The article examines the question of urban regeneration that has grown in importance as a result of the transfer of political power from nation state to the local levels. While national authorities mostly limit themselves to assisting the ‘invisible hand’ of the free market, cities remain alone in combating poverty, economic decline and social conflicts within their domain. They have to assume heterogeneous roles: they encourage local economies and guarantee social peace. Cities have been accorded the unrewarding task of managing contradicting interests.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 677997The article investigates processes in the field of culture in Slovenia, with a comparative scanning of the situations and transformations in three neighbouring states – Italy, Austria and Croatia. The topic is presented in the perspective of general global and particularly European processes, in the view to analyse the chances they have under their present cultural policies.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 701549The paper adresses cultural representations of gender in post-socialist Slovenia. The central focus is on questions of cultural difference and the articulation of cultural racism in Slovene news media as far as social depictions of the Roma are concerned. The author claims that gender is a neglected aspect in the investigation of the Romophobic construction of national identity in the Slovene transition society. A critical cultural analysis should pay more attention to the hegemonic “collaboration” of gender and ethnicity in delineating the spaces of “us” and “others”.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36246114Presentation introduces two new concepts: “partial scepticism” and “general scepticism”. “Partial scepticism” is a disbelief of artists in artistic accomplishments of their colleagues, but it nevertheless generates a strong belief in the arts. The “general scepticism” is incorporated into the logic of modern artistic practices, but nevertheless the “unforgivable transgressions” in the arts every time result into a renewal of the arts. Presentation reveals the hidden mechanism of the social art institution’s functioning that makes the arts the “last ideological fortress”.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 737389Influential journal published by College international de philosophie at PUF interviews a prominent guest on a relevant topic in each issue. The author has extended some findings of the project to the problem of terrorism. Terrorist methods are used by resistance movements based on religious, ethnic or culturalist ideologies. These movements are guided by local elites. With terrorism or without it, this horizon opens towards one and the same final result: coalition between central ruling formations (transnational, states, unions of states) and peripheral comprador elites.
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