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Urban Identities in Russian Cities and the Prospects of Their “Smart” Development Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Natalya A. Kostko,Irina F. Pecherkina
This article deals with the urban identity and its connection with the urban dwellers’ willingness to take part in the processes of decisionmaking concerning the future of their cities, their rejection, or, on the contrary, acceptance of the vision of “smart” development promoted by city leaders. The study gives special attention to the gap between the citizens’ perceptions of their cities and the
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Gender-Related Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Greece Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Christos Konstantinidis,Evangelos Bebetsos,Filippos Filippou,Eleni Zetou
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relevance of the “Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men” (ATLG) Scale developed by G. M. Herek to the Greek society. The study consists of two stages or sub-studies. At the first stage, the sample consisted of 186 undergraduate university students and at the second, 254 undergraduate university students, who studied at the Department of Physical Education
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Changing the Paradigm of Inclusion: How Blind People Could Help People without Disabilities to Acquire New Competences Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Konstantin V. Barannikov,Fayruza S. Ismagilova,Zijun Li,Oleg B. Kolpashchikov
People with disabilities have been increasingly regarded as the most powerful and overlooked workforce in the labor market, although frequently confronted with ineffectiveness in cooperation with colleagues without disabilities. The traditional paradigm of inclusion considers blind people as dependents needing help. Inclusive society is highly aimed at effective interactions between the workforce with
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A General Attitude towards Shopping and Its Link with Basic Human Values in the UK Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Francesco Rigoli
Prior literature about shopping has focused mostly on specific aspects such as on attitudes towards specific products or shopping practices. A General Shopping Attitude (GSA), capturing how much an individual is attracted by shopping in general, has rarely been explored. In an online questionnaire study conducted in the UK, here we developed and validated a self-report scale to assess GSA. Moreover
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Reactualisation of Triadology in Polemics with Postmetaphysics Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Andrey V. Lavrentiev
The book Revelation of Love: Trinitarian Truth of Being is a monograph written by the Russian thinker Oleg Davydov and published by St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute in 2020. While working on the book, the author was engaged in research activities at the institutes in the Far Eastern Russian cities Khabarovsk and Vladivostok; at the time of publication, he was a Professor at the Department
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Cognitive Attitudes and Biases of Victim Mentality Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Olga O. Andronnikova,Sergey I. Kudinov
The research analyzes cognitive attitudes and biases in people with victim mentality. The hypothesis that the study aims to test is that there is a correlation between the level of victimhood and the cognitive attitudes and biases that determine victim behaviour. Methodologically, the study relies on a range of tools, including the questionnaire “Predisposition to Victim Behaviour”, the Victim Mentality
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Knowledge: From Ethical Category to Knowledge Capitalism Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Dmitry M. Kochetkov,Irina A. Kochetkova
In the post-industrial economy, the efficiency of scientific knowledge generation becomes crucial. Researchers began to interpret knowledge as a factor of economic growth in the second half of the 20th century; since then, within the theory of economics and management, various approaches have been developed to study the impact of knowledge on economic growth and performance. With time, the focus of
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Surviving COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Social Media and Family Social Capital in Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle in Indonesia Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Rini Sudarmanti,Tri Wahyuti,Prima Naomi
Promotion of a healthy lifestyle amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is an important part of disease prevention. Public outreach via social media shapes the public perception of the government’s campaign to stop COVID-19 spread. This study investigates the impact of social media and family social capital on the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. The study covered a sample of 165 women in Indonesia;
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In Search for New Research Paradigms Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Elena A. Stepanova
Permanent socio-cultural transformations, reflection on which is the main scope of Changing Societies & Personalities, continue to generate social theories with their own methodologies for constructing and representing social reality. The poly-paradigmatic nature of contemporary social knowledge implies its embeddedness in various theoretical systems that create alternative pictures of the world. On
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Trade, Politics and Borderlands: Russia and Britain in the Age of Enterprise Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Sergei V. Sokolov
