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SOCIETIES and SPACES in CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE and DIVERGENCE 16–20 September 2019 Portorož/Portorose, Slovenia, Trst/Trieste, Italy International conference SOCIETIES AND SPACES IN CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE 16–20 September 2019 Portorož/Portorose, Slovenia, Trst/Trieste, Italy BOOK OF ABSTRACTS International conference SOCIETIES AND SPACES IN CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE BOOK OF ABSTRACTS 16–20 September 2019 Portorož/Portorose, Slovenia, Trst/Trieste, Italy Koper 2019 International conference SOCIETIES AND SPACES IN CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE Book of Abstracts Editors: Milan Bufon, Kristjan Nemac, Irina Moira Cavaion Technical Editors: Kristjan Nemac, Alenka Obid Design and layout: Alenka Obid Publisher: Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Annales ZRS For the publisher: Rado Pišot Online edition, available at: http://www.zrs-kp.si/index.php/research-2/zalozba/ monografije/ P6-0279 Areas of Cultural Contact in Integration Processes and P5-0409 Slovenhood Dimensions betweenThis conference Local and is Global financially at the supportedBeginning ofby the Slovenian Third Millennium Research), Agencythe Institute (ARRS for programmes Ethnic Stud- ies (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the Slovene Research Institute (Trieste, Italy) and the Unione Italiana (Koper, Slovenia). Kataložni zapis o publikaciji (CIP) pripravili v Narodni in univerzitetni knjižnici v Ljubljani COBISS.SI-ID=301457408 ISBN 978-961-7058-20-8 (pdf) CONTENTS 9 15 PROGRAMMEA NOTE OF INTRODUCTION 25 ABSTRACTS 27 28 KEYNOTETove H. MALLOY LECTURES Spatial Integration and Regional Development Policies: Minorities as Actors and Agents of Change? 30 Colin H. WILLIAMS “On The Side of Angels: Dignity and Virtue in Minority-Majority Relationsˮ 32 LANGUAGEAna ĐORĐEVIĆ AND EDUCATION 33 BorkoCLIL(iG) KOVAČEVIĆ in the World as a Foreign Language On Some Influences of Linguocultural Differences in Teaching Serbian 34 Gabriele ZANELLO and Serena MARTINI Multilingualism” in the Light of the New European Key Competences Best Practices and Perspectives of the “Friulian Way to 35 Ingrid KELLER-RUSSELL Subjective Agency and Socialized Thought in the Context of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: A Challenge for School Education 36 Sara BREZIGAR A Renewed Approach Towards Slovene-Medium Education in Italy 38 BORDERMiluša BAKRAČAND LITERATURE The Perception of the “Other”: Mental Maps and Narratives - A Foreign Country as a Homeland or a Homeland as a Foreign Country in the Novel “Monteturks”- Dream and Writing (Crnoturci - san i jazija) of 39 AnaHusein PEJOVIĆ Bašić The Perception of The “Other”: Mental Maps and Narratives - Symbolism of Religious, National and Gender Diversity in the Novel The Battle of Mojkovac 40 Nataša BAUMAN by Ćamil Sijarić the Individual’s Home. Anywhere When the Homeland Crosses its Geographical Borders and Becomes 41 Vesna MIKOLIČ Form of Intercultural Literature The Novel of the Slovene Canonical Writer Ivan Cankar as a Special 42 Maja ĐUKANOVIĆ and Vesna POLOVINA The Perception of the “Other”: Slovenia in the Balkans, the Balkans in Slovenia 44 LANGUAGELucija ČOK POLICIES European Language Policies – New Realities Bringing Into Focus 45 Vittorio DELL’AQUILA and Gabriele IANNÀCCARO Language Unease in Complex Diversity Border Territories 46 Irina M. CAVAION Language Education Policy in European Neighbouring Regions: The Case of the Italian-Slovenian Border 47 Sonja NOVAK LUKANOVIČ and Mojca MEDVEŠEK Economical Value of Language in Slovenia 48 Tjaša JAKOP Slovene Dialects at the Crossroads of Three Languages 50 MIGRANTSJames FORREST AND CULTURAL BORDERS I Migration, Multiculturalism and Integration: The Australian Story 51 Mojca PAJNIK, Emanuela FABIJAN and Mojca FRELIH “Chameleonic Populism”: Framing “the Refugee Crisis” in the Political Field 52 Jure GOMBAČ and Asja PEHAR SENEKOVIČ Inclusion of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Slovenia Day By Day (Extra)ordinary Innovations. Social and Labor Market 53 Mateja SEDMAK and Barbara GORNIK The Potentials of a Child-Centred Approach to the Integration of Migrant Children 54 Zorana MEDARIĆ and Blaž LENARČIČ Region of Slovenia Migrant Women and Access to Reproductive Health in the Coastal 56 MIGRANTSMatjaž KLEMENČIČ AND CULTURAL and Maruša BORDERS VERBIČ II KOPRIVŠEK The Views of Slovenian Politics on the Latest Migration Waves as Source of Conflict or Potential 57 Anton GOSAR Recent Migrations and Their Impact in the Region of Primorska, Slovenia 58 Mirna BUIĆ Towards a Comprehensive Local Integration Policy: The Example of Slovene Istria 59 Maja ZADEL The Contact Area of Slovenian Istria and its Inhabitants’ Lived 60 DejanNational VALENTINČIČ (Trans)culture The Current Emigration from Bilingual Areas in Alpe-Adria Region and Its Impact on the Slovenian Ethnic