Women as a linguistic footnote Kuhar, Roman; Antić Gaber, Milica
Gender and language,
11/2022, Letnik:
16, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The debate on nonsexist or gender-sensitive language in Slovenia has been taking place since the mid-1990s. It intensified again in 2018 when the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, decided to ...use the feminine grammatical gender in its internal regulations as generic and inclusive for all genders. The decision provoked heated public reactions and media reports. Through critical frame analysis of 60 media texts published between May and December 2018, this article identifies four basic frames: the decision as impermissible linguistic engineering, as a sign of excessive political correctness, as a false solution to the actual existence of sexism in language, or finally, as a positive change. Whereas many of the arguments used in the Slovenian debate were found in similar debates elsewhere, a new discursive frame emerged that cannot be placed on the classical dichotomy of feminist and antifeminist, but is instead based on equality fatigue and the understanding that gender equality has allegedly already been achieved.Razprava o neseksisticni oziroma spolno obcutljivi rabi jezika v Sloveniji poteka ze od sredine 90. let prejsnjega stoletja. Ponovno se je okrepila leta 2018, ko je bil na Filozofski fakulteti UL sprejet sklep o genericni rabi zenskega slovnicnega spola kot vkljucujocega za vse spole v internih pravilnikih fakultete. Odlocitev je sprozila burne odzive javnosti in prav taksno porocanje medijev. S kriticno analizo okvirjev smo analizirali 60 medijskih besedil, objavljenih med majem in decembrom 2018, in v njih identificirali stiri osnovne okvire: odlocitev kot nedopusten jezikovni inzeniring, kot znak pretirane politicne korektnosti, kot napacno resitev za preseganje dejanskega obstoja seksizma v jeziku oziroma kot pozitivno spremembo. Medtem ko je mnoge argumente, uporabljene v slovenski razpravi, moc najti v podobnih razpravah drugod, se je v analiziranih medijskih porocilih pojavil tudi nov diskurzivni okvir, ki ga ni mogoce umestiti na klasicni feministicni ali protifeministicni kontinuum, saj temelji na zasicenosti z enakostjo in razumevanjem, da je enakost spolov domnevno ze dosezena.
The aim of the present paper is to map the development of women's and gender studies (WGS) in the academic field in Slovenia. Slovenia is the first of the former Yugoslav state republics in which WGS ...have succeeded in entering the academic field and becoming part of institutionalized university study. In this paper we will ask the following questions: How, when and why did this happen? How was this connected to women's and feminist movements and politics regarding women's issues and demands? What were the obstacles in this process? Who were the agents and what were the factors that supported demands for the incorporation of WGS in academia? How has the field evolved in the last few decades? What were the phases of this development? Which fields were the forerunners, which were the late-comers and which are still left aside? What are the thematic scopes taught in WGS courses? In which degrees are the courses offered and what are their modules? Who teaches them? The mapping in this paper is mainly based on primary sources of university programmes and their curricula at faculties of the University of Ljubljana, as well as on interviews with important agents in the field. (DIPF/Orig.).
The paper discusses the issue of feminist knowledge production and reproduction in relation to the subject and her geo-political location. This discussion was prompted by Sofi Oksanen’s letter to ...Melania Trump in 2017. We argue that this letter is subtly based on the power dynamics of the centre, semiperiphery and periphery, and we attempt to make these dynamics visible. Namely, Oksanen addresses M. Trump as the one who made it without the necessary critique of what ‘making-it’ means, while at the same time she positions her as the potential hero that can save ‘us’ all, where ‘us’ refers to the women in the semiperiphery. This heroization of M. Trump presupposes that post-socialist countries face gender (and gendered) issues at the same time as it presupposes that these issues cannot be effectively and successfully addressed by the women in the postsocialist countries themselves. Thus, Oksanen’s heroization is based on a two-fold process of constituting a vulnerable subject stripped of her agency, i.e. the women in post-socialist countries, and an autonomous, agentic subject for whose intervention she calls for, that is, a ‘Western-ized’ subject. Such gestures, which are evident in the letter, are a part of reproducing the geopolitical dynamics between the centre, semiperiphery and periphery, or, more specifically, of constructing the semi-peripheral post-socialist countries, the construct of which neglects the vigour of feminist practices, productions and movements in post-socialist countries.
