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Primarly as a reponse to mainstream bioethics – the one narrowed-down to issues related to medical ethics and research – various kinds of regional bioethics have emerged in an attempt to incoporate values other than those typical for the Anglo-Saxon culture. Among the most promising ones, the Mediterranean Bioethics, reflecting all the colorfulness of the Mediterranean microcosm and an expanded interest to the entire bios (faithful to the original ideas of Fritz Jahr and Van Renssealer Potter), has found its footholds particularly in Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Greece. Leaving aside those four countries with abundant literature and well-known contributions to the general history of bioethics, we wish to direct attention to other cultures and countries of the Mediterranean region, revealing a more complex struggle for identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The importance of measuring subjective aspects of well-being for a more accurate assessment of the quality of life has been increasingly recognized in theory and empirical studies. In this paper, we analyze and compare subjective well-being (SWB) in rural and urban areas of four countries in the post-Yugoslav space that were included in Round 9 (2018) of the European Social Survey (ESS), two members of the European Union (EU), Croatia and Slovenia, and two non-EU countries, Montenegro and Serbia. We have constructed the Subjective Well-being Index (SWI) based on available ESS items, as a more concise version of VanderWeele’s Flourishing Index (2017). Our SWI consists of three domains: (1) happiness and life satisfaction, (2) mental and physical health, and (3) financial and material stability. Results indicate that, regardless of the settlement type, the respondents from two EU countries have a higher perceived SWI than those from two non-EU countries. Rural-urban differences were found in all four countries, with urban respondents scoring significantly higher on the SWI than their rural counterparts. This research fills the gap in SWB literature in these countries and their rural and urban areas, as well as offers a new comparative insight between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents the results of empirical research that examined the forms of support and participation of Croatian high school students in the “School Strike for Climate Croatia” climate strikes, as well as some individual and contextual determinants of their attitudes and participation. The research was conducted using the online survey method in 2020 and 2021 on a convenient sample of final years of Croatian high school students (N=534). The results show that about 8% of the students were in some way actively connected with the strikes. Using the analysis of the main components, three types of student attitudes towards the protest and the protesters were determined: “protesters fighting for environmental protection”, “protesters as universal activists” and “supportive protesters”. In addition, multivariate analysis tested the effect of socio-demographic characteristics together with the constructs of perception of collective efficacy, environmental concern, ecological worldview, and attitudes about Greta Thunberg as the initiator of the global Fridays for Future movement on established attitudinal structures. The determinants involved were shown to be statistically significant predictors, although not in the same way for each of the three attitudinal dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fridays for Future climate protests, which began as individual actions, soon morphed into a powerful global youth movement, with millions participating in Global Climate Strikes in 2019. In this study, we conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with the organizers and participants of the Fridays for Future Croatia movement and we aimed to examine the main characteristics of these protests in the context of new social movements theory and contemporary movements research, as well as in the specific national context. Challenging the suitability of the new social movements theory to adequately explain the Fridays for Future movement, we found many connections with contemporary social movements: participants are a new generation of first-time activists; social media use is crucial and qualitatively different; the organisational structure is completely loosened; and the issues encompass environmental protection and political economy, urging the transformation of both individual and social identities and socio-economic systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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