Maruša Pušnik
Biographic Data
| ID | 111289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maruša Pušnik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maruša |
| FAMILY NAME | Pušnik |
| SIGNATURE | PUŠNIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6205-6366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment
This article approaches personal memory travels with the aim of investigating people's encounters with the changing environment in relation to time. It centers on the intra-actions with perceptual ephemera as immaterial non-solid entities to argue that our relational reality is a cyclical, dis-continuous process of past and present encounters. The study is grounded in the post-humanist performativity approach and based on personal life histories …
Travel beyond place: Touring memories and displaced homecoming
The article examines how practices of remembering and recurring patterns of mobility to the same place work to consolidate one’s sense of home and belonging. The authors investigate how experiences of at-homeness are reinvented through touring memories and practices of personal memory tourism. Repeated travels to diverse personal memory sites are analysed through the personal, autobiographic memories of residents of Slovenia as (mostly domestic) …
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’
The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analyse the discursive strategies through which the print media in Slovenia represented ‘Melania’ as an ethnically born Slovenian on a national scale. The article also demonstrates how patriotism, based on the love and feelings of belonging to the Slovenian nation-state, was nationalized in the case of ‘Melania’. The main argument is that numerous and repet…
Clothing and Expressive Revolution: Wearing Jeans in Socialism
This study investigates jeans use as well as the discursive practices that framed jeans-wearing in 1960s and 1970s socialist Yugoslavia. We adopt a practice theory approach that goes beyond the expressive capacity of jeans and focuses on their material and practical capacity as an epitome of cultural transformation. Practices discussed include embodied practices enabled by jeans and those that have jeans as their target, such as smuggling, dreami…
Intimate media and technological nature of sociality
The article argues for the audience studies, which draws on the analysis of artifactual, spatial, temporal, and sensorial aspects of media consumption and builds on, that is, the so-called medium theory and theory of practice in sociology. In the second part of the article, we interpret the results of a qualitative empirical study regarding the daily use of media technology among young people, aged between 19 and 29 years. The study finds that ci…
In Strangers' Hands: Thai Massage Services in Slovenia
This article looks at the Thai massage industry in Slovenia and its impact on the perception of Thai women workers among users of the service. The arrival of Thai massage salons in Slovenia presents an aspect of global 'body work', which has increasingly relied on the labour of migrant women from the global South. In Slovenia, however, the presence of Thai female labour is a relatively new development, as is migration from Asia more broadly. In o…
Media memorial discourses and memory struggles in Slovenia: Transforming memories of the Second World War and Yugoslavia
The radical break between two national contexts in 1991, when Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia, and Slovenia’s integration into the European Union in 2004, has brought changes to the collective memory of the Slovenian nation. In this article, I investigate how Delo, a major Slovenian daily newspaper, has been involved in memory struggles to present new memorial discourses that are in accordance with the new national politics. A large part of the …
Dinamika novičarskega diskurza populizma in ekstremizma: Moralne Zgodbe O Beguncih
Članek proučuje značilnosti ekstremnih populističnih novičarskih diskurzov in njihovih desnih politik na primeru ksenofobnega tona razprav o beguncih in islamu. Da bi demitologiziral populistične diskurze, ki jih reproducirata, in razkril način razširjanja ekstremističnih pogledov, analizira prispevke o beguncih iz dveh tednikov, Reporterja in Demokracije, ki se samoopredeljujeta kot desno usmerjena politična tednika. Njun politični diskurz temel…
Science in Power: Representing the Slovene nation through scientific work
Despite its image of an objective and neutral activity within society, science can also be involved in the ideological production of nationalism and in the creation of nations. This paper offers a critical cultural analysis of the mainstream Slovene scientific texts on national matters. It examines doctoral dissertations from various disciplines, all of which deal with Slovene national culture and its borders and were produced in Slovenia in the …
An entertaining (r)evolution: The rise of television in socialist Slovenia
Women in Their Own Reflection: Self-Representation of Women Politicians in the Slovenian Press
The authors have analyzed different discursive strategies through which women politicians express themselves in the Slovenian press. Based on a constructivist paradigm, which defines gender as a discursively constructed category, the authors have applied discourse analysis to discover how women politicians articulate and reproduce certain dominant myths of femininity in accordance with hegemonic discourses, paying special attention to the notion …
Media memorial discourses and memory struggles in Slovenia: Transforming memories of the Second World War and Yugoslavia
The radical break between two national contexts in 1991, when Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia, and Slovenia’s integration into the European Union in 2004, has brought changes to the collective memory of the Slovenian nation. In this article, I investigate how Delo, a major Slovenian daily newspaper, has been involved in memory struggles to present new memorial discourses that are in accordance with the new national politics. A large part of the …
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’
The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analyse the discursive strategies through which the print media in Slovenia represented ‘Melania’ as an ethnically born Slovenian on a national scale. The article also demonstrates how patriotism, based on the love and feelings of belonging to the Slovenian nation-state, was nationalized in the case of ‘Melania’. The main argument is that numerous and repet…
In Strangers' Hands: Thai Massage Services in Slovenia
This article looks at the Thai massage industry in Slovenia and its impact on the perception of Thai women workers among users of the service. The arrival of Thai massage salons in Slovenia presents an aspect of global 'body work', which has increasingly relied on the labour of migrant women from the global South. In Slovenia, however, the presence of Thai female labour is a relatively new development, as is migration from Asia more broadly. In o…
Dinamika novičarskega diskurza populizma in ekstremizma: Moralne Zgodbe O Beguncih