After the first multi-party election in the Slovene National Assembly the share of women MPs dropped dramatically (from 24 per cent in 1986 to 17.5 per cent in 1990) and did not substantially change ...during the following two decades. This led to a debate among feminist activists and scholars and left-oriented female politicians regarding the absence of effective measures to improve the situation. The first proposals to introduce gender quotas initially for internal party bodies and later for national elections were put forward by women in the centre and left-wing parties. The voluntary quotas adopted by these parties did not yield visible progress on the presence of women in important political bodies, as these parties' gatekeepers did not fully respect their own rules when composing candidate lists. It was only when legal quotas were introduced that significant changes occurred in the share of women at the highest levels of Slovene politics. In contrast to previous studies on gender quotas in Slovenia, this paper focuses on the importance of the legal and institutional mechanisms in the Slovene context that increased the number of women in politics and examines the political process that paved the way for greater gender equality by using data from elections and putting the data into a broader context. The authors conclude that without gender quotas imposed by legislation the percentage of women in the last parliamentary election in 2014 would not have increased to 37 per cent (the highest among CEE countries) but also identify some limitations to the effectiveness of quota regulations in the Slovene political and institutional context.
Many Faces of Migrations Antić Gaber, Milica; Krevs, Marko
Ars & humanitas,
12/2013, Letnik:
7, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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Temporary or permanent, local or international, voluntary or forced, legal or illegal, registered or unregistered migrations of individuals, whole communities or individual groups are an important ...factor in constructing and modifying (modern) societies. The extent of international migrations is truly immense. At the time of the preparation of this publication more than 200 million people have been involved in migrations in a single year according to the United Nations. Furthermore, three times more wish to migrate, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa towards some of the most economically developed areas of the world according to the estimates by the Gallup Institute (Esipova, 2011). Some authors, although aware that it is not a new phenomenon, talk about the era of migration (Castles, Miller, 2009) or the globalization of migration (Friedman, 2004). The global dimensions of migration are definitely influenced also by the increasingly visible features of modern societies like constantly changing conditions, instability, fluidity, uncertainty etc. (Beck, 2009; Bauman, 2002).The extent, direction, type of migrations and their consequences are affected by many social and natural factors in the areas of emigration and immigration. In addition, researchers from many scientific disciplines who study migrations have raised a wide range of research questions (Boyle, 2009, 96), use a variety of methodological approaches and look for different interpretations in various spatial, temporal and contextual frameworks. The migrations are a complex, multi-layered, variable, contextual process that takes place at several levels. Because of this, research on migrations has become an increasingly interdisciplinary field, since the topics and problems are so complex that they cannot be grasped solely and exclusively from the perspective of a single discipline or theory. Therefore, we are witnessing a profusion of different “faces of migration”, which is reflected and at the same time also contributed to by this thematic issue of the journal Ars & Humanitas.While mobility or migration are not new phenomena, as people have moved and migrated throughout the history of mankind, only recently, in the last few decades, has theoretical and research focus on them intensified considerably. In the last two decades a number of research projects, university programs and courses, research institutes, scientific conferences, seminars, magazines, books and other publications, involving research, academia as well as politics and various civil society organizations have emerged. This shows the recent exceptional interest in the issue of migration, both in terms of knowledge of the processes involved, their mapping in the history of mankind, as well as the theoretical development of migration studies and daily management of this politically sensitive