The article, published in a journal indexed by ERIHB, ERIHC, MBP, explores how the term transition, which until recently was often used in political and media discourse and daily talk in Albania, has been substituted with the term Europe or EU. In conversations and discourses both terms are often used as synonyms and their meanings pertain to modernity, social and economic development and general well being. With reference to the discursive mechanism of 'euroorientalisms', this paper illustrates and explains how peoples' feelings of uncertain and unsure present are replaced with their imaginaries and visions of Europe and EU, and how these imaginaries are continuously shifting the historical and political location of Albania on the symbolic map of Europe.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35610925
Over the years, several different renewal movements within Christianity have had a significant impact on Melanesian societies and cultures. In people’s aspirations for total transformation, however, there has often appeared one insurmountable obstacle: a firm bond between being and place. The Ambonwari people of the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea have faced the same problem since the Catholic charismatic movement reached the village in December 1994. Their cosmology and social organization have always been inseparable from their paths (journeys, marriages, exchanges, adoptions) and places (places of mythological ancestors, old and new villages, fishing places, taboo places, camps etc.). The adherents of the Catholic charismatic movement attempt to abolish their emplaced past, transcend their territorial boundaries, and simultaneously modify their places. Because their cosmology dealt with multiple spatio-temporalities, however, Catholic charismatic leaders find it difficult to undermine this diversity.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36540205
The paper, published in one of the most important journals in the filed of remote sensing applications, is dealing with river flash floods that hit Slovenia in 2007. The application of machine learning for flood detection is analyzed, with special attention given to data preprocessing and mapping sample extraction (points/segments); different machine learning algorithms are tested and the accuracy estimation is performed. As a result, the optimal image acquisition and processing is suggested.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6253409
While the equinoctial Sun is commonly believed to have been an important target of Mesoamerican architectural orientations, the results of systematic archaeoastronomical research accomplished during recent decades do not sustain this opinion. Analyzing particular alignments that have been claimed to refer to the equinoxes, we show that such a relationship exists in very few cases, for which reason their intentionality remains questionable; instead of the true astronomical equinoxes, the quarter-days of the year were much more likely referents of several allegedly equinoctial alignments.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35761453
This book presents a method for evaluating landscape-ecological types of Slovenia from the standpoint of land cover. The purpose of the research is to determine whether landscape within landscape-ecological types responds to human interference in similar ways, and how these responses are reflected in land cover differences. Land cover layer was made first, by classifying Landsat satellite imagery into seven categories (forest, shrubs and overgrowth, extensive grassland use, intensive agricultural use, built-up and similar areas, water, open). Vector layer of landscape-ecological types was made anew with improved semantic and geometric characteristics, to conform to analyses in geographic information systems. Main characteristics and eventual specialties of landscape-ecological types are presented. Evaluation of types was made with the aid of selected physiogeographic and sociogeographic indicators.
COBISS.SI-ID: 268704768