Nacionalizacija glasbe je intenzivnejša v tistih glasbenih zvrsteh, ki jih narod prepozna kot tradicionalne. Pomembno vlogo pri tem pa imajo strokovnjaki, izvajalci, ustvarjalci, kulturna politika, ...potrošniki in množični mediji. Dom in domovina sta v svoji predstavni podobi ključna označevalca narodne pripadnosti. Toda v sodobnem kontekstu migracij je tudi pojem doma dobil nove konceptualne okvire. Avtorica v članku izhaja iz ugotovitev sodobnih študij doma v okolju migracij in jih primerja z njegovimi reprezentacijami v slovenski narodnozabavni glasbi, kjer kot prevladujoči označevalci narodnega nastopajo dom, domovina, Slovenija, hrepenenje, planine, slovenski kraji in mati.
This paper examines the concept of banal nationalism as often unconscious, routine processes that nations reproduce on a daily basis. Banal nationalism is recognisable in the use of national symbols ...but also in language and culture. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Slovenian folk-pop music is one of these processes, and in which ways and strategies we can detect its reproductive role in banal nationalism that on a daily basis reminds its listeners of their national identities. Methodologically, the article is based on the content and a textual analysis of compositions by three of the most often listened to folk-pop ensembles, demonstrating that the national narrative can be identified in a smaller proportion of all analysed compositions in three sections: the idea of nation as an imaginary community or home(land), national (auto)stereotypes, and patriotic feelings.
This article presents an overview of the attention Louis Adamic dedicated to Native Americans in various written works and public engagements and compares it with his writing on new immigrants in the ...light of his understanding of the importance of the preservation of immigrants’ identity and issues of integration and nation-building as they relate to American identity. The article also explores the views on interculturaland interethnic relationships in the United States that Adamic drew on in his treatment of Native Americans. Three works in particular will be analyzed: My America (1938), From Many Lands (1940), and A Nation of Nations (1945). The main finding is that Adamic does not deal as extensively with issues related to indigenous Americans as he does with those related to European immigrants. Nevertheless, Adamic does notcompletely neglect “the Indian story”. In some of his works, most extensively in A Nation of Nations, he specifically compares this story to the (problematic) position of African Americans in an American space that was colonized either “by sword or by book”.
The article deals with the position held by the Slovenian magazine Kaplje Drops in the Slovenian collective memory. Published in the town of Idrija between 1966 and 1972, i.e. in the period of party ...liberalism in former Yugoslavia, Kaplje was a publication from the periphery that ‘swam against the current’, although its role was almost entirely ignored. The article’s aim is therefore to determine how the magazine’s contributors represented and (re)produced Slovenian identity and its constitutive elements, and which forms and strategies of national(istic) discourse were used. The methodology is based on a critical discursive analysis of selected articles that touch on the above-mentioned themes from all 26 issues of the magazine, including a special issue released upon the twentieth anniversary of the date the magazine voluntarily came to an end.
Namen članka je ugotoviti, kako izobraževalni diskurz kot pomemben socializacijski akter generira etno-/evropocentrična stališča in rasistične reprezentacije »drugega«. Avtorica izhaja iz ...socialnozgodovinske in primerjalne metode posameznih teorij etno-/evropocentrizma in rasizma ter njihove reprodukcije v izobraževalnem diskurzu. Ugotavlja, da učbeniki za zgodovino in geografijo omogočajo definiranje potencialno možnih in zelo verjetnih situacij, ki vodijo v negativne, evropocentrične, tudi rasistične sklepe o Neevropejcih in migrantih. To dosegajo s posebnimi jezikovnimi strategijami, s selekcijo slikovnega gradiva in zlasti na ravni vsebine ter širšega tekstualnega konteksta.
The article proceeds from two theses: that the protection of local cultural identities and heritages as a method for maintaining and even enhancing local (and also national) cohesion in the face of ...globalizing challenges is sensible and justified only under the condition that the cultural heritage is constructed on the basis of multiculturalism, and the intertwinement and interaction between diverse various local lifeworlds; and that (re)constructed local (territorial) cultures and identities cannot be completely captured by binary and oversimplified definitions of old and new localisms. Both of these theoretical premises are with the help of structured and semi-structured interviews applied to a case study of the cultural, potentially economic, political, and social transformation of specific local, territorial, and cultural identities in the town of Idrija, Slovenia, as a geographically remote and delineated 'hill' town with a specific cultural, natural, and technical (industrial) tradition and heritage. The value of its very specific heritage was recognized by its successful inscription in 2012 to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites as an example of institutional and symbolic global proximity and presence. Adapted from the source document.
The article proceeds from the theoretical concept of Occidentalism as a symbolic map of the understanding, elaboration, and perceptions of West and Western Europe in particular that were developed on ...the eastern side of Europe. This general matrix of mutual (mis)representations and national stereotypes between East and West is applied to the selected case of Slovenia and Italy. A brief review of relations and perceptions between the two nations as they have emerged in Slovene newspapers, literature and everyday life practices in the course of time represents the socio-historical and political context of the article. Furthermore the author focuses on the nationalist topics and Slovene perceptions of Italians in contemporary Slovene writing and ethno popular music on the methodological basis of textual analysis of selected historical and current literary works as well as works of ethno popular music in the larger Slovene ethnic space.
The article unfolds the development of Identity Cultural Studies at the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies of the Social Sciences Institute from the historical perspective of Cultural Studies, ...Slovenian as well as European where Cultural Studies first emerged and were further developed until today when they have become an established and inherent part of contemporary Cultural Studies research. The brief analytical insight into past and existing research demonstrates that Slovenian Cultural Studies were developed especially as an attempt to answer questions involving ethnical, national and, later on, global identity dilemmas.
The article focuses on hate speech against refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Northern Africa that had come to the West during the latest mass migrations in 2015 and 2016, as well as on ...the hate speech aimed towards Muslims and covered Muslim women in Slovenia. The article begins with two research questions: 1) did the hate speech which was lately aimed largely at refugees and migrants from Middle East and Northern Africa increase the hate speech towards Muslims who have lived in Slovenia prior to the last so-called migration wave and 2) does hate speech aimed at covered Muslim women in Slovenia exist and if so, has it increased in recent years? Methodologically, the article is based on a web survey (June-July 2016) conducted in Slovenia, and thirteen semi-structured interviews with covered Muslim women in Slovenia. The results of the web survey show, among other things, that hate speech towards the aforementioned social groups exists and is on the rise due to refugees and migrants coming from the Middle East and Northern Africa. The interviews show that hate speech towards covered Muslim women exists as well, and is also on the rise. The interviewees perceive it mostly indirectly (via communication channels like mass media, social networks and disrespectful comments on the street), only rarely directly (via verbal and physical abuse).
RELIGIOUS PLURALISATION IN SLOVENIA Crnic, Ales; Komel, Mirt; Smrke, Marjan ...
Teorija in praksa,
01/2013, Volume:
50, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The article analyses the dynamics of religious pluralisation in Slovenia. Historical developments in various states have kept Slovenians almost exclusively within the Roman-Catholic Church, except ...for a short Reformation period. The socialist after-war secularisation of society has in many respects undermined the Catholic monopoly but it failed to create an open religious market. In the transitional period the statistics of Catholics continued to drop, and at the same time ever more new religious movements emerged. These are mostly very small and at the time being do not show the potential for substantial growth. The article analyses in detail religious pluralisation in the regions of Ljubljana and Nova Gorica. Adapted from the source document.
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