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The book Stories of the Erased, edited by Uršula Lipovec Čebron and Jelka Zorn, is composed of 27 stories of individual erased people. The erased wrote their stories together with students of the Faculty of Social Work and Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. These are stories about the courage, innovation, surviving strategies and hope, that are revealing new or less known aspects of the erasure and its consequences.

Editors: Uršula Lipovec Čebron and Jelka Zorn
Publisher Sanje, Ljubljana, 2011

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“Uncompromisingly systematic and accurate, almost a vivisection of the crime committed by the state against part of its citizens not recognized as its members; it is a vivisection in the real sense of the word, given that the designers and executors of this administrative genocide are still alive; it is systematic because it addresses almost all areas of living that were affected, injured, denied, and in many cases terminated and destroyed; it is accurate because it offers a look into the crime from all angles, ranging from legal to broader sociological approaches, such as the homogenization of the nation and the exclusion by the Slovenian nation-state of impure admixtures. This suggests only the briefest outline of the book The Scars of the Erasure.”

(Prof. Dr. Dragan Petrovec)

Authors: Neža Kogovšek, Jelka Zorn, Sara Pistotnik, Uršula Lipovec Čebron, Veronika Bajt, Brankica Petković, Lana Zdravković

Peace Institute, Ljubljana, 2010

This thematic issue of the Journal for the Critique of Science, “Once Upon an Erasure: From Citizens to Illegal Residents in the Republic of Slovenia,” puts questions such as the formation of Slovenian citizenship after independence, media silence, exclusion of the erased from the health care system, violations of international law, liability issues and the creation of organized innocence in the centre of our attention. There are also contributions on the lasting fight of the erased to restore the rights, the analogy with the struggles for justice in Latin America, a critical analysis of a constitutional law (which the government called a “solution of the erasure”) and an analysis of government rhetoric, all within a broader European and post-Yugoslav context. The book also contains an extensive chronology of events associated with the erasure, reviews of cultural events, a DVD with two documentary movies (Rubbed out and The Caravan of the Erased), photographs, cartoons, etc.

Authors: Marta Gregorčič, Vlasta Jalušič, Neža Kogovšek, Andrej Kurnik, Uršula Lipovec Čebron, Borut Mekina, Igor Mekina, Marta Stojić, Imma Tuccillo Castaldo, Svetlana Vasović, Boris Vezjak, Jelka Zorn and Sara Pistotnik. Interviews with Aleksandar Todorović, Aleksander Doplihar, Roberto Pignoni and Boris A. Novak.

Journal for the Critique of Science, for Imagination and New Anthropology, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, 2008.

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This is a book about the erasure of tens of thousands of people from the register of permanent residents of Slovenia that took place soon after Slovenia became an independent country. The foreword by Vlasta Jalušič delineates the political background which paved the road for violations of human rights and subsequent strategies of justifications. The main part of the book consists of two studies: Jasminka Dedić explains various legal aspects of the issue, while Jelka Zorn presents the ethnographic study including the erased people’s testimonies. The two supplements bring a chronology of the main events related to erasure and a brief report on the violations of erased individuals’ rights by Matevž Krivic, an advocate for the erased residents (the report was written for the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of his visit to Slovenia in May 2003).

Authors: Jasminka Dedić, Vlasta Jalušič, Jelka Zorn

Peace Institute, Ljubljana, 2003