The article is a detailed reconstruction of early social work education in Slovenia in the 1950s. It marks the beginnings of the professionalisation of social work in the context of state socialism. ...On one hand, the government viewed social work with unease while, on the other, Yugoslavia was the only country of the former “socialist bloc“ to introduce comprehensive social work education in all its republics. Based on archival research, a thematic analysis of written sources on social welfare from the 1950s, and oral narratives of professionals, the article describes the impact of social work education in Croatia on the school in Slovenia, analyses the main actors in the field of social welfare, and addresses the social welfare issues being discussed in the early period.
In an otherwise sympathetic speech to Occupy Wall Street, Slavoj Žižek dismissed protesters' pursuit of direct democracy as a "dream." In no small part responding to a perceived crisis of ...representative politics, however, the popular movements that swept through northern Africa, Europe, and North America during 2011 have been distinguished by their adoption of direct democratic forms. This initial ethnography—collaboratively researched and written by a Slovene activist-theorist and a U.S. anthropologist—considers the significance of the Occupy Movement's democratic practices in Žižek's own hometown. We trace the development of decidedly minoritarian forms of decision making—the "democracy of direct action," as it is known locally—to activists' experiences of organizing for migrant and minority rights in the face of ethnonationalism. We compare the democracy of direct action to Occupy Wall Street's consensus-based model. In conclusion, we ask how ethnographic attention to the varieties of emergent political forms within the current global cycle of protest might extend recent theorizing of radical politics and contribute to broader efforts to reimagine democracy.
In the article, representations of Ljubljana in Slovenian feature films made during the period of accelerated modernisation from the end of WWII to 1969 are analysed. Semiological analysis shows that ...Ljubljana is in these films constructed in a rather diverse yet not entirely arbitrary manner, as in all cases various signifiers of modernisation are presented in negative contexts. In films, where signs of modernisation are largely absent, Ljubljana appears as pleasant and beautiful city, whereas in films, where signs of modernisation are present, Ljubljana is presented as neurotic and alienated city. These representations could be explained by the relatively low status of urbanity in Slovenian culture.
France Stele, Vojeslav Mole and Izidor Cankar, who are considered the founders of Slovenian art history as a modern scientific discipline, were all students of Max Dvořak. Traces of the relationship ...between Dvořak and his three Slovenian students and of his influence over them can be found in different types of sources. I first focus on the preserved personal and intimate documents, their mutual correspondence and on their autobiographical and biographical texts in which we can learn a great deal about Dvořak as a person and teacher. Then I turn to the “historiographical” texts among which Stele’s texts hold a special place; in them he outlined the process of forming the “Ljubljana School of Art History” and defined the origins of its conceptual and methodological framework with one of its key foundations being the ideas of Dvořak.
The Marof archaeological site, which dates back to the 1st–5th centuries ce, lies 10 km SE of the Roman settlement of Emona of Regio X (Venetia and Histria). In addition to other artefacts, several ...stone blocks were recovered. The blocks include worked (shaped) and unworked (natural forms) objects. The provenance of these stones was determined based on their lithological characteristics. The analysis shows that the stone is of Early Jurassic age. While the worked blocks are lithologically diverse and extracted from several sources located within a 10 km radius, the unworked blocks are lithologically homogeneous and originate from the site.
Aims
To verify the applicability, reproducibility and predictive value of a proposed unified classification (amended Ljubljana classification) for laryngeal squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs).
...Methods and results
Six internationally recognized experts and three pathologists from Ljubljana contributed to this study by evaluating a set of laryngeal SILs using the new system: low‐grade SIL, high‐grade SIL, and carcinoma in situ (CIS). The overall agreement among reviewers was good. Overall unweighted and weighted κ‐values and 95% confidence intervals were 0.75 (0.65–0.84) and 0.80 (0.71–0.87), respectively. The results were stratified between the international reviewers and the Ljubljana pathologists. The former had good overall agreement, and the latter had very good agreement. Kaplan–Meier survival curves showed a significant difference (P < 0.0001) between patients with low‐grade and high‐grade SILs; 19 of 1204 patients with low‐grade SILs and 30 of 240 patients with high‐grade SILs progressed to malignancy in 2–15 years and in 2–26 years, respectively.
Conclusions
The proposed modification to the Ljubljana classification provides clear morphological criteria for defining the prognostic groups. The criteria facilitate better interobserver agreement than previous systems, and the retrospective follow‐up study demonstrates a highly significant difference in the risk of malignant progression between low‐grade and high‐grade SILs.
•First published isotopic tracing of humans in Slovenia.•Baseline measurements on small archaeological animals.•Out of 32 analysed samples a few of the highest/lowest values might be ...non-local.•Individual with one of the earliest LBA iron objects was very likely a foreigner.•The majority of non-locals can be dated to the very beginning of the EIA period.
The cemetery at Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was in use for a long period, continuously from the Late Bronze Age into the Early Iron Age. More than 300 excavated graves offer a great potential for the analysis and discussion of chronological issues, demography, social inequalities, funeral attires, as well as burial customs within the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age societies. This site was thus chosen as a reference point for our pilot study on mobility and migration in prehistoric Slovenia. The article presents results of the analysis of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) performed on the 32 cremated petrous part of the temporal bone (pars petrosa) from the cemetery Dvorišče SAZU in Ljubljana and 9 animal bones of small mammals from other sites in the region for baseline information. The stable isotope analysis and the study of mobility in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age presented here is one of the first such investigations involving the osteological material from the south-eastern Alpine region.
Richard Klemen was the first teacher of enzymology at the University of Ljubljana. His early career in Ljubljana ended in January 1942 when he moved to Vienna, Austria. During the war he conducted ...experiments that led him to describe the so-called Hofmann-Klemen effect in clay. Later he was a research assistant and titular associate professor in the field of biochemical technology at the Vienna Technical University and finally a lecturer at the University of Natural Resources in Vienna. His life is an interesting example of a scientist and educator whose Gottscheer German origin would probably prevent him from continuing his career in post-war Yugoslavia. At the same time, he did not achieve in Austria the positions and status that his former colleagues and students had achieved in Slovenia. Although he was almost forgotten, he remains important as the first trained enzymologist and teacher of enzymology in Slovenia. This article also presents his full bibliography.
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