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Baby (Not So) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia
No full textThe WHO and UNICEF launched The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 1991 with the goal of promoting breastfeeding. Four years later, this initiative was adopted in Serbia (then Yugoslavia). Although Serbia has officially been a part of the BFHI for over 26 years, less than 13% of children are currently exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life. Drawing on interviews, observations and document review, this chapter offers ethnographic insight into why the BFHI in Serbia has met with little success. I argue that the principles and practices of the initiative to promote breastfeeding have been both thinly learned and thinly applied by healthcare workers and therefore have had little positive impact on women’s empowerment to breastfeed or the rates of breastfeeding in the country. I show how the global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative implemented in Serbia in the early 1990s and the national level policies which renewed it in 2018 were severely constrained by social, political and economic conditions that hindered the uptake of the program by frontline health workers – namely the devastating effects of the civil war and international sanctions in the 1990s, and the deleterious effects of IMF policies on the Serbian healthcare system since the 2000s. The pressure of time due to high workloads, and understaffed hospitals, in combination with unsustainable national funds for implementation may contribute to the reality of the thin implementation of BFHI
Lokalne fondacije u Srbiji: Osnaživanje odozdo – uloga, izazovi i perspektive za razvoj lokalnih fondacija
No full textActing potential of autobiography
No full textAutobiografija (AB) je narativno svedočanstvo proživljenih promena o sebi i svom vremenu, ali i delatno narativno stvaranje smisla. AB nisu individualni nego kolektivni tekstovi. Uticajni autobiografi kao akteri sećanja oblikuju prošla i buduća očekivanja, razočarenja, nade i kroje kognitivne sheme za razumevanje mogućnosti sadašnjice. Memoari su uticajne AB u prelaznim dobima. AB narativno svladava-ju masovne nesigurnosti samoviđenja kod čitalaca. Publika u vlasti-tom kontingentnom životu neretko traži narativni sklad sličan onome kod uglednog autobiografa. U prilogu je pokazan pakt uticajnih auto-biografa sa publikom (D. Ćosić,V. Čerčil, A. Šper).An autobiography (AB) is a narrative testimony of the changes experienced in oneself and one’s time but also an active creation of the meaning. AB are not individual but collective texts. The influential autobiographers as actors of memory shape past and future expectations, disappointments, and hopes, and create cognitive schemes for the understanding of the possibilities of the present. Memoirs are influential AB in the transition periods. AB narratively overcome the mass uncertainties of self-vision among readers. The audience in their own contingent life often looks for a narrative harmony similar to that of a respectable autobiographer. The paper considers some pacts of influential autobiographers with the audience (D. Ćosić, V. Churchill, A. Speer
The Battle between Light and Dark Side of Personality: How Light and Dark Personality Traits Predict Mating Strategies in the Online Context
No full textIn recent years, online dating websites, applications, and social media have become increasingly popular tools for finding romantic and/or sexual partners. Individual differences in personality traits predict the use of online dating websites and applications and also influence the motives for their use. Previous work regarding mating strategies in the context of online dating has focused on the Dark Tetrad concept of malevolent personality while ignoring the Light Triad concept of beneficent personality. Light and dark personality traits are not seen as polar opposites as they supplement each other. Thus, the current study aimed to explore the utility of both light (i.e., Faith in Humanity, Humanism, and Kantianism) and dark (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism) personality traits in predicting mating strategies in the online context. A total of 216 participants, ages 20 to 56, which used online dating sites, apps, and social media for finding partners in the past year, completed an online questionnaire assessing Dark Tetrad traits, Light Triad traits, and mating orientations. Narcissism, psychopathy, and sadism positively correlated, while Faith in Humanity and Kantianism negatively correlated with short-term mating. However, only Faith in Humanity was a significant predictor of short-term mating. As for long-term mating, the results have shown that it is negatively related to psychopathy and sadism, while it is positively related to all Light Triad traits. Faith in Humanity, Humanism, and Kantianism were significant predictors of long-term mating. These findings highlight the utility of the Dark Tetrad and Light Triad traits in mating orientation research
Kako tehnologija utiče na proces komunikacije i kreiranja identiteta
No full textThe basic thesis of this paper is that communication is a fundamental activity of all human practices and that identity is constructed with the help of communication. Defining identity cannot be explained and understood exclusively from the standpoint of philosophy, sociology, political science or psychology. Given that the Latin root of the word communication, communio, refers to community, we can say that communication as a science best covers the relationships that people establish within the community such as schools, families, work environment, social networks and forums. The activity of communication is the establishment of a community, i.e., sociability. To communicate means to unite something – to bring one’s actions into harmony with the community and with social life. In that sense, communication is in its essence a transition from the individual to the collective.
