Društvene i humanističke studije DHS (Social Sciences and Humanities Studies)

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Authors: Elmir Spahić

The autobiographical novel East from the West discusses the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a nonsense in which a Serbian family experienced a fatal maelstrom. Mrkić’s anti-war perspective is focused on the destruction of the meaning of warfare in the capacity which literature encompasses which becomes the voice of ethics as a recognition between good and evil. The perspective from below, the view of the victim is affirmed, which is contrary to monumentalism, and also one of the fundamental features of the poetic testimony in the recent Bosnian-Herzegovinian literature. Regardless of the resistance to the perception of the war as a transhistorical realia, evil and crime are merely the universalities for the author, which encompass the entire history. One’s own misfortune is only a synecdochical point in an unbroken sequence of bloody traces of evil. Such an understanding is derived from Mrkić’s ethics that always starts from an individual who has a free will (If one is manipulated, it is not a justification, on the contrary!) and who is responsible for oneself.

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Authors: Šeherzada Džafić

We are witnessing that lately we can seldom hear, or are fortunate to read the verses which evoke the feelings that can only be aroused by good poetry. Pointing to the power of poetry that evokes intense feelings, many authors – from ancient philosophers and poets to present-day psycho- logists and literary critics – have pointed out to its ethical side. Based on the theories of catharsis, the paper questions ethics and the overall poetics of the poems of the Bosnian poet Ramiz Huremagić. Elaboration aims at proving the main hypothesis of work by which the ethical side of poetry can act as an invitation to critical reasoning, sometimes stronger and more convincing than factographic documents. Witnessing the trauma of the past, such poetry reflects hope in possible detraumatisation at the present, provided that we are aware and willing to accept it.

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Authors: Jasmin Hasanović

The aim of this paper is to question the relationship between power and new social realities, as well as new forms of domination that occur in democratic societies. The author starts from the assumption that power in modern liberal democracies is dispersed out of politics, leaving behind depoliticized space of politics through which the hegemonistic order achieves its domination. The paper does not aim to question the possibilities of overcoming such a domination. By analysing the relations between them it seeks to make visible the reverse of the dominant ideology and its functioning, as well as the possibilities of understanding and studying power in the era of post-politics and multiverse of power.

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Authors: Selma Veseljević Jerković

Chick-lit has been subjected to accusations that it is too “realistic“, that the women who write autobiographical works about homely matters such as motherhood, relationship issues and family problems forget the fundamental imperative of writing fiction, “making stuff up“. It is to be found on the great divide between two “literatures“, “good“ one which teaches and the “popular“ one which “sells real life“. Instead of innocence and naiveté of traditional heroines, chick-lit describes the tales of singles: young, emancipated women who live and work in big Western centres. The protagonists are openly questioning traditional forms of feminine behaviour promoted by romance novels, such as affection for cooking, laundry and cleaning, and, more importantly, reject the passivity of women in relationships, which can be visible in active search of protagonists for a man. Traditional border between the private and public sphere is particularly blurred, while the protagonists enjoy and participate in all the aspects of modern city life. The usage of first-person narration and deliberately naive form of realism encourages the readers and critics to substitute these fictional characters for real-life personas, to consider novels as autobiographical works, which lead to the phenomenon of Bridget Jones as the everywoman. The penultimate Bridget Jones novel, Mad about the Boy (2013), placed in the literary context of fictional women’s diaries, attempts to convince readers of its authenticity using various devices, such as self-depreciation, allowing the reader to feel superior to the protagonist and offering the reader a direct feed of Bridget’s consciousness.

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Authors: Adi Maslo

Political identity always reflects one’s values. The overall rhetoric of a political actor aims at depicting a worldview that resonates with her/his voters. This paper focuses on the campaign for the 2018 General Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Given its political structure with two entities, 14 parliaments, and a three-member presidency to mention a few of the complexities, Bosnia and Herzegovina greatly struggles with functionality. In an environment with three ethnic groups and their respective representatives, communicating group-specific values is paramount objective for politicians. This paper analyses speeches delivered at pre-election gatherings of political parties on the level of the entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The aim is to analyze direct addresses to voters and subsequently shed light onto political messaging. Lakoff’s concept of frames will be utilized to get in-depth insight into the values, messages, and ideas political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina share with the public.

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Authors: Edin Dupanović

It is claimed that English prefixes do not generally change the class of a base to which they are attached. The aim of this paper is to probe the hedge word “generally” from the previous sentence, and establish which prefixes do change the class of their base and how productive they are. Thus, seven prefixes (a-, be-, de-, dis-, en-, non-, and un-) are described in terms of their origin, meaning, productivity and bases to which they can be attached.

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Authors: Amela Bajrić

The lexical level in the language is the level that offers the most abundant material for re- search. This paper deals with the analysis and presentation of semantic groups of orientalisms in Skender’s first short story „Night in the vizier town“ and their attributes, in context of aut- hor’s intention to represent cultural context and mentality of bosnian inhabitant. Orientalisms have remarkable stylistic potential in this short story and Kulenovic created an autentic verbal framework where he put the action and described character and events by using them. The paper primarily focused on the number of lexemas that have the symbols of spiritual and ma- terial culture, considering that the story shows events from the time of the Ottoman Empire, therefore this short story presents very good basis for our analysis.

