Peter Simonič
Biographic Data
| ID | 85215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Simonič |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Simonič |
| SIGNATURE | SIMONIČ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7003-0668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Island of Žirje
The article examines the influence and remnants of economic and political systems as layers of time on the remote island of Žirje in Croatia, focusing on developments from the sixteenth century onwards. The author explores changes in local economic, political, legal, religious, spatial, and kinship arrangements to shed light on contemporary ethnographic realities. By adopting a relational approach to studying Žirje, the author challenges the noti…
The role of social institutions in the operation of Maribor start-ups and cooperatives after economic crisis in 2008
Anthropological perspectives of solidarity and reciprocity
The concept of solidarity is ambiguous: it includes mechanisms of taxes and redistribution, charity, altruistic contributions and political support, social policy, concessions, grants, funds, food, clothes, social entrepreneurship, sponsorship, NGOS, etc. Communitarianism, equality and progress are their ideological pillars. Solidarity in mass culture is a form of ideational and tangible redistribution. Sociology based on the Marxist tradition ha…
Social and Spatial Adjustments in Domanjševci
The article describes the transformation of the smallholders’ community of Domanjševci (Hung. Domonkosfa) on the Slovenian-Hungarian border during the last two centuries. On the basis of ethnographic and archival sources, the author compares the village’s socio-political contexts resulting from the building of the Iron Curtain and its removal. Both periods are analyzed as modernization or rationalization paradigms (communist and capitalist) which…
Contested Rites – Janša’s Politics of Statehood Celebration in Contemporary Slovenia
Political division, which re-emerged after Slovenian independence and parliamentary democracy in 1991, has strongly influenced Slovenian social life. The article focuses on official and parallel celebrations of statehood day as a political tool in political arena. The author analyses those manipulative and discursive techniques used by opposition leader Janez Janša that were the most evident in the critique of the official celebrations of stateho…
Social and Cultural Relocations of Rudolf Maister. About the Political Mythology of Lower Styria
The article deals with the historical circumstances of the life and work of General Rudolf Maister and the social perception of his actions through the 20th century when he transformed himself from the controversial and peripheral personalities of Slovenian society into one of the greatest political and military heroes of the Slovenian state. *** Članek obravnava zgodovinske okoliščine življenja in delovanja generala Rudolfa Maistra in družbeno p…
Insularity and the Political Economy of Tourism. An Anthropological Analysis of Zlarin Island and the Trenta Valley
This paper combines environmental, communitarian and political-economic forces to explain cultural heritage and tourism on Zlarin Island (Croatia, Dalmatia) and in the Trenta Valley (Slovenia, Alps).The two selected places belong to different geo-cultural areas and academic traditions, but also share many common features including late colonisation, intensive agriculture and overpopulation, population decline in the twentieth century, change in o…
Politics and Management of Contemporary Culture
Transition in Eastern Europe raised questions about appropriate methodologies and tools for management of material and informational resources on different social levels. An important influence on reshaping of leadership and objectives had the concepts of civil society, liberalisation and marketing. Author tries to elaborate these concepts in the light of post-modern anthropological paradigm. He also gives some outlines on the ethics of developme…
Political Economy and Ecology of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra
Cooperatives were frequent and successful ways of organizing the sugarcane industry in Maharashtra. During Indian socialism, local self-organization was an important political and economic tool for development and against market egoism. Neoliberalism went in the opposite direction, toward the dismantling of the economy of the community and the privatization of resources and profits. A distant look over the 20th century reveals the interdependence…
Vladimir Rukavina – Master of Festivity. Social Change and Cultural Policy from Above
