Perforated Democracy: Disintegration, State-building, Europeanisation and the Erased of Slovenia
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon -the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the early 1990s.It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred.While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia -including the distinction between the recognised "autochthonous" minorities and the non-recognised "new" minorities -it paves the ground for theoretical and sociological discussion of the "erased".The theoretical discussion is based on the questions of human rights, nationalism and citizenship, both in its classic (nation-state) conception and its alternative forms such as global citizenship.Sociologically, it places the "erasure" into a broader frame of investigating the processes of democratisation and Europeanisation, thus highlighting the key factors that caused the perforation of Slovene democracy in its twenty years of independence.
Source: Revija za sociologiju
DOI: 10.5613/rzs.41.1.3
Authors: Damjan Mandelc, Tjaša Učakar
Institution: University of Ljubljana
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2095009170