Suchergebnisse

The boatbuilder, boat building, and the creation of socialities / Elena Maragoudaki -- Seafaring in the Mediterranean: intercultural interaction and loneliness on board / Giorgos Tsimouris -- A woman on a fishing boat: an ethnographic account of wilderness, familiarity and gender relations / Brigida Marovelli -- Dwelling, pollution, and the rhetorical creation of "nature" on inland waterways / Benjamin O.L. Bowles -- Ships in the sky: maritime mythistories in the Pindos Mountains / Daniel M. Knight -- The ship as the symbol of emigration in Greek cinema / Eleni N. Mitakou -- What we think about when we think about ships: a journey through philosophical metaphors / Chryssanthi Papadopoulou -- Shipwreck is everywhere / Alicia E. Stallings

Introduction -- Migration in Europe -- Transit in Europe : the case of Greece -- Being in transit -- Transit in the Maghreb : sub-Saharans and El-Harga -- Transit in the east : shifting borders -- Conclusion

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The article analyses recent legal challenges of the prohibition of assisted suicide in England and Wales to review where we are in the debate for reform, and where we can go. The article, principally, advocates for an evidence-based new governmental inquiry. Aside the fact that this is widely-supported by various interested parties, this argument stems from the approach recently attempted by claimants in English courts in challenging the prohibition of assisted suicide, and that is, an evidence-based approach to judicial review. As this article discusses, the review of 'the available evidence' is unlikely to be done by English courts, but what this new legal strategy does is to send a strong message to Parliament and the government that there is a need to identify and examine the evidence. The findings of a fresh governmental inquiry, will allow Parliament to engage in a careful, informed review of the law and practice on assisted suicide and decide whether there is another way to protect the vulnerable, while respecting individual choice. The benefits of this inquiry go beyond England and Wales; an English (or indeed UK-wide) inquiry will inform discussions currently taking place elsewhere, and vice versa.

The transformative actions in education, driven by the social changes in our contemporary society, aim to adapt individuals to the new socio-economic environment. As a result, the digitalisation of adult education takes on a significant role, in response to the need for constant and less time-consuming training. How does the use of new technologies in adult education contribute to the reconfiguration of learning engineering? The aim of this article is to examine the current transformations in education, better understand the recent developments induced by blended learning and the effects observed in adults. To do so, we conducted a case study on adult learners during the academic years 2018-2020. The experimentation consisted in transforming a face-to-face course into a blended course. The presentation and analysis of the engineering of the blended learning scenario attempts to answer the following question: How does blended learning transform the practices of accompaniment, support or coaching (Papadopoulou, 2020)? As for the analysis of the three questionnaires proposed to the students, it aims to answer the question: How does the introduction of blended courses effect the adult learners? Thus, cross-analysis of the collected data provides results about the transformations of practices caused by the integration of new technologies in adult education.

This article explores Greek alternative media, records their hybridity and analyses them under the prism of political economy. Drawing theoretically on researchers who emphasize the elusiveness and heterogeneity of alternative media and examining them on account of their ownership structures, production practices and media content, I propose their conceptualization as a vibrant organism in a constant dialectic relationship with mainstream media. These 'alternative hybrid media' may borrow people, ideas and practices from mainstream media, but they do not compromise their values for the pursuit of profit or political power. This article focuses on Efimerida ton Syntakton, the country's first national cooperative newspaper, which emerged out of a collective of laid-off journalists and constitutes a representative example of the hybridity that characterizes the Greek alternative media ecosystem. Based on interviews with journalists and secondary data, this article aims to point to the defining characteristics of 'alternative hybrid media' and generate a deeper insight into the complex area of alternative media.

Management has been the focus of studies in the field of tourism and hospitality and other related sectors. However, recently, investigators began examining the role of a management model in improving the competitiveness of a country both at the firm and state level. The literature reviewed in the current study has shown that management models affect the success, productivity, and effectiveness of firms in the sector. More researchers have noted that the management model should focus on the sustainability of the ecosystem and economy. The management model adopted by Greece has not been effective in improving its level of competitiveness compared to other European nations. Although various studies have examined the phenomenon, there is yet a need for more explorations to exploit how various antecedents of management models affect the tourism sector in the long-run. The current study has established that the management model supported by positive government policies affects the tourism industry and attracts more visitors, growth, and competitiveness.

