Projects / Programmes
Cultural Aspects of Violence
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.07.00 |
Social sciences |
Criminology and social work |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S160 |
Social sciences |
Criminology |
violence, culture, racism, verbal violence, human rights, violence over the body, body art, masochism, hysteria, perversion
Researchers (4)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
14340 |
Marija Milenkovič |
Criminology and social work |
Researcher |
1996 - 2001 |
0 |
| 2. |
14313 |
PhD Dragan Petrovec |
Criminology and social work |
Researcher |
1999 - 2001 |
0 |
| 3. |
06979 |
PhD Renata Salecl |
Criminology and social work |
Head |
1999 - 2001 |
0 |
| 4. |
14339 |
Ivanka Sket |
Criminology and social work |
Researcher |
1998 - 2001 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Using interdisciplinary theoretical approach, the project analyses the changes in the aspects of violence that one finds in the domain of culture. We first analyzed new forms of violence linked to racial, ethnic and sexual intolerance. Here, we especially focused on the use of the various forms of verbal attacks. We also analyzed the reference to the universal human rights in the struggle against the promoters of violence. In this context, we have stressed the problem of cultural differences in the perception of universal human rights. In the last year, our main focus of analysis were the new trends in contemporary art and among some youth subculture groups, which propagate violence against one’s own body and so-called new tribalism. This turn to the masochistic forms of art was analyzed in the context of the changes in the ways the individuals identify with the social symbolic order and especially with the bearers of the social authorities. The growing mistrust in these authorities incited the individuals to turn to their own bodies - the body thus appears the only thing over which an individual still holds control. In same cases of self-mutilation one can discern forms of hysteria and perversion. However, this does not mean that one should take the turn self-torture as a sign of a generalized perversion of contemporary society.