Vladimir Rukavina is one of the most important and steadfast figures of the post-socialist transition in Maribor. The Festival Lent, which he and his team have been organizing annually for more than twenty years, is the biggest open-air festival in Slovenia and among fifty most distinguished events in Europe. The festival is an excellent case to analyse social dynamics in post-socialist transition of the city of Maribor. Author discusses how far …
Natural, Economic, Political and Demographic Conditions of Trenta in Triglav National Park
Dolina Trenta v Julijskih Alpah, ki v celoti spada v območje Triglavskega narodnega parka, ima za sabo pisano zgodovino, četudi se lahko sodobnemu turistu zdi, da se je v njej čas ustavil. Avtor v članku razkriva pet temeljnih obdobij ali paradigem razvoja, v katerih se je oblikovalo razmerje prebivalcev doline do okolja in sta se spreminjala njegova raba in pomen. Pri tem se avtor ne opira na modernistično, dediščinsko ali folkloristično razmišl…
The Scope of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Protected Areas. Pohorje Regional Park, Slovenia
Anthropos , Seite 248 - 256
Utilisation of Carnival Case of North-eastern Slovenia
Article/presentation focuses on two Carnivals, which can reveal socio-economic and cultural conditions and continuum of traditional culture. The first one is the most important Carnival in Slovenia named Kurentovanje in Ptuj. The second one takes place in Maribor, the capitol of the region of Štajerska. Article analyses these carnivals as an excellent cases of invented tradition transformed in the process of commercialisation and nationalisation
Insularity and the Political Economy of Tourism. An Anthropological Analysis of Zlarin Island and the Trenta Valley
This paper combines environmental, communitarian and political-economic forces to explain cultural heritage and tourism on Zlarin Island (Croatia, Dalmatia) and in the Trenta Valley (Slovenia, Alps).The two selected places belong to different geo-cultural areas and academic traditions, but also share many common features including late colonisation, intensive agriculture and overpopulation, population decline in the twentieth century, change in o…
The role of social institutions in the operation of Maribor start-ups and cooperatives after economic crisis in 2008
Contested Rites – Janša’s Politics of Statehood Celebration in Contemporary Slovenia
Political division, which re-emerged after Slovenian independence and parliamentary democracy in 1991, has strongly influenced Slovenian social life. The article focuses on official and parallel celebrations of statehood day as a political tool in political arena. The author analyses those manipulative and discursive techniques used by opposition leader Janez Janša that were the most evident in the critique of the official celebrations of stateho…
Natural, Economic, Political and Demographic Conditions of Trenta in Triglav National Park
Dolina Trenta v Julijskih Alpah, ki v celoti spada v območje Triglavskega narodnega parka, ima za sabo pisano zgodovino, četudi se lahko sodobnemu turistu zdi, da se je v njej čas ustavil. Avtor v članku razkriva pet temeljnih obdobij ali paradigem razvoja, v katerih se je oblikovalo razmerje prebivalcev doline do okolja in sta se spreminjala njegova raba in pomen. Pri tem se avtor ne opira na modernistično, dediščinsko ali folkloristično razmišl…
Utilisation of Carnival Case of North-eastern Slovenia
Article/presentation focuses on two Carnivals, which can reveal socio-economic and cultural conditions and continuum of traditional culture. The first one is the most important Carnival in Slovenia named Kurentovanje in Ptuj. The second one takes place in Maribor, the capitol of the region of Štajerska. Article analyses these carnivals as an excellent cases of invented tradition transformed in the process of commercialisation and nationalisation
Natural, Economic, Political and Demographic Conditions of Trenta in Triglav National Park
Dolina Trenta v Julijskih Alpah, ki v celoti spada v območje Triglavskega narodnega parka, ima za sabo pisano zgodovino, četudi se lahko sodobnemu turistu zdi, da se je v njej čas ustavil. Avtor v članku razkriva pet temeljnih obdobij ali paradigem razvoja, v katerih se je oblikovalo razmerje prebivalcev doline do okolja in sta se spreminjala njegova raba in pomen. Pri tem se avtor ne opira na modernistično, dediščinsko ali folkloristično razmišl…
The Scope of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Protected Areas. Pohorje Regional Park, Slovenia
Anthropos , Seite 248 - 256
Politics and Management of Contemporary Culture