Minorities 62 IDENTITIESRoberto DAPIT AND THEand AnjaPERCEPTION MLAKAR OF THE “OTHERˮ Homeland and Promised Land Between Imagery and Reality: The Perception of Italy and Morocco Through the Eyes of Moroccan 63 JernejUniversity ZUPANČIČ Students in Udine Roma Settlements A House Too Far: The Dispute About (in)Perspectivity of Housing in 64 Patrik TÁTRAI, Ágnes ERŐSS and Katalin KOVÁLY Excluded From the Nation: the Micropolitics of Identity Construction and Ethnic Categorization in Multiethnic Transcarpathia 65 Ksenija PERKOVIĆ Challenging Multicultural Diversity: Changing Trends of Ethnic Groups in Vojvodina After the Disintegration of Yugoslavia 66 Damir JOSIPOVIČ Where Should the Boundary Between Slovenia and Croatia Be? 68 CULTURALChristian ANDLAMOUR LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE Investigating the European Identity at the Cross-Border Regional Scale: The Stability, Evolution and Coherence of a Supra/Post/Trans- Regional Story in the Greater Region 69 Marco ACRI and Saša DOBRIČIČ Landscapes in Motion: Rethinking Place Making Through Corridors of 70 MiroslavSocial and D.Environmental VUJIČIĆ, Uglješa Connectivity, STANKOV, the Sanja Case KOVAČIĆ,of URBiNAT Jovana ČIKIĆ, and Lazar JOVANOV The Inner-City and Suburban Dichotomy in Residents’ Image Perception – Implications for Tourism Policy of Novi Sad - European Capital of Culture 2021 71 Maja MEZGEC Language Policies and Linguistic Landscape in Contact Areas 72 Neva MAKUC Identities in the Early Modern Border Area Between the Venetian Republic and the Habsburg Hereditary Lands MINORITIES IN THE ALPS-ADRIATIC REGION 74 Milan OBID “Symbolic Ethnicity“ – A Proper Theoretical Concept for the Research on Current Development Trends Among the Slovene Minority in Austria? 75 William CISILINO The Evolution of Linguistic Legislation About Friulian Minority in Italy 76 Matejka GRGIČ Language Convergence and Divergence Between Italy and Slovenia 77 Andrea BARTOLE New Challenges and Perspectives of Teachers and Institutions of the Italian Minority in Slovenia 78 Milan BUFON National Minorities, Border Communities and Cross-Border Social Cohesion: a Case Study in Central Europe SOCIETIES AND SPACES IN CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION and “diverse” has gained importance in modern European discourse and the modernAlthough European still not agenda. in a sufficient The new and European optimal paradigm form, the “unityissue of in “different” diversity” actually means a deep move and deviation from classic European state-ba- sed nationalism, which was a major factor involved in the outbreak of both world wars, due to which the European continent eventually lost its central role in the world political, economic and social “architecture”. The develop- ment of integration processes at the decay of bipolar world regulation now puts the European area and European politics, economy and culture to the forefront. It would be wrong to interpret and develop European connections as just a reaction to the challenges of world economic globalisation. Euro- peanonly as integration a “banal” answer is not andto the cannot need forbe post-waronly a matter restoration of the firstly,socio-economic and later sphere, but must, in a more comprehensive and innovative way, comprise the socio-political and socio-cultural all three fundamental areas of social life are being connected in modern Eu- rope in such way that this process sphere. would Perhaps not only for follow the first the formertime in patternhistory, of internal centralisation and homogenisation. This new European develop- mental model could prove that the world socio-economic globalisation and macro-regional socio-political integration will not necessarily lead to a so- cio-cultural “melting pot” and the Americanisation of lifestyle. In our opinion, these new developmental possibilities and this new social - pean contact areas. This process would not so much involve the “manage- ment”paradigm of interstate will have areasto be inverified the sense and ofapplied organising at first and in governingthe numerous functional Euro economic, social and administrative units and eliminating internal borders and obstacles for cross-border and other movements of people, goods, servi- and coexistence forms between various nations, ethnic and language groups, movingces and oncapital, a scale but between it would tradition involve theand “management” modernity, and of between potential ethnos conflicts and demos. Overcoming these last and most persistent “borders” means that the European society will have to ultimately overcome the traditional ethnocen- tric comprehension of social areas and social processes, as well as the natio- 9 SOCIETIES AND SPACES IN CONTACT: BETWEEN CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE nalist exclusivism towards “others” and the “different”, represented today in particular by migrants. The European coexistence
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