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Orwellian Doublespeak: Dialogicality and the English Language Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Thomas Beavitt
The English writer George Orwell is often credited with uncannily accurate prophetic powers, so much so that the adjective “Orwellian” may (ironically) refer to that predicted dystopian future through which we are presently living (McKenna, 2019). Various terms drawn from Orwell’s novel “1984”—including “Big Brother”, “Thought Police”, “Two Minutes Hate”, “Room 101”, “memory hole”, “Newspeak”, “doublethink”
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Vandal Practices as a Psychological Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Olga V. Kruzhkova,Irina A. Simonova,Anastasia O. Ljovkina,Marina S. Krivoshchekova
Vandalism can be seen as a form of individual self-realization and expression of the individual and collective responses to change. In this paper, we intend to look at the meaning and motivations behind acts of vandalism. We also aim to classify cases of vandalism that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, we analyzed 80 cases of vandalism related to the COVID-19. The information was obtained
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Forest in the Context of Social Change: Traditional Orientation and Forest Mystification in a Nigerian Forest-Reserve Setting Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Fausat Motunrayo Ibrahim,Benson Osikabor,Bolanle Tawakalitu Olatunji,Grace Oluwatobi Ogunwale,Olawale Julius Aluko
This article exposits the mystification of forests among people residing in proximity to a forest reserve in southwestern Nigeria. The theory of material engagement and the ecology of human development support the position that the forest is a classical motivator of traditional culture. Still, socio-cultural change is prevalent. As an element of this change, forest-based social cognition warrants systematic
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Informal Sperm Donation in Russia Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Irina G. Polyakova
Rising infertility across the globe has created a growing demand for assisted reproductive technologies (ART). In recent years, apart from sperm donation in formal settings such as fertility clinics, informal donation practices have emerged and spread across Russia. These reproductive donation practices have become possible due to the development of social networks and private online platforms. We
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The Efficacy of a Holding Community Program—Promoting Social Reflection at School Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Anna Siegler,Sára Serdült,Fanni Csernus,Lilla Dézma,Izabella Ilea,Sára Bigazzi
The authors developed a Holding Community Program to achieve the following objectives: (a) to increase the perspective-taking capacity of adolescents; (b) to promote interpersonal and intergroup harmony; (c) to empower school students to be more (pro)active in their communities and in public life. Apart from the intervention itself, the study comprised a pre-test and a post-test and involved a total
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Time Allocation and Economic Contribution of Women in Fulfilling the Basic Needs of Poor Households Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Jamaluddin Hos,Ambo Upe,Muhammad Arsyad,Halu Hasniah
The primary purpose of this study is to explore the time allocation and economic contribution of women in fulfilling their families’ basic needs. This research used a qualitative approach and applied observations and interviews as the data collection technique. The research sample consisted of 25 people, including 23 stone-breaking women, who have a family, and 2 village heads, whose village areas
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The Value of Work-Related Uncertainty: Changes from Demands on Certainty to Finding Ways of Living in Uncertainty Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Michal Müller
Given the negative consequences that excessive confrontation with uncertainty can have, its positive dimension is often forgotten. The aim of this article is to show that the uncertainty associated with work, working conditions and the context in which working relationships are formed can be considered as a positive value. This will be shown through four themes. The first theme concerns the economic
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Perceived Efficacy of Virtual Leadership in the Crisis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Sanja Bizilj,Eva Boštjančič,Gregor Sočan
As a crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies quickly established virtual leadership systems and enabled employees to continue their work from home. This cross-sectional research addresses virtual leadership efficacy assessed by the leaders and by their employees. The findings suggest that leaders evaluate themselves significantly better than their employees, and their leadership efficacy
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Cartoon Image of the Mother, Its Perception by Elementary School Students and Correction in the Process of Media Education Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Irina M. Kyshtymova,Lidia V. Matveeva,Anastasia A. Deineko
This article presents a psychological study of the mother image projected in cartoons and its perception by elementary school students. The research provides evidence for the importance of an integral approach to the analysis of media texts addressed to children, as well as for the necessity of considering their narrative, verbal, and descriptive components. A psychological analysis was conducted on
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Battles for Bandera: Dissonant Historical Narratives of Ukrainians in Poland and Problems of Integration Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Oksana V. Golovashina
