By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the repr... more By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919-1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the "structure of national feeling"the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Yugoslav nation.
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Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on ... more Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on 10 December 2006. Her cosmic luggage included (Carniolan) sausages. This cosmic story about cosmic sausages was published in numerous Slovene media, in every possible form. But what happens to a cosmic sausage when it leaves the world of professional media, when it is begun to be consumed by internet users (in language)? Nothing; in fact, it remains the subject of sausaging, cosmic sausaging, meta-cosmic sausaging. And it is precisely cosmic sausaging - actually e-discourse about cosmic sausages - that is the subject of this analysis. (Translator's note: the Slovene language has a verb (klobasati) formed from the root "sausage" (klobasa) which means "to ramble" (verbally), i.e. "to rabbit on".).
By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the repr... more By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919–1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the “structure of national feeling” – the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Y...
Burekalism is a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made bet... more Burekalism is a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made between a population and place defined by the burek and a population and place not defined by the burek, or in other words: between "immigrants" and "Slovenians". And further, burekalism is a style of domination of a population defined by the burek by a population not defined by the burek.
Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian women\u27s immigration stories. The book tr... more Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian women\u27s immigration stories. The book traces the migration of these Central European women to several destinations including Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. The research has been carefully culled from the subjects\u27 letters, personal diaries, and oral interviews. What results is a story that covers the span of three to four generations.The book highlights in biography the story of identity under construction. Each woman\u27s identity surpasses ethnic, national identity or belonging, but at the same time, contains different elements of identity transformation at different stages of the narrator\u27s life. As one narrator said, While their [the women\u27s] suitcases may be light with personal belongings, their stamina, strength and determination and emotional commitment would sink a battleship.”https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/1009/thumbnail.jp
The so-called dikle -girls from the region of Slavia friulana who used to work in Italian cities ... more The so-called dikle -girls from the region of Slavia friulana who used to work in Italian cities as housemaids in many cases didn't understand their work as «maledet», cursed and «schiavitù», slavery. At least this is what they tell us today, long decades later when the experience, meanings, testimonies have been covered by a lot of ubiquitous dust; the dust we cannot completely blow away, clean, remove in order to come to the original sparkle (of the original experience). And yet, this is the only voice -no matter how muted -that can stand up against the voice of authority that has resounded for half a century. Some girls, as personal testimonies tell us, were also looking for an «adventure», a change in life, at least partial financial, economic independence, they wanted and tried (at least partly) to shake off the shackles of a patriarchal family, to replace hard farm work with the more attractive duties of an urban household, wanted to get to the city where they could admire and desire shiny shoes in the window, although they usually couldn't afford them.
Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on ... more Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on 10 December 2006. Her cosmic luggage included (Carniolan) sausages. This cosmic story about cosmic sausages was published in numerous Slovene media, in every possible form. But what happens to a cosmic sausage when it leaves the world of professional media, when it is begun to be consumed by internet users (in language)? Nothing; in fact, it remains the subject of sausaging, cosmic sausaging, meta-cosmic sausaging. And it is precisely cosmic sausaging - actually e-discourse about cosmic sausages - that is the subject of this analysis. (Translator's note: the Slovene language has a verb (klobasati) formed from the root "sausage" (klobasa) which means "to ramble" (verbally), i.e. "to rabbit on".).
