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The title of this paper is a reference to Dick Hebdige's famous book Subculture. The Meaning of Style, which was published in 1979 and became one of the most influential works to emerge from the legendary Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (cccs). Hebdige's study explores the subversive implications of style in post-war British subcultures. The purpose of the following article is to apply his ideas on subculture and style to the discourse on fashion and Islam, with a particular focus on the debate over "modest fashion" in Turkey. Hebdige's approach will be utilized here principally in order to explore the representation of Islam in fashion and to critically reflect upon the ideological dimensions of "modest fashion". The present author argues that "modest fashion", as represented in everyday dress, fashion and lifestyle magazines, advertisements, and fashion shows, is exemplary of the breakdown of consensus among pious Muslims in present-day Turkish society. Furthermore, this article aims to strengthen and reflect upon the use of semiotics in the field of Islamic studies. It draws on data collected during the first international Istanbul Modest Fashion Week held in Istanbul's historic Haydarpaşa Train Station on 13 and 14 May 2016, as well as on journal articles, media contributions, fashion advertisements, and interviews conducted by the author with fashion designers, influencers, and the organizers of the Istanbul Modest Fashion Week.

As the latest addition to the literature on the Ethiopian developmental state, published mainly in the context of the political crisis that has been currently shaking the country, any reader of (Ethiopian) political economy would benefit from reading this book. The Ethiopian developmental state and its 'impressive' achievement is the central subject matter of Aaron Tesfaye's book. Conceptualizing economic development broadly as a process of transforming not onlythe economic sector but also the social and the political structure of a country, the author explores this transformationprocess anchoring his analysis on the role of the Ethiopian state. Defining the developmental state by its ideology andstructural autonomy from society, Aaron sets the major problematique of the book- the history of successful developmental states in Africa - in order to debunk the Afro-pessimist representation of African states as collapsed and too weak to be agents of development. Indeed, using the success stories of Botswana and the emerging success of Ethiopia as evidence, the author debunks the pessimist representation of African states. It is the empirical record of economic growth measured in GDP and the impressive performance in achieving Millennium Development Goals and self-proclaimed emulation project of 'developmental' state by Ethiopian leaders, acclaimed by scholars and international aid agencies alike, that constitute the rationale of Aaron's book.

In 2010, Arizona passed Senate Bill 1070. Although the Department of Justice has since deflated some of the racist tones contained within the bill, it set into motion several similar bills in other states. The author argues that this bill represents state-level color-blind racial ideology and facilitates white supremacy at the macro (state) and meso (police institutions) levels. Analyzing the state's guidelines for determining "reasonable suspicion" implemented by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in 2010 and 95 press releases from the desk of MCSO's head sheriff, Joe Arpaio, from 2011, the author shows that these discourse have enabled racial profiling, racial discrimination, and racial attacks on the Latino/a community in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The use of this color-blind discourse masks state-sanctioned white supremacy perpetrated by the MCSO. The guidelines for reasonable suspicion shape the MCSO's justificatory narratives (press releases) after racial profiling has occurred. In light of the Department of Justice's findings that the sheriff's office did indeed practice racial profiling of Latinos/as, this project peels back the discursive layers on how these racist practices are justified and how color-blind racism does more than create racialized discursive environments but fundamentally shapes, constructs, and enables the state's police departments practices of white supremacy.

The vernacular translation of the Documenta antiquorum by Bartolomew of Santo Concordio represents a rare testimony of an auto-translation performed in Florence between the 13th and the 14th centuries. The very coincidence of the author and the translator in the same person reveals the programmatic character of the drafting of this text in vulgar, and the connection with the choice for an opening to the Tuscan vernacular of such a moral and edifying work, and as part of the project of diffusion and circulation of moral thought, intentionally undertaken by the mendicant Orders. Through a conceptual comparison with the contemporary political treaties by Remigio de' Girolami and Tolomeo da Lucca, and the linguistic analysis of the translation choices in the semantic field of politics (compared with the vulgar translation of Sallustius and the works of the most important vulgar translators of the Duecento), the article observes that in the Ammaestramenti degli Antichi the main concern is towards actualization. The translation wants to display the classical world and the religious examples as a mirror of the Italian municipal society. To achieve this objective, the author needs to create a context that is readily intelligible and immediately recognizable by the reader, whether he is a cleric or a layman.

