The research programme addresses the problem of devaluation of human rights and principles of equality among people in times of global governance and it thinks about – with historical sensibility about a possible future of the European humanism.
The research programme focuses on the concepts of human rights, equality, diversity and non-discrimination that found themselves at a historical crossroads. While on one hand the regulation of human rights has never been so precise and extensive, on the other hand the significance of these rights has never been so reduced. In times of permanent crisis (economic, financial, migration, crisis of democratic institutions …) the debate of the fundamental equalities among people and of the theory of human rights at the international and European levels has largely faded away and in Slovenia after it gained independence it has never really come to life again. In time of the decline of politics it was replaced by the debates on security, terrorism, sovereignty. This research programme addresses the problem of the devaluation of human rights and the idea of equality, reflecting the possible future of the European humanism.
News
25. 10. 2024Book What Kind of Government?
Springer has published the book 'What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition', edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
8. 10. 2024Hateful discourses in the digital age
Last week we organized the Program Group Symposium "Hateful Discourses in the Digital Age: How Neoliberalism and the Radical Right are Shaping our Future
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.
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.
5. 1. 2024Professionalizing emotions in the media
An article by Mojca Pajnik about the professionalization of emotions in the media was published in Journalism Studies.
13. 12. 2023Transformations of the Media Sphere: Amplifying Opportunity Structures for Populism
The book The Complexity of Populism: New Approaches and Methods (Routledge), which includes a chapter by Mojce Pajnik entitled Transformations of the Media Sphere: Amplifying Opportunity Structures for Populism.
14. 11. 2023Affective media: First meeting of the research group
We acquired a new research project Affective, which the Peace Institute is implementing together with the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska.
12. 10. 2023Symposium of the Program Group devoted to methodological approaches
We devoted the symposium to the discussion of selected methodological approaches and experiences of researchers using different methodologies in the research process.
1. 9. 2023Publication in Media, Culture & Society journal
Scientific paper has been published based on a comparative analysis of media ownership structures in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Turkey.
6. 3. 2023Article: Aligning populist worldviews of citizens to media preferences: peculiarities of an illiberal political context
The journal East-European Politics has just released the article by Mojca Pajnik, Nejc Berzelak and Ajda Šulc.
24. 2. 2023Legislative and Judicial Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Slovenia and Austria: A Comparative Perspective
In the last issue of the journal 'Dve domovini/Two Homelands', Neža Kogovšek Šalamon compares the key normative approaches to responses to the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis” in Slovenia and Austria.
4. 1. 2023The 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).
Head of the research program:
Mojca Pajnik
Project team:
Iztok Šori, Lana Zdravković, Maja Breznik, Majda Hrženjak, Marko Ribać, Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, Tjaša Turnšek, Sergeja Hrvatič, Zoran Fijavž, Veronika Bajt, Vlasta Jalušič, Živa Humer
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