In this text the author takes nine individuals from three generations of Slovenes living in Mendo... more In this text the author takes nine individuals from three generations of Slovenes living in Mendoza and their descendants and uses them to present various forms and levels of attachment to an 'original' area and the related identity with place. Rather than reaching too broadly across the field of the phenomenological to causes and processes, he presents the wider context, which to him seems important in formulating the phenomenon of attachment to the 'original' area or identification with this area. Attachment or affiliation to the 'original' area is clearly related to affiliation to an original' cultural or original' ethnic identity, although the relationship is not always linear. We meet people who consistently preserve an original' ethnic identity but who do not place much importance in their feelings of original' ethnic identity to the 'original' area. It is usually difficult or impossible to differentiate between the milieu of place and culture, between feelings of territorial bonds or belonging and ethnic or national awareness. Understanding becomes easier if we define the spatially defined part of human existence on the one hand as to do with identification and on the other as a matter of prestige. In the first case it involves the territory as a place to live and the related feelings associated with home, while the second is related to the evaluation of individual parts of the environment with regard to the importance ascribed to that environment by society and culture, and thus entirely institutionalized. It is therefore a division which appears to be able to help us understand the fundamental difference in the attitude to the 'original' area between the first generation and subsequent generations, between socialization in the new homeland and the old homeland, although there are not always strict borders even between an identification'-related and prestige-related sentimental orientation. The connection of the group identity of a given social group with t
Through an analysis of concrete migration situations and contexts expressed in life narratives of... more Through an analysis of concrete migration situations and contexts expressed in life narratives of two international migrants - returnees from the (river Nadiza) Venetian Slovenia (western edge of Slovene ethnic territory in the north-east of Italy) the text attempts to enlighten the question to what extent every physical moving (returning) is as well a social one (returning). Beside seeking answers to the mentioned question the text is (as well or above all) an authentic and unique document of the after-war history of (re)migration processes, capitalist development, social excluding, and other, as well as of Veneto as of the capitalist Europe in the years and decades after World War II. The author namely stresses that the narratives of migrants on antagonistic experiences of migration and other co-dependent phenomena and processes in the course of migration have a theoretical power, which surpasses the uniqueness of individual narrations and stories respectively. The presented life narratives tell us that migrations, journeys are not merely cold(unconcerned) movements through space, that they are not only physical motions that reflect in changes of territorial distribution. They are as well social movements, which lead to sensitising of boundaries, transformation of culture, society, community and spirituality. However, migrations are not merely that. They are as well acts of imagination in which the home and the goal of the journey are constantly being newly conceived and thus forever changed. Is thus returning (howsoever) possible?
This somewhat too descriptive a text attempts to describe how the Republic of Slovenia with its i... more This somewhat too descriptive a text attempts to describe how the Republic of Slovenia with its institutions regulates legally and normatively various fields and solves concrete difficulties that returnees and their family members meet with, and how (if at all) it defines in various guidelines or concrete cases towards the phenomena. A survey of different fields reveals that an active state policy, which would encourage or at least more complexly and synchronically solve the phenomenon of returnees, does not exist.The Resolucija o odnosih s Slovenci po svetu (The Resolution on Relations with Slovenes across the World), adopted in 2002 in the parliament, was the first step on the way to complex solving and encouraging remigration. On the other hand, it presented merely a basis for the law on relations of the Republic of Slovenia with Slovenes outside its borders, with which the submitters wanted among other to solve legally some fields or difficulties, and to mark out the state policy towards remigration. The proposed law was in 2004 in the parliament turned down.
The contribution deals with poorly researched but massive phenomena of emigrating and employing o... more The contribution deals with poorly researched but massive phenomena of emigrating and employing of young women from Julian Slovenia in households of Italian towns (particularly after World War II). The emigrating of women because of work and employment in the household sector was at most times understood as a push factor of poverty at home. Women who emigrated and accepted such work have mainly been presented as victims. Such a view denotes in many cases, as partly shown in the article by a presentation of some newspapers contributions, the emigrating and employing of young women from Julian Slovenia in households of Italian towns. A similar reading of personal evidences of former servants reveals the phenomena in a much more complex, variegated image. The women who went for a better bread to Italian towns not necessarily felt victims. Some, as personal evidences reveal, sought adventure, at least partial financial independence, they wished to rid (at least to some degree) of the ties of patriarchal society, to replace hard peasant work at home with a more attractive work in households, or to merely make a change in their lives.
... Although the song, sung in an (exces-sively) rich southern accent, did not make the final, ... more ... Although the song, sung in an (exces-sively) rich southern accent, did not make the final, it did, as we can read in Wikipedia, become a hit throughout Slovenia(Anon.): 10 The ad has been critically analysed by Ksenija H. Vidmar (2003: 853854). ... itnik Serafin, Janja (2008a ...
Izvleček: Predmet analize je burekveč, burekov več. Burekov več predstavlja tisti del bureka, ki ... more Izvleček: Predmet analize je burekveč, burekov več. Burekov več predstavlja tisti del bureka, ki je podvržen simboličnemu, konstruiran z diskurzi. Torej vse, kar obstaja ob, na, v bureku in je več od brezpogojnega bureka -bureka kot enodimenzionalnega polnila želodca. Burekov več je v prvi vrsti razumljen kot produkt označevanja (pomenov) in oblastnih razmerij. Toda pri tej diskurzivni produkciji materialni in funkcionalni kontekst bureka ni nepomemben. V diskurzivno produkcijo je vključeno tudi nediskurzivno, objektivno, materialno polje -na številne, kompleksne načine. Analiza burekovega več se naslanja predvsem na izjavno analizo -vse, kar je bilo dejansko o bureku v različnih substancah izjavljeno, materializirano -in se omeji na dva pomenska sklopa: burek v odnosu do zdravega življenja in burek v odnosu do nacionalne biti.
