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Is Political Engagement On Digital Media A Valid Indicator Of The Youth’s Political Engagement?
No full textResearch has indicated that young people show limited interest in traditional political spheres and exhibit low levels of political participation. Drawing on extensive literature, we intend to display more contemporary ways of dealing with questions regarding young people’s political participation. This study revisited existing methodologies by integrating contemporary digital phenomena such as memes, social networks, and online petitions, which have been commonly overlooked in mainstream research on youth political engagement. Recognizing young people as digital natives requires redefining political participation within a digital infrastructure. We used the ICCS data for the Balkans (Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia) to determine whether: (1) digital media engagement (DME) correlates with conventional political participation; (2) DME correlates with civic knowledge (ICCS test achievement); and (3) one factor underlies all political participation variables (including DME). The correlation analysis showed positive relationships between DME and conventional political participation indicators with coefficients ranging from r = 0.02 to r = 0.46. However, DME correlated negatively with ICCS test achievement (r = -0.15). This finding suggests that while digital media use may encourage engagement, it may not enhance civic knowledge. We also conducted a factor analysis on all the variables regarding political participation. The factor analysis was valid (KMO = .877; χ2 = 2241045, p < .000). Three factors were extracted and DME was a part of the Latent Political Participation factor. We conclude that DME is essential to understanding modern youth political participation
Književnost kao način mišljenja: Deridina institucija razlike
No full textIn this article, I argue that literature represents a privileged modality for thinking institutionality in Derrida’s work and, moreover, that literature represents a model for institutions. The first section presents Derrida’s understanding of literature as anti-essentialist and a mode of experience which resists the transcendence of identity. In the second section, I propose that literature attends to its own fragility, lacking any definite foundation or external referent. I then consider the political implications of this position, demonstrating that literature not only encourages us to attend to its own fragile foundations, but also the foundations of socio- political institutions in general. It achieves this attention through its specific relationship to performative language. In the fourth section, I argue that literature reveals institutions as an effect of différance; rather than understanding différance as an infinite delay, institutions emerge in the process of différance. Literature underscores the inescapability of institutions. Our aim, as Derrida stresses, should not be to do away with institutions, but to form a new relation to institutions. I conclude by outlining some of these implications for literature as an institution which can serve as a model for the new relation to institutionality that Derrida valorises.U ovom članku, predlažem da književnost predstavlja privilegovani modalitet mišljenja institucionalnosti u Deridinom delu, kao i da književnost predstavlja primer institucije. Prvi deo
predstavlja Deridino razumevanje književnosti kao anti-esencijalističkog modusa iskustva
koje se opire transcendenciji identiteta. U drugom odeljku, prelažem da književnost stremi
ka svojoj sopstvenoj krhkosti, kao i da joj nedostaju konačni temelji ili spoljašnja odrednica.
Potom promatram političke implikacije ove pozicije, demonstrirajući kako književnost ne
samo da nas ohrabruje da se suočimo sa njenim krhkim temeljima, nego takođe i sa temelji ma socio-političkih institucija uopšte. Ona to postiže kroz svoj specifičan odnos prema per formativnom jeziku. U četrvtom delu, tvrdim da knjiženost razotkriva institucije kao efekat
rAzlike (différance); radije nego smatrati rAzliku kao beskonačno odlaganje, smatram da in stitucije potiču iz procesa rAzlike. Književnost podcrtava neizbežnost institucija. Naš cilj,
kako naglašava Derida, ne bi trebao da bude odricanje od institucija, već formiranje novih
odnosa prema institucijama. Zaključujem članak sumirajući neke od implikacija ovakvog shvatanja književnosti, kao institucije kakvim ga je vrednovao Derida
Enigma validnosti: spekulacije o poslednjem paragrafu Donner Le Temps II
No full textIn the final paragraph of the concluding session of the seminar Donner le temps II, Jacques Derrida enunciates—but does not develop—what I shall term the “enigma of validity.” Following a close reading of Heidegger’s On Time and Being, the session abruptly ends with a promise to analyze a certain transition: from the es gibt (“there is,” “il y a”) to the es gilt (“it is valid,” “il vaut,” and “il doit”). This suggest that a set of questions organized thematically around the gift—prominent among these is the idea of a Being that is there and gives itself as a gift—needs a supplement. The enigma of validity pertains to the emergence of a normative vocabulary divided into value, obligation, and interest. In this paper, I will trace some of the clues Derrida leaves in Donner le temps II and other texts, arguing that the “mystery of normativity” is bound to the ambiguous status of legality within metaphysics. Validity, as the mystical foundation of normativity, functions simultaneously as a metaphysical shortcut to secure self-reference in philosophical thought and as the impossibility of any foundational grounding (Grundlegung).U poslednjem paragrafu zaključnog predavanja seminara Donner le temps II, Jacques Derrida
iznosi—ali ne razrađuje—ono što ću nazvati „enigmom validnosti.“ Nakon detaljnog čitanja
Heideggerovog O vremenu i biću, predavanje se naglo završava obećanjem da će se analizi rati određeni prelaz: od es gibt („ima“, „il y a“) do es gilt („važi“, „il vaut“, i „il doit“). Ovo suge riše da je skupu pitanja tematski organizovanih oko dara—među kojima se ističe ideja Bića
koje postoji i koje se daje kao dar—potrebno dopunsko razmatranje. Enigma validnosti od nosi se na pojavu normativnog vokabulara podeljenog na vrednost, obavezu i interes. U ovom
radu pratim neke od tragova koje Derrida ostavlja u Donner le temps II i drugim tekstovima,
