The article describes the basic characteristics of vegetarianism and then presents the results of empirical survey conducted on representative sample of adult inhabitants of Slovenian two biggest towns, Ljubljana and Maribor. Main findings include evaluation of the size of the researched phenomenon, who and why decides to become a vegetarian and the detailed analysis of the perception of vegetarianism and veganism among the general population. Special attention is devoted to various socio-cultural factors from which the social class structure of Slovenian vegetarians could be estimated, as well as the social distribution of the perception of vegetarianism among Slovenians.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32660061The paper presents the characteristics and trends of scientific collaboration in Slovenia. We find the bibliometric analysis of scientific co-authorship to be one of the most useful approaches to the study of this phenomenon. We discuss the implications of scientific collaboration for professional career development. In the paper's theoretical part, general issues and strategies of scientific collaboration in connection with career paths are outlined. The focus then moves to global trends, featuring the growth of science collaboration and a micro-level analysis of the benefits of scientific collaboration. In the empirical part, the collaboration practices of selected groups of Slovenian researchers are presented by concentrating on bibliometric indicators as well as scientists' opinions of a selected group of Slovenian scientists. The analysis of the bibliographic data confirms differences in publication cultures among different scientific disciplines. Further, the analysis of the scientists' responses indicates the pragmatic nature of scientific collaboration, particularly in terms of better access to skills, techniques and equipment. Scientific collaboration appears to be one of the most important factors in increasing publication productivity, which is crucial to the development of scientific careers.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32856413The author discusses some key approaches to understanding youth in modern societies (generational identity, peer groups, communitas, moratorium) and differences in the social construction of youth in part-modern (fascism, Nazism, communism) and modern states (political democracies). He then discusses the difference between cultural studies of youth in Great Britain after the Second World War and research of youth in the context of socialism as well as in the context of political democracy in Slovenia. During socialism, the hegemonic approach to social science was class analysis and, as a result, youth was perceived as an ideological construct. There was no interest in research into youth lifestyles. The first research of youth subcultures was only carried out in the 1990s. In the concluding discussion, the author explains this research lag with the underdeveloped cultural industry, the smallness of the Slovenian cultural space and the conservatism of its cultural milieu.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32799837The following text aims to illustrate the entanglements of sexualized violence, patriarchy and the influence of religion on the case of radical sexual violence and rape policies that happened during the war in 1990s in Bosnia-Herzegovina. When taking into consideration the religious perspectives and responsibility in the context of sexualized violence in conflict zones, two important hypotheses should be analyzed. The first one considers the perception of women as possession; in many cultures, does not matter if time of war and conflict or not, women with strong support of world religions are seen primarily as sexual objects intended for male gratification. The second hypothesis to build on is the one deriving from the Eve's legacy and the idea of original sin, where the woman and her body is perceived as evil and dangerous object for the men’s purity. If not explained as a slut, woman’s body serves as a container, where she is seen as a mother, and during the war, as a holder of newly born soldiers. Two well-practiced ways of her defeat in war are to be investigated and exposed: to contaminate her sexually, what for both Christians and Muslims meant that she would not be marriageable and consequently not able to procreate children, or to impregnate her and therefore to convert the child into the father’s-the perpetrator’s religious affiliation.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33104989The book is a collection of essays on the selected authors of post-Yugoslav literature. Literary-critical and cultural-historical approach, assisted by personal experience of this writer in the Yugoslav literary multitudes, the book presents work and life of those writers that, against the background of the wars for Yugoslav succession, refuse the reductionism of a single identity.
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