Poland and Her National Minorities, 1919-1939: A Case Study. Stephan HorakGeschichte der Polnischen Nation, 1916-1960: von der Staatsgründung im Ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Gegenwart. Hans Roos

1962 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-463
Author(s):  
Stanley W. Page
Keyword(s):  
National Minorities

Cultural security of minorities under threat. The situation of the Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-733
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Szyszlak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Fundamental Significance

The main objective of the article is to analyse the state of cultural security of the Uyghur minority. Due to the fundamental significance of identity and culture for the functioning of national minorities, it belongs from their perspective to the most crucial sectors of security, especially since a whole range of threats concerns it. The text uses the case study method, and the situation of the Uyghur minority in the People’s Republic of China has been chosen as an example. The following parts of the study define the terms used in the article, characterize the Uyghur minority, and indicate the most critical threats to its cultural security. These include the processes of migration together with the accompanying processes of urbanization and industrialization, the destruction of cultural heritage, threats in the area of culture and education, and dangers related to the state’s policy towards Islam and the potential radicalization of its Uyghur followers.

scholarly journals Kódolás és dekódolás – egy televíziós híradó üzenete. Esettanulmány: Román Televízió, Kolozsvári Területi Stúdió - TVR Cluj -

Symbolon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Katalin Orbán
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Present Thesis

The present thesis is a part of my doctoral dissertation, in which I investigated the functions and roles of the Romanian Television’s territorial studios, the case study being the studio from Cluj. Some of my research in this domain was about the news programme of the analyzed TV-channel. I investigated how the encoded information of the news reveal the social facts of this region, and how they could be decoded by the public. One of the surprises of the conclusions is about the fewness of the news presenting the events happening in the communities of the national minorities living in Transylvania. But there are other surprising conclusions too, from which content creators of regional television news could learn.

National Minorities and Organizing Cross-border Cultural Cooperation: Evidence from the Polish-Lithuanian Borderland

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Joanna Kurowska-Pysz ◽  
Andrius Puksas
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Minority Participation ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

The research problem is minority participation in local development, illustrated by the case of the Lithuanian minority’s activities in Poland. The aim of the paper is to analyse actions conducted by the Lithuanian minority in Poland (Puosk) and to point out some factors supporting cross-border cultural cooperation engaging the national minority, based on best practices from the Lithuanian-Polish border-land. It is a good illustration of a process leading to the improvement of relations between neighbouring countries, thanks to cross-border cooperation based on the minority’s activities. The authors analyse a case study regarding Polish commune development strongly influenced by Lithuanian culture and the Lithuanian minority’s activities. It is analysed in the paper together with qualitative research (interviews) that allowed the research problem to be solved.

What Has Limited the EU's Impact on Minority Rights in Accession Countries?

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Rechel
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Acquis Communautaire ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
Accession Countries ◽  
The Impact

Using Bulgaria as a case study, this article investigates what has limited the impact of the European Union (EU) on minority rights in accession countries. It is possible to identify a number of factors. They include a lack of internal minority rights standards, an emphasis on the acquis communautaire, missing expertise on minority issues, the superficial monitoring of candidate states, a lack of concern for human rights, and a failure in addressing public attitudes towards minorities. The case of Bulgaria differed from that of its neighbors in lacking involvement of the High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

scholarly journals Ethnopolitics as Co‑operation and Coexistence: The Case‑Study of the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia

Politeja ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (31/2)) ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Alessandro Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Jewish Settlement

