News
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Parliament for the Future of Europe first partners’ meeting
Kick-off meeting and trial run of »Citizens' panel« in Cologne.
The Transversal Political Logic of Populism: Framing the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Slovenian Parliamentary Debates
In the article the authors Mojca Pajnik and Emanuela Fabijan analyse how politicians in Slovenia responded to migration during and after the ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2019).
10958, and counting: how late is too late?
It took the Slovenian state 10958 days to provide a symbolic acknowledgment of the harm it had deliberately inflicted on those it erased. It took a few hours for...
Mojca Pajnik was elected full professor
We are proud to announce that our colleague Mojca Pajnik was elected full professor. Congratulations!
Emanuela Fabijan, the New PhD
Our colleague from POPMED team Emanuela Fabijan defended her PhD thesis from communications at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Sincere congratulations for this achievement!
The fifth symposium of the programme group
We devoted the debates to rethinking the selected theoretical concepts for understanding modern societies in conditions of accumulation of permanent crises.
Projects
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Parliament for the Future of Europe
The project creates awareness for barriers/ inaccessibilities and develops concrete proposals for a more inclusive EU.
Everyday life and life course of old people living in poverty
The importance of the research lies in the conceptualisation of old-age poverty as an accumulation of structural inequalities.
FIERCE – Feminist movements revitalizing democracy in Europe
The project’s main goal is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliance among feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers.
Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe “From Below”: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies and Transnational Networks [ECSEuro]
The research project takes up the question of how new approaches can be identified at the local scale vis-à-vis the longstanding challenges for Europe to establish cross-border cooperation.
Empowering Migrant Voices on Integration and Inclusion Policies – EMVI
Enabling and upscaling the participation of migrants in the design and implementation of policy areas that directly affect them and to bring issues to local, national and EU decision...
Hate speech in contemporary conceptualizations of nationalism, racism, gender and migration
Background Slovenia faces a significant increase and normalization of hate speech on social networks, accompanied by heated discussions on whether to prosecute or ignore it because the society is continuously […]
Publications
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Article / The Transversal Political Logic of Populism: Framing the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Slovenian Parliamentary Debates
In the article the authors Mojca Pajnik and Emanuela Fabijan analyse how politicians in Slovenia responded to migration during and after the ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2019).
Regulation of Political Advertising in the EU
Liberties and human rights organizations in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia have looked at how political advertising is regulated in their respective countries. The Slovenian review was...
Intersectionality: Perspectives on Structural, Political and Representational Inequality
The book’s focus is on the concept of intersectionality, and it examines it by analysing policies and public discourses in Slovenia over the last twenty years, i.e. during a...
Article The Intertwining of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Democracy Backlash: Making Sense of Journalism in Crisis
This article explores how the combination of the public health crisis and the authoritarian government of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party, along with its tendency to politically instrumentalize and...
Book chapter Trapped in the Institution: Governing the Covid-19 Epidemic in Slovenian Eldercare Homes from the Perspective of Care Micro-Mobilities
The chapter provides an analysis of the government measures for the containment of Covid-19 disease in elder care homes in Slovenia, where during the first wave of the epidemic...
Article The Virus of Fear: Nationalism and Pandemic Society
Tha author analyses the government measures taken in Slovenia since the emergence of the coronavirus disease Covid-19, which concern the crossing of national borders, and parallels them with some...