UVOD V besedilu skušam odgovoriti na naslednja vprašanja: kakšen model ženskosti je postavljala s... more UVOD V besedilu skušam odgovoriti na naslednja vprašanja: kakšen model ženskosti je postavljala slovenska politična emigracija v Argentini (SPE), kako je artikulirala to tematiko in kakšen »material« za konstrukcijo identitete spolov je (pri tem) ponujala. Spol je namreč vedno podvržen boju za definicije. Poudarjanje spola v stalnih pogajanjih o definicijah, kot pravi van Zoonen [1994: 39], pa seveda ne pomeni, da so v teh pogajanjih udeleženi enakovredni nasprotniki, saj imajo različni družbeni akterji in skupine različno moč (samo)definiranja. Pri iskanju odgovorov na zastavljena vprašanja, sem se omejil zgolj na analizo enega vira, na osrednji tiskani medij SPE, ki se še danes nosi ponosno ime Svobodna Slovenija. V tem časopisu sem analiziral vsebino prispevkov, ki se kakorkoli dotikajo žensk in ženskosti. Pregledal sem ga podrobno, od začetka izhajanja v Argentini, to je od leta 1948, pa do leta 1990, ki jetudi leto izrednega pomena za to skupnost. Takšna metodološka omejitev pa zahteva opozorilo. Vir, ki sem ga vzel pod raziskovalni drobnogled, ne ponuja orisa dejanskega stanja, dejanske podobe ženske v slovenski 1 Besedilo je nastalo v okviru temeljnega raziskovalnega projekta Vloga in pomen žensk za ohranjanje kulturne tradicije med izseljenci (nosilec: Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo ZRC SAZU).
In modern Slovenian popular culture, media, vernacular etc., the burek-an important and popular d... more In modern Slovenian popular culture, media, vernacular etc., the burek-an important and popular dish among numerous immigrants to Slovenia and their descendants, and also probably the most popular Slovenian fast food-is probably the handiest and most often used signifier for immigrants from the former republics of the SFRY, the Balkans, the SFRY and the phenomena associated with it. The paper attempts to describe why and how this conceptual hyperinflation occurred precisely to this folded or rolled nutritional superhero, which most likely arrived in Slovenia in the early 1960s. The beginnings of the layering of all these meanings go back to the eighties, when the burek finally started to become a part of certain foreign urban food practices particularly among young people, which at the time were not seen as particularly meaningful. However, the fact that the burek found itself in the hands of "non-immigrants" was disturbing to some: the burek became a target of nationalism, which to some extent encouraged numerous young people during the nineties to appropriate it and to associate it with alternative or oppositional political meanings. But even in this case it would be insufficient or wrong to understand the burek as merely a symbolic object, chosen by college students and other young people during the nineties solely for its symbolic value-for its close but controversial association with Slovene nationalism. First we have to ask ourselves what was available during those times-cheap, accessible and providing at least a modicum of choices. The paper mirrors modern studies of material culture which assert the idea that materiality is an integral part of culture and society, and that without materiality, culture and society cannot be fully understood. The meanings of objects, and thus the meaning of the burek, are not understood (merely) as products of discourses and practices of signification, but (also) as embedded in the objective, material field in numerous and complex ways.
Članek analizira vlogo kranjske klobase v vsakdanjem nacionalizmu med slovenskimi izseljenci v ZD... more Članek analizira vlogo kranjske klobase v vsakdanjem nacionalizmu med slovenskimi izseljenci v ZDA v obdobju 1919–1945. Članek raziskuje, kako se narod reproducira z vsakdanjimi praksami, navadami in načini bivanja, ter se pri tem opira predvsem na koncept vsakdanjega nacionalizma (angl. everyday nationalism). Teza besedila je, da nacionalizem ni le produkt institucionalnega delovanja, temveč se reproducira tudi izven uradnih, formalnih, institucionalnih in instrumentalnih okvirjev, na ravni večinoma nereflektiranih vsakodnevnih praks. Članek temelji na analizi besedil, v katerih se pojavi besedna zveza »kranjska klobasa«, v osrednjih slovenskih izseljenskih časopisih v ZDA v obdobju 1919–1945.
By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the repr... more By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919-1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the "structure of national feeling"the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Yugoslav nation.
