Saguia el-Hamra, Río de Oro is a volume of sociological texts about the occupied area of Western Sahara. Publication is compound from three pillars: the first part elaborates on the problem of recognition of Western Sahara in the light of international politics, especially in connection with EU and UN; the second part represent articles, which contextualize the influence of the environment, the problem of natural resources and their exploitation; the third part considers the social relations in the Western Sahara society. The publication was issued in the context of the wider international project Cultural day of Western Sahara.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 269200384Bilingual publication Bauman in Ljubljana was published by Znanstvena založba FF, as a first collection of essays in the volume Zvezki, which theoretically-programmingly relies on the concept of public sociology, that is a paradigm of a critical discipline, which by public interventions creates new agendas for broad social debate in a concrete environment. Zygmunt Bauman was hosting Ljubljana on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, in January 2011. During his visit he held a public lecture on the role of sociology in the past and today, that was largely visited, two large lecture rooms at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana were completely full of audience. During his visit he gave interviews for two TV stations and several newspapers, and was hosted by the Mayor of Ljubljana. The issued collection Bauman in Ljubljana brings to the widest audience Bauman's Ljubljana lecture, coupled with two comprehensive commentaries by ddr. Rudi Rizman and dr. Bojan Baskar, and a photo-essay of Bauman's visit to Ljubljana, by a photographer Borut Kranjc. A bilingual, English-Slovenian issue thus reaches the widest range of stakeholders and the general public at home and abroad.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 265395712The rise of anti-intellectual sentiment in contemporary society demands a critical refl ection and intervention. First, it needs to be asked about historical and social circumstances which have led to the explicitly negative attitude towards the intellectuals which includes both a doubt of their social role as well as historical meaning. In the introduction, the author addresses this question from a brief comparative-historical view at the age of modernity and its demise in the neoliberal rationalisation of knowledge. She takes classic text of MaxWeber on science as vocation as the starting point where, as she argues, Weber already outlines the reconsideration of the meaning of science and scientists-intellectuals after modernity. Webers contribution is then upgraded through Marxs theory of value whichin late capitalism is applied also to the sphere of intellectual labour. In conclusion, the author underlines that in the 21st century, critical social intervention can only be eff ective if linked to postcolonial and transnational aspects of intellectual work.
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