The text highlights the fact that globalization and "Europeization" processes essentially influenced the transformation of state borders, which can clearly be seen primarily in the Alpine-Adriatic region. These borders may still remain barriers, rejecting others, but they are simultaneously increasingly becoming places of cross cultural communication, and of intertwining of different nations and nationalities, people and cultures. Special attention is in this context dedicated to the constitution of multi-layer and hybrid subject-positions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11913549
What is the Alps-Adria space? How was it imagined and constituted, what is its present role? The emphasis is on highlighting the factors and processes (globalization, EU policy, the fall of communist systems, migrations, etc.) which triggered its establishment and, simultaneously, contributed to the intensifying of transnational contacts, cross-border cooperation and positive evaluation of ethno-national diversities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11539789
1. The survey of the selected Web sites of minority members in the FVG (Friuli Venezia Giulia) region showed the Slovene community to be using Internet mostly for its own presentation, information giving, cooperation and promotion of the Slovene language, and much less for the communicational dimension of Web sites. 2. The survey of Web sites owned by the majority community in the FVG region showed weak presence of the Slovene language and contents concerning the Slovene community. 3. No (minority) virtual communities have been traced on the social network.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11514957
The contribution deals with the question how transculturation operates on the macro level of cultures as well as the micro level of individuals. Cultures are to a high degree intertwined. They relate to a Third Space that produces hybride identities in the sense of "border existences", which are marked by disconitinuities and multiple coding and cannot be inscribed in any long-term, fixed contextualisation. The paper draws on various texts to examine the question whether the concept of border existences can be applied to Trieste, which for centuries has attracted immigrants from near and far.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11185997
Based upon the analysis of empirical data, relating to the Slovene-Italian, Slovene-Austrian, and Slovene-Hungarian border regions, the text reaches the conclusion that differences in communication exist among different border regions. Nearly all the interviewees, however, were of the opinion that the language of "other" represents an important, even fundamental means of communication and cooperation in cross-border and cross cultural relations, as well as in the globalized economy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11802957