This work studies processes of nationalization of collective identity from the perspective of women's intellectual cultures and art. It includes historical, sociological, pedagogical and art historical analyses of Slovene women migrants, i.e., cultural travellers, social and political migrants. Scientifically, the editorial work presents an intervention into Slovene sociology of nationalism with the additional research of migration and gender. This implies a complex integration of multidisciplinarity and methodological pluralism with the goal of expanding theoretical and empirical knowledge of sociology of migration, theory of national identity and gender studies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 275575552
This book examines images of mothers and motherhood in public culture of the 20th century. Theoretical-analytical approach is based on the comparative historical sociological methodology wherein the analysis follows the representations of mothers and motherhood in relation to broader social topics of national reproduction, patriotism and collective cultural life. A key finding is that, nuances in representations of motherhood notwithstanding, and which relate to different social meanings of women’s collective roles and missions, the common theme of motherhood as the woman’s prime task remains unchallenged in all examined historical contexts. Motherhood remains unanimously marked by the binary aura of biological mission and social debt to the nationand, in this sense, presents a core social heritage of modern and postmodern nationalisms of the past “short century”.
COBISS.SI-ID: 271504640
The paper examines the historical legacy of volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, with a special emphasis on the biographical portraits of female volunteers. This segment of transnational solidarity in the Spanish Civil War has not yet been submitted to an appropriate socio-historical review, although it could, according to both authors, considerably influence the contemporary discourse on global (cosmopolitan) solidarity, especially in the branch of cosmofeminist theory, which emphasises the politics of compassion and empathy. The essence of the movement of Spanish volunteers, in other words, surpassed the issue of identification with the suffering of others, although this also represented an important element of mobilisation. Nevertheless, identification was not only generally humanistic, but was political and ideational more than anything else, the evidence of which manifested itself in sacrificing one’s life for the sake of others. This perspective throws light on contemporary post-humanistic humanitarian solidarity and enables us to critically evaluate its contribution to global justice.
COBISS.SI-ID: 55752802
The text explains the historical context of the female migrations known as aleksandrinstvo in the Goriška region; it presents the artistic, scientific and other aspects of the presentations and representations of this phenomenon in the last decade; and it describes the active role of individuals in the re-creation of the memory of the female migrants called aleksandrinke. Since 2005, the descendants and family members of aleksandrinke and the local population have taken an active role in the creation of the memory and cultural heritage of these migrants. The goal is to record and store as many authentic personal testimonies using biographical methodology, which has been used by scholars as well as the local population. The text shows the importance of all these activities to a crucial change in the understanding of aleksandrinstvo, which was deeply imbedded in a discourse of moral condemnation before 2005. The text also poses the question of the impact of the authentic stories of aleksandrinke on their cultural heritage at the local and the national level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37353005
This paper covers a background of the thought and evolution of migration studies in the direction of a broader inclusion of questions of gender. It follows an assumption of active roles taken by migrant women throughout the entire migration process, focusing on life stories of women – anonymous interviewees and immigrants from ex-Yugoslavia who, for various reasons, have come to Slovenia. Women’s immigration to Slovenia is presented here through a series of identifications with different homes and possible alternations of identity definitions as a result of migration. Territory, in the era of intensive migratory flows, no longer stands as a central factor regulating social relations, nor does it primarily affect the formation of one’s own identity and a sense of belonging. At the level of identity belonging, homeland and the identification with the environment of origin still have a significant impact on the sense of belonging to a certain community that is by no means exclusive, stable, and unchangeable.
COBISS.SI-ID: 56561506