In addition, any specific form of communication depends on the wider cultural and socio-political environment in which modern people operate. This paper aims to explore the impact of technology on individual identity, to answer questions about whether robots can have the same characteristics as personalities, and whether, and in what way, machines have an impact on people. The reason for asking such questions is the decision of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament to pass a law that will grant autonomous robots the status of “electronic personalities”.Osnovna teza ovog rada jeste da komunikacija predstavlja bazičnu aktivnost svih ljudskih praksi i da se identitet konstruiše uz pomoć komunikacije. Definisati identitet ne može se objasniti i razumeti isključivo sa stanovišta filozofije, sociologije, politikologije ili psihologije. S obzirom na to da latinski koren reči komunikacija, communio, upućuje na zajednicu, slobodno možemo reći da komunikologija kao nauka najbolje pokriva niz odnosa koje ljudi uspostavljaju unutar zajednice kakvu predstavljaju škole, porodica, radno okruženje, društvene mreže i forumi. Delatnost komunikacije jeste uspostavljanje zajednice, odnosno društvenosti. U kontekstu komunikacije, saopštiti znači nešto združiti, odnosno dovesti svoje delovanje u sklad sa zajednicom i društvenim životom. U tom smislu, komunikacija je u svojoj suštini prelaz od individualnog ka kolektivnom. Pored navedenog, specifičan oblik komunikacije zavisi od šireg kulturnog i društveno-političkog okruženja u kojem današnji čovek funkcioniše te zbog toga ovaj rad ima za cilj i da istraži uticaj tehnologije na identitet pojedinca, da odgovori na pitanja da li je moguće da roboti imaju iste karakteristike ličnosti, i da li i na koji način mašine imaju uticaj na ljude. Razlog postavljanja ovakvih pitanja je i odluka Odbora za pravna pitanja Evropskog parlamenta da se donese zakon koji će autonomnim robotima dodeliti status „elektronskih ličnosti“
Između mita i nauke. Rasprava o Platonovoj kosmologiji, Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Beograd, 2021.
No full textThe Role of Architectural History Research: Auckland’s NZI Building as William Gummer’s Attempt at Humanity
No full textIn response to the third thematic sub-stream of the 38th Annual
SAHANZ Conference, this paper will discuss the role of architectural
research in the architecture of Gummer and Ford, the Auckland-based
practice, often described as one of the most prolific bureaus in interwar
New Zealand. The paper is a fraction of a three-staged project, “Gummer
and Ford,” developed by a team of researchers from the Unitec Institute
of Technology in response to an event recognised as a milestone in the
New Zealand architectural calendar – the 2023 centenary of the firm’s
establishment.
This paper explores the design principles of William Gummer, the
principal designer of the firm. From 1914 to 1935, Gummer consistently
published his view that the goal of the architect was to cater to
humanity’s highest instincts. He was unwavering but vague on how this
is achieved; through composition, unity, contrast, proportion and scale,
appropriate use of materials is all needed to produce buildings of good
character. But what did he really mean by this? A close reading of three
books Gummer considered invaluable to architectural students – The
Essentials of Composition as Applied to Art by John Vredenburgh Van
Pelt, Architectural Composition by Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, and The
Mistress Art by Reginald Bloomfield – offers a direct insight into the
influences behind his thinking about architecture and his architectural
production. Directly traceable to Gummer, the three titles include
clear, precise instructions on both the functional and artistic nature of
architectural design.
