Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2221208
Brad K. Blitz
The growth in online platforms and documentary aggregator sites has revolutionised the process of Jewish family history research. This article records how the loss of EU citizenship rights following Britain’s departure from the European Union encouraged the author to investigate their own family history. Drawing upon the author’s findings, it describes how communal record books left on the shelves of town halls across Romania for over a century have been given new life thanks to the efforts of community archivists. This article chronicles their efforts to identify, preserve and digitise these documents which help to shed light on the history of the Jewish community of Dorna Watra, now Vatra Dornei, a small town in the former Austrian crownland of Bukovina. This article provides a detailed evaluation of the opportunities facing Jewish family researchers and the strengths and weaknesses of online aggregator sites such as Ancestry.Com and JewishGen.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2221188
Oliver Gruber, Philipp Schnell
Although populist radical right parties (PRRPs) are actively studied in recent years, few research has addressed their approach to education policy. Previously not considered one of their signature issues, this paper argues that education has become important for PRRPs too. In a case study of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), one of the most longstanding and successful PRRPs in Western Europe, we explore key pillars of the FPÖ's educational positions and their development over time. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of party programs, election manifestos and plenary debates from 1990 to 2020, our analysis shows that the policy area of education has indeed become an ideological battleground for the FPÖ. Its educational positions are largely grounded in the ideological core of PRRPs and comprise a fundamental critique of mainstream parties’ dominance in educational institutions (anti-mainstream); a nativist division on all levels of education (nativism); the advocacy of merit-based educational institutions coupled with authoritarian instruments of schooling (merit); and a plea for more liberalisation and competition in schools (liberalisation). Over time, positions become more nuanced, albeit only within the already established traits. These findings corroborate theoretical arguments for the influence of growing party age and government experience on PRRPs’ positions.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-29DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2218281
Saila Heinikoski
The article analyses political approaches in Finland and Sweden towards free movement restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Border closures were previously unthinkable in the Norden, where borders have been open since the establishment of the Nordic Passport Union in the 1950s. For decades, Nordics have been used to cross borders on a daily basis, especially in the so-called twin cities in the border regions. The article analyses Finnish and Swedish parliamentary debates on the Nordic border restrictions from the perspective of the arguments on the basis of which the restrictions are defended or criticised. While the Finnish MPs supported the restrictions that were considered a direct consequence of Covid-19, the Swedish MPs criticised the other Nordic governments for their uncoordinated restrictions. In both debates, Nordic-free movement is not discussed in connection with EU rules but is seen to precede the establishment of free movement within the European Union.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2217407
P. Hou
{"title":"“We will burn anything we can”: Czech presidency and EU nuclear Renaissance","authors":"P. Hou","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2217407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2217407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74833236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-17DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2212598
P. Mattei, G. Bulli
{"title":"Educational policy agenda, ideological transformation and radical right populism: the case of the education-identity nexus of the Northern League in Italy, 1994-2018","authors":"P. Mattei, G. Bulli","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2212598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2212598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73835246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2213941
A. Mazurkiewicz
{"title":"The Russia-Ukraine war of 2022: faces of modern conflict","authors":"A. Mazurkiewicz","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2213941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2213941","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75979599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2214441
Thomas O’Brien
{"title":"English Nationalism and Its Ghost Towns","authors":"Thomas O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2214441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2214441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81506259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2211938
G. Bosse, A. Vieira
ABSTRACT The present article maps and analyses the different meanings of the EU’s resilience narratives in its neighbourhood policy towards authoritarian regimes. While a large part of the existing literature has placed an emphasis on the role of resilience in EU foreign policy more generally, the specific use and representations of resilience in EU policy towards authoritarian regimes remains ill-explored. However, it is specifically in the context of the EU’s relations with authoritarian regimes, that references to resilience, and especially ‘state resilience’, are highly problematic. Focusing on the EU’s neighbourhood policy and the case of Belarus, we present a discourse analysis of the different uses of the term resilience in the official discourses of key EU institutions. In a first-order critique, we examine how the EU’s narratives construct resilience, and in particular for whom, what, when, where, and why. We show that the EU’s resilience discourses are inherently state-centric and present highly contradictory goals of resilience-building. In a second-order critique, we demonstrate the problematic political implications of the EU’s usage of the term resilience, including the omission of ‘everyday forms of resilience and resistance’ from the EU’s narratives.
{"title":"Resilient states vs. resilient societies? The ‘dark side’ of resilience narratives in EU relations with authoritarian regimes: a case study of Belarus","authors":"G. Bosse, A. Vieira","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2211938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2211938","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article maps and analyses the different meanings of the EU’s resilience narratives in its neighbourhood policy towards authoritarian regimes. While a large part of the existing literature has placed an emphasis on the role of resilience in EU foreign policy more generally, the specific use and representations of resilience in EU policy towards authoritarian regimes remains ill-explored. However, it is specifically in the context of the EU’s relations with authoritarian regimes, that references to resilience, and especially ‘state resilience’, are highly problematic. Focusing on the EU’s neighbourhood policy and the case of Belarus, we present a discourse analysis of the different uses of the term resilience in the official discourses of key EU institutions. In a first-order critique, we examine how the EU’s narratives construct resilience, and in particular for whom, what, when, where, and why. We show that the EU’s resilience discourses are inherently state-centric and present highly contradictory goals of resilience-building. In a second-order critique, we demonstrate the problematic political implications of the EU’s usage of the term resilience, including the omission of ‘everyday forms of resilience and resistance’ from the EU’s narratives.","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81941069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2211935
E. Neumann, Paweł Rudnicki
{"title":"Populist radical-right governments in Central-Eastern Europe and education policy-making: a comparison of Hungary and Poland","authors":"E. Neumann, Paweł Rudnicki","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2211935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2211935","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86249233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2023.2211531
Tally Katz-Gerro, S. Janssen, Neta Yodovich, Marc Verboord, Joan Llonch-Andreu
{"title":"Cosmopolitanism in contemporary European societies: mapping and comparing different types of openness across Europe","authors":"Tally Katz-Gerro, S. Janssen, Neta Yodovich, Marc Verboord, Joan Llonch-Andreu","doi":"10.1080/14782804.2023.2211531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2023.2211531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46035,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary European Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72843734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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