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Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on ... more Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on 10 December 2006. Her cosmic luggage included (Carniolan) sausages. This cosmic story about cosmic sausages was published in numerous Slovene media, in every possible form. But what happens to a cosmic sausage when it leaves the world of professional media, when it is begun to be consumed by internet users (in language)? Nothing; in fact, it remains the subject of sausaging, cosmic sausaging, meta-cosmic sausaging. And it is precisely cosmic sausaging - actually e-discourse about cosmic sausages - that is the subject of this analysis. (Translator's note: the Slovene language has a verb (klobasati) formed from the root "sausage" (klobasa) which means "to ramble" (verbally), i.e. "to rabbit on".).
By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the repr... more By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919–1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the “structure of national feeling” – the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Y...
Burekalism is a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made bet... more Burekalism is a style of thought based on an ontological and epistemological distinction made between a population and place defined by the burek and a population and place not defined by the burek, or in other words: between "immigrants" and "Slovenians". And further, burekalism is a style of domination of a population defined by the burek by a population not defined by the burek.
Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian women\u27s immigration stories. The book tr... more Going Places is a narrative of a century of Slovenian women\u27s immigration stories. The book traces the migration of these Central European women to several destinations including Argentina, Egypt, Italy, and the United States. The research has been carefully culled from the subjects\u27 letters, personal diaries, and oral interviews. What results is a story that covers the span of three to four generations.The book highlights in biography the story of identity under construction. Each woman\u27s identity surpasses ethnic, national identity or belonging, but at the same time, contains different elements of identity transformation at different stages of the narrator\u27s life. As one narrator said, While their [the women\u27s] suitcases may be light with personal belongings, their stamina, strength and determination and emotional commitment would sink a battleship.”https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/1009/thumbnail.jp
The so-called dikle -girls from the region of Slavia friulana who used to work in Italian cities ... more The so-called dikle -girls from the region of Slavia friulana who used to work in Italian cities as housemaids in many cases didn't understand their work as «maledet», cursed and «schiavitù», slavery. At least this is what they tell us today, long decades later when the experience, meanings, testimonies have been covered by a lot of ubiquitous dust; the dust we cannot completely blow away, clean, remove in order to come to the original sparkle (of the original experience). And yet, this is the only voice -no matter how muted -that can stand up against the voice of authority that has resounded for half a century. Some girls, as personal testimonies tell us, were also looking for an «adventure», a change in life, at least partial financial, economic independence, they wanted and tried (at least partly) to shake off the shackles of a patriarchal family, to replace hard farm work with the more attractive duties of an urban household, wanted to get to the city where they could admire and desire shiny shoes in the window, although they usually couldn't afford them.
Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on ... more Sunita Williams, American astronaut of "Slovene-Indian extraction", flew into space on 10 December 2006. Her cosmic luggage included (Carniolan) sausages. This cosmic story about cosmic sausages was published in numerous Slovene media, in every possible form. But what happens to a cosmic sausage when it leaves the world of professional media, when it is begun to be consumed by internet users (in language)? Nothing; in fact, it remains the subject of sausaging, cosmic sausaging, meta-cosmic sausaging. And it is precisely cosmic sausaging - actually e-discourse about cosmic sausages - that is the subject of this analysis. (Translator's note: the Slovene language has a verb (klobasati) formed from the root "sausage" (klobasa) which means "to ramble" (verbally), i.e. "to rabbit on".).