issue.Migration affects many entities on many different levels: the individuals, their families and entire communities at the local level in the emigrant societies as well as in the receiving societies. The migration is changing not only the lives of individuals but whole communities and societies, as well as social relations; it is also shifting the cultural patterns and bringing important social transformations (Castles 2010). This of course raises a number of questions, problems and issues ranging from human rights violations to literary achievements. Some of these are addressed by the authors in this thematic issue.The title “Many faces of migration”, connecting contributions in this special issue, is borrowed from the already mentioned Gallup Institute’s report on global migration (Esipova, 2011). The guiding principle in the selection of the contributions has been their diversity, reflected also in the list of disciplines represented by the authors: sociology, geography, ethnology and cultural anthropology, history, art history, modern Mediterranean studies, gender studies and media studies. Such an approach necessarily leads not only to a diverse, but at least seemingly also incompatible, perhaps even opposing views “on a given topic. However, we did not want to silence the voices of “other” disciplines, but within the reviewing procedures actually invited scientists from the fields represented by the contributors to this volume. The wealth of the selected contributions lies therefore not only in their coherence and complementarity, but also in the diversity of views, stories and interpretations.The paper of Zora Žbontar deals with the attitudes towards foreigners in ancient Greece, where the hospitality to strangers was considered so worthy a virtue that everyone was expected to “demonstrate hospitality and protection to any foreigner who has knocked on their door”. The contrast between the hospitality of ancient Greece and the modern emergence of xenophobia and ways of dealing with migration issues in economically developed countries is especially challenging. “In an open gesture of hospitality to strangers the ancient Greeks showed their civilization”.Although the aforementioned research by the United Nations and Gallup Institute support some traditional stereotypes of the main global flows of migrants, and the areas about which the potential migrants “dream”, Bojan Baskar stresses the coexistence of different migratory desires, migration flows and their interpretations. In his paper he specifically focuses on overcoming and relativising stereotypes as well as theories of immobile and non-enterprising (Alpine) mountain populations and migrations.The different strategies of the crossing borders adopted by migrant women are studied by Mirjana Morokvasic. She marks them as true social innovators, inventing different ways of transnational life resulting in a bottom-up contribution to the integrative processes across Europe. Some of their innovations go as far as to shift diverse real and symbolic boundaries of belonging to a nation, gender, profession.Elaine Burroughs and Zoë O’Reilly highlight the close relations between the otherwise well-established terminology used in statistics and science to label immigrants in Ireland and elsewhere in EU, and the negative representations of certain types of migrants in politics and the public. The discussion focusses particularly on asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who come from outside the EU. The use of language can quickly become a political means of exclusion, therefore the authors propose the development and use of more considerate and balanced migration terminology.Damir Josipovič proposes a change of the focal point for identifying and interpreting the well-studied migrations in the former Yugoslavia. The author suggests changing the dualistic view of these migrations to an integrated, holistic view. Instead of a simplified understanding of these migrations as either international or domestic, voluntary or forced, he proposes a concept of pseudo-voluntary migrations.Maja Korać-Sanderson's contribution highlights an interesting phenomenon in the shift in the traditional patterns of gender roles. The conclusions are derived from the study of the family life of Chinese traders in transitional Serbia. While many studies suggest that child care in recent decades in immigrant societies is generally performed by immigrants, her study reveals that in Serbia, the Chinese merchants entrust the care of their children mostly to local middle class women. The author finds this switch of roles in the “division of labour” in the child care favourable for both parties involved.Francesco Della Puppa focuses on a