Povzetek. Ob analizah kreativnih dejavnosti se pogosto
pojavljajo problematična opažanja delovnih procesov
zaposlenih v teh poklicih. Kreativni delavci so s tega
vidika dojeti kot zelo prilagodljivi ...glede na način, kraj
in plačilo dela. Zaradi tovrstnih značilnosti, ki jih ne
uvrščajo med tradicionalne, tj. gospodarsko in socialno
bolj stabilne oblike zaposlitve, lahko predvidevamo, da
so bili kreativni delavci med najbolj prizadetimi zaradi
pandemije Covida-19. Članek na podlagi podatkov iz
longitudinalne raziskave »Slovenski kulturno-kreativni
delavec v času Covida-19« (2020) najprej analizira
vplive pandemije na širši kreativni sektor, nato pa prek
analize sprememb v delovnem procesu in življenjskih
razmerah kreativnih delavcev identificira elemente
prekarizacije po posameznih podsektorjih, kot so na
primer vizualne, uprizoritvene umetnosti ali glasba.
Pri tem ugotavlja, da pandemija v večini segmentov
kreativnih
poklicev nadgrajuje obstoječe oblike prekarizacije.
Ključni pojmi: pandemija Covida-19, fleksibilizacija,
prekarizacija, kreativne industrije, kreativni delavec
Povzetek. Članek analizira pravno ureditev trgovine z ljudmi v Sloveniji ter posebne izzive pojava v času ukrajinske vojne. Žrtve trgovine z ljudmi so prevarane na podlagi obljub o izboljšanju ...socialnega položaja, nato pa ujete v začaranem krogu fizičnega, psihološkega ter ekonomskega nasilja. Trgovina z ljudmi v svetovnem merilu velja za izredno dobičkonosno kriminalno aktivnost, hkrati pa pomeni hudo kršitev človekovih pravic in svoboščin. V časih nemirov v Evropi je za uspešen boj proti trgovini z ljudmi na slovenskih tleh izrednega pomena ozaveščanje strokovne in splošne javnosti o elementih pojava. Ključni pojmi: trgovina z ljudmi, moderno suženjstvo, žrtve trgovine z ljudmi, ekonomsko nasilje, pregon trgovcev z ljudmi, človekove pravice, izkoriščanje.
A case study of land distributions establishing spatial arrangements for “new towns” in Israel is used to explore policymaking in an atmosphere of ethnocultural diversity and contention. Comprised of ...communities predisposed to conflict, the deeply divided Israeli public interest tends to draw ambiguous political declarations lacking clear operative directives. Data analyses show that the absence of directives may be advantageous to policy processes because it encourages flexible deference of decision-making to intermediate meso and local micro administrative levels. Emphasising the utility of flexible deliberative implementations initiated at bottom-up levels, it is hoped that the Orphan implementations of public policy modality for conflict/ambiguity issues can present a reconceptualised policy instrument. The article focuses on the verification and development of the modality in its capacity to provide a useful contribution to practical policy decisions wherever political attempts to consolidate fragmented public consensuses might be leveraged toward productive implementation. As such, we suggest that the aggregate outcome of bottom-up implementation initiatives over time may also have an affirming effect on the social balance of national spatial policy. Keywords: land distribution, spatial conflict, bottom-up decision-making, policy implementation, land-use planning.
Povzetek. Zdravstveni delavci so v sistemu donorske in transplantacijske medicine (DTM) ključni ne le za izvajanje medicinskih postopkov, ampak lahko njihov odnos do darovanja organov po smrti vpliva ...na pripravljenost ljudi za darovanje organov po smrti, kar je prvi pogoj za izvajanje dejavnosti. Prispevek predstavlja izsledke kvalitativne analize poglobljenih intervjujev z zdravstvenimi delavci, neposredno vključenimi v donorsko in transplantacijsko medicino. Prikazuje raznolikost stališč in odnosov zdravstvenih delavcev do te specifične veje medicine, ključne ugotovitve pa opozarjajo na posebnosti in morebitne ranljivosti slovenskega sistema donorske in transplantacijske dejavnosti, potencial formaliziranega vključevanja različnih zdravstvenih profilov v sistem DTM, prevpraševanje obstoječega sistema soglasja za darovanje organov po smrti v Sloveniji ter pomanjkljivosti pri izobraževanju zdravstvenih delavcev o donorski dejavnosti. Ključni pojmi: darovanje organov po smrti, zdravstveni delavci, donorska medicina, transplantacijska medicina, presaditev organov.