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Authors: Davor Vidaković

The paper deals with the evident need for (re) construction of the sociology of work, which is facing the great challenges of the technological revolution and preparations for the Knowledge Society. Sociology of work as a special sociological discipline meets with new trends and sudden changes in the vortex of social transition. Therefore, it has real needs for upgrading and fundamental change in the focus of research, not so much in terms of substantially determining the nature of work as much as the forms and types of work. The Knowledge Society carries with it many new trends and social changes for which modern sociology of work must be ready. Sociology of work as the heir of industrial sociology in the onset of new social changes needs to date upgrading and adoption of new research experiences, both in methodological and in content terms. The modern knowledge society brings with it new occupations and new types of work and forms of work. Global social trends are not sufficiently represented and monitored in recent practice of research projects in the field of sociology of work in ex-yu territories.

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Authors: Dželaludin Hodžić

Law and bioethics are important social phenomena. While Law, on the one hand, represents traditional social science, bioethics, on the other hand, is a relatively new scientific discipline. What characterizes both Law and Bioethics is a social practice that is considered and interdisciplinarity in the approach to the concepts, challenges and processes that social practice imposes. The paper seeks interdisciplinarity of Law and Bioethics and the importance of their mutual relationship fromfrom the perspective of Ronald Dworkin′s Philosophy of Law, one of the most important contemporary legal philosophers. The paper deals with the basic concepts, the significance and the comprehension of such an opinion on the understanding of law and bioethics, that is, the intersections in which they are inevitable.

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Authors: Dijana Hadžizukić

This text will analyze the novels What is Not Yours is Not Yours (2018), by Alexander Hemon, Diary of a Nomad (2017) by Bekim Sejranović, and Me’med, Red Bandana and Snowflake (2017) by Semezdin Mehmedinović, as the latest literary achievements of Bosnian authors in exile. Starting from the assumption that each of the novels brings motifs of immigrant literature such as border identity, cultural nostalgia, nomadic status, protagonists who are social outsiders, we will examine their similarities and differences, but also changes within each author’s literary opus. Given the fact that these authors base their novels on real life events, and they combine facts and fiction, we will briefly focus on biographical facts and details from the interviews they’ve given on immigration and their position in the new homeland and the new language.

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Authors: Sara Antonini, Irena Cajner Mraović, Jelena Pavičić Vukičević

Sport is an extremely common activity that significantly influences all of society. A survey of available literature and studies conducted so far points to the existence of the phenomenon of fan violence, espe- cially in soccer. Given that there are no studies on violence from the perspective of Croatian athletes, this paper explores the relation between the frequency of experiencing physical violence and athletes’ attitudes on sports. 135 adult athletes, including men (n=74) and women (n=61), from individual and team sports from the city of Zagreb, participated in the research. The athletes have completed the ques- tionnaire voluntarily and anonymously. The results obtained in this research point to egalitarian attitudes in terms of athletes’ sex, for instance, the majority of the respondents did not agree with the attitude that “Men’s sports are more valuable than women’s sports”. The athletes agreed mostly with the attitude that “Pain, injuries and dangers are an integral part of sport, which athletes have to accept”. “Training and competing in spite of pain, injury or exhaustion” is a situation of physical violence that the respondents most often experience. The correlations obtained in the research ranged from light (r=-0,171) to real (r=0,518), negative and positive, and were mostly statistically significant. The research results indicate the importance of education on risk behaviours and attitudes for all those involved in sports activities from the very beginning in order to prevent long-term physical and psychological consequences.

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Authors: Gorana Bandalović, Antonia Popić

The patriarchal system in society that values the role of men more than women’s has led to the discrimination and marginalization of many women throughout history. Croatian society, when compared to the more developed European countries, is slowly liberating pre-modern elements and partially retains traditional features. Family as the main organ of maintaining patriarchy is still high on the scale of the value in Croatian society. Therefore, the main aim of the research was to examine the position of women in a contemporary family on the example of the city of Split. The study involved eleven participants who are married or in a cohabitation, and the chosen research method is a semi-structured interview. Although the role of men and women over the time becomes more equal and redefinition of the role of a man in the family is noticed, behavioral changes are still slower than changes in attitudes. The results show that women are still primarily responsible for housekeeping and child care regardless of their participation in material income, which leads to their multiple distress. The frame of the participant’s value system is a mix of traditional and (post) modern values.

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Authors: Matea Butković, Ester Vidović

This research aims to explore student-teachers’ views on racism and racial nomenclature in order to uncover if they are equipped with the right knowledge to recognize discriminatory language, to explore their opinions on the appropriateness of racial nomenclature in children’s literature, and to probe their views on the existence of racial discrimination in Croatia. 28 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in integrated university studies of Primary Education took part in the research. The starting point was an excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was followed up with a two-part questionnaire. The research findings illuminated that a substantial part of the participants show a lack of knowledge and possible biases with re- gards to their views on (in)appropriate nomenclature as well as a lack of awareness of racial discrimination in Croatia. On the other hand, the vast majority of participants believe children should know about the existence of racism and the social construct of race from an early age but seem conflicted about which racial nomenclature should be included.