The Carniolan sausage played a significant role in the formation and development of Slovene national consciousness from the Spring of Nations onward. It was the main Slovene culinary symbol, the Slovenian culinary flag, a dish which filled Slovenes not just with calories but with pride. But what happened with this dish of immeasurable national pride and zeal during the period of the first Yugoslavia, a time of political, social and cultural change? As in the Austro-Hungarian period it remains the primary object of culinary nationalism and chauvinism – it is to a significant degree caught up in semantic conservatism. But even staunch, solid, stable national symbols as (was) the Carniolan sausage are (were) not completely conserved over time – i.e. independently of social, cultural, political, economic and many other changes. The article as well analyses the role of Carniola sausage among Slovenian immigrants and underline the role of dominantly neglected objects in the reproduction of Slovenian national identity among Slovenians at home and abroad.
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The academic monograph Slovenskaja literatura XX veka is the first overview of the 20th century Slovenian literature, published in Russian language. The book was edited by Nadežda Starikova, an internationally known literary historian from the Philological Faculty of the State University in Moscow. The co-publishers are the Russian Academy of Sciences and ZRC SAZU. The authors are – besides Russian experts in Slovenian literature – some of the leading Slovenian literary historians including the programme leader. The work is important because it contains a comprehensive overview of the 20th century literary works written by Slovenian emigrants, a chapter contributed by the leader of this programme, Janja Žitnik Serafin. Namely, Slovenian literary history had been paying only marginal attention to émigré writers for a long time. They have been almost regularly ignored in the overviews of Slovenian literature that have been published in foreign languages and intended for international readership. Thus, the significance of the monograph Slovenskaja literatura XX veka for international promotion of Slovenian émigré literature is unique. Note: Primary research field of this research programme is National Question – the Humanities Aspect, where this publication brings A1/2 points (important achievements).
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The book Going Places is one of the most important research achievements of the programme group in 2014, a publication that took years of preparations and was published by a renowned American university publishing house. It presents transnational and global emotional narrative about a century-long migration of women from Slovenia to different directions: North America, Egypt, Italy, Argentina and Romania. Women migrants and their personal experiences have been in the focus of academic research only for the past two decades, when academia’s prevailing general belief has become that migration is a process characterized by distinct gender-related specifics. In regard to various social, economic and historical circumstances, the life stories of migrant women show how lives depend on cultural landscapes, personal attitudes, intimate calculations and independent decisions. The book illustrates how the decisions in the life-long migration processes were influenced not only by economic and political factors but also by family bonds and friendship networks as well as by intimate reasons and aspirations. Note: Primary research field of this research programme is National Question – the Humanities Aspect, where this publication brings A1/2 points (important achievements).
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The chapter offers a detailed insight into the emigration movements from Slovenia to other Yugoslav regions over a hundred years up to the Second World War. It discusses the typological, economic, social and geographical features of the phenomenon in its several phases. Particular attention is paid to the organizational aspects, the migration policy and the role of the Yugoslav state in managing and directing internal migrations and those abroad in line with its economic as well as nation-building interests. The inclusion of Slovenian immigrants into the ethnically and culturally different receiving environments, the issues concerning the maintenance of the Slovenian identity, and the activity of the St. Raphael's care society for emigrants are also discussed. The chapter is based on a range of primary and secondary sources; it addresses some aspects not yet taken into account by the historiography, and thus provides an original reading of the topic. Note: Primary research field of this research programme is National Question – the Humanities Aspect, where this publication brings A1/2 points (important achievements).
COBISS.SI-ID: 36574253
This comprehensive chapter represents the first complete historical overview of the foundation and operation of Slovenian cultural societies and associations in other parts of the so-called "Yugoslav area" from their earliest organized forms in the 19th century to their heyday after the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia. The academic monograph titled Priseljevanje in društveno delovanje Slovencev v drugih delih jugoslovanskega prostora: zgodovinski oris in sedanjost (Slovenian Immigration and Society Activities Across the Former Yugoslavia, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2014, 264 p.), edited by the leader of this research programme, is one of the main scientific results of the programme group in 2014. Namely, this book is the first comprehensive academic work on the immigration of Slovenians to other parts of the so-called "Yugoslav area", and on their organization. Note: Primary research field of this research programme is National Question – the Humanities Aspect, where this publication brings A1/2 points (important achievements).
COBISS.SI-ID: 36555565