Chapter in the book critically analyses the ideology of integration of new members to European Union, its main themes, transformations after the integration, and also its transmission to the new candidate states. Not only the new Europocentric discourse is analysed, but also its practical consequences in both, new as well as old members of the European Union.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30749789
In the contribution, it is pointed out that for small scientific communities the increased processes of globalization are not only a source of challenges, but also of opportunities. The main thesis in the contribution is that for new, small EU-Member States such as Slovenia increasing the level of international R&D cooperation is an essential concern. Isolated and parochial scientific communities can no longer be viewed as favourable environments for scientific excellence.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30558813
Nove Fužine is the most notorious neighbourhood in Slovenia: a suburb of Ljubljana with the highest proportion of first- and second-generation immigrants from the other former Yugoslav socialist republics that in Slovenia stands as a privileged signifier of ‘Balkanness’, and is consequently also a place around which many negative stereotypes are constructed. The authors conducted a survey with which they attempted to discern the true degree of cultural differences between the biggest three ethnic groups in the neighbourhood (Slovenians, Serbs and Bosniaks), primarily in terms of their culinary habits and choices – these were taken as an indicator of more general cultural references. The results of the research have, due to the extremely low response rate among the inhabitants, limited explanatory potential but they do show that while there are very few substantial differences between the ethnic communities in Nove Fužine the social distance between them remains substantial: any forms of cultural exchange in this multi-ethnic suburb are almost completely absent, at least as much as they can be inferred from eating habits. In several instances, immigrants from other former Yugoslav republics include various typically Slovenian dishes on their menus and vice versa, but it appears that they do so for other structural reasons and influences, not because of any cultural exchanges within their neighbourhood.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30691421