specific part of the mosaic of contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean: the Bangladeshi immigrant community in the highly industrialized North East of Italy. The results of his in-depth qualitative study reveal the factors that shape this segment of the Bangladeshi diaspora, the experiences of migrants and the effects of migration on their social and biographical trajectories.John A. Schembri and Maria Attard present a snippet of a more typical Mediterranean migration process - immigration to Malta. The authors highlight the reduction in migration between Malta and the United Kingdom, while there is an increase in immigration to Malta from the rest of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. Amongst the various impacts of immigration to Malta the extraordinary concentration of immigrant populations is emphasized, since the population density of Malta far exceeds that of nearly all other European countries.Miha Kozorog studies the link between migration and constructing their places of their origin. On the basis of Ardener’s theory the author expresses “remoteness” of the emigratory Slavia Friulana in terms of topology, in relation to other places, rather than in topography. “Remoteness” is formed in relation to the “outside world”, to those who speak of “remote areas” from the privileged centres. The example of an artistic event, which organizers aim “to open a place like this to the outside world”, “to encourage the production of more cosmopolitan place”, shows only the temporary effect of such event on the reduction of the “remoteness”.Jani Kozina presents a study of the basic temporal and spatial characteristics of migration “of people in creative occupations” in Slovenia. The definition of this specific segment of the population and approach to study its migrations are principally based on the work of Richard Florida. The author observes that people with creative occupations in Slovenia are very immobile and in this respect quite similar to other professional groups in Slovenia, but also to the people in creative professions in the Southern and Eastern Europe, which are considered to be among the least mobile in Europe. Detailed analyses show that the people in creative occupations from the more developed regions generally migrate more intensely and are also more willing to relocate.Mojca Pajnik and Veronika Bajt study the experiences of migrant women with th
Uvodnik v tematski sklop Antić Gaber, Milica; Muršič, Rajko
Ars & humanitas,
12/2008, Letnik:
2, Številka:
2
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V zadnjem času smo priča povečanemu zanimanju za telo v vsakdanjem življenju in v naših vsakdanjih praksah, pa tudi v družboslovnih in humanističnih raziskavah in analizah. Pri tem zagotovo ...prednjačijo mediji, ki nas zasipavajo s podobami idealnih, zdravih, zagorelih, lepih, vitkih teles, ki so tako rekoč povprečnemu človeku/ženski nedosegljive. Ti isti mediji nas po eni strani posiljujejo z mnogimi dobrotami, recepti, hrano, po drugi pa s podobami vitkih teles, kar skorajda nujno vodi do frustracij ali pa do različnih oblik trpinčenj lastnega telesa. Ta se lahko kažejo v obliki občasnega hujšanja, anoreksije, bulimije, kompulzivnega prenajedanja, ortoreksije, bigoreksije (pretirane fizične aktivnosti) ipd. Če pa to ni učinkovito ali ni zadosti hitro, se je tudi za težave našlo zdravilo – oz. zdravnik – lepotni kirurg, ki nam izreže, zmanjša ali poveča tisto, kar hočemo oz. česar nočemo. Poraslo je tudi zanimanje za zdravo telo – ljudje hočejo, da bi bili videti zdravo, se počutiti zdravo, zato jejo zdravo hrano, se ukvarjajo s športom, skratka skrbijo za svoje telo.
Telo je hkrati del posameznika/posameznice, obenem pa je lahko njen/ njegov objekt oz. projekt – če se odločimo, ga bomo oblikovali tako, da bo krepko ali krhko, obilno ali skoraj shirano, lahko si okrepimo/povečamo ali zmanjšamo ta ali oni del, možnosti so stvar naše domišljije in časovno
finančnih možnosti. Ta interes je, kot je opozoril že Bourdieu (1984), najbolj prisoten pri t.i. novem srednjem razredu, najverjetneje se je v zadnjem času razširil tudi na druge sloje.
Telo pa ne predstavlja le stvar zanimanja posameznikov in posameznic ampak tudi oblasti oz. politike. Če pritrdimo Foucaultu, se je oblast pravzaprav vedno zanimala za telesa svojih podrejenih. Že davno tega so bila telesa predmet nadzorovanja in kaznovanja, telesne kazni so bile prve oblike kaznovanja neubogljivega ljudstva in za razliko od danes so bila ta kaznovanja vsem na ogled in v opozorilo. Zdi se, da oblast/politika teles ni nikoli izpustila iz svojega primeža, le da so se oblike nadzorovanja in kaznovanja spreminjale/spremenile – predvsem najbrž to velja za ženska telesa.
