Post-communist invocation of Europe: memorial museums’ narratives and the Europeanization of memory

ABSTRACT

How do post-communist memorial museums in East-Central Europe tell stories about double occupation (by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union), collaboration, the Holocaust and victim narratives, and how have these narratives been influenced by accession to the European Union? How do the museums reference trends set by Holocaust memorial museums? The article shows that one group of museums invokes Europe and the Europeanization of the Holocaust. Other museums seek to contain certain aspects of the memory of Nazism so that it cannot compete with stories of Soviet crimes. Both incorporate elements from Holocaust memorial museums, indicating how universalized Holocaust remembrance is.     

The Image of Ottomans in Croatian Historiography: Changing Narratives in Elementary School Textbooks in Croatia—1980s to 2000s

The author analyses the discourse on the Ottomans in Croatian history textbooks during the last decade of Socialist rule in the 1980s, the decade of nationalist revival in the 1990s and the decade of the normalization in 2000s and establishes the connections between dominant Croatian ideologies at that time, the historiography and the textbooks. The history textbooks in Croatia during the socialist period (1945–1990) in Yugoslavia continued the anti-Ottoman narrative defined as late as the end of nineteenth century by Croatian nationalist historiography. The discourse was mainly focused on the allegedly unfavourable economic position of Christians during the Ottoman rule and the common plight of Croats and other Southern Slavs. During the nationalistic period of the Franjo Tu?man regime in the 1990s the discourse in the history textbooks remained negative, concentrating on the damage that was inflicted by Ottoman expansion solely to Croatian nation, the state and Catholic faith. After the nationalist regime of Franjo Tu?man left power in 1999 and liberal democracy was finally introduced, Croatian textbooks started to present the Ottoman conquests in a more neutral language and Ottoman Muslim civilization received more nuanced treatment.     

He,she, it: gender bias in teacher–student interaction at university

Starting from an intercultural education framework, this paper examines whether students at two Zagreb universities perceive interactions with their teachers to be gender influenced. In the first part of the paper, we outline the context of the research and the two theoretical constructs which correspond to traditionally male and female teachers’ performances at university. In the second part of the paper, we present the results of the survey we conducted. The results show that the students recognized some aspects of gender bias in interaction with their teachers and that gendered cultures reflected in the dominantly female or male teachers’ performances were indeed present at the universities included in the survey.     

The dynamics of remittance behaviour among Senegalese men and women in Spain

This article explores the conditions under which Senegalese immigrants in Spain send remittances home, beginning with the premise that remittances are intertwined with migration histories and migrants’ incorporation into host societies. Given the strong gender norms in Senegal, we perform separate analyses for men and women. We use a longitudinal approach to analyse how remittance behaviour is affected by immigrants’ characteristics, their economic integration, and their ties to origin and destination. Our data come from the MAFE and MESE surveys, which were implemented in 2008 and 2011, respectively. The results indicate that remitters constitute a clear majority among Senegalese immigrants in Spain. The Kaplan–Meier analysis shows that they rarely stop remitting once they start doing so, and the multivariate analysis reveals a strong positive association between employment and remittance sending. Although most coefficients in the full model are similar for men and women, some important differences emerge as well.     

Child Sexual Abuse News: A Systematic Review of Content Analysis Studies

Public knowledge and attitudes toward child sexual abuse are shaped through media depictions and coverage. Since the media are the main source of information about child sexual abuse, studies of child sexual abuse news can help us understand how news is created, how child sexual abuse is presented to the public, and what is the possible impact of such presentation and coverage on the audience. A systematic review of content analysis research is conducted using predefined criteria in order to identify quality studies, main findings, research gaps and to develop recommendations for future studies. International databases were systematically searched using keywords in September 2017. A total of 24 original quantitative content analysis studies published in the English language were included in the review and evaluated according to research methodology. The framework of child sexual abuse news media studies is developed and main findings are highlighted: (1) presentation and coverage of child sexual abuse (n = 7); (2) prevalence of coverage of CSA cases reported to the authorities (n = 2); (3) presentation and coverage of child abuse and sexual crimes where child sexual abuse is only a subtopic (n = 9); (4) presentation and coverage of specific child sexual abuse cases or issues (n = 6). Although studies represent valuable contribution, most did not meet content analysis design and reporting standards or both (e.g., calculating intercoder reliability), which seriously compromises validity and replicability requirements. Recommendation for future studies and most common errors in conducting content analysis are emphasized.     

On some moving-average processes with exponentially distributed innovations

Summary In this paper we discusse the stationary sequence of random variables which are formed from an independent identically distributed sequence, according to the moving-average model of ordern. Some properties of the process are considered. The joint bivariate exponential distribution is given, as well as the distribution of the sum.     

Sustainable Development of Maritime Tourism in Croatia 2007–2015

This paper’s objective has been an analysis of the sustainable development of Croatia’s maritime tourism. In order to define the main characteristics and determinants of the maritime tourism, a model of growth has been used. The evaluation and analysis of the relevant variables and the resulting growth rates have been aimed at a scientific formulation of the results of the sustainable development analysis of the maritime tourism in the Republic of Croatia. Combinations of a number of scientific methods have been used, among which the most relevant are statistical and mathematical methods, method of model drawing, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction. The basic hypothesis has been confirmed through the direct growth rates of the chosen model variables. It has been confirmed that, based on scientific insights into the sustainable development of the maritime tourism, it is possible to suggest a new model of its sustainable development in Croatia for the period 2007–2015.      

A generalized semi-Pareto minification process

In this paper a generalization of the semi-Pareto autoregressive minification process of the first order is given. The necessary and sufficient condition for stationarity of the process is determined. It is shown that the process is ergodic and uniformly mixing. The joint survival function and the joint density function of the random variables X _n+h and X _n are determined. The extremes of the random variables X ₁, X ₂, ..., X _n and the geometric extremes of random variables X ₁, X ₂, ..., X _N are derived and their asymptotic distributions are discussed. The estimation of the parameters is discussed and some numerical results are given.