News
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Book 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.
Monitoring civic space
In the PROSECO project consortium, we are developing a methodology to analyze the state of civic space .
The Peace Research Community Europe network has come to life
Slovenia is represented in the network's management committee by the director of the Peace Institute, Dr. Iztok Šori.
Final ECSEuro conference on Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity ‘From Below’
The conference brought together scholars in critical migration studies, urban geography, social movement studies.
Policy briefing: Journalistic Resilience against Communicative Authoritarian Populism
Report presents the insights taken from the interviews, specifically focusing on coping mechanisms against the impact of authoritarian populism on journalism and journalistic practices.
Hateful 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
Projects
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Working conditions and job quality in hospitality and tourism: A comparative analysis with recommendations
The project provides new knowledge on the working conditions and quality of jobs in the hospitality and tourism sector in Slovenia and proposes solutions to the shortage of staff...
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 […]
Publications
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Book / What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition
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.
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.