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.
B.06 Other
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”.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 36246114