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This article examines representations of the enemy in the Ukrainian satirical songs pertaining to the Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas. I focus primarily on the output of Orest Liutyi (the stage persona of Antin Mukhars'kyi) and the semi-anonymous Mirko Sablich (Mirko Sablic) collective. Using the method of multimodal discourse analysis, I examine how the enemy opposing the Ukrainian Army is portrayed in the song lyrics and the accompanying music videos. Considering the complex nature of the conflict and the lack of uniformity in the backgrounds of the warring parties, I am particularly interested in who and why is identified as the enemy in the songs. The enemy appears in several guises: “moskal's”—Russian or pro-Russian aggressors from outside Ukraine; “separs”—Ukrainian collaborators who support, often through military efforts, the separation of the Donbas from Ukraine; and “vatniks”—passive anti-Ukrainian individuals who live in Ukraine and whose inaction is perceived to be harmful to Ukraine’s wartime efforts. Whereas these songs call upon Ukrainians to repel the external enemy (“moskal's”) in armed combat, no clear strategy is suggested for how the internal enemies (“separs” and “vatniks”) should be dealt with or, in some cases, even identified. As a result, Liutyi and Sablic, while positioning themselves as “counterpropaganda” projects, risk labelling as “the enemy,” and thus alienating, the audiences most susceptible to propaganda, who could otherwise benefit most from their myth-debunking efforts.
Keywords: Ukraine, popular music, Russo-Ukrainian war, Donbas, war songs
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Keywords: Occitan literature, Écriture de femmes, Littérature occitane
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The study of religious schools and colleges in Spain is lacking in sources that explain the school and extracurricular activities that they carried out throughout the 20th century. The so-called Memorias escolares (Yearbooks) provide important information on these topics. The first objective of this article is to present this documentary source published by an important group of schools and colleges of education controlled by male religious orders and congregations in Spain. The second is to analyze the function of these annual publications, where story telling are narrated, prepared by the centers themselves and with great information on their activities. Third, we want to highlight the role of yearbooks and their relationship with the construction of the memory of students, through editors, photographs or their professional orientations. Therefore, yearbooks are an important documentary source for knowing not only school practices, but also the link they have with students to shape an identity and build a memory for the future.
Keywords: annuaires scolaires, Espagne, ordres religieux, écoles privées, XXe siècle, sources, yearbooks, Spain, religious orders, private schools, 20th century, sources, memoria escolar, España, órdenes religiosas, escuelas privadas, siglo XX, fuente
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Urban agriculture is correlated with the response to crises and vulnerabilities. It is promoted by many stakeholders as a tool of sustainable urban development. This article analyzes non-profit urban agriculture initiatives led by city residents in Dunkirk, a French industrial shrinking city, where such dynamics seem to be weak, and in Grande-Synthe, a city of the urban area, paying particular attention to them. We especially analyze five initiatives and the people behind them by highlighting their alternative, radical (supposed to improve the underprivileged populations' livelihoods) and neoliberal (supposed to increase social inequalities) features. We put a particular emphasis on the place of the disadvantaged population, who are in the majority in the area, and on the role of public policies in the emergence and orientation of those urban agriculture initiatives. We underline simultaneous and contradictory affiliations of the initiatives to neoliberal, alternative and radical functions of urban agriculture, and the influence personal and territorial path play on it.
Keywords: Agriculture urbaine, Dunkerque, militantisme, entrepreneuriat, Urban Agriculture, Dunkerque, Activism, Entrepreneurship
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This paper uses original and found poetry to shape the soundscape of 2020 into meaning. A critical auto-ethnographic study, it uses poetic strategies of arts-based methodology to weave stories, experiences and impressions together, to create a literary fabric of the year. So doing, it creates a choral piece for the spoken voice, which explores ideas of conspiracy, community, racism, oppression and justice, drawing on the author’s experience in Australia, and connection with the wider world via the internet. Its focus on listening as meaning is formed from competing and contesting voices.