se rijec nada. Upravo je pojam nade predmet njihova posljednjeg razmatranja. Unutar drustvenih znanosti i humanistike posljednjih je godina koncept nade zauzeo vazno istrazivacko mjesto, posebice u analizi individualnog i kolektivnog traumatskog iskustva kao sto je i gubitak posla. Stoga autorice predstavljaju neke od znacajnijih teorijskih radova o nadi te ih propituju na vlastitoj gradi.
Na Sveučilištu u Manchesteru, Velika Britanija, od 9.-11. studenoga 2007. godine održana je radionica pod nazivom Towards an Anthropology of Hope? Comparative Post-Yugoslav Ethnographies u ...organizaciji Andrewa Gilberta (Chicago), Elisse Helms (CEU), Jessice Greenberg (Harvard) i Stefa Jansena (Manchester), antropoškog tima koji svoj etnografski kapital gradi na dugogodišnjem proučavanju i suživljavanju s postjugoslavenskim prostorima. Dvoje diskutanata, Frances Pine (Goldsmiths, UK) te Gerald Creed (CUNY, USA), svojim su mentoriranjem pridonijeli zaključcima svake od radioničkih tema. Radionica je ciljano okupila mlade znanstvenike društvenih i humanističkih disciplina čija je znanstvena lokacija, a ponekad i životni prostor i istraživačko polazište Balkan i zemlje nastale raspadom Jugoslavije. Namjera im je bila da teorijski i politički promisle te diseminiraju nove pretpostavke za istraživanja postsocijalizma u antropologiji.
The city is the place of multiple meanings subjected to social performances. This article questions the static perception of the city which is seen as the given & urbanistically completed set of ...meanings & discusses the ways in which the city adjusts to the demands of human imagination -- cultural, social & political. The article observes the ways in which political imagery, be it discursive or concrete, is inscribed & embedded into the city. Here the article uses the concept of Svetlana Born (2001) & her discussions on the 'embedding' of the imagery into the physical body of the city. This article specifically deals with the ideologically motivated yearnings which were embedded in the urban landscape of the town of Sisak in the negotiations of socialist & post-socialist ideology. Using the example of the ways in which socialist monuments were treated in the last seventeen years, which were seen as the period of the stronger-symbolization, the author pointed to the processes of remembrance which were efficiently modified through public discourse. The socialist symbolic capital of monuments was questioned though the linguistic practices of neglect, aggression & hate & materialized in the ways the space was used. References. Adapted from the source document.
book reviews: Sanja Potkonjak: Teren za etnologe početnike (Tihana Rubić); Jelka Vince Pallua: Zagonetka virdžine. Etnološka i kulturnoantropološka studija (Željka Jelavić); Mirna Tkalčić-Simetić: ...Hrelić. Antropologija prijepornog mjesta (Ana-Marija Vukušić); Zborovanje slovenskega muzejskega društva, eds. Verena Vidrih Perko, Borut Rovšnik, Verena Štekar-Vidic, Ida Gnilšak (Sanja Potkonjak); Captured by the City. Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies, ed. Blagovesta M. Momchedjikova (Valentina Gulin Zrnić); Joanna Crow: The Mapuche in Modern Chile. A Cultural History (Sanja Đurin); Iva Pleše: Pismo, poruka, mejl. Etnografija korespondencije (Ozren Biti); Boris Perić, Tomislav Pletenac: Zemlja iza šume. Vampirski mit u književnosti i na filmu (Maja Pasarić); The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales, ed. Maria Tatar (Nada Kujundžić); Ruth B. Bottigheimer: Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic. From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance (Nada Kujundžić)
Cilj je ovog teksta kontekstualizirati rad Vida Vuletića Vukasovića s dominantnim etnološkim idejama kraja 19. i početka 20. st. što stoje u počecima profesionalizacije evropske etnologije i ...antropologije u anglosaksonskom svijetu, discipline koja se u svom povijesnom razvitku kretala od društvenog pamćenja do društvenog komentara. Primarno želim osvijetliti slične napore Odbora za narodni život i običaje, Američkog antropološkog društva, te Britanskog društva za unapređenje znanosti, institucija koje se javljaju u počecima znanstvenosti etnologije tj. antropologije, a rade na intenziviranju prikupljanja etnografske i folklorističke građe, kao i njihove podudarne koncepcijske orijentiranosti na spašavanje materijalne i usmene kulture. U tekstu se posebno analizira Vuletićev doprinos etno-povijesnom poznavanju i 'spašavanju' znanja (o narodnom tekstilu) kao i njegova suradnja s Odborom za narodni život i običaje.
