Prispevek obravnava remigracijske procese slovenskih izseljencev in njihovih potomcev iz Argentine v Slovenijo. V prvem delu prispevka se osredotočamo na splošni oris remigracije, ki se v kontekstu ...globalizacije in naraščajočih migracijskih tokov pojavlja kot odziv na spremenjene življenjske okoliščine, ekonomske priložnosti, ali kot posledica iskanja osebne in kulturne identitete ter predstavljamo ozadje in zgodovinski kontekst slovenskega izseljevanja v Argentino in orišemo značilnosti slovenske diaspore v Argentini. V drugem delu predstavljamo analizo in interpretacijo rezultatov podatkov, ki smo jih zbrali s pomočjo polstrukturiranih intervjujev biografsko-interpretativne narativne metode med slovenskimi priseljenci iz Argentine, ki v Sloveniji predstavljajo specifično skupnost in vzdržujejo transnacionalne povezave z Argentino.
Prispevek obravnava povratne selitve slovenskih izseljencev in njihovih potomcev iz Argentine. V prvem delu prispevka se osredotočamo na splošni oris povratnih selitev, ki se v kontekstu ...globalizacije in naraščajočih migracijskih tokov pojavljajo kot odziv na spremenjene življenjske okoliščine, ekonomske priložnosti ali kot posledica iskanja osebne in kulturne identitete ter predstavljamo ozadje in zgodovinski kontekst slovenskega izseljevanja v Argentino in orišemo značilnosti slovenske diaspore v Argentini. V drugem delu predstavljamo analizo in interpretacijo rezultatov podatkov, ki smo jih zbrali s pomočjo polstrukturiranih intervjujev biografsko-interpretativne narativne metode med slovenskimi priseljenci iz Argentine, ki v Sloveniji predstavljajo specifično skupnost in vzdržujejo transnacionalne povezave z Argentino.
After a brief presentation of the history of the concept of diaspora and its derivatives, and a critical review of the relevant literature, the article explores the phenomenon of diasporic ...Sloveneness, with a particular focus on the contemporary Slovenian diaspora. The concept encompasses, but is not limited to, Slovenes and members of Slovene national communities (with an emphasis on Carinthian and Trieste Slovenes) who have dispersed around the world since Slovenia’s independence in 1991. The author concludes that the contemporary Slovene diaspora consists mainly of young, highly educated people who are actively striving to establish themselves in the global world. Even though they have emigrated from their country of origin, they remain - especially through modern communication technologies - connected to it. The article provides an insight into the complex and multifaceted process of diasporic grouping and long-distance nationalism, which also includes processes of transculturation and sheds light on Slovene national identity in the contemporary globalised world.
The book describes the role of singing and (folk) songs in the Gorizia Hills (Goriška brda) within the processes of shaping the political nation and facilitating national identification in the second ...half of the nineteenth century. In addition to the use of the Slovene language at school and church and defining Slovene as the language of common use in censuses, national activists encouraged inhabitants to express identification with the singing of Slovene “folk” songs. Therefore they promoted the performances of choirs and tried to sweep-out the singing of non-Slovene songs - especially Friulian and Italian. The singing outside the reading and singing societies was influenced by the way of life, which was strongly marked by the system of tenant farming. The book also presents the research of folk songs in the Gorizia Hills, with special emphasis on short songs with strong dialect features, which in everyday life of the inhabitants complemented the repertoire of folk and religious songs known in the wider Slovenian territory.
A Medley of National Favourites. Things That Make Slovenes ShineSalted with the words of Benedict Anderson: to the Slovene nation, a love of Carniolan sausages, the Vače Situla, accordions and ...gibanica cakes “have an aura of fatality”,Peppered with Raymond Williams: that Carniolan sausages, the Vače Situla, accordions and gibanica reproduce a “structure of national feeling”, andServed with Karl Marx: these grandes dames of the Slovene nation weighas they must on the brains of living Slovenes.
Kalejdoskop goriške preteklosti, zgodbe o spominu in pozabi ('Kaleidoscope of the Past - Memories and Forgotten Stories from the Border') is a story about lives of the people living along the ...Slovenian-Italian border. In this area, the idea of the border is manifold, it is a state border, a territorial border, a temporal border between what had happened and the interpretations of past events today. The author discusses the divisive past and the seemingly uniting present permeating the area. She tells a story about the city Gorica, to which both Italians and Slovenians lay claims, a story about the struggle for redemption and freedom, about people who stroll along the same river, shop in the same shops and eat indulge similar cuisines. Still, they manage to retain a thin line of differentiation, a mentally construed abyss invariantly fortifying the distance. Since 2007, the border is visually gone yet it remains the criterion of spatial differentiation and identity formation, the founding stone of respective communities.
This monograph is about the ongoing, unstable reconstruction of spaces and places in the village of Dhërmi/Drimades of southern Albania. It is based on twelve months of anthropological field research ...in that village. Particular consideration is given to the process of reconfiguration and redefinition of the meanings that pertain to the village and its people. The monograph focuses on local peoples’ biographies, oral histories, rhetorical claims, and their everyday discourses, through which it is shown how the meanings of the village are reconstructed through interrelations of the locals with other people and places. The underlying theme is the continuity of movements and interrelations through which the local people of Dhërmi/Drimades recreate and reproduce the sense of locatedness of “their” village and themselves.