Comunicación presentada en el Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinar "La ciudad: imágenes e imaginarios" celebrado en la Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid del 12 al 15 marzo de 2018. ; The illustrated journal Eikones (1955-1967) was founded a few years after the end of World War II and a bloody Civil War between the Greek national army and communist guerillas. Eikones aimed at becoming a Greek version of Life and thus photography was considered as the appropriate medium to promote the country's transition to late capitalism and the modernization of everyday life. For this purpose, well-known Greek photographers embraced modernist practices towards urban landscape, such as aerial and high vantage point shots, night photography celebrating electrical light, speed, and metropolitan life and architectural photography of modernist buildings. The aim of this paper is to examine modern urban landscape photography as an effective element of a new visual economy in conjunction with the nation's "imagined community" belonging to the west and the colonization of everyday life by the cultural politics of Cold War and the forces of post-war capitalism. ; La revista illustrada (1955-1967) Eikones fue fundada unos años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y una sangrienta Guerra Civil entre el ejército nacional griego y las guerrillas comunistas. Eikones pretendía convertirse en una versión griega de Life y, por lo tanto, la fotografía se consideraba el medio apropiado para promover la transición del país al capitalismo tardío y la modernización de la vida cotidiana. Para este propósito, reconocidos fotógrafos griegos adoptaron las prácticas modernistas hacia el paisaje urbano, como tomas aéreas y de alta visibilidad, fotografía nocturna celebrando la luz eléctrica, la velocidad y la vida metropolitana y la fotografía arquitectónica de edificios modernistas. El objetivo de este manuscrito es examinar la fotografía urbana moderna del paisaje como un elemento efectivo de una nueva economía visual en conjunción con la "comunidad imaginada" de la nación que pertenece al oeste y la colonización de la vida cotidiana por las políticas culturales de la Guerra Fría y las fuerzas del capitalismo de la posguerra.

The term collective identity denotes a theoreticalpattern of interpretation of social groups. More specifically, it denotes the awareness of the members of a group that they are linked together in a complex environment of common beliefs and values. During the Nicaean period, a distinct collective identity can be discerned, as it emerges from the scholarly literature. This identity is delineated by the namesRomaios, Hellene, and Graikos (names already attested in the previous periods), which bear specific values. The name Romaios signifies political values. The name Hellene refers to the Greek language, education, and culture, whereas the name Graikos denotes the Greek-speaking Christians. All three terms present semantic diversity depending on their context, particularly the term Hellene. Nevertheless, they compose a unified set withdistinctbutstrongcomponents, eachimplyinganddefiningoneanother, without, however, alteringtheirseparateconnotations. These aretheelementswhichconstitutethecollective identityofthe Nicaean scholar and nobleman. ; The term collective identity denotes a theoreticalpattern of interpretation of social groups. More specifically, it denotes the awareness of the members of a group that they are linked together in a complex environment of common beliefs and values. During the Nicaean period, a distinct collective identity can be discerned, as it emerges from the scholarly literature. This identity is delineated by the namesRomaios, Hellene, and Graikos (names already attested in the previous periods), which bear specific values. The name Romaios signifies political values. The name Hellene refers to the Greek language, education, and culture, whereas the name Graikos denotes the Greek-speaking Christians. All three terms present semantic diversity depending on their context, particularly the term Hellene. Nevertheless, they compose a unified set withdistinctbutstrongcomponents, eachimplyinganddefiningoneanother, without, however, alteringtheirseparateconnotations. These aretheelementswhichconstitutethecollective identityofthe Nicaean scholar and nobleman.

The present paper discusses the dialects of a part of Bithynia, Asia Minor, in an effort to report on the way in which the evolutionary process of the area's dialects was affected by the peculiar multinational environment first of Asia Minor and later of Greece. In this context we present the sociolinguistic parameters that have affected the aforementioned dialects so as to show how and for what reasons language resists in unfavourable linguistic environments and under adverse sociohistorical circumstances (Asia Minor – Ottoman environment). Next, we examine to what extent and how the creation of the Greek state and the "unified national language" in the 19th century affected the course of the evolution of these dialects in Asia Minor, and lastly, we explore how language resistance mechanisms are inactivated in a theoretically "friendlier" linguistic environment, such as that of the Greek territory in this case. It should be noted that the age-old evolution of these dialects in Asia Minor was interrupted due to their users' emigration and dispersal in Greece in 1922. The dialects of Bithynia followed the downward course of all language varieties that strive to coexist with the current "official national language." The conditions of their attenuation acted somewhat deterministically in the context of the frequently problematic rationale of an assimilative national policy. Today, once again, in the new globalized society, similar pressures are exerted to form a unified language as a tool of communication and not of expression, and subsequently to impose a kind of "monolingualism." However, outside and beyond any form of ethno-romantic nostalgia, it is necessary and imperative to encourage the maintenance of linguistic diversity, as it is connected with two basic needs: (a) on the one hand the ability of the speaker, in language practice, to draw elements from more than one languages or varieties without being stigmatized by negative attitudes and feelings of inferiority and disparagement concerning his/her mother tongue, and (b) on the other hand the need to be tuned in to a more general demand of advanced societies, which is now a political one, namely the self-evident protection of their citizens' right to identity determination choices.