Archiv für März 2015

Tina Schmid: Generation, Geschlecht und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Intergenerationelle Unterstützung in Europa. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2014.

Auf der Basis der SHARE-Studie (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) untersucht Tina Schmid Geschlechterunterschiede in den Unterstützungsleistungen zwischen den Generationen. Dabei nimmt sie Leistungen von Eltern an erwachsene Kinder und gleichzeitig von erwachsenen Töchtern und Söhnen an ihre Eltern in den Blick. Der innovative Charakter des Buches liegt neben dieser simultanen Betrachtung von Unterstützungsleistungen in beide Richtungen darin, dass die Autorin durch die Verknüpfung von Fragestellungen und Konzeptionen der Generationenforschung mit jenen der Geschlechtersoziologie und der komparativen Wohlfahrtsstaatenforschung zu differenzierten Erkenntnissen und zu einer Perspektivenerweiterung hinsichtlich zeitlicher Unterstützungsleistungen beiträgt.

Representing the periphery: Highland commissioners in the seventeenth-century Scottish Parliament, c.1612–1702

10.1080/02606755.2015.1022343<br/>Allan Kennedy

Genocide on the Drina River

10.1080/00905992.2015.1016353<br/>Siniša Malešević

Popular perceptions of Soviet politics in the 1920s. Disenchantment of the dreamers

10.1080/00905992.2015.1010700<br/>Stephen White

The ghost of essentialism and the trap of binarism: six theses on the Soviet empire

10.1080/00905992.2014.999314<br/>Epp Annus

Becoming Turkish. Nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in early Republican Turkey, 1923–1945

10.1080/00905992.2015.1010701<br/>Erik Jan Zürcher

Narrating victimhood. Gender, religion and the making of place in post-war Croatia

10.1080/00905992.2015.1010699<br/>Ljiljana Radonić

French Military Action in Spain from Dictatorship to Democracy: Arms, Technology and Convergence

This article explores the evolution of French–Spanish military relations during the Franco dictatorship and the first democratic governments in Spain. After examining the origins, implications and limits of the bilateral general rapprochement, w…

Fitting in to the French Resistance: Marie-Madeleine Fourcade and Georges Loustaunau-Lacau at the Intersection of Politics and Gender

This article explores the political and gendered representations of Georges Loustaunau-Lacau and Marie-Madeleine Méric (later Fourcade), leaders of a French Resistance network during the Second World War. Both leaders came from the extreme-righ…

Closely Watched Tourism: The Securitate as Warden of Transnational Encounters, 1967-9

This article focuses on a particular aspect related to the permeability of the borders of communist Romania during the period 1967–9, that is, the increase in the number of Western citizens visiting Romania, as well as in the number of Romanian citizens travelling to the West. The celebration by the communist regime in Bucharest of International Tourist Year 1967 marked the beginnings of a brief period of increased permeability of communist Romania’s borders. During the same period, the communist authorities learned that a silent opposition to the regime existed as well. Many of those who opposed the regime did not dare to express their discontent publicly. Instead, they decided for the ‘exit’ option, and thus a growing number of Romanian citizens travelling to the West refused to return. Beginning in early 1969, the Securitate devised complex measures to control Western citizens travelling to Romania and to prevent Romanian citizens who travelled to the West from remaining abroad. This paper illustrates the discrepancy between Ceauşescu’s foreign and domestic policy, and contributes to a better understanding of the ‘political mind’ of the Romanian communists during the power-consolidation phase of Ceauşescu’s rule.