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191660
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More than 25 years after Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), the shadows of the Yugoslav and of the subsequent construction of independent states based on ethnic division still looms over Bosnia & Hercegovina (BiH), its population, and the everyday life of people. The construction of its two major political entities – the Federation of Bosnia & Hercegovina (FBiH) and the Republika Srpska (RS) – is reflected in the health care system where it unfolds highly detrimental effects. Here, we can witness the severe impact on BiH’s ability to establish an effective system for organ donation and transplantation. Based on a series of 26 interviews with patients, patients’ organisations, clinicians and politicians BiH and its neighbours, the article identifies obstacles in clinical practices, post-Dayton bureaucracy as well as mistrust and corruption as major themes articulated by our respondents, ultimately imprisoning them in a Post-Dayton paralysis. Desperation amid the deadlocked structural conditions and contemplating alternatives ways of getting access to transplantation seem logical outcomes of a system widely regarded as deficient. This exemplifies the prosaic legacies of wars and the fragile state of BiH’s politico-administrative system.
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053384
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Autumn 2004.
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This article deals with the mid-1990s Standort Deutschland debate, which is considered to be a distinct semantic means for the reproduction of the nation-state. This debate serves as a starting point for further theorising what we will call spatial semantics. In addition, but also in difference to research focusing too narrowly on (re)organisational aspects of economic state crises, we propose a view that addresses the role and function of space-related terms within mass-media communication. Against the fundamental background of Luhmann’s version of systems theory, certain elements from banal nationalism, critical geopolitics and the place-concept in humanistic geography are revised to grasp the capability of spatial semantics to transform uncertainty of ‘the world we live in’ into seemingly ‘natural’ certainties. This elaboration is underpinned by a short empirical illustration that catches the main contents of the above mentioned debate by scrutinising the articles on the Standort Deutschland in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit between 1995 and 1999
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156823
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This thematic section is dedicated to the discussion of conceptual and practice-inspired approaches to the entanglement of sovereignty and borders. The production of this thematic section is accompanied by an astonishing amount of uprising public debates on sovereignty: the so-called ‘Brexit’, the so-called ‘Muslim ban’, debates about stricter border controls, extraterritorial detentions camps and more restrictive asylum policies in the run-up to elections in some European countries indicate that sovereignty itself has become a topic of public concern. And it is not just sovereignty that concerns people and politicians, but a perceived loss of sovereignty by the nation-state and a necessity to regain and strengthen it. The newly sparked interest in sovereignty revolves around issues of security, border and migration control, access to resources and social security systems as well as questions of finance. Though there has always been a good amount of scepticism regarding security issues versus open borders
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