The legislation applicable to the intellectual property in Spain constituted by the Legislative Royal Decree 1/1996, of April 12, by which there is approved the remolten text of the Law of Intellectual Property protects the author of an artistic work for only made of creating it. In the present paper we want to think it brings over of the originality in the music and the image, definitively, in the audio-visual work and to analyze, from the legislative and jurisprudential point of view, the different suppositions in which the above mentioned originality, good for plagiarism or fraud has taken place in the identity of the author. ; La legislación aplicable a la propiedad intelectual en España, constituida por el Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996, de 12 de abril, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, protege al autor de una obra artística por el solo hecho de crearla. En el presente trabajo se reflexiona acerca de la originalidad en la música y la imagen y su sincronización en la obra audiovisual, y se analizan, desde el punto de vista legislativo y jurisprudencial, los distintos supuestos en los que falta dicha originalidad, bien por plagio o por suplantación o fraude en la identidad del autor.

This paper analyses the possibility of left populism to trigger class consciousness with what Laclau calls populist subjects. The author argues that populist subjects and class consciousness are not identical nor interchangeable concepts in respect to the classical Marx and Engels notion on the proletarian class. In the first part of the paper, the author sets a description of populism based on its three key features: reaction, the notion of the people, and the struggle. In the second part, the idea of class consciousness is analysed, showing that class consciousness is necessarily political. In the third part of the paper, the idea of left populism is explored by using the findings of the second part of the paper, showing structural inconsistencies in the idea of the populist subject. ; Rad analizira mogućnosti levog populizma da proizvede klasnu svest kod onih koje Laklau naziva populističkim subjektima. Autor pokazuje da populistički subjekti nisu identični niti međusobno zamenjivi pojmovi u svetlu Marksovih i Engelsovih ideja o proleterskoj klasi. U prvom delu rada, autor postavlja ideju populizma na osnovu tri osnovna elementa: reakcionarnosti, ideje naroda, i borbe. U drugom delu, analizira se ideja klasne svesti i pokazuje da je ona nužno politička. U trećem delu rada, ideja levog populizma se objašnjava zaključcima o klasnoj svesti, gde se pokazuje strukturalna nekonzistentnost ideje populističkog subjekta.

Die Autorin des vorliegenden Beitrags plädiert im Sinne der österreichischen "Prinzipien und Richtlinien für Basisbildungsangebote" dafür, statt mit einer Alphabetisierungsarbeit "Defizite auszugleichen", Basisbildung wieder als permanente gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklungsaufgabe zu sehen. Anstelle eines autoritären Verständnisses von Alphabetisierung im Sinne von Lesen, Schreiben oder Rechnen können (müssen), fokussiert sie auf soziale, demokratische, teilhabende, selbstkritische und kritisch-handlungsorientierte Dimensionen des Lernens. Defizitorientiert sind, wie die Autorin ausführt, jene Bestrebungen, in denen es darum geht, den "funktionalen Analphabetismus" zu verringern, um in der Gesellschaft "funktionieren" zu können wie auch das österreichische Integrationsgesetz, in dem es ausschließlich darum geht, die deutsche Sprache (und Werte) zu erlernen. Der Begriff der "Alphabetisierung" wird dabei rein "mechanisch", im Sinne des Buchstabenlernens verwendet. (DIPF/Orig.) ; In the spirit of the Austrian Principles and Guidelines for Basic Education Offerings (Prinzipien und Richtlinien für Basisbildungsangebote in German), the author of this article argues that instead of eradicating deficits with literacy work, basic education should once again be seen as a permanent task of socio-political development. In lieu of an authoritative understanding of literacy in the sense of people having to be able to read, write, and do arithmetic, she focuses on social, democratic, participative self-critical and critically action-oriented dimensions of learning. As the author explains, attempting to reduce "functional illiteracy" in order to be able to "function" in society is just as deficit oriented as the Austrian Integration Agreement, in which learning the German language is the sole purpose of Basic Education. The term "literacy" is used purely "mechanically" in the sense of learning letters. (Dipf/Orig.)

