The thematic module 5. 3. (pp. 1049 - 1068) "Evaluation of space and environment" is a part of the longitudinal public opinion survey of the inhabitants of Slovenia, where we analyse the population patterns on ways and types of living and forms of working, leisure and residential mobility. The comparative analysis of two time periods is aimed at determining the dynamics of the values and attitudes of the population towards the use and protection of the natural and built environment during the period 2004 - 2018.
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The assumption that the erosion of spatial determinism increases the possibilities for the non-instrumental perception and use of space is central to the emergence of postmodern spatial arrangements and identities. The weakening of spatial determinism accelerates the imaginative "constructivity" of space. The new spatial cognitive-emotional constructions in the new relaxed circumstances enable variability in implementation of identity practices. At different spatial levels, we can expect attempts to establish new meanings. However, optimistic theoretical assumptions have lately been more and more likely to collide with the empirical limits of the postmodern systems' openness, which is already approaching dangerous traditionalist regressions. The question of whether the assumptions about a flexible non-confrontational response are in fact a pre/optimistic ideological construction is the fundamental motive of this text, which we try to answer using the Braudelian "rules of a new history".
COBISS.SI-ID: 36000093
The public opinion survey focuses on the medium-term changes in opinions, positions and values of a representative sample of the Slovenian population regarding the use and perception of physical space, the trends of spatial mobility and environmental awareness. The survey is designed by the original questionnaire with a purpose for repeating the research at ten or fifteen year intervals. The database is listed in the Central National Archives of Social Science Data (ADP) and is available for analysis to institutional and individual users.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36034141