How is it possible to foster gender equality in academia if the academic field is gradually marked by precarity, particularly in the early stages of academic careers? How do early career scholars ...deal with the challenges of their professional environments and what are the potential strategies of structural change that can contribute to the improvement of equal opportunities in academia? These are the questions that Science (without) Youth: Gendering Early Careers in Slovenia Znanost (brez) mladih: Zgodnje stopnje znanstvene kariere skozi perspektivo spola raises and strives to discuss in its introduction and the seven chapters that follow. The book is a result of the GARCIA project that targets combating gender inequalities in academia by taking an innovative approach – focusing on researchers in non-tenured, temporary positions.
This article attempts to turn from describing heritage in the framework of official and everyday discourses of identity and politics of belonging towards acknowledging its spatial nature. As an ...example, I use the Guca na Krasu festival in order to explore two main questions: how a strong notion of locality is mediated by the non-locality of sound, and the ways in which globalization and mobility are remodelling music heritage protocols, particularly in the case of migrant communities. I explore the ways in which trumpet orchestra music, as one of the main genres of Balkan music on the world music market, is becoming an affective tool of identification and affiliation, and bringing a newly emergent globallocal dynamics to the existing heritage management of the Serbian community living in this area. The discourses of heterogeneity and transnationality in branding Balkan music have led to an ambivalent identification with the festival among community members. Navigating between sound environments, music heritage protocols, globalization processes and affective technologies, the space is approached through an examination of the complexity of relations among communities, affective spatio-temporal sound collectivities, and music globalization processes. Adapted from the source document.
Taking the regional music event “Balkan Music Awards” – presented as the Eurovision of the Balkans – as a case study, the article explores the ways in which the assumed exotic value of Balkan music ...and the existing sonic image of the Balkans are employed with the aim of invigorating the regional music market as a process of reorganizing “post–national” musical productions.
Examining the stage performance of female vocal groups as cultural practices which produced a new pattern in the representation of gender in the light of the socialist identity politics, book offers ...a multifaced picture of the personal experiences of the socialist gender politics in socialist Serbia.
In this article, I observe the role of collective singing and listening in recalling, reconfiguring, and repurposing the memory of antifascism in the current practices of activism and social ...engagement in the post-Yugoslav space. The crisis of global neoliberalism, which has its specific regional features in the area of former Yugoslavia, has fostered the (re)appropriation, reinterpretation, and repurposing of the historical legacy of Yugoslav antifascism and its meanings and values. I examine the new pan-leftist sensibilities and transnational networks that have been formed after 2008 and the new musical employments of the memory of antifascism by the post-Yugoslav activist choirs. By concentrating on their revitalization of partisan songs, I address the dynamic practices of recalling antifascism and its revolutionary legacy in the search for new radical political potential of this past in the region of former Yugoslavia. I theorize this practice within the framework of singing memory activism, which employs aural experience as a powerful mnemonic tool in the revitalization of the antifascist past and in fostering struggles for the recreation of its meanings.
The article offers a brief presentation of the main streams of ethnomusicological research on music, migration and minorities while reflecting on their theoretical and methodological frameworks. It ...pays particular attention to the intersection with other ethnomusicological sub-fields and its role in challenging the methodological nationalism and Western-centric views.
This essay offers a close reading of the promises ingrained in the political potential of aural experience in the recent literature addressing affect. It focuses on why, how and when scholars ...privilege affect when thinking about the political capacities of music and sound in the current moment of global neoliberalism. The essay reflects on scholarly works that theorise political agency after 2008 and concentrates on affect as a need or a quest for a theoretical framework that proposes new avenues to act politically. It starts from the assumption that scholarly production that employs affect tells us much less about the very political potential of affect, and much more about a desire for a radical reshaping of our understanding of where and how we search for political potentialities. The second part of the essay presents a critical perspective on this desire and the relationship between affective and ideological politics. Using my ethnographic work on activist singing in the area of former Yugoslavia as an example that offers a perspective from the former state-socialist world, I take a critical look at the potential inscribed in affective politics beyond liberal political thought.
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