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The problems and solutions to development of state mediation system: phenomenological aspects / Nacionalinės mediacijos sistemos kūrimo problemos ir …

2012

Research methods based on phenomenological approach in the field of management can help to create a meaningful theoretical framework and guidelines for the needs of improving the management. The article deals with the phenomenological approach in the context of the problem solving of institutionalization process of mediation. Although the work has presented the phenomenon of specific Latvian experience, the used methodology and the results are possible to use also for understanding and solving mediation system problems in other countries. Santrauka Vadovaujantis fenomenologiniu požiūriu pagrįstais tyrimais vadybos mokslo srityje, galima sukurti prasmingus teorinius principus ir nurodymus, r…

Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities

2021

This article examines how women construct their gameplay identities in relation to the hegemonic “gamer” discourse. The article is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with women who occupy central roles in the Finnish gaming industry. We deploy Judith Butler’s theorization of performative identity construction to examine how the women negotiate their identity in relation to the hegemonic gamer discourse, focusing on how they both embrace and resist the hegemonic, masculine constructions of gameplay. The study shows the dynamics surrounding the gamer identity. While women submit to the hegemonic gamer discourse, reproducing the masculine gamer notions to gain recognition as a viabl…

Credit-Based Insurance Scores: some Observations in the Light of the European General Data Protection Regulation

2020

Despite the differences between credit risk and insurance risk, in many countries large insurance companies include credit history amongst the information to be taken into account when assigning consumers to risk pools and deciding whether or not to offer them an auto or homeowner insurance policy, or to determine the premium that they should pay. In this study, I will try to establish some conclusions concerning the requirements and limits that the use of credit history data by insurers in the European Union should be subject to. In order to do this, I shall focus my attention primarily on Regulation (EU) 2016/679. This regulation, that came into force on 24 May 2018, not only forms the ba…

Editorial: Conceptualising ‘Muslim Diaspora’

2016

Cultural and Social Anthropology Studies in Latvia and Eastern Europe: Discussing Practices and Methods

2020

In the last academic year, two international scientific conferences were held in Riga, focusing on the anthropological dimension in the field of social sciences. Baltic International Academy (Riga, Latvia) in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation), the University of Oradea (Oradea, Romania) and the International Festival of Visual Anthropology Mediating Camera (Moscow, Russian Federation) organised an international scientific conference Social and Political Anthropology: Modern Scientific Approaches to Research (Riga, 18–19…

Europe and refugees : 1938 and 2015-16

2018

Ahonen attempts to provide some historical contextualization for the refugee crisis that has dominated much of European public and political debate since 2015. He draws comparisons between the crisis-ridden present and the decade of the previous century that was particularly laden with anticipation of disaster and doom: the 1930s. More specifically, his article explores parallels in public discussions of refugees by European political leaders and media commentators in 1938, on the one hand, and 2015–16, on the other. The coverage of 1938 focuses on the Evian Conference, organized to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, while the analysis of 2015–16 concerns the period f…

Politics of tangibility, intangibility, and place in the making of a European cultural heritage in EU heritage policy

2016

The EU has recently launched several initiatives that aim to foster the idea of a common European cultural heritage. The notion of a European cultural heritage in EU policy discourse is extremely abstract, referring to various ideas and values detached from physical locations or places. Nevertheless the EU initiatives put the abstract policy discourse into practice and concretize its notions about a European cultural heritage. A common strategy in this practice is ‘placing heritage’ – affixing the idea of a European cultural heritage to certain places in order to turn them into specific European heritage sites. The materialisation of a European cultural heritage and the production of physic…

Biopolitics and Hegemony in Contemporary Russian Cultural Policy

2018

Since 2011, Russian ‘licensing civil society’ 1 has predominated through censorship and the restrictive regulation of arts and cultural societies. The current conservative project has turned artistic space into public space, indicating moral abuse and a threat to the spiritual health of the Russian nation. Consequently, the symbolic borders of human creativity and individual freedom in arts and cultural societies have been reduced to patriotism, nationalism and moral deductive functions of the state-approved program. This paper will explore Russian state cultural policy and argue that biopolitics is its mainstream strategy. It examines how the ensemble of sovereign and disciplinary power de…

Festive literature in Catalan as a space of cultural resistance: The Valencian magazine Pensat i Fet (1912‐72) during the Spanish post-war period

2021

The magazine Pensat i Fet (1912‐72), which was published every year before the Fallas festival and included a wide range of texts and pictures related to it, had been an important element in the dissemination of literature and culture in Catalan and the agenda of valencianism among wide sectors of Valencian society. Until 1936 ‐ especially during the years of the Second Spanish Republic ‐ the magazine explicitly opted for valencianism, for example, advocating for the agreement that would make the statute of autonomy possible. However, from 1940 onwards it became a true bastion of cultural resistance. So, the magazine maintained a literary use of Catalan language in diverse registers, strong…

Les raisons de la double activité des médecins : le cas de l'Algérie

2014

L’objet de cet article est d’analyser la double activite des medecins en Algerie sous trois angles d’approche. Le premier mobilise les theories de l’offre de travail appliquees aux professionnels de sante confrontes a l’existence de deux secteurs, un prive, un public, dont bien souvent les niveaux de remuneration horaire different et ou les temps respectifs de travail peuvent en partie etre choisis. La complementarite entre les deux emplois sous-tend dans une large mesure les strategies d’offre de travail des medecins. Le deuxieme se refere aux registres des motivations des medecins dans leur choix d’une activite privee complementaire. Le troisieme est relatif aux strategies d’adressage des…