The paper discusses different relations to the past - heritagization, remembering, and past presencing - in the North East Adriatic through the four fish species that serve as nodal points in the interplay between the past and the present. Following the selected fish species, the paper explores the diversity of imaginaries that pertain to the mediation of the past in the present in the field of ethnological study in the North East Adriatic. The article was cited several times and since published, it has more than 100 downloads in 2021.
COBISS.SI-ID: 47276547
Using case studies from Istria and the Karst Plateau, the authors show how agritourism’s survival strategies navigate between presenting and (re)creating local food traditions and meeting modern users’ demands for introducing innovations, and in this way shape local heritage together with visitors, the media, and other promoters of these types of experiences. The paper has 241 downloads from the OJS and has one citation, evidenced in Scopus.
COBISS.SI-ID: 46881795
The article was a reaction to the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent exlusion and discrimination towards Chinese migrants due to the virus outbreak in Wuhan, PRC. The article highlights the nexus between Chinese migration and virus and disease related exlusion of Chinese migrants throughout the modern history which resulted in physical exclusions (gettoization) or violance as well as the economic hardships. It emphasizes how this type of exclusion is part and parcel of Chinese migrants' migration experience, being in the countries of reception, origin cuntry or even within transnational social spaces. As article approaches the analysis of past events through the transnational research lens, it provided the basis for the future research on heritage-making based on the avoidance of methodological nationalism towards methodological transnationalism, which is also the aim of the Heritage on the margins research programme. The author was invited to prepare a shorter research paper for the Global dialogue, a magazine of International Sociological Association, that will be translated into 13 languages (https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/chinese-migrants-and-covid-19-pandemic/).
COBISS.SI-ID: 25896195
The author presents the history of local cheese evaluation, from the commodification at the end of the 19th century to modern qualification instruments, emphasizing the collective trademark, the protected designation of origin and heritage. The main actors involved in the branding process, their objectives, effects, and specific features are outlined. In addition to strengthening agricultural production, food processing, and market supply, the branding processes have shaped and consolidated representations of (past) regional cheese production and livestock breeding, and have built locality. Unlike the general accepted, that heritage regimes primarily refer to past (traditional) practices, and heritage instruments (such as registers, lists, inscriptions) and are primarily intended for indicating (non)belonging and community-building at various levels, whereas geographical indications primarily refer to the area of production or processing and the related terroir, using instruments such as the protection of origin or producer certification as mechanisms for achieving a competitive advantage on the market, has the example of the Tolmin cheese shown also the opposite: heritage(-making) is also a qualification mechanism that makes it possible to differentiate providers and generate added value on the market, and that geographical indications not only represent local identity but also build it. The article has more than 100 downloads in 2021.
COBISS.SI-ID: 47276035
The trajectories of social actions comprising nature conservation and regional economic development in the Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian border area discussed in this paper are closely linked to the landscape, heritage and tourism of the Slovenian-Austrian-Hungarian border. The cross-border initiative of the Trilateral Goričko–Raab–Őrség Nature Park is analyzed through the politics of European integration and territorial cooperation in the peripheral regions and their financial programs. The complexity of the obstacles that hinder the functioning and effective management of the actions of the Trilateral Park initiative and the ambivalent attitude of the inhabitants towards the actions of the three parks is observed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 62216707