This article discusses the motivations that have prompted a selected group of dairy farmers to transition from conventional to organic farming. Two locations in (pre-)Alpine Slovenia, both exhibiting less-favoured conditions for agriculture, were ethnographically studied. This article juxtaposes two different processes of conversion to organic farming: one taking place in the village of Čadrg, where farmers had taken up organic farming collectively before Slovenia entered the EU in 2004, and other in Škofja Loka Mountains, where farmers had individually gone into conversion after accession to the EU. The comparison indicates diverse circumstances of conversion in the same national context and illustrates differences and similarities in personal motivations as well structural conditions for conversion. The authors agree that a complex entanglement of factors influence farmers’ adoption of organic farming. Nevertheless, the comparison suggests an essential difference between individual and collective conversion to the organic mode of agricultural production.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56397410
The article focuses on the authenticating strategies employed by the organizers of three Bohinj events which refer to alpine grazing and wedding customs of the area. Since the beginnings of these events in the 1950s, it was largely textual aspects that were taken as contributing substantially to the authenticity of the events, whereas more recently temporal and spatial contexts of tangible and intangible culture, presented at the events, have also been taken into account. Over time the events with a mostly staged mode of performance have evolved into tradition. Nevertheless, their mode and the social aspects of the events are not perceived as intangible culture and are not part of authenticity considerations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 54884194
The Trenta Valley lies in the Julian Alps and has a rich and turbulent history, even though tourists may feel like time has stood still there. This article defines five basic organizational development phases or paradigms to evaluate the valleyʼs relation to surrounding Triglav National Park. The premise used is not modernist, heritage-oriented, or folklorist (unidirectional development and structure), but is based on culture and ecology (multidirectional development and process).
COBISS.SI-ID: 36463917
The following discussion focuses on the diverse heritagization practices that social actors employ in producing the culture of heritage in Triglav National Park during the drawing up of Triglav National Parkʼs Management plan, a process which by law must include the parkʼs inhabitants. In order to analyze the significance of this new form park management, I explore the changes in the field of agency of those park actors who participated in the management plan preparations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36463149
This study of the state of immovable cultural heritage in Triglav National Park is based on publically available official lists from the Slovenian cultural heritage registry and years of fieldwork by the author. The area contains many important cultural heritage units that have contributed to the prominence of the park, including farm layouts, mountain pasture architecture, double hayracks in Bohinj, and other older structures that testify to peopleʼs close connection with the natural environment.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36463405