Povzetek. V članku na podlagi predpostavke o družbenosti individualnega spominjanja proučujemo spomine dveh generacij na 80. leta: generacije, ki je bila takrat v srednjih letih, in generacije, ki je ...bila takrat v obdobju različnih faz prehoda v odraslost. To obdobje zadnjih desetih let jugoslovanskega socializma predstavlja čas več divergentnih kriz na različnih družbenih poljih, po drugi strani pa čas simbolne revolucije na polju kulturnih oblik in praks (v obliki t.i. alternativne kulture). Raziskovanje smo usmerili na dve širši raziskovalni vprašanji: a) na vprašanje konstituiranja spominske hegemonije pri opredelitvi časa in b) na vprašanje generacijskih razlik v spominskih narativih na ta čas. Zanima nas, kako se v individualnem spominjanju na osemdeseta, torej na čas začetka konca socialističnega projekta, artikulirajo različni elementi hegemonične »opredelitve časa« in v kakšnem morebitnem protislovnem razmerju so ti elementi (na primer nostalgija nasproti hegemonično revizionistični interpretaciji). Ključni pojmi: spominski narativi, socialistična osemdeseta, generacija, hegemonični spomini, disrupcije v spominjanju.
The article critically analyses the crucial relationship between capitalism and technology(ies) in its historical and foundational dimension and its unprecedented natural-environment-altering ...dimension. It is argued that existing research in political science and political theory and progressive and emancipatory critiques of the unsustainable, exploitative nature of contemporary capitalism lack a critical interrogation of this relationship, which it attributes to a naïve, simplistic and problematic understanding of technology(ies) as neutral instrument(s). Building on materialist and neo-Luddite critiques, a comprehensive analytical framework is developed and applied to critically examine the genesis and nature of the relationship in its various dimensions and contexts, including the birth of the factory system, modern transportation, and modern ICTs. The analysed technological systems are demonstrated to be inherently capitalistic and environmentally unsustainable and their radical transformation should be at the centre of sustainable visions of a future socio-economic order. Keywords: technology, capitalism, industrialisation, materialist critique, neo-Luddism, ecological crisis.
The article considers the thesis that today we are facing challenges that call for the invention of new principles of political, social and economic organisation. It is ever clearer that the climate ...crisis is not only threatening environmental and economic collapse, but above all – and it is here that the direct, yet often overlooked danger lies – our political and social collapse. The contours of the climate crisis are seen in the ongoing corrosion of the democratic political process, the erosion of political communities and the commons, and, not the least, the reliance on populist and authoritarian models to deal with the ever more dire situation. This requires a fresh look at how a new relationship can be established between life and work, production and consumption and, especially, the individual and the communal. Accordingly, in the analysis of alternatives and possibilities the article introduces a new central concept – care – as the fundamental notion and practice of the newly emerging (palliative) political and economic paradigm. We address the simple, albeit infinitely complex question: Why not use the notions of care and freedom, instead of production and consumption, as the paradigm for our new economy, which should only be a way to take care for each other? Keywords: care, politics, democracy, climate change, crisis
The article addresses different forms of youth environmental activism, starting from the phenomenon of the ambivalent position held by young people in environmental activism where on one hand they ...stand up for structural and radical change and, on the other, they cooperate with the authorities or at least make demands of them, thereby giving them legitimacy. The paper focuses on the relationship of young resisting subjectivities towards power and their interplay with strategies and practices and power mechanisms in the field of environmental regulation. The paper addresses various forms of youth environmental activism, especially looking at young dissenting subjectivities’ relationship to power and their intertwining with governing strategies and practices in the environmental field. Focus is given to the ways in which young activists are implicated in, constituted within, and respond to power relations and the exercise of governing, particularly when it comes to environmental issues. It draws on the Foucauldian approach of eco-governmentality and the analytical concept of counter-conduct as an analytical concept to examine how young activists address, co-constitute and potentially subvert or undermine power structures. Using this approach, we reflect on the diversity of agency found in youth activism, which includes an examination of the different forms, actions, strategies and practices associated with this activism. Keywords: youth, environmental activism, political ecology, eco-governmentality, counter-conduct.