The increasing flux of Ukrainian migrants into Poland increases the urgency of correlating Polish and Ukrainian historical narratives. Here, a key problem concerns the new pantheon of Ukrainian national heroes, some of whom are viewed quite negatively by many Poles. In this article, problems of competing historical narratives, as well as correlations between historical conceptions and models of migrant
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“By the rivers of Babylon” and Elsewhere: Weeping and Recovering Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Elena A. Stepanova
The current issue of Changing Societies & Personalities is devoted to a theme having an exceptional importance for the humankind—the fate and deeds of Jewish people in various places and contexts, as well as the roots of antiSemitism, which still exists in many settings 75 years after the Auschwitz liberation. Research literature on the past and present Jewish history, as well as the phenomenon of
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Tradition as a Homeland to Return to: Transnational Religious Identity of the Post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Elena A. Ostrovskaya
This article highlights the outcome of a long-term field research into the transnational identity of the post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry. It analyzes biographical interviews taken between 2015 and 2018 in St. Petersburg and Minsk to define the religious identity and day-to-day practices of post-Soviet Orthodox Jews. In this article, I argue that the modern post-Soviet Jewry is a new socio-cultural phenomenon
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The “End of Times” and the Antichrist’s Arrival: The Orthodox Dogmas and Prophecies in the National-Patriotic Media in Post-Soviet Russia Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Victor A. Shnirelman
A return of the Orthodox religion and a renaissance of the Russian Orthodox Church gave a way for politically active movements of Orthodox fundamentalists and monarchists. They were obsessed with the idea of the “end of time” and argued that the Antichrist was at the door. The article focuses on several national-patriotic newspapers and their interest to Orthodox prophecies about the end of time, which
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Preventing Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Barbarism in the Present and in the Future through Art: Using the Example of the Play “The Investigation. Oratorio in 11 Songs” by Peter Weiss Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Oliver Keune
75 years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, but racism, nationalism and xenophobia (including anti-Semitism) are still widespread; in fact, due to an increasingly solipsistic policy of international leaders, hostility against those who don’t match race, religion, culture or sexual orientation is even experiencing a renaissance. Fake news start to replace facts. In Germany, politicians of
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German Yu. Kapten (2020). Problema sakralizatsii voiny v vizantiiskom bogoslovii i istoriografii [Problem of Sacralization of War in Byzantine Theology and Historiography]. St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo Russkoi khristianskoi gumanitarnoi akademii. Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Andrey D. Nazarov
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B(ordering) Utopia in Birobidzhan: Spatial Aspects of Jewish Colonization in Inner Asia Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Ivan Peshkov
The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and cultural barriers–administrative and often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects borderline area inhabitants turning them into hostages of border management regimes and outside projections concerning their cultural and civilizational status, and the authenticity of forms of their culture
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Time, Moment, Eternity: Hieroglyphs and Meditations in Yakov Druskin’s Philosophy Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Andrey S. Menshikov
In this article, the author explores the interest of the interwar intellectuals in “time, death, God”. This focus on temporality as an existential problem engendered some major philosophical projects, which aimed at complete revision of how philosophy should be done, including Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Franz Rosenzweig. The main part outlines a philosophical project of Yakov Druskin who addressed
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Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OSE): Jewish Humanitarian Mission for over 100 Years Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Olga Potap,Marc Cohen,Grigori Nekritch
The essay's primary purpose is to bring to the attention of readers interested in the history of the Jewish people that the dramatic 20th century is not only the victims of the Holocaust–and not only the heroism of the military on the battlefields. It is active resistance to barbarism–the rescue of defenseless people through daily civilian activities, nevertheless associated with a constant risk to
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Risk Perception, Self-Efficacy, Trust in Government, and the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Media Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Mohmmed Salah Hassan,Hussam Al Halbusi,Ali Najem,Asbah Razali,Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah,Kent A. Williams
The public’s actions will likely have a significant effect on the course of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Human behavior is conditioned and shaped by information and people’s perceptions. This study investigated the impact of risk perception on trust in government and self-efficacy. It examined whether the use of social media helped people adopt preventive actions during the pandemic.
