Ali PAJAZITI CULTUROLOGICAL STUDIES - education, politics, identity - Skopje, 2012 Reviewer: Anca Parmena Olimid Felix Weiss University of Craiova, Romania University of Cologne, Germany Faculty of Social Sciences Institute of Sociology Publishers: Dauti Foundation & Institute for Political and International Studies Layout & cover: Afrim Bulica (ArberiaDesign) Print: ArberiaDesign Tirazhi: 500 CIP - Каталогизација во публикација Национална и универзитетска библиотека "Св. Климент Охридски", Скопје 316.723-021.463(497.7) PAJAZITI, Ali Culturological studies : education, politics, identity / Ali Pajaziti. - Skopje : Dauti foundation, 2012. - 242 стр. : илустр. ; 21 см Фусноти кон текстот. - Библиографија кон главите. - Регистар ISBN 978-608-65469-0-8 а) Мултикултурализам - Македонија COBISS.MK-ID 92145674 Content FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................................... 7 MULTICULTURALISM: NEW VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF MACEDONIA ....... 9 ETHNICIZATION OF THE STATE AS A SOURCE OF INTERNAL DISINTEGRATION ........................ 10 POST-ETHNIC MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES ....................................................... 15 THIRD MACEDONIA AND THE NEW IDENTITY ............................................................................... 18 CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................... 22 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................. 24 MULTICULTURALIM, INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: AN EXAMPLE FROM SEEU ...................................... 27 ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................................................... 27 MULTICULTURALISM: BRIEF THEORETICAL APPROACH .............................................................. 28 MULTICULTURALISM AS A CHALLENGE FOR THE BALKANS AND THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: FROM OTTOMAN MULTICULTURALISM TO POST-OHRID FRAMEWORK ........ 30 EDUCATION AND MULTICULTURALISM: SEEU EXAMPLE.............................................................. 33 CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................................................... 39 REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................... 40 RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN NEW MILLENNIUM MACEDONIA ................. 43 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 43 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: THE EUROPEAN AND BALKAN EXPERIENCE ........................................ 44 RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN TRANSITIONAL MACEDONIA ....................................................... 54 EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: CITIZENS’ PERCEPTIONS ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION .......................... 59 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATION ........................................................................................ 68 REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................... 71 HIGHER EDUCATION IN BOLOGNIAN WAY: THE CASE OF MACEDONIA (SEEU AND SUT) ........................................................ 75 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................. 75 THE NEW MILLENNIUM AND THE INFORMATIONALISM .............................................................. 76 THE WIDESPREAD EDUCATION, THE UNIVERSITY AND “THE NEW MISSION” ........................... 79 THE TRENDS OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE ......................................... 83 THE REFORMS OF THE HIGH EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA AS AN OUTCOME OF THE BOLOGNA PROCESS ................................................................................ 87 THE HIGHER EDUCATION IN ALBANIAN LANGUAGE IN THE RM .................................................. 90 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................... 97 REFERENCES ...................................................................................................................................... 99 iii UNIVERSITY YOUTH AND POLITICS IN POST-TRANSITIONAL MACEDONIA (FYROM) ............................................................................................. 103 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................103 THE SOCIAL TRANSITION AND MACEDONIA: POST-TRANSITION AS A SOCIAL DEMAND ........104 YOUTH AND IMMORAL POLITICS ...................................................................................................108 PERCEPTIONS OF UNIVERSITY YOUTH ABOUT POLITICS ............................................................113 CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................................................120 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................122 TURK AND TURKEY PERCEPTION AT ALBANIANS IN THE BEGINNING OF 21ST CENTURY .............................................................. 125 ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................125 TURKISH-ALBANIAN RELATIONSHIPS: THE REAL HISTORICAL-RELATIONAL DIMENSION ...126 THE ANTI-TURKISH PROPAGANDA AS A NATION BUILDING DEVICE: THE IDEOLOGIC ELITISM AS OPPOSED TO THE MASSES ..............................................................129 FROM THE ELITIST NEGATIVE MYTH TO PEOPLE’S COMMON SENSE: PERCEPTIONS OF CITIZENS IN MACEDONIA, KOSOVA AND ALBANIA ABOUT THE TURKISH ELEMENT..........133 CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................................................139 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................141 ISLAM AS A GLOBAL PROVOCATION: INTEGRATION OF EUROPEAN MUSLIMS FROM TARIQ RAMADAN’S PERSPECTIVE* ..................................... 143 ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................143 ISLAM AS A GLOBAL PROVOCATION: STIGMA (TISATION) AS HYSTERICAL PARADIGM .........144 TARIQ RAMADAN: BETWEEN PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE AND THEOLOGICAL AND REFORMATIVE APOLOGY ..............................................................................147 INTEGRATION OF THE MUSLIMS IN THE EUROPEAN MILIEU: FROM GHETTO-ISLAM TO CONTEXTUALIZED OR EURO-ISLAM ........................................................................................149 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................................................156 BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................................................157 CAPITAL-DIVISION AND ETHNO-URBANIZATION IN MACEDONIAN WAY: CASE OF “SKOPJE 2014” ............................................. 159 FROM POST-YUGOSLAVIAN SOCIETY TO POST-OHRID ONE: TURBULENCES AS DESTINY.......160 AUTHENTIC SKOPJE, COHABITATION AND CULTURAL PLURALISM AS OPPOSED TO ARTIFICIAL SKOPJE....................................................................................................................163 “SKOPJE 2014” AS A METAPHOR OF IRRATIONALITY: THE SECOND BERLIN ON STAGE ........166 CONCLUSIONS ..................................................................................................................................173 APPENDIX .........................................................................................................................................175 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................176 iv SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACTS OF OTTOMAN FOUNDATIONS’ SPIRIT IN CONTEMPORARY BALKANS: MACEDONIAN CONTEXT ............................ 179 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................179 THE WAQF (ISLAMIC FOUNDATION):SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND PHILANTHROPY AS A MISSION 180 OTTOMAN HERITAGE AND AWQAF IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA .............................................182 CONTEMPORARY AWQAF IN THE PERIOD OF INDEPENDENT MACEDONIA: FOUNDATIONS AND CHARITY ORGANZIATIONS ..........................................................................187 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................................................195 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................196 DAVUTOĞLU AND THINKING DEPTH SERVING TO GLOBAL PEACE* ........ 199 SOCIETY-BUILDING IN MEHMET AKIF ERSOY’S LITERARY OPUS .............. 213 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................213