Intimate Citizenship is a debate about a group of protesters in the early nineties that threw in the facade of Slovene Parliament, being against the intention of some parliamentarians to deleted the right on free decision on the birth of children from the Constitution. The debate touches upon the issues raised by a gay couple who carries a banner with the words "We want wedding" on pride parade. It deals with intimate choices that have been disabled for single women with a referendum on medically assisted reproduction, with the issues raised by same-sex families, the stories told by transgender persons. All these are intimate stories stretched between privacy and public sphere of individuals. Each of them talks about the need for new or maintaining already acquired political, social and civil rights, which are combined in the concept of intimate citizenship. The latter is moving away from identity politics and its "minority discourse". In the paper, the author offers a model of problem based politics as an adjustment of identity politics. While identity politics are often assimilationist and do not question social relations of power, the problem-based politics - in the context of intimate citizenship - questions heteronormativity as the dominant form of social relations.
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The debate on identity in the era of globalization demands certain distance from conventional analysis of this research field. Such distance includes the different constituents anticipating innovative methodological and sociological approaches. While the first methodological alternation refers to the need of usage of innovative sociological paradigm that leads to appropriate understanding of new and added complexity of identity, the latter applies to the recognition of multiple societal agents that frame and determine modern phenomenon of identity. Conceptually this article refers in part also to assumptions and achievements of relevant theorists in studies of nationalism with particular reference to Umut Ozkirimli.
COBISS.SI-ID: 49846370
By drawing on Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital and habitus, this text aims to comprehend the problem of women entering politics. It builds on the hypothesis that entering politics signifies the entering of a specific field; that the person entering politics - he or she - must possess specific forms of capital. This calls for an understanding of the way in which the political field is structured as well as of the broader political and cultural context in which deliberation on and actual entrance into politics takes place. We are interested in the way the political field is structured in Slovenia, how it functions and what is its 'message' to those who consider entering it. That is to say, that decisions to enter politics take place in the context of a specific understanding of the place and role of gender in everyday life, political culture and society in general; as well as in relation to very specific evaluations of individual gender roles and thus also in a setting that influences conceptions of the (in)appropriateness of women entering the field of politics. Through an analysis of interviews made with representatives of the political elite, we delineate the concrete problems politicians of both genders face when entering and working in politics. In doing this, we pay special attention to gender differences.
COBISS.SI-ID: 425983
Monograph addresses relevant theoretical conceptualizations of nationalism and explores the definitions and themes that are indispensable in the field of nationalism studies. Specific attention is paid to historical and cultural perspective while including the overview of most relevant discourses on ethnicity, nation and nationalism. As opposed to those who claim that nation, nation-state and especially national identity are in decline, author is on the position that nations are still a relevant part of political and cultural identity, noting specific perspectives and theoretical contributions in studies of globalization that deal with meaning, role and power of national formation in the global age.
COBISS.SI-ID: 259231744
Cosmopolitan theory explores theoretical development guidelines, while at the same time it establishes wider transhistorical frame of cosmopolitan thought. doing this it ensures critical background for confrontation with modern social phenomena of political, emotional and symbolic organization of cohabitation that exceeds simplified thesis of "end of history" and exceptional character of postmodern spirit. At the same time it questions all those theoretical models that places collective and communal relations into radical discontinuity discourse of so called "de-territorialization, liminality, fluidity of contemporary modernity. Such epochal predictions are far away from everyday life and remote from reality that is being actualized in territoriality and cultural anchoring of membership and belonging.
COBISS.SI-ID: 264507392