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Activist Localities in the Queer South
No full textCultural anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s theories about place link together various surrounding contexts: technology, media, economics, and ideology. He sees locality as a “complex phenomenological quality” (1996, p. 178) that we should not look at as context, but instead focus on how contexts define the boundaries of localities. Appadurai’s theories help to link global and local by taking into account the various surrounding contexts: technology, media, economics, and ideology. This paper uses Appadurai’s theory as a basis to explore how localities emerge in grassroots queer activist practices that combine offline and online tactics in their organizing. I use participant observation, in-depth interviews, and content analysis to gain an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of networked locality created by LGBTQ activists physically located in Southern United States
Rahvapärimus ja multimeedia eesti kaasaegses kultuuris [Folk tradition and multimedia in contemporary Estonian culture]
No full textThe legends of the kratt or the treasure-bearer have existed in lively oral tradition in Estonian culture for a very long time. These myths and legends have traversed from the oral tradition to literary works, visual culture and music. All these texts on the kratt exist in the culture as metatexts which create the world of the kratt, where different cultural memories and interpretations are intertwined. This means that the kratt as a cultural text is also a multimedial text.
Different media use different tools and this makes the interpretations more playful and interesting. Andrus Kivirähk’s novel “Old Barnyor November” (2000) is the central literary work on the kratt in contemporary Estonian literature. Kivirähk combines the mythical kratt with Old Barny (Rehepapp), who is the unofficial leader of the village and a cunning manor house barn-keeper. There are several cultural texts based on Kivirähk’s novel, but the most important are the opera “Old Barny” (2013) by Tauno Aints, the libretto by Urmas Lennuk, and the film “November” (2016) by Rainer Sarnet. The ballet “Kratt” (1943; 2015) by Eduard Tubin is more contemporary inits setting and represents everyday life in the modern factory. The article analyses how different multimedial texts about the kratt and Old Barny use and combine multimedia to create and convey thesocial meaning of the kratt, and how multimedia use audio-visual poetics to convey a greater number of emotions and aesthetic values in the cultural text. The film by Rainer Sarnet and the ballet by Eduard Tubin represent harmony with different poetics factors and the meanings of the cultural texts
The Kazakhstani Youth’s Engagement in Politics
No full textCurrent research on the Kazakhstani youth’s political participation has usually been informed by a rather traditional understanding of the concept of political participation, without considering the impact of social media and other non-traditional forms of political engagement. This article advocates for a more nuanced understanding of political participation in the country, and particularly among the younger generation, who – it will be shown, display a wide interest in the political developments of the country and are possibly encouraged by a wider access to information and social media through the internet. By pushing the boundaries of political participation, we suggest that young Kazakhs are more active in political debates than usually considered by a number of previous studies
Book Review: The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power
No full textThe Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power by Alex De Waal, 2015, Cambridge: Polit
Public Schools’ Websites in Estonia: Required Communication Channel but no Shared Knowledge
No full textIn this paper, I will explore how Estonian public schools are sharing information with their target groups on their websites. Nowadays we cannot ignore the importance of online channels in communication. Estonian public schools are using different limited-access online platforms and mailing lists to manage their communication. According to the fact that schools are public institutions, they need to be visible in public and schools’ websites have become an integral part of school public communication. In Estonian context, schools’ websites are also required by the law.
The main purpose of this study is to map how public schools in Estonia address the information to their stakeholders and through that, represent themselves on their websites. The data is focused on the announcements of the first school day in Estonian basic schools, upper secondary schools, and gymnasiums (N=374). Results show that schools are using different ways to manage and present information on their web pages even though their target groups and stakeholders are similar to the wide picture
The 3 Capacities of a State in Protecting and Preserving the Marine Environment from the Harmful Impacts of Shipping: the Estonian Perspective
No full textEven though Estonia has acted well in giving its consent to relevant international obligations, aiming at the protection and preservation of the marine environment, as well as accepting civil liability and compensation for pollution damages according to the principle the “polluter must pay”, the author is not satisfied with how this extremely important field of law has been implemented on the national law level. No special legal act devoted to the protection and preservation of the marine environment has been either elaborated or passed yet. According to the author`s hypothesis, it is conceptually wrong to rely mainly on provisions of international law and implement that in national law by incorporating those provisions randomly – without any systematic approach – into the Water Law Act , which is meant to regulate the use and protection of rivers, lakes and groundwater. Because of several important aspects, this approach in legal regulation makes it cumbersome and unclear for every person in Estonia as well as for relevant state authorities.
Even though Estonia has acted well in giving its consent to relevant international obligations, aiming at the protection and preservation of the marine environment, as well as accepting civil liability and compensation for pollution damages according to the principle the “polluter must pay”, the author is not satisfied with how this extremely important field of law has been implemented on the national law level. No special legal act devoted to the protection and preservation of the marine environment has been either elaborated or passed yet. According to the author`s hypothesis, it is conceptually wrong to rely mainly on provisions of international law and implement that in national law by incorporating those provisions randomly – without any systematic approach – into the Water Law Act[1], which is meant to regulate the use and protection of rivers, lakes and groundwater. Because of several important aspects, this approach in legal regulation makes it cumbersome and unclear for every person in Estonia as well as for relevant state authorities
Comparative Analysis on the Implementation of Article 19 of United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in Eight European Countries
No full textThe transition from institutional to community care for vulnerable people has been shaping the welfare system in Europe over the last decades. For the period of 2014-20, deinstitutionalisation became one of the highlighted priorities of the European Commission in order to promote reforms in disability and mental health care in the convergence regions, too.Between 2007 and 2013, Estonia as many other Eastern European countries implemented the first wave of deinstitutionalisation, and during the new EU budget period a second wave will be carried out in order to continue and hopefully complete the transition. In this study, we try to give an overview of the experiences of different European countries, highlighting good practices and possible pitfalls
Sissejuhatus
No full textKäesolev Acta Politica Estica erinumber on valminud Tallinna Ülikooli riigiteadlaste panusena Eesti Vabariigi 100. juubeliaasta tähistamisse. Numbri tähelepanukeskmes on kodakondsus ehk inimeste subjektsus riigi, ühiskonna ja poliitika kontekstis. See valik põhines nii sümboolsetel kui sisulistel kaalutlustel
The Evolution of the Concept of Immunity of International Organizations
No full textThis article looks at the change in the conceptual foundations of the immunity of international organisations, paying special attention to the nature of the immunity of the first international organisations and the later disappearance of that unique approach. Three distinct stages in the development of the concept of immunity of international organizations can be discerned. In the first stage the early international organizations were bestowed immunity derived from an augmented concept of neutrality. The second stage witnessed the granting of diplomatic privileges and immunities to certain organizations and their officials. The third stage involved the adoption of the concept of ‘functional immunity’ of international organizations. The article will also engage with the discussions (or lack of them) surrounding the adoption of immunity provisions and study the progression of analytical engagement with the concept of immunity. An examination of these stages will reveal how changes in the conceptual bases of immunity initially came about mostly due to practical considerations and without an analysis of the conceptual transformation that resulted
Eesti avaliku sektori struktuurireformide legitimeerimine
No full textKodakondsuse üks olulisi tahke on see, kuidas riigivõim inimestega suhestub: missugused on kodanike poliitikasisendi andmise võimalused, kuivõrd otsuseid selgitatakse, kui interaktiivselt valitsetakse jne. See annab ühelt poolt riigivõimule legitiimsust ja teisalt tugevdab poliitilise kodakondsuse sisu