The Syrian Civil War has displaced millions of Syrian citizens since March 2011 and has drastically changed the lives of those in the Turkish–Syrian borderlands. Antakya (Hatay), which was annexed by the Republic of Turkey from Syria under the French Mandate in 1939, is a border province that hosts tens of thousands of Syrian refugees today. Although the province has long been renowned for its ethnic and religious diversity, the influx of Syrian refugees and Turkey's Syria policy have created new ethno‐religious conflicts and have shifted the dynamics of everyday life in Antakya. Drawing on micro‐historical approaches towards boundary‐making and state formation, this ethnographic study focuses first on how the Syrian Civil War has transformed urban everyday life in this border city and has redefined ethno‐religious boundaries and locals’ relationships to the state since 2011. Second, this article investigates the ways in which ‘sectarianism’ is implicated in the Turkish regime's approach to the Syrian Civil War and how sectarian discourses have shifted the political landscape in Antakya. This project suggests that in international conflicts between neighbouring states, the spatial, political and social divisions in border cities will increase as ethnic and religious identities become more politicised.
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In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 174–189 (15 total)
Amílcar Cabral and Amartya Sen
Freedom, Resistance and Radical Realism
Lawrence Hamilton
horizons of what is possible and (seemingly) impossible ( Hountondji 1997 ). The radical realism that emerges from this comparison would demonstrate bolder ambition as regards political change, resistance to domination and fighting for freedom. Cabral and
Attila Tóth, Barbora Duží, Jan Vávra, Ján Supuka, Mária Bihuňová, Denisa Halajová, Stanislav Martinát, and Eva Nováková
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Allotment gardens have played a significant role in Czech and Slovak society for decades, building upon a rich history of gardening. This article elaborates on Czech and Slovak allotments in the European context and identifies their core functions, services, and benefits. We provide a thorough historical review of allotments in this region, reaching back to the eighteenth century to trace significant periods and historic events that shaped society in general and urban gardening in particular. We analyze the development of allotments until and after 1989 and illustrate key aspects of their present situation using case studies and examples. The article provides a complex historical narrative as a good basis for discussions on contemporary trends, challenges, and visions for the future of urban allotment gardening in both countries.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 161–188 (28 total)
Gilberto Conde
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This article looks back at the 2011 Arab Spring where the movements that brought hope to the region and beyond seem to have gone astray. The military has taken over in Egypt, while Libya, Syria and Yemen have descended into civil strife with tremendous human costs. Bahrain has witnessed repression that has overwhelmed the opposition, and while Tunisia, the country where Arab Spring began, has avoided the violence characterizing the aforementioned states, change has remained rather limited. As for other countries that rode on the same wave of mobilizations, hopes for democratic transformation have been subdued in some-what less violent contexts but with varying degrees of pressure from the state. This article examines what has happened to the Arab Spring countries, why and what is required to democratically transform the region.
Laurence McFalls
In the past century, Germany, for better and for worse, offered itself
as a natural laboratory for political science. Indeed, Germany’s
excesses of political violence and its dramatic regime changes largely
motivated the development of postwar American political science,
much of it the work of German émigrés and German-Jewish
refugees, of course. The continuing vicissitudes of the German experience
have, however, posed a particular challenge to the concept of
political culture as elaborated in the 1950s and 1960s,1 at least in
part to explain lingering authoritarianism in formally democratic
West Germany. Generally associated with political continuity or only
incremental change,2 the concept of political culture has been illequipped
to deal with historical ruptures such as Germany’s “break
with civilization” of 1933-1945 and the East German popular revolution
of 1989. As well, even less dramatic but still important and relatively
rapid cultural changes such as the rise of a liberal democratic
Verfassungspatriotismus sometime around the late 1970s in West Germany3
and the emergence of a postmodern, consumer capitalist culture
in eastern Germany since 19944 do not conform to mainstream
political culture theory’s expectations of gradual, only generational
change. To be sure, continuity, if not inertia, characterizes much of
politics, even in Germany. Still, to be of theoretical value, the concept
of political culture must be able not only to admit but to
account for change.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2002
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–92 (17 total)
Contested Citizenship
Public Schooling and Political Changes in Early Nineteenth Century Switzerland
Ingrid Brühwiler
free public schools. 7 Then, in 1848, the Swiss population adopted the Federal Constitution, which led to a representative democracy characterized by substantial cantonal sovereignty within a federal state. 8 All of these political changes were
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 15–39 (25 total)
Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion
Enacting Politics, Reinforcing Divisions
Alena Minchenia
perceived inability of the movement to bring political changes had an effect of exhausting the streams of new political activists and of disengagement of former members from oppositional organizations. These processes have not only reduced the activists
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 218–235 (18 total)
Revolutionary circles
A morphology of radical politics
Martin Holbraad and Myriam Lamrani
myths—acts of revolutionary “meaning-formation” ( Thomassen 2012: 698 ) charting the social origination of political change—connects to a second, methodological point, about the shape that such an approach gives to the phenomenon of revolution. In
Hieronymus Purwanta
the historical narratives. Regarding history textbook production, the political change should have reduced the level of militaristic discourse and replaced it with a more civilian narrative. An anomaly occurred in the sense that, in history textbooks
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–53 (18 total)
Michiel Köhne
on the authority of science to pursue political change, the boundary work to produce the needed credibility at the same time reproduces the dichotomy between activism and science. This article offers a reflection in first-person voice ( Calhoun 2008