Projects / Programmes
Slovenske identitete v evropskem in svetovnem kontekstu (Slovene)
January 1, 2009
- December 31, 2014
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.04.00 |
Humanities |
Ethnology |
|
| 6.03.00 |
Humanities |
Anthropology |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 6.05 |
Humanities |
Other humanities |
Researchers (29)
Organisations (2)
Significance for science
The research program carries significance for the development of ethnology as a referential science in the domestic framework, as well as its development as a comparative discipline in the international sense. These attributes are based on the general orientation of the program which aims to reinforce existing knowledge and understanding of the national cultural landscape and historical (self)confidence, while suitably positioning both phenomena within the network of globalisation processes. It should be noted that members of the program group conducted extensive field research in Slovenia and abroad, published monographs and scientific articles, and organized a number of visible scientific meetings, which resulted in the establishment of a vibrant hub of continental ethnology and cultural anthropology development that successfully incorporates the continental traditions of disciplines oriented in the regional space (European ethnology) with those focusing on the extra-European context (cultural and social anthropology). Furthermore, the highly relevant segment of research upgraded the historical and comparative aspects of the discipline on the national and international scale. The program group Slovene Identities in the European and Global Context, which conducts fundamental cultural ethnology and social anthropology research at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and the Scientific Research Institute of the Faculty of Arts, is University of Ljubljana's only program group in the field of ethnology/cultural or social anthropology, with its members being the foremost researchers of the field. Since a major part of the program group consists of members of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, it also follows that much of the knowledge acquired throughout the research program is directly transferred to students of the graduate and post-graduate studies taking place at the department, as well as onto its junior researchers. Knowledge is also imparted on foreign students enrolled in graduate and post-graduate studies. Namely, members of the program group participate in the CREOLE Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes postgraduate program, which is conducted by six European universities under the coordination of the University of Vienna, including also the University of Stockholm, the University of Barcelona, and the Maynooth University. Altogether, within the networks Erasmus Socrates and CEEPUS, members of the program group cooperate with related departments of nearly twenty European universities. The research results contribute to the development of the following humanistic and social scientific topics in particular: nation building, nationalism(s); empires (imperial legacies); imagining the Other; symbolic geography; collective identities; heritage.
Significance for the country
The underlying premise of the research program Slovenian identities in European and global context is that ethnological research of Slovenian and other cultures brings new views on cultural identity and heritage as a factor of adaptation in contemporary cultural flows. Familiarity with the heritage and understanding the fusion of cultures is an important element of confronting the challenges brought by inclusion in European and global integration flows. From this point of view, the programme highlights some basic and to date perhaps only indicated scientific and applicative questions. As the researchers who are part of this programme continue to feel a responsibility to obtaining basic knowledge about the way of life and folk culture of the Slovenians, they are paying particular attention to basic research which is important from the standpoint of the cultural space here and which contributes key knowledge for local educational needs and future research, and widening and application of the acquired knowledge. The relevance of the programme is in deepening of so far existing knowledge about cultural diversity of Slovenian territory and for advancement of ethnology as national and comparative discipline. By achieving these goals members of the programme group contribute to deepening of the existing knowledge and its cognitions on cultural horizon and historical (self)consciousness, putting both into the context of the processes of globalisation.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