Telo je bilo, je in bo predmet zanimanja različnih ved in polj. Čeprav je bilo videti, da si ga je najprej za ekskluzivno polje svojega delovanja privzela medicina, pa se z njim ukvarjajo (je predmet njihovega raziskovanja) tudi druge vede oz. znanstvene discipline od sociologije in antropologije, študijev spola, umetnostne zgodovine, literarne zgodovine in drugih. Večkrat ponovljena modrost, da nimamo svojega telesa, temveč smo telo, je v sodobnem družbosovju in humanistiki postala prežvečena puhlica. In prav zato, ker nas vabi v objem najbolj duhamornega vulgarnomaterialističnega redukcionizma, jo je vredno od časa do časa premisliti. Imeti telo ali biti telo? Frommovska dilema sploh ni na izbiro: človeštva si ni mogoče predstajati v breztelesnem ali bognedaj! raztelešenem stanju. Celotno človeštvo, ki edino ustvarja, posreduje, uporablja in preobrača simbole, skratka “simboli”, če smeva uporabiti glagol, ki si ga je neuspešno zamislil Leslie White, ustvarja neskončne nize neopredmetenih zamisli, a nikakor ne more ustvariti enega samega simbola, torej predmeta, ki omogoča reprezentacijo, tako da ga postavimo na mesto nečesa drugega, ne da bi se za to pomučilo v potu svojega obraza. Še več, največje skrivnosti, kar si jih lahko zamislimo, izhajajo iz nizov telesih drž in sporočil, ki jih prevzemamo od drugih brez simboljenja.
Če smo še pred tremi desetletji govorili skorajda samo o strukturah (ne da bi dobro premislili paleto pomenov tega danes skorajda pozabljenega koncepta), pa pred desetletjem in pol o tekstih in njihovem »branju«, si danes ne moremo predstavljati humanistične razprave, ki ne bi umeščala razumevanja človeške sporočilnosti na raven neposrednih človeških dejavnosti. Pri tem v glavnem ne gre za obujanje pragmatizma, ki bi ga spodbujala prevlada anglosaške teoretske misli, niti za slepo sledenje vmes skorajda pozabljenim spoznanjem o telesnem ustroju človeških svetov Merleau-Pontyja, temveč za premik, v katerega nas sili soočanje z dogajanji v resničnem svetu, na katera se moramo ustrezno odzvati kot raziskovalci in raziskovalke.
Pričujoči tematski sklop revije Ars et Humnitas prinaša pestro paleto različnih pristopov in prikazov telesa v polju družboslovja in humanistike od teoretskih razprav v okviru post-fenomenološke sociologije telesa, tematiziranja telesa v odnosu do zdravja in plesa, pa vse do razprav o lepotnem idealu telesa v florentinskem slikarstvu, golote in spola v žanru akta ter pomena fotografij (ki predstavljajo zamrznjena telesa), s pomočjo katerih je mogoče odstirati osebne zgodovine.
Uvodnik v tematski sklop Gaber, Milica Antić; Muršič, Rajko
Ars & humanitas,
12/2008, Letnik:
2, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
V zadnjem času smo priča povečanemu zanimanju za telo v vsakdanjem življenju in v naših vsakdanjih praksah, pa tudi v družboslovnih in humanističnih raziskavah in analizah. Pri tem zagotovo ...prednjačijo mediji, ki nas zasipavajo s podobami idealnih, zdravih, zagorelih, lepih, vitkih teles, ki so tako rekoč povprečnemu človeku/ženski nedosegljive. Ti isti mediji nas po eni strani posiljujejo z mnogimi dobrotami, recepti, hrano, po drugi pa s podobami vitkih teles, kar skorajda nujno vodi do frustracij ali pa do različnih oblik trpinčenj lastnega telesa. Ta se lahko kažejo v obliki občasnega hujšanja, anoreksije, bulimije, kompulzivnega prenajedanja, ortoreksije, bigoreksije (pretirane fizične aktivnosti) ipd. Če pa to ni učinkovito ali ni zadosti hitro, se je tudi za težave našlo zdravilo – oz. zdravnik – lepotni kirurg, ki nam izreže, zmanjša ali poveča tisto, kar hočemo oz. česar nočemo. Poraslo je tudi zanimanje za zdravo telo – ljudje hočejo, da bi bili videti zdravo, se počutiti zdravo, zato jejo zdravo hrano, se ukvarjajo s športom, skratka skrbijo za svoje telo.