Grad je kao mnogi drugi antropološki predmeti terenski i epistemološki iznimno istraživano područje. Prostor grada je višeznačno mjesto izloženo društvenim izvedbama. Ovaj rad propituje statično ...poimanje grada kao zadanog i urbanistički dovršenog polja značenja, odnosno načine prilagodbe grada zahtjevima ljudske imaginacije – kulturne, društvene i političke. Rad se bavi načinima na koji se politički imaginarij, bio on diskurzivan ili konkretan, upisuje ili otjelovljuje u gradu. U tom smislu rad slijedi koncept Svetlane Boym (2001) i njezina razmišljanja o "ugnježđivanju" imaginarija u fizičko tijelo grada. Specifičnost je ovoga rada u tome što se bavi ideološki motiviranim žudnjama koje su se otjelovile u urbanom krajoliku grada Siska u pregovaranjima socijalističke i postsocijalističke ideologije.
This article is the contribution to better understanding of the ethnographic work of Vid Vuletić Vukasović. Firstly, this article puts Vukasović within the framework of dominant ethnological theories ...of the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, which marked the beginnings of European and Croatian ethnology. This text is trying to analyse the idea of salvation ethnology and its impact on the rhetoric of first Croatian ethnologists, as well as to argument its universal rhetorical value in Anglo-Saxon anthropology and European ethnology. The article is following the development of institutionalization of ethnology/anthropology in Croatia and abroad, and points to the related methodological directions towards the preservation of material and non-material culture of native peoples, and to the continual conceptual attempts towards the creation of an organic cultural identification of the investigated cultures. The article emphasizes the long-term existence of the literary notion of salvation in ethnology/anthropology, and, as a consequence of that, the insistence on the strength and importance of the reconstruction of authenticity of the cultures under research. In the same time, the text outlines the concept of ethnological utopias, and searches for the common name for the static perception of the culture life, which was dominant in the early ethnographic discourse. Special attention is given to the work of Vid Vuletić Vukasović, a Croatian ethnologist, whose institutional links with the Academy of Science and Art, Zagreb, were reconstructed through his correspondence with the members of the editorial board of Zbornik za narodni život i običaje (Journal of folk life and customs). The article is also trying to establish to what extent did the conflict between Vukasović and Antun Radić, who was then the president of the editorial board of the Journal of folk life and customs, influence the bleak reception Vuletić had in early overviews of Croatian ethnology, and his professional orientation to different ethnological institutions and publishers in other South Slavic countries.
The city is the place of multiple meanings subjected to social performances. This article questions the static perception of the city which is seen as the given and urbanistically completed set of ...meanings and discusses the ways in which the city adjusts to the demands of human imagination – cultural, social and political. The article observes the ways in which political imagery, be it discursive or concrete, is inscribed and embedded into the city. Here the article uses the concept of Svetlana Bom (2001) and her discussions on the ‘embedding’ of the imagery into the physical body of the city. This article specifically deals with the ideologically motivated yearnings which were embedded in the urban landscape of the town of Sisak in the negotiations of socialist and post-socialist ideology. Using the example of the ways in which socialist monuments were treated in the last seventeen years, which were seen as the period of the strong re-symbolization, the author pointed to the processes of remembrance which were efficiently modified through public discourse. The socialist symbolic capital of monuments was questioned though the linguistic practices of neglect, aggression and hate and materialized in the ways the space was used.
CEEPUS je akronim za Central European Exchange Program for University Studies. To je program akademske razmjene studenata i profesora srednje i istočne Europe koji se ostvaruje na temelju višestranog ...Ugovora o uspostavljenju suradnje u području obrazovanja i usavršavanja u okviru Srednjoeuropskog programa razmjene za sveučilišne studije sklopljenog u Budimpešti 8. prosinca 1993. godine. Hrvatska je CEEPUS-u pristupila 1995. godine na Prvoj ministarskoj konferenciji zemalja članica održanoj u Beču 22. siječnja 1995. g. i otada CEEPUS program za Republiku Hrvatsku administrira hrvatski nacionalni CEEPUS ured pri Ministarstvu znanosti i tehnologije RH (sada Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa). 2 Sve ostale informacije o povijesti i razvoju CEEPUS programa mogu se potražiti i na službenim mrežnim stranicama Ministarstva odnosno kod nacionalnog CEEPUS koordinatora koji radi pri toj ustanovi.
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