KULTURALIZACIJA MEDITERANSKOG PROSTORA

Zajedničko obilježje tekstova Dunje Rihtman-Auguštin, Bojana Baskara, Reinharda Johlera i Valentine Gulin Zrnić jest da polaze od Mediterana kao kulturnoga konstrukta i diskurza, pokazujući kako se taj pojam stalno mijenja. Pri konstruiranju i rekonstruiranju pojma \u27Mediteran\u27 valja uzeti u obzir barem dva čimbenika. Prvi je da se Mediteran, manje ili više, slabo identificira s nacionalnim središtima u većini mediteranskih država. I primjer Hrvatske pokazuje kako se nacija-država oslanja na duboko ukorijenjeno agrarno ili stočarsko stanovništvo izbjegavajući identifikaciju s obalnim i gradskim prostorima. Sličan proces autor otkriva u skandinavskim zemljama: izgradnja nacije u Norveškoj bila je oslonjena na terra firma dok se obali, s njezinim urbanim središtima, kulturnom složenošću te pokretnim stanovništvom nije vjerovalo. Marginalizacija priobalja u nacionalnim diskurzima objašnjava zašto se Mediteran određuje kao periferija, odnosno kao regionalni, naciji suprotstavljen koncept, na što ukazuje i primjer Istre. Drugi čimbenik važan za konceptualizaciju Mediterana jest njegovo povlašteno mjesto u hijerarhiji europskih regija, koje ponajprije zahvaljuje turizmu. Autor predviđa da će upravo zahvaljujući turističkom potencijalu Mediteran postati jednim od najprotežnijih regionalnih koncepata i u suvremenoj Europi i u Hrvatskoj

DISCRIMINATION – A THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH Final report – Health and Discrimination Project

Discrimination – a threat to public health is the final report of the “Health and Discrimination” (HD) project conducted jointly from 2004 to 2006 by the National Institute of Public Health (FHI), the Office of the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination (DO), the Office of the Disability Ombudsman (HO) and the Office of the Ombudsman against Discrimination on grounds of Sexual Orientation (HomO). The principal aims of the HD project have been to develop methods for measuring health and discrimination, to shed light on the correlations between health and discrimination, to develop indicators for discrimination, and subsequently to disseminate the results at the national, regional and local levels. HD has employed reports of self-reported discrimination at the individual level to quantify the incidence of discrimination and clarify the correlation with health issues. Posing questions on experiences of discrimination in population surveys makes it possible to relate such experiences with other measures of health based on person experience. HD considers that self-reported discrimination is a good indicator for monitoring the development and prevalence of discrimination since the sum total of such experiences reveals structures in society related to gender, age, ethnic background, religion, disabilities and sexual orientation.http://www.fhi.s

'If You Desire to Enjoy Life, Avoid Unpunctual People': Women, Timetabling and Domestic Advice, 1850–1910

In the second half of the nineteenth century domestic advice manuals applied the language of modern, public time management to the private sphere. This article uses domestic advice and cookery books, including Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management, to argue that women in the home operated within multiple, overlapping temporalities that incorporated daily, annual, linear and cyclical scales. I examine how seasonal and annual timescales coexisted with the ticking clock of daily time as a framework within which women were instructed to organize their lives in order to conclude that the increasing concern of advice writers with matters of timekeeping and punctuality towards the end of the nineteenth century indicates not the triumph of 'clock time' but rather its failure to overturn other ways of thinking about and using time

Affect and Material Culture : Perspectives and Strategies

In this introduction to a collection of essays, the editors present how the analysis of affects is grounded in relevant philosophical traditions, review some of the achievements within the humanities and social sciences and raise important methodological issues for ethnology and anthropology. The book is born out of a curiosity to find out how ethnographic research into material culture could benefit from achievements in the growing field of affect and emotion studies