- Author:
Juan Pablo Ortiz Ramos
- Institution:
Universidad de Silesia
- Year of publication:
2019
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
163-177
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/sal201905
- PDF:
sal/9/sal905.pdf
Overcoming the fear of recovering the identity: the armed conflict in Colombia and the Bojayá massacre
This article demonstrates the violence in Colombia as a background to the historical events in the country and the way it led to the armed conflict which lasted for over the fifty years. This war continued, with the involvement of the Military Forces of Colombia, the police, the guerrilla and the paramilitary until it reached El Atrato, a very poor and vulnerable part of the country. That is where the massacre of Bojayá took place, one of the most violent acts in the recent history of Colombia. The outcome was a high rate of victims and countless number of stories full of pain and misery. However, the survivors, against all odds, started to overcome the fear and recover. In their culture abandoning the corpse was not accepted. In consequence, they started to fight for their ideals. The article focuses on the way the inhabitants of Bojayá regained their identity and their owning to strong bonds and traditions. It has been written based on academic research and on the leadership that the victims have achieved in the public and mass media field in Colombia. They managed to get the mortal remains of the members of their community exhumed and transferred to Medellin to be identified and, in front of their executioners and in front of the world, they sang their alabaos, they could tell their story that denounced the barbarism and demanded a better future.
- Author:
Ewelina Justyna Konieczna
- E-mail:
ekonieczna@uni.opole.pl
- Institution:
University of Opole
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9109-8995
- Author:
Ertuğrul Talu
- E-mail:
etalu @ahievran.edu.tr
- Institution:
University of Kırşehir Ahi Evran
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3062-6130
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
172-185
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2021.02.12
- PDF:
kie/132/kie13212.pdf
The authors present results of their studies dealing with symbols of fear identified in drawings made by Polish and Turkish children. The studies consisted in comparing results with regard to the categories and content of symbols recognized in the drawings presented by younger school-age children of the two nationalities. For the needs of the comparative analysis the following questions were formulated: In what way did the children present their fears in their drawings? How can the similarities in the symbols of fear presented in the drawings by Polish and Turkish children be interpreted? What do the observed differences testify to? Comparison of the symbols of fear allowed recognizing the similarities and differences occurring in the drawings produced by the examined children. It was found that the largest number of drawings present a symbol of fear connected with the category of animals. While interpreting the results, the authors accepted the thesis that the grasped similarities relating to the manner of presenting fear result from the common history of man, recorded in archetypes and symbols. On the other hand, the observed differences are connected with the tradition present in each of the cultures.
- Author:
Patryk Wawrzyński
- E-mail:
p.wawrzynski@alpakainnovations.com
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland); University of Szczecin (Poland)
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0911-1068
- Author:
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa
- E-mail:
kawadj@box43.pl
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4201-8028
- Published online:
11 December 2022
- Final submission:
17 November 2022
- Printed issue:
December 2022
- Source:
Show
- Page no:
16
- Pages:
47-62
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202267
- PDF:
ppsy/51/ppsy202267.pdf
The paper discusses populist appeals to emotions in political communication, considering their role in the proliferation of political polarisation and radicalisation. Revisiting the Emotional Rescue Model of anger, enthusiasm, and fear, we considered pride and compassion low-arousal alternatives to populist storytelling. In the experiments, we tested how participants (n=364) respond to appeals to pride and compassion in their brain activity, emotional expressions, prosocial behaviour, attitude change, and memorisation. In the paper, we primarily discussed the results of the fMRI (neuroimaging) study and compared them with the previous studies on authentic pride, compassion, empathy, and reappraisal. Considering similarities in the activation of the superior and middle temporal gyri, temporal pole, inferior frontal gyrus, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, we argue that compassionate political narratives should be the most effective low-arousal alternative to populist storytelling. Moreover, stimulation of the reappraisal-related network in that group suggests that participants reframed emotional negativity into prosocial acts of caring and helping, also re-evaluating their attitudes.