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The Quality of Divided Democracies
The Quality of Divided Democracies contemplates how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethnoculturally divided societies. It advances a new theoretical approach to assessing quality of democracy in divided societies, and puts it into practice with the focused comparison of two divided democracies—Estonia and Latvia. The book uses rich comparative data to tackle the vital questions of what determines a democracy’s level of inclusiveness and the ways in which minorities can gain access to the policy-making process. It uncovers a “presence–polarization dilemma” for minorities’ inclusion in the democratic process, which has implications for academic debates on minority representation and ethnic politics, as well as practical implications for international and national institutions’ promotion of minority rights.
Language Rights Revisited - The Challenge of Global Migration and Communication
Hauptbeschreibung Linguistic autonomy, assured internationally to ethnic minorities, has succeeded, above all, in Europe, yet is nowhere near passing its acid test in other parts of the world. Examples show that it is not only a question of linguistic autonomy, but of ethnic and religious conflicts, which are simmering in the foreground. Hence, there are reasons for doubting whether international agreements designed to guarantee linguistic autonomy can solve these conflicts. The protection of indigenous languages is justified largely by the principle of diversity and is de.
Gender Equality on a Grand Tour
Gender Equality on a Grand Tour. Politics and Institutions – the Nordic Council, Sweden, Lithuania and Russia explores the politics around the establishment, development and transformation of gender equality institutions in the Nordic countries (on the example of Sweden), in the former communist countries east of the Baltic Sea region (the example of Lithuania) and in the northwestern part of Russia. The authors analyze the interplay between the internationalization and Europeanization of gender equality on the one hand and national and local contexts on the other. Gender Equality on a Grand Tour also is the first study to explore the role of one of the leading transnational actors in the region - the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers - in gender equality institutionalization in the Baltic Sea region.
Illegible
Sergey Gandlevsky's 2002 novel Illegible has a double time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorotov, a twenty-year-old poet living in Moscow in the 1970s, as well as his retrospective meditations thirty years later after most of his hopes have foundered. As the story begins, Lev is involved in a tortured affair with an older woman and consumed by envy of his more privileged friend and fellow beginner poet Nikita, one of the children of high Soviet functionaries who were known as "golden youth." In both narratives, Krivorotov recounts with regret and self-castigation the failure of a double infatuation, his erotic love for the young student Anya and his artistic love for the poet Viktor Chigrashov. When this double infatuation becomes a romantic triangle, the consequences are tragic. In Illegible, as in his poems, Gandlevsky gives us unparalleled access to the atmosphere of the city of Moscow and the ethos of the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, while at the same time demonstrating the universality of human emotion.
Aspasia
Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender historyfocused on - and produced in - Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. In this region the field of women's and gender history has developed uevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon.
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Contributions suisses au XIVe congrès mondial des slavistes à Ohrid, septembre 2008
Cet ouvrage offre une vision d'ensemble sur les recherches en slavistique menées actuellement en Suisse. Toutes les facettes y sont représentées : la littérature de la Russie et des autres pays de langue slave, la linguistique des langues slaves, et enfin l'histoire des idées scientifiques dans le domaine des sciences humaines en Europe orientale. On voit ainsi peu à peu se dessiner le renouveau de la slavistique, avec des thèmes engagés dans les débats de l'épistémologie contemporaine. Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick über die aktuelle Forschung in der Schweizer Slavistik. Dabei werden alle Bereiche berücksichtigt: Literatur aus Russland und anderen slavischen Ländern, slavische Linguistik und nicht zuletzt die Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Geisteswissenschaften in Osteuropa. Die zentralen Themen, welche die heutigen wissenschaftlichen Debatten beleben, zeugen von einer Erneuerung innerhalb der Slavistik.
Polnische Literatur in Bewegung
Polnische diasporale Literatur zwischen Exil und Migration: Mit Blick auf die Emigranten der 1980er Jahre, etwa Artur Becker, Krzysztof Niewrzeda und Natasza Goerke, diskutieren deutsche und polnische Literaturwissenschaftler_innen u.a. die Frage der konzeptionellen Verortung des schriftstellerischen Werkes dieser Exilwelle (Postemigration, Transmigration, Nomadismus), des (un-)möglichen Abschieds vom Exil, des Überschreitens von Kultur- und Sprachgrenzen sowie des kollektiven Gedächtnisses dieser Generation.
Stadt - Mord - Ordnung
Auch für den Krimi gilt: Der Westen Europas kennt den Osten selten gut - dennoch ist er von ihm fasziniert. Neben westlichen Krimis werden immer mehr Geschichten aus dem Osten gelesen, die ›dort‹ oder ›hier‹ geschrieben werden. Breslau, Budapest, Kiew, Moskau, Prag, Triest und Zagreb werden zu Krimi-Schauplätzen. Für jede dieser Städte wird eine spezifische Topographie des Verbrechens produziert, die zwischen historischer, mythischer und touristischer Darstellung schwankt. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen, wie sich Krimiautoren - kritisch oder klischeehaft - mit den Ordnungskomplexen Gewalt, Gerechtigkeit und Moral auseinandersetzen. Diese Themen sind einerseits genretypisch, weisen aber andererseits in Ost- und Mitteleuropa eine wendebedingte Brisanz auf.