Telo je hkrati del posameznika/posameznice, obenem pa je lahko njen/ njegov objekt oz. projekt – če se odločimo, ga bomo oblikovali tako, da bo krepko ali krhko, obilno ali skoraj shirano, lahko si okrepimo/povečamo ali zmanjšamo ta ali oni del, možnosti so stvar naše domišljije in časovno
finančnih možnosti. Ta interes je, kot je opozoril že Bourdieu (1984), najbolj prisoten pri t.i. novem srednjem razredu, najverjetneje se je v zadnjem času razširil tudi na druge sloje.
Telo pa ne predstavlja le stvar zanimanja posameznikov in posameznic ampak tudi oblasti oz. politike. Če pritrdimo Foucaultu, se je oblast pravzaprav vedno zanimala za telesa svojih podrejenih. Že davno tega so bila telesa predmet nadzorovanja in kaznovanja, telesne kazni so bile prve oblike kaznovanja neubogljivega ljudstva in za razliko od danes so bila ta kaznovanja vsem na ogled in v opozorilo. Zdi se, da oblast/politika teles ni nikoli izpustila iz svojega primeža, le da so se oblike nadzorovanja in kaznovanja spreminjale/spremenile – predvsem najbrž to velja za ženska telesa.
Telo je bilo, je in bo predmet zanimanja različnih ved in polj. Čeprav je bilo videti, da si ga je najprej za ekskluzivno polje svojega delovanja privzela medicina, pa se z njim ukvarjajo (je predmet njihovega raziskovanja) tudi druge vede oz. znanstvene discipline od sociologije in antropologije, študijev spola, umetnostne zgodovine, literarne zgodovine in drugih. Večkrat ponovljena modrost, da nimamo svojega telesa, temveč smo telo, je v sodobnem družbosovju in humanistiki postala prežvečena puhlica. In prav zato, ker nas vabi v objem najbolj duhamornega vulgarnomaterialističnega redukcionizma, jo je vredno od časa do časa premisliti. Imeti telo ali biti telo? Frommovska dilema sploh ni na izbiro: človeštva si ni mogoče predstajati v breztelesnem ali bognedaj! raztelešenem stanju. Celotno človeštvo, ki edino ustvarja, posreduje, uporablja in preobrača simbole, skratka “simboli”, če smeva uporabiti glagol, ki si ga je neuspešno zamislil Leslie White, ustvarja neskončne nize neopredmetenih zamisli, a nikakor ne more ustvariti enega samega simbola, torej predmeta, ki omogoča reprezentacijo, tako da ga postavimo na mesto nečesa drugega, ne da bi se za to pomučilo v potu svojega obraza. Še več, največje skrivnosti, kar si jih lahko zamislimo, izhajajo iz nizov telesih drž in sporočil, ki jih prevzemamo od drugih brez simboljenja.
Če smo še pred tremi desetletji govorili skorajda samo o strukturah (ne da bi dobro premislili paleto pomenov tega danes skorajda pozabljenega koncepta), pa pred desetletjem in pol o tekstih in njihovem »branju«, si danes ne moremo predstavljati humanistične razprave, ki ne bi umeščala razumevanja človeške sporočilnosti na raven neposrednih človeških dejavnosti. Pri tem v glavnem ne gre za obujanje pragmatizma, ki bi ga spodbujala prevlada anglosaške teoretske misli, niti za slepo sledenje vmes skorajda pozabljenim spoznanjem o telesnem ustroju človeških svetov Merleau-Pontyja, temveč za premik, v katerega nas sili soočanje z dogajanji v resničnem svetu, na katera se moramo ustrezno odzvati kot raziskovalci in raziskovalke.
