Alexandra Bitušíková
Biographic Data
| ID | 73344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Bitušíková |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Bitušíková |
| SIGNATURE | BITUŠÍKOVÁ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Matej Bel University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4492-4101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Does climate change delegitimize political parties? How movement–party linkages in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Poland are reshaped
Contemporary climate movements such as Fridays for Future have declared to stay away from party politics out of fear of being dragged into a party-political debate. In their perspective, they advocate scientific truths which shall be implemented without political negotiations watering them down. Yet, they direct their demands towards the representative system. In this article, based on a series of qualitative interviews with activists and politic…
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality
The phenomenon of depopulation has been recognised as a significant challenge in many rural regions of the European Union. This phenomenon negatively affects demographic indicators as well as local communities along with their cultural heritage. A case study from Slovakia examines how the process of depopulation on the one hand weakens communities, but on the other hand also provides an opportunity for their revitalisation, strengthening vitality…
Food as a Unifier? Rural and Urban Food Festivals in Central Slovakia
The paper focuses on food festivals in rural and urban localities in Central Slovakia. Food events and festivals are popular and spread all over the world as it is stressed in a lot of scholarly literature (e.g
Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect transformations of memory (remembering and forgetting), identity, heritage, power and resilience related to public space in a post-socialist city. Changing street names creates new connections betw…
Emergence of current European thinking and policies on doctoral education
In today's age of knowledge and technology, societies are changing fast, on both macro and micro levels. Hardly anyone could have predicted several years ago such an acceleration of change and its impact on society, and in particular, on higher education. In Europe as well as globally, higher education has been undergoing many changes for more than two decades. In many countries, the number of higher education institutions has increased, mass edu…
Cultural heritage as a means of heritage tourism development
A large number of studies within the social sciences have been devoted to the relationship between cultural heritage and cultural/ heritage tourism development in recent years and even decades. This area of study has been an object of interest for numerous disciplines, from economics, geography, sociology and history, to ethnology, sociocultural anthropology, museology and cultural studies. The study aims to present selected theories on cultural …
Cultural Heritage-Based Urban Festival as a Tool to Promote Local Identity and City Marketing
This paper deals with the processes of transformation of an urban festival – the Radvaň Fair in the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia – in a comprehensive way and from a chronological point of view. The main focus is on the development of the festival in the post-1989 (post-communist) period. The fair has been organised continuously since 1655 and went through a number of transformations. Its function has changed from a primarily commercial event…
Selected Concepts of Contemporary Rural Research
The objective of the study is to offer an overview of selected concepts and approaches to the study of the contemporary rural environment and rurality from the perspective of disciplines close to social anthropology (mainly sociology and human geography) on the basis of scientific literature. The study builds on the objectives of the APVV project, introduced in the Editorial of this volume (Socio-cultural capital of successful villages as a sourc…
Parades of Monuments and Memorials
The paper focuses on monuments and memorials construction, reconstruction, removal or relocation in Slovakia in the context of post-socialist urban development. It focuses on monuments and memorials illustrated by a set of examples and narratives from the city of Bansk Bystrica. Monuments are built structures erected to commemorate an event or a person of historical importance. As signifi cant landmarks they are an important part of city-making, …
Regions and Regionalism in Social Anthropology
The article deals with the study of regionalism in European social anthropology with the focus on Slovakia's regions, regional diversities and identities in a broader perspective of European integration and regionalisation. It looks at socio-anthropological research on regionalism worldwide and in Slovakia particularly. The key objective is to examine the impact of geographical conditions and political-administrative reforms on the development of…
(In)Visible Women in Political Life in Slovakia
The article deals with the questions of the (in)visibility of women in Slovak political life. The material presents statistical data on women's participation in Slovak national, regional and local politics with the support of qualitative data from interviews with women politicians and activists. The author looks at the reasons for the low political representation of women and the unsuccessful attempts to increase it by introducing positive mechan…
Slovakia
(2002). Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 41-64
Transformations of a city centre in the light of ideologies
This paper is concerned with transformations of the central square in the city of Banská Bystrica, Central Slovakia, from 1918 to the present. This period can be divided into three important eras with respect to the historical development of the square. In the democratic period from 1918–48, the central square was a polyfunctional area where most of the city’s social and cultural events and activities took place. The polyfunctionality of the squa…
(In)Visible Women in Political Life in Slovakia
The article deals with the questions of the (in)visibility of women in Slovak political life. The material presents statistical data on women's participation in Slovak national, regional and local politics with the support of qualitative data from interviews with women politicians and activists. The author looks at the reasons for the low political representation of women and the unsuccessful attempts to increase it by introducing positive mechan…
Transformations of a city centre in the light of ideologies
