Culture-Borders-Gender/Studies

Editorial

Editorial Team — 2023-12-30

Editorial

Voices unheard, stories untold:

Ioannis Manos — 2023-12-30

This introductory paper presents an overview of interdisciplinary scholarly discussions and case studies from selected
special issues focusing on minority rights, language ideologies, policy debates, and applied methods for the preservation
or revitalization of languages globally. The aim is to connect the specific findings and insights highlighted in the papers
of this special section with broader academic debates across fields such as linguistics, cultural studies, anthropology,
sociology, history, education, and international law. By examining these diverse perspectives, the author seeks to enrich
discussion included in papers of this special section, while inviting readers to consider both challenges and strategies
involved in sustaining minority languages in various sociocultural and political contexts.

"Pesna ki ima? Will there be singing?"

Christos Apsis — 2023-12-30

The paper examines the cultural and historical context in which Macedonian songs and singing practices are
performed in contemporary Greek Macedonia, primarily from the 1980s onwards. The author draws from
personal experiences and extensive research on musical recordings to investigate how Macedonian songs, while
historically constituting the primary cultural expression of many communities, have been treated, particularly
since the 1990s, as a stigmatised and rejectable cultural practice in public contexts. In some cases, Macedonian
songs were translated into Greek to be considered purified elements worthy of being integrated into Greek
national culture. The paper highlights the significant power of Greek national ideology and the roles of state
institutions and local cultural associations in shaping the narrative around Macedonian songs.
It emphasises how, under the guise of protecting Greek national identity, these entities have contributed to
portraying these songs as deviant practices despite their widespread acceptance.

The indirect consequences of linguistic silencing:

Dr. Myriam Guillevic — 2024-02-26

The text refers to the ways in which a popular tradition is censored by new principles, religions, beliefs over time,
as a result of which it is lost or transformed. At the heart of the article as a basic example is the description of the
evolution of the mournful gwerzioù songs of Brittany.

Bro Gozh ma Zadoù or the tribulations of a national anthem from the Britonnic Westlands to Patagonia and Northeast India

Stefan Moal — 2023-12-30

The text traces the creation and evolution of the Breton national anthem, its adaptations and changes from one
country to the other, raising key questions about what tradition is, how much historical depth it can have, how this
tradition changes and is often parodied by later generations. In the case of the Breton national anthem, nationalism
and so-called national pride are parodied.

Translation from the “first language”:

Alexandra Ioannidou — 2023-12-30

The text refers to a contemporary, questionable edition of folk tales from Edessa. After a brief historical review of
similar publications as well as the persecution of the speakers of the Macedonian language in Greece, the silencing
of the original language of the fairy tales is recorded and through this the adverse (self)censorship of the publishers
some years after the Prespa Agreement.

Η κριτική διεπιστημονικότητα ως παιδαγωγική προσέγγιση στην έρευνα και την εκπαίδευση:

Ioannis Manos — 2023-12-30

Ειδικό αφιέρωμα στις "Μελέτες Νέων Ερευνητριών: Εξερευνώντας την Κατανάλωση και τη Δραματουργία"

(Anti-)social objects:

Ioulia Konstanti — 2023-12-30

This article focuses on the multiple trajectories of things, particularly on second-hand children’s furniture through
consumption, reuse and disposal in anthropological terms. The above search was derived from the observation
that amid the health crisis due to the COVID-19 virus and the psychological and financial crisis that the isolation
brought, numerous purchases and sales of second-hand children’s furniture are taking place online. Given that it
is advisable to avoid human contact, assuming with their objects as well, one rightly wonders about the role that
second-hand objects used mainly by children had and still have in people’s lives during the pandemic and postpandemic era. Through the presentation of three ethnographic examples, one concerning the selective purchase
and use of second-hand children’s furniture of a specific type, a second example concerning the acceptance and
use of a different kind of second-hand children’s due to extreme conditions and need, and a third example
concerning a generalized offer and acceptance of second-hand children’s furniture and other items of any kind
among members of an online group, investigates the components related to the negotiation of identities through
the changes in consumption patterns of certain families in times of economic uncertainty and social crisis. At the
same time, the perception of the ownership of objects is revised through their rejection and reuse, while issues of
ecology, ideology and self-redefinition emerge.

Verbatim technique:

Aikaterini Kandylidou — 2023-12-30

Over the past decades, New Russian Drama has become one of the most critical movements in theatre in the 21st
century. The article will present specific performances of the movement, considered of great importance by the
research. The performances will be analyzed via the verbatim technique. This technique allows any artist to create
a performance text by transcribing interviews with people connected to a joint event or subject. The cast, the writer
or performance director edits the interviews. The performance discussed in the article is September, written by Elena
Gremina and Michail Ugarev and performed in the early 2000s, directed by Michael Ugarev. Another performance
which will be addressed is Ivan Viripaev's 1.8 Meters, premiered in December 2021 in Warsaw, and since then, it
staged in various European cities. The fundamental common element of the two performances, beyond the use of
technique, is their intense political character.