This comparative social-historical study examines different versions of state-socialist body politics manifested in Hungary and Slovenia mainly during the 1950s by using archive material of "unnatural fornication" court cases. By analyzing the available Hungarian "természet elleni fajtalanság" and Slovenian "nenaravno občevanje" court cases, we can shed light on how the defendants were treated by the police and the judiciary. On the basis of these archive data that have never been examined before from these angles, we can construct an at least partial picture of the practices and consequences of state surveillance of same-sex-attracted men during state-socialism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 63794786
This paper addresses the influence of the economic crisis on national identity in Slovenia. It first analyzes the creation of the contemporary national identity following independence in 1991 that was established in relation to a negatively perceived Balkan identity, which represented "the Other", and in relation to a "superior" European identity that Slovenia aspired to. With the economic crisis, the dark corners of Slovenia's "successful" post-socialist transition to democracy came to light. Massive layoffs of workers and the bankruptcies of once-solid companies engendered disdain for the political elites and sympathy for marginalized groups. The public blamed the elites for the country's social and economic backsliding, and massive public protests arose in 2012. The aftermath of the protests was a growing need among the people for a new social paradigm toward solidarity. We show that in Slovenia the times of crisis were not times of growing nationalism and exclusion as social theory presupposes but, quite the contrary, they were times of growing solidarity among citizens and with the "Balkan Other".
COBISS.SI-ID: 64075106
The scientific monograph is based on the doctoral dissertation titled "Violence against women and intimate partner murders of women in Slovenia". It is a work that provides a detailed insight into the characteristics of intimate partner murders of women in Slovenia. The content is based on a theoretical understanding of violence in general and specific intimate partner violence against women. It discusses the murders and the need for sex-specific study of intimate partner murders, as well as the theoretical conceptualization of intimate partner violence and femicide. The central part of the book is a comprehensive contextual analysis of empirical material on intimate partner murders of women in Slovenia. It is one of the few works that deal with the issue of intimate partner murders in Slovenia from a sociological perspective.
COBISS.SI-ID: 291989504
In January 2016, 1128 predominantly Turkish intellectuals signed an Academics for Peace petition to draw attention to the conflict in southeastern Turkey. Their actions were met with outcry from the government, accusing the signatories of disloyalty to the state, even treason. This paper is an analysis of the responses of 60 of these scholars to a questionnaire sent to the entire Academics for Peace email list. Respondents, including 58 signatories, provided various perspectives on academic freedom in Turkey, as well as their own experiences of signing the petition. We contend that the responses faced by these intellectuals illustrate the homogenizing effects of power to silence criticism and ensure loyalty to the government and its ideas of Turkishness. It reflects a continuation of the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey, an issue that sees little sign of abatement or reform in the light of present challenges.
COBISS.SI-ID: 64523874
The monograph brings new insights into the field of migration studies, in particular the extension of the understanding of the EU's migration policy as restrictive, repressive and anti-European, which is the prevailing framework of the critical theory of migration, with a new understanding of the functioning of the European apartheid in the 21st century. The latter is marked not only by the repressive aspects of power but increasingly often also by productive dictions of fundamental European values in its declarative humanistic orientations. The author uses a historical comparative text analysis of the key documents of European migration policy, and draws attention to repression and exclusion within the new field of European apartheid, which is characterized by affirmative discourses of fundamental European values, the protection of human lives, humanity in humanitarianism, thus, discourses that look safe, inclusive, and diametrically opposed to the repressive action on the ground.
COBISS.SI-ID: 290709760