Članek proučuje značilnosti ekstremnih populističnih novičarskih diskurzov in njihovih desnih politik na primeru ksenofobnega tona razprav o beguncih in islamu. Da bi demitologiziral populistične diskurze, ki jih reproducirata, in razkril način razširjanja ekstremističnih pogledov, analizira prispevke o beguncih iz dveh tednikov, Reporterja in Demokracije, ki se samoopredeljujeta kot desno usmerjena politična tednika. Njun politični diskurz temel…
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment
This article approaches personal memory travels with the aim of investigating people's encounters with the changing environment in relation to time. It centers on the intra-actions with perceptual ephemera as immaterial non-solid entities to argue that our relational reality is a cyclical, dis-continuous process of past and present encounters. The study is grounded in the post-humanist performativity approach and based on personal life histories …
Travel beyond place: Touring memories and displaced homecoming
The article examines how practices of remembering and recurring patterns of mobility to the same place work to consolidate one’s sense of home and belonging. The authors investigate how experiences of at-homeness are reinvented through touring memories and practices of personal memory tourism. Repeated travels to diverse personal memory sites are analysed through the personal, autobiographic memories of residents of Slovenia as (mostly domestic) …
An entertaining (r)evolution: The rise of television in socialist Slovenia
Women in Their Own Reflection: Self-Representation of Women Politicians in the Slovenian Press
The authors have analyzed different discursive strategies through which women politicians express themselves in the Slovenian press. Based on a constructivist paradigm, which defines gender as a discursively constructed category, the authors have applied discourse analysis to discover how women politicians articulate and reproduce certain dominant myths of femininity in accordance with hegemonic discourses, paying special attention to the notion …
Women in Their Own Reflection: Self-Representation of Women Politicians in the Slovenian Press
The authors have analyzed different discursive strategies through which women politicians express themselves in the Slovenian press. Based on a constructivist paradigm, which defines gender as a discursively constructed category, the authors have applied discourse analysis to discover how women politicians articulate and reproduce certain dominant myths of femininity in accordance with hegemonic discourses, paying special attention to the notion …
An entertaining (r)evolution: The rise of television in socialist Slovenia
Science in Power: Representing the Slovene nation through scientific work
Despite its image of an objective and neutral activity within society, science can also be involved in the ideological production of nationalism and in the creation of nations. This paper offers a critical cultural analysis of the mainstream Slovene scientific texts on national matters. It examines doctoral dissertations from various disciplines, all of which deal with Slovene national culture and its borders and were produced in Slovenia in the …
Media memorial discourses and memory struggles in Slovenia: Transforming memories of the Second World War and Yugoslavia
The radical break between two national contexts in 1991, when Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia, and Slovenia’s integration into the European Union in 2004, has brought changes to the collective memory of the Slovenian nation. In this article, I investigate how Delo, a major Slovenian daily newspaper, has been involved in memory struggles to present new memorial discourses that are in accordance with the new national politics. A large part of the …
Dinamika novičarskega diskurza populizma in ekstremizma: Moralne Zgodbe O Beguncih
Članek proučuje značilnosti ekstremnih populističnih novičarskih diskurzov in njihovih desnih politik na primeru ksenofobnega tona razprav o beguncih in islamu. Da bi demitologiziral populistične diskurze, ki jih reproducirata, in razkril način razširjanja ekstremističnih pogledov, analizira prispevke o beguncih iz dveh tednikov, Reporterja in Demokracije, ki se samoopredeljujeta kot desno usmerjena politična tednika. Njun politični diskurz temel…
In Strangers' Hands: Thai Massage Services in Slovenia
This article looks at the Thai massage industry in Slovenia and its impact on the perception of Thai women workers among users of the service. The arrival of Thai massage salons in Slovenia presents an aspect of global 'body work', which has increasingly relied on the labour of migrant women from the global South. In Slovenia, however, the presence of Thai female labour is a relatively new development, as is migration from Asia more broadly. In o…
Intimate media and technological nature of sociality
The article argues for the audience studies, which draws on the analysis of artifactual, spatial, temporal, and sensorial aspects of media consumption and builds on, that is, the so-called medium theory and theory of practice in sociology. In the second part of the article, we interpret the results of a qualitative empirical study regarding the daily use of media technology among young people, aged between 19 and 29 years. The study finds that ci…
The nation as an imagined commodity: Branding ‘Melania’
The article uses the case of Melania Trump, the former First Lady of the United States, to analyse the discursive strategies through which the print media in Slovenia represented ‘Melania’ as an ethnically born Slovenian on a national scale. The article also demonstrates how patriotism, based on the love and feelings of belonging to the Slovenian nation-state, was nationalized in the case of ‘Melania’. The main argument is that numerous and repet…
Clothing and Expressive Revolution: Wearing Jeans in Socialism
This study investigates jeans use as well as the discursive practices that framed jeans-wearing in 1960s and 1970s socialist Yugoslavia. We adopt a practice theory approach that goes beyond the expressive capacity of jeans and focuses on their material and practical capacity as an epitome of cultural transformation. Practices discussed include embodied practices enabled by jeans and those that have jeans as their target, such as smuggling, dreami…
Travel beyond place: Touring memories and displaced homecoming
The article examines how practices of remembering and recurring patterns of mobility to the same place work to consolidate one’s sense of home and belonging. The authors investigate how experiences of at-homeness are reinvented through touring memories and practices of personal memory tourism. Repeated travels to diverse personal memory sites are analysed through the personal, autobiographic memories of residents of Slovenia as (mostly domestic) …
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment
This article approaches personal memory travels with the aim of investigating people's encounters with the changing environment in relation to time. It centers on the intra-actions with perceptual ephemera as immaterial non-solid entities to argue that our relational reality is a cyclical, dis-continuous process of past and present encounters. The study is grounded in the post-humanist performativity approach and based on personal life histories …
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