tvrdeći da je „misterija normativnosti“ povezana s dvosmislenim statusom zakonitosti unutar
metafizike. Validnost, kao mistička osnova normativnosti, funkcioniše istovremeno kao me tafizički prečac za obezbeđivanje samoreferentnosti u filozofskom mišljenju i kao nemoguć nost bilo kakvog temeljnog utemeljenja (Grundlegung)
Philosophy as a therapy in a culture of personality disorders
No full textMuch of the current development of both philosophical practice and psychotherapy teases out the theoretical foundations of psychotherapy, on the one hand, and the practical, therapeutic applications of philosophy, on the other. This debate has led to different conceptualizations of both disciplines, where one of the proposals, espoused here, is that all of psychotherapy might be seen as inherently philosophical in nature, and that philosophical practice, especially philotherapy as its counseling offshoot, is in fact an integrative discipline bringing together a number of bioethical dimensions of both philosophy and psychotherapy. The paper explores several aspects through which the concept of psychic wellbeing, on the one hand, and the traditional philosophical concept of the good life, on the other, reflect two sides of the same normative structure of “normalcy” or “wellness” that reverberate through the drama of individual development and culture alike. This particularly reflects in the modern culture of narcissistic values, which casts a sequence of questions on whether, to what extent, and on what basis we can pathologize narcissism and value-charged personality disorders.Much of the current development of both philosophical practice and psychotherapy teases out the theoretical foundations of psychotherapy, on the one hand, and the practical, therapeutic applications of philosophy, on the other. This debate has led to different conceptualizations of both disciplines, where one of the proposals, espoused here, is that all of psychotherapy might be seen as inherently philosophical in nature, and that philosophical practice, especially philotherapy as its counseling offshoot, is in fact an integrative discipline bringing together a number of bioethical dimensions of both philosophy and psychotherapy. The paper explores several aspects through which the concept of psychic wellbeing, on the one hand, and the traditional philosophical concept of the good life, on the other, reflect two sides of the same normative structure of “normalcy” or “wellness” that reverberate through the drama of individual development and culture alike. This particularly reflects in the modern culture of narcissistic values, which casts a sequence of questions on whether, to what extent, and on what basis we can pathologize narcissism and value-charged personality disorders
Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe: Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges and Activism
No full textThe edited volume, Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe: Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges, and Activism, addresses a complex and underexplored intersection of ethnic, religious, and activist identities. It focuses on the experiences of Roma communities with Muslim identities, situating their struggles within broader frameworks of discrimination, resilience, and ideas about societal transformation. By examining the nexus of antigypsyism and anti-Muslim hate, as well as the activism emerging from these intersecting oppressions, the volume fills a critical gap in the existing academic literature. It sheds light on a range of issues, including the effects of multiple discrimination on specific groups such as Roma women and the diverse strategies of resistance and community engagement within these marginalized populations
Bošnjaci Sandžaka: Između ekstremizma i borbe za poštovanje ljudskih i manjinskih prava
No full textU ovom radu nameće se zaključak da je problematizovanje (nasilnog) ekstremizma u Sandžaku značajno preuveličano, posebno ako se sagledava u komparativnoj perspektivi. Glavni razlog za insistiranje na navodnom ekstremizmu u Sandžaku jeste to što je ova regija predominantno muslimanska, zbog čega se u atmosferi globalne sekuritizacije muslimana i sagledavanja islama kao bezbednosne pretnje, ali i rastuće islamofobije i jačanja desnih, konzervativnih, snaga na Zapadu, Sandžak po automatizmu stavlja u fokus istraživanja esktremističkih i radikalnih pojava, s prenebregavanjem istorijskog nasleđa, speicifčnosti regionalnih okolnosti i složenih savremenih političko-društvenih kretanja u Srbiji
Serbia
No full textThe essential issue among the Muslims of Serbia is still related to their feeling that the State authorities treat them as second-class citizens. In the case of Bosniaks, this feeling is primarily based on the fact that no Government has essentially acknowledged the crimes committed against the Bosniak population in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the discrimination and various forms of pressure they suffered in Sandžak during the 1990s.Editors:
Ahmet Alibašić,
Samim Akgönül,
Stephanie Müssig,
Jørgen S. Nielsen,
Egdūnas Račiu
Gender and Violence in the Balkans
No full textThis collection that you are reading entitled „Gender and Violence in the Balkans“, represents a comprehensive analysis of gender-based violence and the wider influence of gender issues in Balkan society. The volume is the result of the work and thought of participants of the Winter School “Gender and Violence”. Their papers have been developed with the mentoring support of their professors. This volume not only documents the key insights that formed the program of the Winter School, but it also encapsulates the discussions that took place as a result of it. The volume also deepens our understanding of complex connections between gender, gender identities and different forms of violence reproduced and tolerated by society. Through different approaches and perspectives, the authors explore how gender manifests itself in different spheres of social life – from public spheres like those of law and politics, to education, science, culture and art, as well as deeply personal and intimate aspects of human lives. The papers in this volume aim to shed light on the ways in which gender, as a construct, influences different aspects of life and how, violence, especially targeted at women, shapes the social, political and cultural reality of the region