In this text the author takes nine individuals from three generations of Slovenes living in Mendo... more In this text the author takes nine individuals from three generations of Slovenes living in Mendoza and their descendants and uses them to present various forms and levels of attachment to an 'original' area and the related identity with place. Rather than reaching too broadly across the field of the phenomenological to causes and processes, he presents the wider context, which to him seems important in formulating the phenomenon of attachment to the 'original' area or identification with this area. Attachment or affiliation to the 'original' area is clearly related to affiliation to an original' cultural or original' ethnic identity, although the relationship is not always linear. We meet people who consistently preserve an original' ethnic identity but who do not place much importance in their feelings of original' ethnic identity to the 'original' area. It is usually difficult or impossible to differentiate between the milieu of place and culture, between feelings of territorial bonds or belonging and ethnic or national awareness. Understanding becomes easier if we define the spatially defined part of human existence on the one hand as to do with identification and on the other as a matter of prestige. In the first case it involves the territory as a place to live and the related feelings associated with home, while the second is related to the evaluation of individual parts of the environment with regard to the importance ascribed to that environment by society and culture, and thus entirely institutionalized. It is therefore a division which appears to be able to help us understand the fundamental difference in the attitude to the 'original' area between the first generation and subsequent generations, between socialization in the new homeland and the old homeland, although there are not always strict borders even between an identification'-related and prestige-related sentimental orientation. The connection of the group identity of a given social group with t
Through an analysis of concrete migration situations and contexts expressed in life narratives of... more Through an analysis of concrete migration situations and contexts expressed in life narratives of two international migrants - returnees from the (river Nadiza) Venetian Slovenia (western edge of Slovene ethnic territory in the north-east of Italy) the text attempts to enlighten the question to what extent every physical moving (returning) is as well a social one (returning). Beside seeking answers to the mentioned question the text is (as well or above all) an authentic and unique document of the after-war history of (re)migration processes, capitalist development, social excluding, and other, as well as of Veneto as of the capitalist Europe in the years and decades after World War II. The author namely stresses that the narratives of migrants on antagonistic experiences of migration and other co-dependent phenomena and processes in the course of migration have a theoretical power, which surpasses the uniqueness of individual narrations and stories respectively. The presented life narratives tell us that migrations, journeys are not merely cold(unconcerned) movements through space, that they are not only physical motions that reflect in changes of territorial distribution. They are as well social movements, which lead to sensitising of boundaries, transformation of culture, society, community and spirituality. However, migrations are not merely that. They are as well acts of imagination in which the home and the goal of the journey are constantly being newly conceived and thus forever changed. Is thus returning (howsoever) possible?
This somewhat too descriptive a text attempts to describe how the Republic of Slovenia with its i... more This somewhat too descriptive a text attempts to describe how the Republic of Slovenia with its institutions regulates legally and normatively various fields and solves concrete difficulties that returnees and their family members meet with, and how (if at all) it defines in various guidelines or concrete cases towards the phenomena. A survey of different fields reveals that an active state policy, which would encourage or at least more complexly and synchronically solve the phenomenon of returnees, does not exist.The Resolucija o odnosih s Slovenci po svetu (The Resolution on Relations with Slovenes across the World), adopted in 2002 in the parliament, was the first step on the way to complex solving and encouraging remigration. On the other hand, it presented merely a basis for the law on relations of the Republic of Slovenia with Slovenes outside its borders, with which the submitters wanted among other to solve legally some fields or difficulties, and to mark out the state policy towards remigration. The proposed law was in 2004 in the parliament turned down.
The contribution deals with poorly researched but massive phenomena of emigrating and employing o... more The contribution deals with poorly researched but massive phenomena of emigrating and employing of young women from Julian Slovenia in households of Italian towns (particularly after World War II). The emigrating of women because of work and employment in the household sector was at most times understood as a push factor of poverty at home. Women who emigrated and accepted such work have mainly been presented as victims. Such a view denotes in many cases, as partly shown in the article by a presentation of some newspapers contributions, the emigrating and employing of young women from Julian Slovenia in households of Italian towns. A similar reading of personal evidences of former servants reveals the phenomena in a much more complex, variegated image. The women who went for a better bread to Italian towns not necessarily felt victims. Some, as personal evidences reveal, sought adventure, at least partial financial independence, they wished to rid (at least to some degree) of the ties of patriarchal society, to replace hard peasant work at home with a more attractive work in households, or to merely make a change in their lives.
... Although the song, sung in an (exces-sively) rich southern accent, did not make the final, ... more ... Although the song, sung in an (exces-sively) rich southern accent, did not make the final, it did, as we can read in Wikipedia, become a hit throughout Slovenia(Anon.): 10 The ad has been critically analysed by Ksenija H. Vidmar (2003: 853854). ... itnik Serafin, Janja (2008a ...
Izvleček: Predmet analize je burekveč, burekov več. Burekov več predstavlja tisti del bureka, ki ... more Izvleček: Predmet analize je burekveč, burekov več. Burekov več predstavlja tisti del bureka, ki je podvržen simboličnemu, konstruiran z diskurzi. Torej vse, kar obstaja ob, na, v bureku in je več od brezpogojnega bureka -bureka kot enodimenzionalnega polnila želodca. Burekov več je v prvi vrsti razumljen kot produkt označevanja (pomenov) in oblastnih razmerij. Toda pri tej diskurzivni produkciji materialni in funkcionalni kontekst bureka ni nepomemben. V diskurzivno produkcijo je vključeno tudi nediskurzivno, objektivno, materialno polje -na številne, kompleksne načine. Analiza burekovega več se naslanja predvsem na izjavno analizo -vse, kar je bilo dejansko o bureku v različnih substancah izjavljeno, materializirano -in se omeji na dva pomenska sklopa: burek v odnosu do zdravega življenja in burek v odnosu do nacionalne biti.