This paper is concerned with transformations of the central square in the city of Banská Bystrica, Central Slovakia, from 1918 to the present. This period can be divided into three important eras with respect to the historical development of the square. In the democratic period from 1918–48, the central square was a polyfunctional area where most of the city’s social and cultural events and activities took place. The polyfunctionality of the squa…
Parades of Monuments and Memorials
The paper focuses on monuments and memorials construction, reconstruction, removal or relocation in Slovakia in the context of post-socialist urban development. It focuses on monuments and memorials illustrated by a set of examples and narratives from the city of Bansk Bystrica. Monuments are built structures erected to commemorate an event or a person of historical importance. As signifi cant landmarks they are an important part of city-making, …
Slovakia
(2002). Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 41-64
Transformations of a city centre in the light of ideologies
This paper is concerned with transformations of the central square in the city of Banská Bystrica, Central Slovakia, from 1918 to the present. This period can be divided into three important eras with respect to the historical development of the square. In the democratic period from 1918–48, the central square was a polyfunctional area where most of the city’s social and cultural events and activities took place. The polyfunctionality of the squa…
Slovakia
(2002). Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 41-64
(In)Visible Women in Political Life in Slovakia
The article deals with the questions of the (in)visibility of women in Slovak political life. The material presents statistical data on women's participation in Slovak national, regional and local politics with the support of qualitative data from interviews with women politicians and activists. The author looks at the reasons for the low political representation of women and the unsuccessful attempts to increase it by introducing positive mechan…
Regions and Regionalism in Social Anthropology
The article deals with the study of regionalism in European social anthropology with the focus on Slovakia's regions, regional diversities and identities in a broader perspective of European integration and regionalisation. It looks at socio-anthropological research on regionalism worldwide and in Slovakia particularly. The key objective is to examine the impact of geographical conditions and political-administrative reforms on the development of…
Parades of Monuments and Memorials
The paper focuses on monuments and memorials construction, reconstruction, removal or relocation in Slovakia in the context of post-socialist urban development. It focuses on monuments and memorials illustrated by a set of examples and narratives from the city of Bansk Bystrica. Monuments are built structures erected to commemorate an event or a person of historical importance. As signifi cant landmarks they are an important part of city-making, …
Selected Concepts of Contemporary Rural Research
The objective of the study is to offer an overview of selected concepts and approaches to the study of the contemporary rural environment and rurality from the perspective of disciplines close to social anthropology (mainly sociology and human geography) on the basis of scientific literature. The study builds on the objectives of the APVV project, introduced in the Editorial of this volume (Socio-cultural capital of successful villages as a sourc…
Cultural Heritage-Based Urban Festival as a Tool to Promote Local Identity and City Marketing
This paper deals with the processes of transformation of an urban festival – the Radvaň Fair in the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia – in a comprehensive way and from a chronological point of view. The main focus is on the development of the festival in the post-1989 (post-communist) period. The fair has been organised continuously since 1655 and went through a number of transformations. Its function has changed from a primarily commercial event…
Cultural heritage as a means of heritage tourism development
A large number of studies within the social sciences have been devoted to the relationship between cultural heritage and cultural/ heritage tourism development in recent years and even decades. This area of study has been an object of interest for numerous disciplines, from economics, geography, sociology and history, to ethnology, sociocultural anthropology, museology and cultural studies. The study aims to present selected theories on cultural …
Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect transformations of memory (remembering and forgetting), identity, heritage, power and resilience related to public space in a post-socialist city. Changing street names creates new connections betw…
Emergence of current European thinking and policies on doctoral education
In today's age of knowledge and technology, societies are changing fast, on both macro and micro levels. Hardly anyone could have predicted several years ago such an acceleration of change and its impact on society, and in particular, on higher education. In Europe as well as globally, higher education has been undergoing many changes for more than two decades. In many countries, the number of higher education institutions has increased, mass edu…
Food as a Unifier? Rural and Urban Food Festivals in Central Slovakia
The paper focuses on food festivals in rural and urban localities in Central Slovakia. Food events and festivals are popular and spread all over the world as it is stressed in a lot of scholarly literature (e.g
Does climate change delegitimize political parties? How movement–party linkages in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Poland are reshaped
Contemporary climate movements such as Fridays for Future have declared to stay away from party politics out of fear of being dragged into a party-political debate. In their perspective, they advocate scientific truths which shall be implemented without political negotiations watering them down. Yet, they direct their demands towards the representative system. In this article, based on a series of qualitative interviews with activists and politic…
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality
The phenomenon of depopulation has been recognised as a significant challenge in many rural regions of the European Union. This phenomenon negatively affects demographic indicators as well as local communities along with their cultural heritage. A case study from Slovakia examines how the process of depopulation on the one hand weakens communities, but on the other hand also provides an opportunity for their revitalisation, strengthening vitality…
Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Cultural heritage (3 works) · Cultural heritage management (3 works)