Interestingly, this paper employs a method not dissimilar to Gummer’s
design method. These books taken together, along with Gummer’s own
writing, a study of renderings and construction drawings, and close
observation of the buildings, an architectural analysis of Gummer’s
work becomes possible – it is what Gummer himself referred to as
Architectural Research. This historically focused study will bring a new
perspective to understanding the value and contribution of traditional
architects, not only in New Zealand but other English-speaking
countries
Jačanje kapaciteta kao formativna pretpostavka uloge civilnog društva u demokratizaciji Srbije
No full textKoristeći kao teorijski okvir teoriju resursne mobilizacije i teoriju političkog procesa istražit ću kapacitete organizacija civilnog društva u Srbiji u kontekstu procesa demokratizacije nakon demokratskih promjena 2000. godine. Kombinirajući teorijski okvir koji se odnosi na civilna društva postsocijalističkih zemalja s dosadašnjim istraživanjima kapaciteta organizacija civilnog društva u Srbiji i sa studijom slučaja pokreta Ne davimo Beograd, ukazat ću na čimbenike koji utječu na razvijanje kapaciteta aktera civilnog društva u uvjetima neinkluzivne javne sfere za efikasno djelovanje i produbljivanje procesa demokratizacije
Trauma drugih!? Jugoslovenski filmovi o holokaustu iz 1960-ih godina
No full textThe aim of this paper is to map the reconfiguration and displacement of
the emerging trauma of the Holocaust in the cinematic narratives of SFR
Yugoslavia. The analysis of three nearly forgotten Yugoslav films of the
1960s – Killer on Leave (Mörder auf Urlaub/Ubica na odsustvu/Ubica je
došao iz prošlosti, 1965, Boško Bošković), Witness Out of Hell (Bittere
Kräuter/Gorke trave, 1966, Žika Mitrović) and Smoke (Dim, 1967, Slobodan
Kosovalić) – follows Kansteiner’s thesis about the changes of Holocaust
memorial narratives in the films shown on German television in the
1970s. Accordingly, I claim that the analyzed films position the trauma
of the Holocaust as a crime committed by others, over there, and then
in the past. Further, they broaden the trauma to accommodate the
diversified roles of victims, perpetrators, witnesses and bystanders, and
help the Germans (and other Europeans as well) come to terms with the
Nazi criminal legacy and their own role. The co-productional terms allow
the films to balance the memory of the Holocaust as both anti-fascist
(East Germany) and cosmopolitan, multidirectional (West Germany) within
the real Yugoslav/German symbolic narrative space and its intrinsic
poetics (e.g., memorialization and sacralization).Cilj ovog rada je da mapira rekonfiguraciju i izmeštanje traume Holokausta u nastajanju u kinematografskim narativima SFR Jugoslavije. Analiza tri skoro zaboravljena jugoslovenska filma iz 1960-ih godina – Ubica na odsustvu (1965, Boško Bošković), Svedok iz pakla (1966, Mitrović) i Dim (1967, Slobodan Kosovalić) – prati Kanštajnerovu tezu o promenama memorijalnih narativa Holokausta u filmovima prikazivanim na nemačkoj televiziji 1970-ih godina. Shodno tome, tvrdim da analizirani filmovi traumu Holokausta pozicioniraju kao zločin koji su počinili drugi, negde, a zatim u prošlosti. Dalje, oni proširuju traumu da bi se prilagodili raznovrsnim ulogama žrtava, počinilaca, svedoka i posmatrača, i pomažu Nemcima (i drugimEvropljanima) da se pomire sa nacističkim zločinačkim nasleđem i sopstvenom ulogom. Koprodukcijski termini omogućavaju filmovima da uravnoteže sećanje na Holokaust, kao i antifašističko (Istočna Nemačka) i kosmopolitsko, višesmerno (Zapadna Nemačka) u okviru stvarnog jugoslovenskog/nemačkog simboličkog narativnog prostora i njegove unutrašnje poetike (na primer, memorijalizacija i sakralizacija)
Life Plans and Life Goals in Philosophical Practice
No full textAmid the ongoing and growing rise in the awareness of traditional schools of psychotherapy of the need for a more philosophical understanding of themselves and their clients, and the resulting return of the fragmented modern psychotherapy under the integrative aegis of philosophical practice (philotherapy), some of the ancient, practical philosophical issues have resurfaced with force in therapeutic practice. One is the issue of drawing an appropriate distinction between the concepts of life plan and life goals. The ancient philosophical figures tended to call the former „reason”, or „wisdom”. The modern age has re-actualized this distinction due to exceptionally forceful social and technological influences, many of which have caused large numbers of individuals to adopt life goals which, while socially highly desirable, in fact work against the implementation of their more authentic life plans. The outcome of this uncritical adoption of what seems as a thrilling and satisfying structure of life goals, while at the same time betraying one’s deeper life plan, or life strategy, is failure to achieve a high quality of life, or ‘the good life’