THE PAST AND THE PRESENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA IN TERMS OF THE POSITION OF ALBANIANS
In this paper, the author analyzes the legal, political and historical aspects of constitutional systems of the Republic of Macedonia in terms of the position of Albanians, within the three time periods, respectively the first period which includes the socialist regime (1946-1990), the second period which includes the period after the country became independent in 1991 up to the armed conflict of 2001 and the third period which includes the period after the armed conflict of 2001 until today.
Macedonia between nationalism(s) and multiculturalism: The framework agreement and its multicultural conjectures
This paper deals with the nationalism(s) and multiculturalism in the Macedonian society, and the multicultural democracy contingency within Macedonian practice. Furthermore, it shed lights on the implementation of the Framework Agreement after the conflict of 2001 seen through the national and multicultural paradigm In addition the paper attempts to correlate the class and the ethnicity in Macedonian socialist pre- ethnic period, with the transition processes and current Macedonian state-of-affairs The paper argues that the management of ethnic differences must reconcile the two nationalisms and in opposite direction, the 'battle' for the resources and symbols between Macedonians and Albanians will reinforce the affections toward their own national (ethnic) identity.
An Essay on Modeling: The Social Model of Disability
From its first exposition almost half a century ago, the social model of disability has been aimed at altering both theory and practice, bringing about profound changes in people’s understanding of disability, and in the daily lives of disabled people as well. The social model’s foil, and on some accounts its antithesis, is the medical model of disability. Both models treat disability as a locus of difficulties. While the medical model takes disability to be a problem requiring medical intervention—and as both the prerogative and the responsibility of medical professionals to fix—the social model understands disability as a political problem calling for corrective action by citizen activists who alter other people’s attitudes and reform the practices of the state. These two conceptualizations of disability have been treated as competitors, as if one must prevail over and eradicate the other in thinking about who disabled people are and what should be said and done in regard to them.