This paper addresses the influence of the economic crisis on national identity in Slovenia. It first analyzes the creation of the contemporary national identity following independence in 1991 that ...was established in relation to a negatively perceived Balkan identity, which represented “the Other,” and in relation to a “superior” European identity that Slovenia aspired to. With the economic crisis, the dark corners of Slovenia's “successful” post-socialist transition to democracy came to light. Massive layoffs of workers and the bankruptcies of once-solid companies engendered disdain for the political elites and sympathy for marginalized groups. The public blamed the elites for the country's social and economic backsliding, and massive public protests arose in 2012. The aftermath of the protests was a growing need among the people for a new social paradigm toward solidarity. We show that in Slovenia the times of crisis were not times of growing nationalism and exclusion as social theory presupposes but, quite the contrary, they were times of growing solidarity among citizens and with the “Balkan Other.”
This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon – the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the ...early 1990s. It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred. While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia – including the distinction between the recognised “autochthonous” minorities and the non-recognised “new” minorities – it paves the ground for theoretical and sociological discussion of the “erased”. The theoretical discussion is based on the questions of human rights, nationalism and citizenship, both in its classic (nation-state) conception and its alternative forms such as global citizenship. Sociologically, it places the “erasure” into a broader frame of investigating the processes of democratisation and Europeanisation, thus highlighting the key factors that caused the perforation of Slovene democracy in its twenty years of independence.
Cilj pričujočega prispevka je kritično analizirati dosedanje raziskovanje diskriminacije v Sloveniji s poudarkom na raziskovanju intersekcijske diskriminacije, ki omogoča razumevanje novih vsebin in ...novih realnosti diskriminacije v sodobnih družbah. Prispevek predstavi pregled opravljenih raziskav s področja diskriminacije v slovenskem prostoru med letoma 1991 in 2018, ki pokaže, da je raziskovanje diskriminacije najpogosteje osredinjeno na enodimenzionalno izkušnjo diskriminacije. Doslej sta bili v Sloveniji opravljeni samo dve empirični študiji, ki neposredno obravnavata intersekcijski pristop k diskriminaciji. To pa ne pomeni, da se z intersekcionalnostjo ne ukvarjajo oziroma je ne obravnavajo druge študije. Nasprotno, že v 90. letih zasledimo raziskave, ki so opozarjale na součinkovanje več osebnih okoliščin na položaj posameznika oziroma posameznice ter na nove družbene realnosti, ki nastajajo na teh presečiščih in s katerimi se srečujejo diskriminirani posamezniki in posameznice.
Criminality of Prostitution Abuse Frelih, Mojca; Učkar, Tjaša; Kogovšek Šalamon, Neža
Politička misao,
12/2023, Volume:
60, Issue:
4
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The article is based on an empirical socio-legal analysis of criminal court case files concerning prostitution abuse in Slovenia. Based on the theoretical framework developed by Petra Östergren, the ...authors analyse whether the Slovenian regulatory system on sex work is repressive, restrictive or integrative. The paper explores how the courts define “abuse” and “exploitation” of prostitution, how the participation of third parties in sex work activities is dealt with by the courts, how the vulnerability of sex workers is treated, and how the existence of consent is considered before the courts. The paper examines the files for moral arguments, stereotyping, and stigmatisation, as well as references to occupational risks in the field of sex work and sex workers’ rights. In the conclusions the authors argue that in Slovenia the characteristics of the restrictive model, with elements of both repressive and integrative, prevail.
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U radu se istražuje procese dezintegracije Jugoslavije, proces izgradnje države u Sloveniji i kontekst specifičnoga fenomena – brisanja, koji se zbio u Sloveniji ranih devedesetih godina 20. ...stoljeća. Rekonstruiraju se društveno-povijesni i politički konteksti, u kojima je došlo do neovisnosti Slovenije. Opisivanjem procesa izgradnje države, procesa demokratizacije i dvojbi glede zaštite manjina u Sloveniji – uključujući razliku između priznatih »autohtonih« i nepriznatih »novih« manjina – utire se put teorijskoj i sociološkoj raspravi o »izbrisanima«. Teorijska rasprava temelji se na pitanjima ljudskih prava, nacionalizma i građanstva, kako u njihovoj klasičnoj (nacionalnodržavnoj) koncepciji tako i u njihovim alternativnim oblicima poput globalnoga građanstva. Sociološki, rasprava »brisanje« smiješta u širi okvir istraživanja procesa demokratizacije i europeizacije, osvetljujući tako ključne čimbenike koji su prouzročili perforiranu demokraciju u Sloveniji tijekom dvadeset godina njezine neovisnosti.
The article is based on an empirical socio-legal analysis of criminal court case files concerning the abuse of prostitution in Slovenia. Based on the theoretical framework developed by Petra ...Ostergren, the authors analyse whether the Slovenian regulatory system on sex work is repressive, restrictive or integrative. The paper explores how the courts define "abuse" and "exploitation" of prostitution,1 how the participation of third parties in sex work activities is dealt with by the courts, how the vulnerability of sex workers is treated, and how the existence of consent is considered before the courts. The paper examines the files for moral arguments, stereotyping, and stigmatisation, as well as references to occupational risks in the field of sex work and sex workers' rights. In the conclusions the authors argue that in Slovenia the characteristics of the restrictive model, with elements of both repressive and integrative, prevail.
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This paper studies the ideological appropriation of multiculturalism policies, through which western societies reproduce their cultural superiority and historical 'advantage' in the sexual liberation ...of women. The basic thesis that the authors advocate, using a comparative analysis of various types of multiculturalist speech about women's veiling in Europe, is that the ideologeme of cultural difference, which legitimizes the necessity of maintaining boundaries and distance between cultures, is at the same time mobilized as a tool of suppression of the dominant culture's own sexual conflicts and conflicts of gender and sexuality. The authors base their thesis on the longitudinal historical perspective of appropriation of the Other and the 'alien' for the sexual subordination of women of the First and 'familiar,' from the colonial period to the modern globalized society. Through selected case-study readings of veiling in Slovenian and European public space, the paper concludes with a critique of critical multiculturalism. The authors argue that in order to improve its emancipatory potentials multiculturalism needs to undergo an epistemological reconstruction of some of its basic foundations. Adapted from the source document.
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