The central scope of this book is a philosophical analysis of contemporary criticism on democratic culture and human rights, especially its radical and revolutionary form. Common strategy to object to the ideas of this kind is focused on its affinity to violence. The strategy of the proposed book is, however, different, it aims to isolate the spiritual horizon which calls for these concepts and enables their comprehension.
COBISS.SI-ID: 59179874
The monograph 'Citizenship Education in Slovenia' presents the results of Slovenian students, teachers and principals that participated in ‘The International Civic and Citizenship Education Survey ICCS 2009'. The results of this research survey provide a range of information about students’ ‘civic knowledge' on the functioning of democratic institutions and the trust in the latter, on their engagement and participation in society, their values and attitudes towards individual political and social issues (eg. gender equality, freedom of expression, immigration, minority rights, etc.), and the various conceptions of some of the core concepts in this area of scholarly research including civic equality, human rights etc. The "Citizenship education in Slovenia’ monograph is therefore an important source of information about the teaching and learning of citizenship education and the impact of the wider community on the education process in general.
COBISS.SI-ID: 277905920
This paper explores journalistic strategic rituals in newspaper and television reports of domestic violence, emphasises the importance of formal aspects of the media representation of violence and argues that these institutionalised forms produce the (un)importance of the issue of violence as a public problem. The purpose of such deconstruction of conventional journalistic narratives is the denaturalisation of those standard procedures of telling and framing the news that mythologise violence as an effect of individual pathologies. By overlooking its social dimensions, they establish violence as a natural, i.e. acceptable part of performing masculinity and most importantly, the social background of violence remains unexplored regardless of genre, whether it is in episodic television news stories, daily news items in quality dailies or in journalistic documentary melodramas. The most important function of these ritualised conventions is thus not so much the consolidation of the truthfulness of messages as in the act of establishing and narrowing what can be said at all.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33819741
The article focuses on the discursive regime of two genres: social chronicle or “society pages,” and photo interviews with professional elites. It investigates key intersections of gender, class and nationality discourses, and, more generally, reflects on the transformations of the discourses constituting these identities in Slovene and Croatian popular media.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33388637
Cinema played an important role in the creation of media culture and in the mediatisation processes in the societies of the 20th century. In this paper, I use the cultural-historical approach and Geertz's thick description method to analyse cinema-going practices and audiences' ritual uses of cinema in Slovenia. Around 180 interviews with cinemagoers helped me to collect their memories of cinema-going habits to find out how the mediatisation of society is intertwined with ritualised human action. In its early and in its golden years, cinema was closely connected with sociability and functioned as an important social and leisure space for the emerging mass audience. With the examples from the Slovenian society until the 1970s I illustrate how ritualisation had been an integral part of mediatisation processes when cinema started to cultivate and disseminate specific media dispositions through the ritual practices.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33819997