The historical background, political changes, migration processes, EU membership and the current socio-linguistic situation have all influenced language policy and language planning in Slovenia. This paper presents the most important aspects of language policy in Slovenia with a focus on the concept of linguistic diversity. The ethnic make-up of Slovenia, including the differing statuses and rights of specific groups, is described in order to facilitate understanding of language policy. The role of language within education is explored, in particular in relation to bilingual education in nationally mixed areas. Two models of bilingual education (involving Slovene plus Italian or Hungarian) are presented and finally pupils' attitudes towards these models and the minority language involved, obtained through an empirical research project, are discussed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12144717
The article is a study of primary and secondary historic sources and presents new findings on joint activities of Slovene and Croat intellectuals and associations in Istria that were trying to preserve and develop Slovene and Croat as well as Slavic cultural identity/identities in the region. These associations had a major impact on the inhabitants of Istria as well as on the formulation of history of the region, as we know it today. The article analyzes and presents activities of the following associations: Političnega društva za Hrvate in Slovence v Istri / Political association for Croats and Slovenes in Istria, Hrvaško-slovensko katoličkega društva »Dobrila« / Croat-Slovene Catholic association “Dobrila”, Hrvatsko-slovensko akademskega ferijalnega društva «Istra« / Croat-Slovene vacation association “Istria”, Katoliškega podpornega drušva »Obrana« / Catholic support society “Defence” and Istarskega planinarskega društva /Istrian mountaineering; association.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2243283
The book deals with the initial period in the genesis of the present-day Slovene-Croatian boundary in Istria with particular emphasis on the specific emigrant aspect of the Slovene-Croatian demarcation process in Istria during the WWII. The issue of the inner boundary line in Istria was first posed in March 1943 at the initiative of the British diplomacy; the Foreign Office consulted the main secretary of the CPP and the vice-president of the Yugoslav government in London J. Krnjević on that matter. Two answers were formed in London in the next three months: line »Umag-Klana« in the report of member of the leadership of the Yugoslav committee from Italy, D. Šepić, and line »Dragonja-Šapjane-prewar Croatian border« in Krnjević's CPP memorandum on the future Croatian boundary lines. This decision of the leaders of the CPP significantly affected the viewpoint, taken by the Croatian partisan movement (in which CPP was represented with his left wing) after the capitulation of Italy and indirectly also the course of the post-war republic (and later state) boundary line between Slovenia and Croatia in Istria.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4540652
Proceeding from Lefebvre’s theoretical findings on three inseparably connected modes of production of social space – the perceived, conceived and lived spaces –, from Foucault’s concept of »heterotopia« from Castoriadis’ ideal of »social imaginaries« as well as from discussions about the cross-border concept, about trans-nationality and trans-culturality, the author deals with the deconstruction of the predominant studies and views of the creation and development of the Alps-Adriatic space. She presents the imaginary of the Alps-Adria space that emerged and formed as a result of intellectual debates and efforts in the 1960s. These debates and efforts were built upon political visions of policies, politics and societies beyond totalitarian patterns, mechanisms and traumas. These visions influenced the formal establishment of the Alps-Adria Community and space that has almost disintegrated formally by now, although its “spirit” remains strong.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12289101
The article presents traditional understanding(s) and imagining(s) of South Eastern Europe and the Balkans that are built upon stereotypes and simplified, often also wrong assumptions and ideas. These perceptions and ideas often differ substantially from the situation in the region that is very diverse, plural and asymmetrical – not only in the region as a whole, but also in every country of the region. Considering different information and insights, particularly those offered by literature and arts as well as those produced by the empirical research of the region, the article offers new and different, predominantly positive presentations and concepts of South Eastern Europe and the Balkans that can be considered rethinking and reimagining of the region, particularly its diversities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 12200525