Pričujoči tematski sklop revije Ars et Humnitas prinaša pestro paleto različnih pristopov in prikazov telesa v polju družboslovja in humanistike od teoretskih razprav v okviru post-fenomenološke sociologije telesa, tematiziranja telesa v odnosu do zdravja in plesa, pa vse do razprav o lepotnem idealu telesa v florentinskem slikarstvu, golote in spola v žanru akta ter pomena fotografij (ki predstavljajo zamrznjena telesa), s pomočjo katerih je mogoče odstirati osebne zgodovine.
Pred vami je nova revija Ars & Humanitas – revija za umetnost in humanistiko, področji, ki ju v sodobni družbi pogosto ločuje absurdna potreba po natančnem zamejevanju medsebojnih razmerij, ...pristojnosti in vsebin, raziskovalnih pristopov in metodologij dela. Ars & Humanitas želi preseči to razločenost. Ars v humanistični tradiciji razumemo kot umetnost, a tudi kot veščino, znanje, znanost. Humanitas kot humanistiko, vsestransko izobrazbo, omiko in plemenitost duha. Eno brez drugega v resnici ne more obstajati.
Razdrobljenost intelektualnih horizontov pa je žal še veliko večja. Tudi znotraj same humanistike postaja drobljenje znanstvenega in raziskovalnega prostora na ozko specializirane stroke resna zavora v razvoju humanističnih ved. Ob vse večjem številu specializiranih, v pristopu teoretsko in diskurzivno strogo zamejenih znanstvenih publikacij, njihovih tvorcev in bralcev, je potrebno ponuditi več prostora za nove, interdisciplinarno zasnovane znanstvene revije. Ars & Humanitas hoče biti prav to – spodbuditi želi povezovanje družboslovnih in humanističnih strok, okrepiti dialog med različnimi teoretskimi orientacijami, odpirati izvirne pristope k obravnavi tem, opozarjati na aktualne vidike interferenc in skrbeti za promocijo humanistike tako v strokovnih krogih kot v širši javnosti.
Zasnova revije je tridelna: v nosilnem tematskem bloku (študije) bodo objavljene študije domačih in tujih strokovnjakov, ki bodo odražale različne pristope k izbrani temi, medtem ko bo odprti blok (varia) namenjen prispevkom, ki so v določenem trenutku posebej aktualni ali ponujajo svež pogled na obravnavano temo. Tretji del bo namenjen recenzijam najnovejših in najaktualnejših znanstvenih publikacij s širšega humanistično družboslovnega področja.
Posebno pozornost bo revija namenjala nacionalni in regionalni specifiki humanistike in družboslovja znotraj Evropske unije, pa tudi promociji nacionalnih kultur in umetnosti. Skladno s tem je eno od pomembnih poslanstev revije Ars & Humanitas krepitev zavesti o pomenu jezika v razvoju humanistike, saj jezik v humanističnih znanostih presega vlogo orodja sporočanja in je neločljivo povezan s samim razvojem humanističnih znanosti. Revija je zasnovana na večjezičnosti, posebno skrb pa bo posvečala slovenski humanistiki in razvoju strokovne terminologije v slovenskem jeziku.
V trenutku, ko globalizacija nezadržno spodjeda same temelje kulturne in intelektualne različnosti, ko sodobni razvojni trendi sleherno dejavnost vse pogosteje merijo z enotnim vatlom produktivnosti, ko nam celo nekateri uradni zastopniki znanosti poskušajo na različne načine vcepiti prepričanje, da humanistika postaja odveč in neuporabna, je vsak korak v nasprotno smer vreden pozornosti in spodbude. Ustanovitev nove revije za umetnost in humanistiko je nedvomno tak korak.
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