The young entrepreneur is in Slovenia a new historical subject with a corresponding ethics, whose shaping was affected by specific (trans)national social, systemic, economic, media and public opinion contexts. On the basis of preliminary findings, this lecture explores a number of questions: how the understanding and perception of youth and entrepreneurship in Slovenia changed in the period between and after the economic crisis; how the (self)attribution of the “young entrepreneur” arose; what moral connotations and aspirations carry the public discourses about young entrepreneurs; which kinds of ethics have been internalized by young entrepreneurs in Slovenia; how do young people experience present times, a period marked both by uncertainty of the living memory of the recent crisis and by optimism and faith in a better tomorrow spread through examples of their successful peers; what are the implications of discourses that promote spatial-social practices such as “coworking”, “incubators” and “startup communities”; and last not least, how have global neoliberal projects inspired and encouraged the emergence of a new phenomenon of youth entrepreneurship in Slovenia.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 70162530In our era, more than ever, it is crucial to emphasized that the world needs ethnographic methods and anthropological thinking for problems solving, because these problems are largely the result of human activities. How should ethnology adapt for the mission of changing the world for the better? This speech presents three strategies, which might help fostering the renewal of anthropology and demonstrate its applied value for the society: 1. methodological reinvention, 2. change of its public appearance, 3. interdisciplinary collaboration. Examples of applied and interdisciplinary projects, which utilised ethnographic methods and collaborative approaches to promote and support sustainable lifestyles, are presented to tangibly highlight the possibilities of the discipline’s future development.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 45899309The thesis deals with the relationship between the human self and collective identities. In the empirical part, based on in-depth biographical interviews with five young individuals, the author explores their perceptions of themselves, their surroundings and their own existential strength. At the heart of the analysis are their self-reflection, the changing contexts of their self-perception, the importance they attach to personal success, and the neoliberal socio-cultural environment. Empirical findings are analyzed with anthropological conceptualizations of the self. Analyzed are also various contemporary motivational tools and methods, which according to the author reproduce individualism in modern-day Slovenia. (supervisor: Dr Boštjan Kravanja)
D.10 Educational activities
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