It would be a mistake to assume that ethnopolitics is only a matter of confrontation between different ethnic groups. On the contrary, there is a range of examples where it is pursued in a spirit of compromise and co‑operation. One of them is the case of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, in Post‑Soviet Russia. Often ethnic groups realize that co‑operation and cultural coexistence are more profitable than conflict. Beginning in 1928 the Soviet Union set aside a territory the size of Belgium for Jewish settlement, located some five thousands miles east of Moscow along the Soviet‑Chinese border. Believing that Soviet Jewish people, like other national minorities, deserved a territorial homeland, the regime decided to settle an enclave that would become the Jewish Autonomous Region in 1934. In fact, the establishment of the JAR was the first instance of an officially acknowledged Jewish national territory since ancient times. But the history of the Region was tragic and the experiment failed dismally. Nevertheless, Birobidzhan’s renewed existence of today is not only a curious legacy of Soviet national policy, but after the break‑up of the Soviet Union and the definite religious rebirth, represents an interesting case‑study in respect to interethnic relations.

scholarly journals Imagining a good citizen: The roles of a historical hero in Slovak pedagogical tradition

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-115
Author(s):  
Slávka Otčenášová
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
School Education ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
National Minorities

AbstractBased on a diachronic case study of history textbooks used in Slovak primary and secondary schools since 1918, this article discusses the roles biographies of historical heroes can play in school education. The case study analyses history textbook narratives about the medieval ruler Svätopluk published during three different political regimes, tracing their heritage up to present-day history textbooks. The text argues that the presentation of Svätopluk’s qualities, talents and achievements has been used not only in depicting him as a representative of the community, and as a desired prototype of a good citizen, but also in the formation of negative stereotypes about the representatives of the Other. This excluded significant segments of pupils of certain national minorities from the mainstream narrative and labeled them as enemies. An examination of the images of Svätopluk in history textbooks confirmed that these were politically motivated and influenced by current ideologies. However, it also showed that 19th century Romanticist ideals, resulting in apologetic and nation defending narratives, remained an integral part of history textbooks throughout the 20th century, prevailing over the narratives offered by official contemporary historiography.

scholarly journals Hate Crime Victims in Serbia: A Case Study of Context and Social Perceptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Jelena Jokanovic
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crime ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Novi Sad

This article provides an overview of the Republic of Serbia’s legal framework that incorporates strong guarantees for protection from discrimination, national minorities’ rights, and prosecution of (ethnic) hate crimes, but also describes a social context loaded with strong prejudices. To illustrate the above, I present a case study of two similar incidents of alleged hate crimes reported in a local Serbian newspaper. In both cases, the victims were young men belonging to ethnic minorities. In 2015, within a period of two months, a Serb was attacked in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, and an Albanian-speaking man in the Serbian town, Novi Sad. The articles attracted online comments, 205 and 134 respectively, mostly from readers from Serbia. These comments elicited what are likely to be honest responses because of the relative anonymity provided to authors. By analyzing commentaries on these newspaper items, this article compares social responses to hate crime cases where victims belonged to different ethnic groups and where the incidents occurred in different geographic and social contexts.

Hungarian cultural autonomy in Vojvodina from the 1974 Socialist Constitution to the 2009 Statute of Autonomy: path dependence dynamics against the reversal of minority policies

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonas Tolvaišis
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
Minority Policies

Applying a historical institutionalist theoretical perspective to the ethnic minority policy domain, the article attempts to explain why state policies toward minorities may be difficult to reverse once introduced. Focusing on a case study of the cultural status of the Vojvodina Hungarian minority in Serbia, the article attempts to find out the forms taken by self-reinforcing dynamics associated with minority-related policies, once they are de-institutionalized. The paper deals with the evolution of the concept of Hungarian cultural autonomy in Vojvodina in the context of the transition from the socialist framework of minority rights protection, applied in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina under the 1974 Constitution, to the system established by the Law on National Councils of National Minorities and the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina adopted in 2009, after the interim period of state centralization in the 1990s. The Vojvodina case study exemplifies the costs faced by governments aspiring to reverse these policies and allows the identification of path-dependent factors behind the collective action processes related to the main principles of these policies, and conditions that allow these principles to outlive the abolishment of respective institutional arrangements, persist across radical political and social changes over time, and re-emerge at later historical stages, in new institutional settings.

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