Due to the fact that the number of semantic neologisms in the Ukrainian language is growing steadily, the issues of studying neosemantisation and proper lexicographic interpretation of semantic neologisms are particularly relevant for the domestic linguistic science. The purpose of the study is to characterize the main trends that emerged in the semantic derivation of the Ukrainian language at the beginning of the 21st century under the influence of extralingual factors, and the identification of areas of society most sensitive to lingual changes. Based on the analysis of the speech of the Ukrainian-language media of 2013-2018, the author comes to the conclusion that the neolexemes reflect public concerns and moods in the society through the mechanisms of enriching the lingual system with lexical units, updated by gaining new meanings. The study identifies the main reasons for the creation of neosemantisms (the emergence of certain political collisions, changes in socio-economic life, accelerated development of science, close contacts with foreign countries). The author states that there are major transformations in the vocabulary of the political and economic sphere, and points out the main regularities of the semantic transformations: metaphorical and metonymic transfer of nominations, enantiosemia as a combination of what the speaker expects and avoids, prevalence of negative-evaluative connotations.

Cooperative function amid the current society it is necessary as a support to the economy of certain community groups in order to build and develop the economic potential of the community. Koperasi Karya Mandiri following the participation of the event "Cycling the Charm of Archipelago" organized by the Government of the city of South Tangerang and the Ministry of Youth and Sports in order to introduce the products to their advantage. The author uses descriptive-qualitative research methods, conducted by means of observation and in-depth interviews in person, as well as the data collected are then analyzed in the report form through the descriptive research. The conclusions of the research implemented by the author show that the Koperasi Karya Mandiri through participation at Cycling the Charm of Archipelago event, Cooperatives in Indonesia now can not be considered one eye because it was now more developing services and products that are already adapting with the times now namely convenience, Koperasi Karya Mandiri implements the event participation program in order to expand its wings and inspire the general public, especially the people of Tangerang Selatan and people with disabilities through Knowledge Koperasi Karya Mandiri products that fill the exhibition of SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) at the event.Keywords: Strategy, Product Knowledge, Participation

Over the past years, the admissibility of the Islamic headscarf in governmental organizations has received much attention in the field of religious studies. Many studies have focused on the argumentation used in the present discussions on this topic. However, the question of why the Islamic headscarf causes controversies in the first place is rarely addressed. This article is an attempt at filling up this gap by analyzing the headscarf controversy in the Dutch police force. The author argues that there are two dynamics underlying this controversy: on the one hand the Dutch liberal democratic order is viewed through the Protestant lens, while on the other the Islamic headscarf is an exceptionally visible and meaningful type of religious clothing. By drawing on the previous work by Wasif Shadid and Sjoerd van Koningsveld, the author argues that the Islamic headscarf causes controversy precisely because of the exceptional visibility of this type of clothing, while the headscarf also contains clear information about religion. This dynamic takes place in a society that understands itself through the Protestant lens, which makes the combination of the Islamic headscarf and the Dutch police uniform a difficult issue. Ultimately, this case shows how the upholding of state neutrality is inherently problematic, as the neutral image of the police is created at the cost of headscarf-wearing Muslimahs.

A widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political context in which her own texts come to be are among the notable features of her writing. It is her essays, however, that invite a closer look at the interstices between the author and the narrator, the world and the text(s). From her early-1990s essays that were critical of the nationalist discourses of former Yugoslavia and which precipitated her exile through her more recent writing that engages with broader political and cultural questions, Ugrešić has come to embody a public intellectual and transnational writer. I argue that her choice of the essay as the literary form allows her to transcend these two identities, however fluid, and provides her with discursive authority and agency. Cognizant of its legacy and its expressive possibilities, Ugrešić continuously revisits the essay, and, at times, moves it into the realm of theoretical fiction. I shall focus on Ugrešić's more recent work – the essays from Karaoke Culture, Europe in Sepia and Peščanik.

Der Beitrag analysiert das am 28. Juni 2017 in Kraft getretene Nationale Nachrichtendienstegesetz der Volksrepublik China (NDG; 中华⼈民共和国国家情报法). Es ist der vorerst letzte Baustein in einer Reihe von Gesetzen, die das Fundament eines neugeordneten Staatssicherheitssystems bilden, um die Machtposition der kommunistischen Partei Chinas zu erhalten. Der Autor geht zunächst näher auf die Hintergründe des neuen Gesetzes ein, um anschließend die einzelnen Regelungen, insbesondere die Befugnisse der Sicherheitsbehörden und die Einbindung der Zivilbevölkerung und anderer Behörden bei der Informationsbeschaffung im Detail zu erläutern. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auch auf den Rechtsfolgen bei Verstößen gegen die Regelungen des NDG. Abschließend wird auf die Gefahr einer vollumfänglichen Überwachung und Kontrolle der Bevölkerung durch die chinesische Regierung hingewiesen. ; The article analyzes the National Intelligence Law of the People's Republic of China (NIL; 中华⼈民共和国国家情报法) which came into effect on June 28, 2017. For the moment, the new law is the latest component in a series of laws forming the foundation of a new security system designed to maintain the powerful position of the Chinese Communist Party. The author first describes the background of the new law before explaining its regulations in detail, in particular the powers of the security authorities as well as the obligations of the civil population and other authorities to provide information. Another focus of the paper lies on the legal consequences resulting from violations of NIL regulations. Finally, the author points out the risk of the Chinese government establishing a full surveillance and control system over the Chinese society.

