The national radio broadcast Intelecta hosted D. Fink Hafner. Together with two other participants she participated in a discussion on illiberal democracy. She pointed out that the notion that liberal democracy is deeply rooted in some western countires like United Kingdom, France, Germany, USA and Canada is not unquestionable. Rather, the current situation is pessimistic. For example, the USA, which declares that it disseminates standards of democracy world-wide and then evaluate other countries by these standards is currently actually a plutocracy - the governmnet of a rich elite. This is obvous from the socio-economic and political indicators and academic research. It is obvious that a liberal character of democracy is currently not only threatened by authoritarian political aspirations of some politicians in Hungary and other peripheral countries, but also by some factors in frame of western civilization.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33790557The academic profession was traditionally understood as a safe haven in increasingly hostile labor market conditions. However, at least from the late 1960s in the West, and from the transitional late 1980s in Central and Eastern Europe, the situation began to change radically. The academic, once perceived as a privileged member of society and an enlightened torch of progress, who held in the educational sphere the highest possible benefits along with the highest responsibilities, became more and more drawn into the inexorable current of precariousness. As a result, once solid and stable academic positions are dissolving into uncertain and flexible work arrangements that no longer promise any sort of academic utopia, but rather an ‘atopia’, a non-place of non-existence.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33216349The lecture addresses the question of how the predispositions and circumstances of participatory culture within the institutional politics are (un)related to the expectations and practices of users and what opinions young citizens generate in relation to the political digital culture . The answeres are given through a quantitative analysis of Slovenian political websites and in-depth interviews with a pilot sample of young internet users. The study follows the thesis that the necessary condition for participatory potentials of digital culture is intertwining of interactive communication paths between political actors and citizens in a form of cooperation, opinion exchanges and coproduction of content. However, following the results it seems that within the digital space of Slovenian politics the more realized is a group of young whose political participation relates to the conventional forms of activities, such as elections or polling, and who understand the citizenship as a duty, while the more activist, opinioned and inclusive forms of participation of young are in the digital political culture less present or even neglected.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33746013Within the project Learning European Diversity: Respecting multiculturalism, multilingualism, minorities and migration in the EU / EU4Me, project leader Assoc. Prof. Dr. Damjan Lajh) we organized two training seminars for primary school teachers: 1) 18. 11. 2016, where dr. Bogomil Ferfila talked about the EU and the current refugee crisis (COBISS.SI-ID 34638429); and 2) 18.1. 2017, where over 30 participants from 14 Slovenian elementary schools came from the border and culturally mixed areas, project partners. Participants discussed the functioning and EU institutions, the European security issue and the future of European integration. In addition to lectures, various teaching methods and techniques for studying EU functioning were presented to teachers in order to understand and respect multiculturalism and multicultural Europe. The project, carried out by the Centre for Political Science Research is part of Erasmus +, the Jean Monnet projects.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 34638941‘What is the meaning of the bearded wire on the Slovenian border’ was a question addressed by TV show Tarča of the first national program of Radio Television Slovenia. Bogomil Ferfila, Janja Hojnik, Dimitrij Rupel and Ivan Štuhec were guest in broadcast. Bogomil Ferfila stressed that there is no need to panic. Ivan Štuhec is convinced that a wire at the Schengen border is not the end of Europe, but unfortunately, its necessary protection. Researchers have with the application of thir expertise adressed current key topics in the Slovenian society and offered some answers and thoughts to citizens. This is an example of the practical value of the research program and places the research work also in the public sphere. In comparison to large global financial crisis, which we have just left somewhere behind the refugee crisis is minor, also stressed Dr. Ferfila. At the same time he pointed out that the present refugee crisis has attracted a lot of negative and positive, religious, cultural and ideological feelings.
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