Transition in Eastern Europe raised questions about appropriate methodologies and tools for management of material and informational resources on different social levels. An important influence on reshaping of leadership and objectives had the concepts of civil society, liberalisation and marketing. Author tries to elaborate these concepts in the light of post-modern anthropological paradigm. He also gives some outlines on the ethics of developme…
Political Economy and Ecology of Sugar Cooperatives in Maharashtra
Cooperatives were frequent and successful ways of organizing the sugarcane industry in Maharashtra. During Indian socialism, local self-organization was an important political and economic tool for development and against market egoism. Neoliberalism went in the opposite direction, toward the dismantling of the economy of the community and the privatization of resources and profits. A distant look over the 20th century reveals the interdependence…
Vladimir Rukavina – Master of Festivity. Social Change and Cultural Policy from Above
Vladimir Rukavina is one of the most important and steadfast figures of the post-socialist transition in Maribor. The Festival Lent, which he and his team have been organizing annually for more than twenty years, is the biggest open-air festival in Slovenia and among fifty most distinguished events in Europe. The festival is an excellent case to analyse social dynamics in post-socialist transition of the city of Maribor. Author discusses how far …
Insularity and the Political Economy of Tourism. An Anthropological Analysis of Zlarin Island and the Trenta Valley
This paper combines environmental, communitarian and political-economic forces to explain cultural heritage and tourism on Zlarin Island (Croatia, Dalmatia) and in the Trenta Valley (Slovenia, Alps).The two selected places belong to different geo-cultural areas and academic traditions, but also share many common features including late colonisation, intensive agriculture and overpopulation, population decline in the twentieth century, change in o…
Social and Cultural Relocations of Rudolf Maister. About the Political Mythology of Lower Styria
The article deals with the historical circumstances of the life and work of General Rudolf Maister and the social perception of his actions through the 20th century when he transformed himself from the controversial and peripheral personalities of Slovenian society into one of the greatest political and military heroes of the Slovenian state. *** Članek obravnava zgodovinske okoliščine življenja in delovanja generala Rudolfa Maistra in družbeno p…
Anthropological perspectives of solidarity and reciprocity
The concept of solidarity is ambiguous: it includes mechanisms of taxes and redistribution, charity, altruistic contributions and political support, social policy, concessions, grants, funds, food, clothes, social entrepreneurship, sponsorship, NGOS, etc. Communitarianism, equality and progress are their ideological pillars. Solidarity in mass culture is a form of ideational and tangible redistribution. Sociology based on the Marxist tradition ha…
Social and Spatial Adjustments in Domanjševci
The article describes the transformation of the smallholders’ community of Domanjševci (Hung. Domonkosfa) on the Slovenian-Hungarian border during the last two centuries. On the basis of ethnographic and archival sources, the author compares the village’s socio-political contexts resulting from the building of the Iron Curtain and its removal. Both periods are analyzed as modernization or rationalization paradigms (communist and capitalist) which…
Contested Rites – Janša’s Politics of Statehood Celebration in Contemporary Slovenia
Political division, which re-emerged after Slovenian independence and parliamentary democracy in 1991, has strongly influenced Slovenian social life. The article focuses on official and parallel celebrations of statehood day as a political tool in political arena. The author analyses those manipulative and discursive techniques used by opposition leader Janez Janša that were the most evident in the critique of the official celebrations of stateho…
The role of social institutions in the operation of Maribor start-ups and cooperatives after economic crisis in 2008
The Island of Žirje
The article examines the influence and remnants of economic and political systems as layers of time on the remote island of Žirje in Croatia, focusing on developments from the sixteenth century onwards. The author explores changes in local economic, political, legal, religious, spatial, and kinship arrangements to shed light on contemporary ethnographic realities. By adopting a relational approach to studying Žirje, the author challenges the noti…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)