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• Reconfiguration in Post Euromaidan symbolic landscape: comparison of Kyiv and Transcarpathia

  142-164

  Ágnes Erőss

  Katalin Kovály

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  44

  The relation between power and public space has been one of the main interest of geographical
  research in the last decades (Massey 1994, Mitchell 2003). Researches have illustrated that
  following a regime change, the symbolic space of the city – compiled of street names, statues
  and monuments – usually gets reconfigured. Following the Euromaidan, in 2015, the laws on
  decommunization were accepted in Ukraine, which disposed more comprehensibly than ever before the banishment of Communist symbols from the public space. The decommunization
  besides toponymy, entangled other elements of public space resulting in major shifts the urban
  landscape as well.
  Main interest of present paper is to study the major shifts in symbolic landscape in the capital,
  Kyiv and compare it to the processes that have taken place in the westernmost periphery of the
  country, Transcarpathia. Based on the examples of Uzhhorod, Berehove raion and Berehove, our
  further aim is to shed light on the role of locality and how local memory is represented in public
  space.

• The Rethinking the public in Higher Education: Communitarian Engagement vs. Service-Based dependency

  79-108

  Gyöngyvér Pataki

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  74

  There has been structural change in higher education due to the impact of institutions built or maintained in private public partnership. The aim of the paper is to give a deep insight into how these institutions could accomodate or shape the public higher education sector’s discouses, spaces, procedures. The research used mixed method to approach this complex question from a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, education). Within this framework two residential halls were chosen and 17 interviews were carreid out with all relevant figure of the management. Due to the analytical tools of Maxqda 12 the qualitative results will be presented giving an insight into the differing discourses and practices of the public vs. private-public management. Based on the analysis of the managerial interviews it is safe to state that the public management struggles to balance a communitarian, democratic discourse and objectives with the requirements of efficiency and accountability. The presence of private-public management unintendedly shapes its public counterpart. The institutional analysis revealed that due to the swiftly changing institutional and policy environment residential halls are forced to be efficient leading to difficulties in managerial legitimacy and questions concepts such as community, conformity, commitment and action. Under the circumstances of increasingly growing institutional service-based dependency and control, academic consumers, institutions and students alike, paradoxically avoid integrating into macro groups. As a consequence, the institution encourage and educate student into a particular type of citizenship based on communication and consumerism rather than consensus.