News
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28/3/2024
Detecting offensive speech and analysing migration-related discourse
Lecture by Senia Pollak on natural language processing methods for detecting offensive comments, with a focus on cross-lingual methods, active learning, and interpretability of results.
28/3/2024Polarisation and the Politics of Division
Post-graduate seminar »Divided societies XXV« (Inter-University center in Dubrovnik) will discuss the topic of »Polarisation and the Politics of Division«. Applications to the course are possible until April 12.
22/3/2024The symposium of the program group: in search of disciplinary crossroads
The focus of the symposium was on questions about the ethnographic method, the affective turn in modern capitalism, and the critical questioning of the post-Yugoslav imaginary.
21/3/2024Future and challenges of European democracy
The debate focused on democratic backsliding, the dangers of the rise of far-right parties in the EU elections and the need to mobilise civil society.
18/3/2024Rule of Law Report 2024
The fifth edition of the report identifies the most obvious violations of freedoms, democracy and human rights in the European Union in 2023.
1/3/2024Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe’s semi-periphery
The authors of the chapter Majda Hrženjak and Maja Breznik argue that semi-peripheral countries act as complex nodes of care migration where emigration, transit and immigration interact.
Projects
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Policy coherence for (sustainable) development – assesment of the effects of Slovenian national policies on developing countries and on the sustainable development of the Republic of Slovenia
The purpose of the research project, which is carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences, is the preparation of systemic solutions for enforcing the principle of...
Empowering Ecosystems of Civil Society Organisations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia (PROSECO)
Promoting EU values and rights by building national and transnational ecosystems of cooperation that protect civic space and increase the resilience of civil society.
JUSTMIG: Sustainable and Socially Just Transnational Sectoral Labour Markets: Industrial Relations and Labour Market Adjustment to the Rise in Temporary Labour Migration
Project combines innovative research and data collection on labour market dynamics of migrant workers in both service and manufacturing sub-sectors across EU Member States and 3 EU candidate countries.
Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)
Project aims at supporting interdisciplinary research into the ways that the technological materialities inherent to the datafication of migration and border control may, on account of their black-boxed design,...
The future of social dialogue in the platform economy: The case of Slovenia
The project addresses two problems related to the work in the platform economy: the first concerns the weakened bargaining power of workers under algorithmic management; the second the issue of […]
Research network FRANET
The Peace Institute, as part of the FRANET research network and contractual partner of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which established the research network, has the task...
Publications
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Chapter / Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe’s semi-periphery
The authors argue that semi-peripheral countries act as complex nodes of care migration where emigration, transit and immigration interact.
Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
Chapter / Care Migration in Care Homes for Older People in the European Semi-Periphery Between Slovenia and Former Yugoslav Countries
The authors note that the political economy of care in neoliberal capitalism needs borders and their ambiguity - it needs borders that are both porous and exclusionary.
Article / Konec koncev: konec ali nov začetek? (The End of Ends: The End or a New Beginning?)
The text deals with the specific modality of the end, which manifests itself as a pervasive sense of the constant, imminent and real threat of total destruction of the...
Article / Squatting and direct care for urban space: the case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC)
The article deals with the question of how the squatting community understands and implements direct care for urban space in the context of gentrification and elitization of the city.
Article / Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey
The article aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions on authoritarian populism and the media, from the lens of the political economy of ownership.
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