As is the case with most cities, Ljubljana is faced with numerous traffic-related problems that overwhelm the city's infrastructure and represent a threat to the environment as well as people's ...health. The paper presents a short study on conceptions of comfort in light of the changes made to parking infrastructure and parking rates, focusing on the introduction of the P+R (Park and Ride) system and its influence on drivers' mobile practices.
This article will examine the formation of young entrepreneurs as subjects in EU policy and the roles that they have been accorded in policy discourse. The analysis traces the critical lines of ...policy thinking through select policy documents that portray the evolution of the EU’s particular conceptualisations of youth entrepreneurship as well as young entrepreneurs as policy subjects – focusing primarily on the overlapping policy arenas of entrepreneurship and youth. The discussion also examines the normative connotations ascribed to youth entrepreneurship in EU policy discourse, focusing on the links made between youth entrepreneurship and the economic crisis in EU policy.
The centenary of World War I has been marked by a broad range of commemorative practices across Europe. This has also been the case in Bohinj, a region located in the Julian Alps in the northeastern ...corner of present-day Slovenia. This article is an examination of the diverse practices of commemoration and heritagization of World War I in Bohinj against the backdrop of contemporary global developments that frame the centenary: the rise of war tourism and the globalization of heritage as an evermore important element of identity construction as well as the political economy of tourism. To what extent do these contemporary trends inform the specific nature of current commemoration and heritagization practices? Their study – together with an analysis of the actors that produce, enact, resist or promote them – aids in identifying and analyzing the diverse social processes that shape Bohinj’s present landscape of war heritage.
Following European Stories Senčar, Tatiana Bajuk; Turk, Jeffrey David
Revue des sciences sociales,
12/2018
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Several years have passed since Slovenians have been granted the opportunity to take on posts within the EU institutions as Slovenian EU officials or Slovenian Eurocrats. How can life stories or ...biographical narratives aid in research focused on this first generation of Slovenian Eurocrats? What can they tell us about the shape of contemporary European integration processes? The authors in the following pages will identify the key theoretical and methodological issues that researchers face when engaging integration as a social phenomenon.
Following European Stories Senčar, Tatiana Bajuk; Turk, Jeffrey David
Revue des sciences sociales (Strasbourg),
12/2018
60
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Several years have passed since Slovenians have been granted the opportunity to take on posts within the EU institutions as Slovenian EU officials or Slovenian Eurocrats. How can life stories or ...biographical narratives aid in research focused on this first generation of Slovenian Eurocrats? What can they tell us about the shape of contemporary European integration processes? The authors in the following pages will identify the key theoretical and methodological issues that researchers face when engaging integration as a social phenomenon.
This article explores the different trade union responses to the growth of precarious work in the retail sector in Estonia, Poland and Slovenia in the context of the global economic crisis. The ...empirical research is based on interviews with trade union leaders and case studies of large multinational hypermarket chains. The analysis of sector-level union responses suggests the crisis has not deeply changed their path-dependent character. The most effective union tactics, involving political mobilization and sector-level collective bargaining aimed at halting the growth of precarious work, were observed in Slovenia’s neocorporatist system of industrial relations. By contrast, company-level collective bargaining and mobilization were more advanced in the two neoliberal systems, Estonia and Poland. In all three countries, the most important innovations were union-led campaigns aimed at increasing public awareness about precarious work.
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