This book examines how an academic concept of gender can become a mobilizing tool for, and the target of, social movements. This collection is a transnational and comparative attempt to better understand anti-gender mobilizations in Europe. It focuses on national manifestations in eleven European countries, including Russia, from massive street protests to forms of resistance such as email bombarding and the populist use of social media. The book is currently being translated into French, parts of it will be translated into Spanish and Portuguese.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 64848738The book is part of the project "We include and activate!", implemented by the Slovenian Book Agency, co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union from the European Social Fund (ESF). It is a collection of ten stories of women who are serving prison sentences in the only female prison in Slovenia at Ig. In this book, the authors Milica Antić Gaber, Darja Tadić, Nina Perger, Deja Crnović and Jasna Podreka, wanted to give a voice to those who are not often heard in society, to those from the margins. With this publication, the authors made their way into a more or less unknown landscape of the prison world. They wanted to give women serving prison sentences a chance to present their (probably a slightly different) view from the inside of the prison population to the general public, which might encourage reflections and a different understanding of those who find themselves there. The authors were motivated by the desire that the wider society without the experience of imprisonment would accept these women more reflectively when they return to the routine of everyday life with the desire to live a completely "normal life".
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 293055232An original authorial exhibition by dr. Kaja Širok is focused on the theme of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the border between Italy and Slovenia. The exhibition narrative focuses on the phenomenon of the border, the life on the border, and various interpretations of the past (cotested histories) in multicultural enviroment. The exhibition is based on archival resources, photographs, museum objects and oral history methodology. Kaja Širok also edited a book about the period of the Allied Military Govermet, done by various academics working on the subject. In her article she explains the creation of the western Slovenian border. It is devoted to an outline of existential relations in the area of the Julian March before 1947 and, through the memories of the inhabitants, reveals the complex relations in the region during the Allied Military Government (1945-1947). The period of the AMG meant for the inhabitants a transition from shortage to well-being, an exit from poverty, and the start of a new, post-war life. At the same time, the new temporary Allied authority brought new insecurity, national tensions and violence to the territory, which made it still possible to think that the end of the war had not brought final peace.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 652652Thematic edition of Poligrafi journal presents case studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Turkey and Slovenia. All authors deal with the key challenges and dynamics of the possibility of democratic coexistence in an Islamic and religious plural environment, and try to present and establish various ideas about Islam and democracy. In their articles, the authors present the individual examples and challenges faced by Muslims in different environments, from the European "secular" society to the Bosnian and Kosovar political realities, and the challenges faced by the Christian minority in Turkey. Some authors try to explain the causes of religious extremism, while others seek successful models that are implemented in multicultural societies. This edition presents a valuable social contribution in times when Islam is portrayed as one of the main global threats to the democratic order of western societies.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 293164544The financial crisis as a product of greedy neo-liberal capitalism, political uncertainty at the time of the European Union's turmoil, the refugee crisis as a product of wars in the Middle East are some of the tectonic events that have shaken global, European and Slovenian societies and politics over the years. The political discourse has radicalized, the public's distrust of democratic institutions has intensified, and the apathy deepens as a result of the unsuccessful answers to the worsened global ecological, security and political crises. In 2017, dr. Mandelc was engaged in drawing attention to the problems of political extremism in Slovenia, the European Union and beyond. As an expert, he participated in the Odmevi broadcast on Radio Television Slovenia, prepared an article for the Večer diary, warned about the problems of extending dangerous forms of extremism and the need for wider contextualization on social networks and guest events (round tables, conferences and symposia). His engaged social presence is important for the understanding of current dangers that democracy is facing today in Slovenia, EU and globally.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
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