UVOD V besedilu skušam odgovoriti na naslednja vprašanja: kakšen model ženskosti je postavljala s... more UVOD V besedilu skušam odgovoriti na naslednja vprašanja: kakšen model ženskosti je postavljala slovenska politična emigracija v Argentini (SPE), kako je artikulirala to tematiko in kakšen »material« za konstrukcijo identitete spolov je (pri tem) ponujala. Spol je namreč vedno podvržen boju za definicije. Poudarjanje spola v stalnih pogajanjih o definicijah, kot pravi van Zoonen [1994: 39], pa seveda ne pomeni, da so v teh pogajanjih udeleženi enakovredni nasprotniki, saj imajo različni družbeni akterji in skupine različno moč (samo)definiranja. Pri iskanju odgovorov na zastavljena vprašanja, sem se omejil zgolj na analizo enega vira, na osrednji tiskani medij SPE, ki se še danes nosi ponosno ime Svobodna Slovenija. V tem časopisu sem analiziral vsebino prispevkov, ki se kakorkoli dotikajo žensk in ženskosti. Pregledal sem ga podrobno, od začetka izhajanja v Argentini, to je od leta 1948, pa do leta 1990, ki jetudi leto izrednega pomena za to skupnost. Takšna metodološka omejitev pa zahteva opozorilo. Vir, ki sem ga vzel pod raziskovalni drobnogled, ne ponuja orisa dejanskega stanja, dejanske podobe ženske v slovenski 1 Besedilo je nastalo v okviru temeljnega raziskovalnega projekta Vloga in pomen žensk za ohranjanje kulturne tradicije med izseljenci (nosilec: Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo ZRC SAZU).
In modern Slovenian popular culture, media, vernacular etc., the burek-an important and popular d... more In modern Slovenian popular culture, media, vernacular etc., the burek-an important and popular dish among numerous immigrants to Slovenia and their descendants, and also probably the most popular Slovenian fast food-is probably the handiest and most often used signifier for immigrants from the former republics of the SFRY, the Balkans, the SFRY and the phenomena associated with it. The paper attempts to describe why and how this conceptual hyperinflation occurred precisely to this folded or rolled nutritional superhero, which most likely arrived in Slovenia in the early 1960s. The beginnings of the layering of all these meanings go back to the eighties, when the burek finally started to become a part of certain foreign urban food practices particularly among young people, which at the time were not seen as particularly meaningful. However, the fact that the burek found itself in the hands of "non-immigrants" was disturbing to some: the burek became a target of nationalism, which to some extent encouraged numerous young people during the nineties to appropriate it and to associate it with alternative or oppositional political meanings. But even in this case it would be insufficient or wrong to understand the burek as merely a symbolic object, chosen by college students and other young people during the nineties solely for its symbolic value-for its close but controversial association with Slovene nationalism. First we have to ask ourselves what was available during those times-cheap, accessible and providing at least a modicum of choices. The paper mirrors modern studies of material culture which assert the idea that materiality is an integral part of culture and society, and that without materiality, culture and society cannot be fully understood. The meanings of objects, and thus the meaning of the burek, are not understood (merely) as products of discourses and practices of signification, but (also) as embedded in the objective, material field in numerous and complex ways.
Članek analizira vlogo kranjske klobase v vsakdanjem nacionalizmu med slovenskimi izseljenci v ZD... more Članek analizira vlogo kranjske klobase v vsakdanjem nacionalizmu med slovenskimi izseljenci v ZDA v obdobju 1919–1945. Članek raziskuje, kako se narod reproducira z vsakdanjimi praksami, navadami in načini bivanja, ter se pri tem opira predvsem na koncept vsakdanjega nacionalizma (angl. everyday nationalism). Teza besedila je, da nacionalizem ni le produkt institucionalnega delovanja, temveč se reproducira tudi izven uradnih, formalnih, institucionalnih in instrumentalnih okvirjev, na ravni večinoma nereflektiranih vsakodnevnih praks. Članek temelji na analizi besedil, v katerih se pojavi besedna zveza »kranjska klobasa«, v osrednjih slovenskih izseljenskih časopisih v ZDA v obdobju 1919–1945.
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