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Influence of Self-Perception and Importance of Body Image on the Methods Implemented to Enhance the Physical Appearance Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Mithunasri L V,Anil Jadhav
Physical appearance refers to the traits and features in our body and to how we look. The importance given to the looks and complexion is a major factor contributing the perception of one’s physical appearance. In the current scenario, there are many ways to enhance the overall physical appearance. This study aims to find whether the satisfaction gained on behalf of the physical appearance has any
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Plurality of Cases – Plurality of Values Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Elena A. Stepanova
The mission of the Changing Societies & Personalities journal is quite ambitious: the journal “examines how rapid societal-level changes are reshaping individuallevel beliefs, motivations and values – and how these individual-level changes in turn are reshaping societies”. Fulfilling such a mission involves examining different cases happening to individuals in various countries, societies and communities
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Cross-Cultural Analysis of Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Giorgia Salis,Martin Flegl
Women entrepreneurs have progressively gained more space in what is mostly a man-dominated business world. However, a considerable gender gap in the likelihood of starting a business venture still exists in most countries in the world. Such gap can vary depending on the country and on its socio-cultural, legal and economic conditions among others. In this paper, Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and the
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Deborah H. Gruenfeld (2020). Acting with Power. New York: Currency/Penguin Random House Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Louie G. Giray
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Intergenerational Cooperation and Stereotypes in Relation to Age in the Working Environment Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Danijela Brečko
The problem of intergenerational cooperation in the workplace is becoming increasingly important, especially because of the ageing workforce. The article presents the issue of companies facing the challenge of changing a work environment that has to be tailored to the characteristics of each individual generation in the workplace. Generational differences and similarities are explained in more detail
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Religious Memory in a Changing Society: The Case of India and Papua New Guinea Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Dušan Lužný
The study analyzes the place of religion in the national collective memory and the changes that have taken place in the field of religion in connection with the modernization and emergence of modern nationstates in India and Papua New Guinea (PNG). In the case of PNG, we look at the place of Christianization in the process of modernization, while in the case of India, we analyze the use of Hinduism
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Cultural Exchanges between Russia and Turkmenistan: Structure, Dynamics, and Defining Features Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Ksenia G. Muratshina
Cultural exchanges are an essential component of humanitarian interaction between countries and societies, in particular, between political partners and neighboring states whose citizens regularly communicate with each other. This paper discusses cooperation in the area of cultural exchanges between the Russian Federation and one of its Central Asian neighbors the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan
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Cultural and Educational Practices in the Museum Environment: Transmission of Cultural Heritage Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Natalia A. Simbirtseva,Galina A. Kruglikova,Elena B. Plaksina
In the age of digitalisation and globalisation, one of the essential tasks addressed at the level of cultural policy, having relevance for all generations, consists in the preservation of cultural heritage. Cultural and educational practices, integrated in the preschool-, school- and higher education environments and aimed at the formation of the worldview and identity of the younger generation, are
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The Dichotomy of Public/Private in the New Media Space Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Alla V. Drozdova
Today we exist in a situation in which the new media environment has resulted in paradigm shift in our conception of reality, altering public spaces and communities, as well as functional modes and mechanisms of the private sphere, through the creation of new digitally-intermediated methods of communication. In a mediatised culture, the boundaries between public and private have been fundamentally
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Julian Baggini (2018). How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy. London: Granta Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Andrei Yu. Dudchik
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Media Culture of a Globalised World: Evolution of Language Technologies Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Natalia B. Kirillova
As a world civilisational phenomenon occurring at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries, globalism has affected not only politics and economics, but also culture. Moreover, due to the expanding system of media communications and increasing mobility of images and symbols of the information age, which has profoundly affected methods of thinking and system of science and education, the globalisation of
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Art in the Age of Globalisation: Dialogue of Cultures (Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s Production of the Opera Tri Sestry) Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Andrey G. Shishkin,Olga O. Morozova
The article explores the dialogics of art and the role of art as a tool of dialogue between cultures on the example of the Ural Opera Ballet Theatre’s recent stage production of the opera Tri Sestry (Three Sisters), which demonstrates a successful interaction between different cultural traditions.Interpreting Chekhov’s play from a late 20th century perspective, Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös presented
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Theatrical Dialogue in the Digital Age: From Director’s Theatre to the Theatre Onscreen Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Lilia M. Nemchenko
Thanks to its inherent nature, theatre has been better able than other artforms to resist the challenges presented by information and digital culture, which are based on the principle of reproduction. Since a theatrical text is created anew each time, an audience can enter into a real-time dialogue with a concrete group of players recreating an authorial concept. This is true even when, as in director’s
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Jean-François Caron (2020). Contemporary Technologies and the Morality of Warfare: The War of the Machines. London: Routledge Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Georgy A. Vedernikov