The paper highlights the state and problems of the publishing environment related to technical sciences. The author analyzes the effectiveness of the application of impact factor and auxiliary bibliometric indicators to periodicals on technical sciences and comes to a conclusion that these indicators are not capable of resisting the attempts of manipulation and are often useless in revealing shady publishing practices and unscrupulous scientific journals. The paper substantiates the necessity of additional institutional measures of state regulation for the improvement of the publishing environment of technical sciences for increasing the productivity of researchers' activity. Among these measures the author proposes the additional criteria for inclusion scientific and technical periodicals into Higher Attestation Commission journal index (e.g. such index as the demand for a certain periodical), financial and reputational support of sectoral journals, organization of international scientific and technical sectoral journals under the support of joint ventures and international associations. These and other measures will facilitate the recovery of the publishing practices of applied and technical sciences through governmental regulation. ; Рассматривается состояние и проблемы публикационной среды технических наук. Анализируется эффективность применения импакт-фактора и вспомогательных библиометрических показателей к периодическим изданиям по техническим наукам. Обосновывается необходимость дополнительных институциональных мер государственного регулирования по оздоровлению публикационной среды технических наук для повышения продуктивности деятельности исследователей.

The author emphasizes the need of study of the museum treasures and artifacts for the purpose of preserving the national cultural heritage. The article based on the analysis of a wide range of historical sources and literature and describes the specifics of the museum institutions activity in the Carpathian region of the postwar period. The official strategy, forms and methods of Soviet ideological control over the spheres of culture and museum business are highlighted. The article discloses a process of reorganization of the museum network in the Stanislav region in the second half of the 1940's and the beginning of the 1960's. Also the author analyzed Soviet policy towards museum workers in the region, their activity under the pressure of the punitive system of Stalin's regime. Achievements and drawbacks of the Ukrainian museum business in the Carpathian region of the postwar period are revealed. Keywords: museum, sovietization, ideology, museum funds, staff policy, Carpathian region. ; У статті на основі різноманітних джерел досліджуються політика та дії партійно-адмі­ністративних владних структур стосовно музейних установ Прикарпаття у повоєнну добу. Висвітлено зміст діяльності музеїв, їх матеріально-фінансове становище та кадрове забезпечення в руслі процесів радянізації західного регіону України. Автор також розглянув динаміку розвитку музейної мережі на теренах Станіславської (пізніше Івано-Франківської) області. Ключові слова: музей, радянізація, ідеологія, музейні фонди, кадрова політика, Прикарпаття.

В статье представлены результаты теоретического исследования современных форм гражданского участия, реализация которых протекает в рамках цифрового пространства. Автором даётся терминологическое пояснение связываемому с данным феноменом целому спектру понятий, существующих в научной мысли, с целью выделить наиболее релевантные определения для обсуждения активистских практик в цифровой сетевой инфраструктуре. Особое внимание уделяется анализу потенциала гражданских приложений с точки зрения построения гражданского технологического сообщества. Автор приходит к выводу, что именно формирование сетевых структур IT-разработчиков гражданских приложений и их включённость в сети гражданских активистов могут выступать ключевыми факторами готовности сетевого окружения к общественно-политическим трансформациям. ; The article presents the results of a theoretical study of modern forms of civic participation, the implementation of which takes place within the digital space. The author gives a terminological explanation of the concepts that various researchers prefer to use with respect to this phenomenon, in order to highlight the most relevant definitions for discussing activist practices in the digital network infrastructure. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the potential of civil applications in terms of building a civil technological community. The author comes to the conclusion that the formation of network structures of civil application developers and their involvement in the network of civil activists are significant factors in the readiness of the network environment for social and political transformations.