Search results for "diaspora"

The Online Image of the Romanian Gendarmerie after the Diaspora Protest on August 10, 2018: Crisis Communication Strategies

2019

Abstract In this study we conducted a research on the Facebook page of the Romanian Gendarmerie, to understand the magnitude of the effects of the crisis this institution is facing after the Diaspora Protest ended in violence. We monitored the posts from August 10 to December 31, 2018 and analyzed the most relevant 50 comments from each post, in order to determine their character: positive, negative or neutral. In conducting this study, we started from the hypothesis that this event has affected the image of the Romanian Gendarmerie in the long time, and the crisis communication strategies used by the representatives of this institution have made a significant contribution to postponing the…

Digital materialities in the diasporic mourning of migrant death

2019

This article examines memorialization among the family and friends of those who have died at the world’s deadliest border in the Mediterranean Sea. Digital media platforms are central spaces for new, innovative forms of coping with ambiguous loss or the inability to mourn over a dead body. The analysis focuses on the role of digital media technologies and the relationship between digital and material elements in memorialization. I examine the creation and circulation of digital objects of memorialization: visual assemblages in which the material and digital intertwine. The analysis demonstrates that digital media practices are not separate from the material world, nor do they make mourning …

Akadēmiskā Dzīve, 56. rakstu krājums 

2020

Tamil Diaspora Schools—Ethnic-National Education in a Transnational Space

2012

La terapia delle parole. Conversazione con Wole Soyinka

2012

Intervista con Wole Soyinka, Premio Nobel per la Letteratura (1986), riguardo la sua produzione teatrale e letteraria e l'attività politica

Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, XXV

2019

Religious-Philosophical Articles XXV are dedicated to the international conference Socio-Political and Religious Ideas and Movements in the 20th–21st Centuries organised by the researchers of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia. The conference was held in cooperation with colleagues from the Institute of Political Science of the University of Opole, the Institute of International Studies of the University of Wroclaw, the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy of the St. Petersburg State University. The conference took place in Riga on 4–5 October 2018. Thus, the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology f…

Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2013, Nr. 2 (87)

2013

Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds

“Le voci dell’Africa nelle lettere italiane”

2007

By referring to the postcolonial and diaspora studies, the essay analyzes the rise of a multicultural literature in Italy where Africa's literary voices contribute to a transformation of the national canon, opening it up to the contemporary notion of a transnational literature that crosses languages, territories and cultures.

"Dis poem shall call names names": Naming in reggae culture, the example of dub poetry

2013

International audience; The question of names and naming emerged as a crucial concern in the cultures of the African diaspora as a way to resist the anonymity and loss of identity imposed upon slaves. Through examples taken from reggae culture and the subgenre known as dub poetry, this paper looks at how names imply a political and poetic use of language in black Atlantic cultures.

Środowisko polskich uchodźców w Pradze okresu Wielkiej Wojny (1914-1918)

2017

In 1914 Prague became one of the places where Polish refugees were hiding from the Russian soldiers' harassment. In order to help them, numerous committees were organised, among which the most prominent was Polish refugees' Committee ledby a Benedictine - father Klemens Dąbrowski. He was also a patron for Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and Students' Fraternity. The organisations donated food and clothes; their members also animated cultural life - opened librariesand organised patriotic meetings. Czech peoplc, mostly intelligentsia and clergy, provided help as well. However, many citizens of Prague were hostile towards the refugees, and when the military operation finished, most Poles lef…