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Peculiarities of Modern Nationalist Messages in Online Political Communication: The Analyses of Donald Trump’s and Jair Bolsonaro’s Election Campaigns Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Olga V. Novoselova
As digitalized election campaigns are a new phenomenon, there are almost no studies defining the peculiarities of modern nationalist messages in online political communication research. This article seeks to identify some communication patterns and recent innovations in delivering online nationalist messages. These patterns are regarded in conflation with nationalist and populist approaches by political
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Beyond Nations and Nationalities: Discussing the Variety of Migrants’ Identifications in Russian Social Media Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Natalia D. Tregubova,Maxim L. Nee
This article examines how transnational labor migrants to Russia from the five former Soviet Union countries – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – identify themselves in social media. The authors combine Rogers Brubaker's theory of identifications with Randall Collins' interaction ritual theory to study migrants' online interactions in the largest Russian social media (VK
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Irony as a Political Demarcation Tool of the New Russian Nationalists Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Anastasia V. Mitrofanova
The article discusses how and why the new nationalists, who call for political self-determination of Russians but share some ideological concepts with liberals, use stiob - a form of ironic parody based on overidentification and decontextualisation, resulting in destruction of the authoritative discourse. Their entertaining, or educational-cum-entertaining projects, located in the gray area between
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Nationalisms in Times of Change, Changes in Nationalism: Editorial Introduction Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Marharyta S. Fabrykant
The comeback of nationalism observed over the last several years apparently reached its pinnacle in 2020. Until the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the phenomenon termed the revival of nationalism mostly amounted to the growth in popularity of the political actors, whether parties or individuals, that are variously called extreme right wing, right-wing nationalist, or, perhaps the most frequently
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Nationalism and Colonialism: Oceans, Civilizations, Races Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Maxim B. Khomyakov
The article is devoted to the analysis of the complex interrelations between the imaginaries of nation and colony, and, by the same token, between nationalism and colonialism. The author argues that modern nationalism has always contained colonialism as its integral part and parcel. Colonies are interpreted as “mirrors” for the nation-building; while oceans, civilizations and races are the factors
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Sara Wheeler (2019). Mud and Stars. Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age. New York: Pantheon Books. Rachel Polonsky (2010). Molotov’s Magic Lantern. Journey in Russian History. London: Faber and Faber. Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Ekaterina S. Purgina
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Marlene Laruelle (2018). Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields. London: Routledge. Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Elena A. Stepanova
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The Rise and Decline of Soviet Morality: Culture, Ideology, Collective Practices Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Victor S. Martianov,Leonid G. Fishman
In the article, it is proposed that the collapse of Soviet society was presaged by a growing crisis in late Soviet morality. On the periphery of late Soviet morality, collective cultural practices are seen to have successfully functioned based on a limited ethics of virtue. In the absence of an alternative to Soviet ideology, social regulation started to draw upon values intended for the reproduction
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Jonathan Floyd (2019). What’s the Point of Political Philosophy? Medford, MA: Polity Press Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Daniil I. Kokin
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From Respected Religion Scholar Expert to Cartoon Character: Reflections in the Wake of the Danish Muhammad Cartoon Crisis and Three Decades as Expert to the Media Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Tim Jensen
Respected scholar, expert, public opinion maker, oracle, under-cover politician, charlatan, cartoon character – all roles “out there” waiting for scholars sharing knowledge with a wider public. Scholars of religion trying to carve out more room in the public arena for a nonreligious, scientific approach to religion always risk digging their graves as (respected) scholars. What’s worse, they also risk
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Religious Education in Russian Schools: Plans, Pains, Practices Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Olga A. Iakimova, Andrey S. Menshikov
Since 2012 the compulsory course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” has been taught in all public schools of Russia. The introduction of the course compelled Russian scholars to engage in comparative research on the development of normative framework and teaching practice in religious education. Despite the importance of global trends and international debates, it is crucial to
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Between Barbarism and Progress: Enlightenment Historical Writings on a Major Conflict in Russian History Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Sergei V. Sokolov
The dichotomy of barbarism and progress has long been a focal point for the discussions about Russia’s past and present. The discourse on Russian barbarism had been known in Europe since at least 16th century, but Enlightenment thinkers gave it a new shape by juxtaposing the ancient conception of barbarism with the rather modern idea of progress. In this article, Enlightenment historical writings are
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The Norwegian Political Discourse on Prohibiting Muslim Garments. An Analysis of Four Cases in the Period 2008–2018 Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Bengt-Ove Andreassen
The public and political debate about Islam and Muslims in Norway have revolved around issues like topics of integration and “radicalisation” and the compatibility of Islam with democracy and “Western values”. Clothing related to Muslims – i.e. Muslim women – such as hijab, niqab, and burqa are in the public and political debate often referred to as examples that Islam is not compatible with “Norwegian”
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Second-Order Arguments, or Do We Still Need Tolerance in the Public Sphere? Changing Societies & Personalities Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Aleksei V. Loginov
A number of widely discussed court decisions on cases of insults against religious feelings in Russia, such as the relatively recent “Pokemon Go” case of blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky or the lawsuit filed against an Orthodox priest by Nikolai Ryabchevsky in Yekaterinburg for comparing Lenin with Hitler, make pertinent the question of why toleration becomes so difficult in matters concerning religion. In