“BORDERS/ DEBORDERING” number 83/84 • volume 21, 2016 EDITED BY HELENA MOTOH MAJA BJELICA POLIGRAFI Editor-in-Chief: Helena Motoh (Univ. of Primorska) Editorial Board: Lenart Škof (Univ. of Primorska), Igor Škamperle (Univ. of Ljubljana), Mojca Terčelj (Univ. of Primorska), Miha Pintarič (Univ. of Ljubljana), Rok Svetlič (Univ. of Primorska), Anja Zalta (Univ. of Ljubljana) Editorial Office: University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre, Institute for Philosophical Studies, Garibaldijeva 1, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia Phone: +386 5 6637 700, Fax: + 386 5 6637 710, E-mail: [email protected] http://www.poligrafi.si number 83/84, volume 21 (2016) “BORDERS/DEBORDERING” TOWARDS A NEW WORLD CULTURE OF HOSPITALITY Edited by Helena Motoh and Maja Bjelica International Editorial Board: Th. Luckmann (Universität Konstanz), D. Kleinberg-Levin (Northwestern University), R. A. Mall (Universität München), M. Ježić (Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb), D. 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Motoh, Helena 288706816 The journal Poligrafi is indexed in: The Philosopher’s Index, Cobiss Publishing house – Orders – Copyright ©: University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre, Annales University Press Garibaldijeva 1, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia For the publisher: Rado Pišot Phone: +386 5 663 77 00, Fax: +386 5 663 77 10, E-mail: [email protected] Double issue: € 20,00 Poligrafi is published with the support of the Slovenian Research Agency number 83/84 • volume 21, 2016 “BORDERS/DEBORDERING” TOWARDS A NEW WORLD CULTURE OF HOSPITALITY Helena Motoh and Maja Bjelica: Welcome 3 Janko M. Lozar: Debordering the Borders of Time: Towards the Primordiality of Hospitality 15 Lana Pavić: Hospitality as a Virtue of the Place 27 Rok Svetlič: Debordering of the Border and Its Limit 45 Maja Zadel: The Meaning of National and Cultural Borders Among Inhabitants of Slovenian Istria: A Case Study of Italo-Slovenian Transculturality 59 Dragan Potočnik: Maribor: In Search of The City’s Identity after the First World War 79 Peter Jordan: The Border between »Ours« and »Theirs« Drawn by Place Names 95 Angelos Evangelou: Peace-Making within the Green and Liminal Border of Cyprus 115 Shiva Hemmati: Debordering the Borders of Self and Other, and Matter and Spirit in Mysticism 133 Nadja Furlan Štante: Women’s Voices and Vulnerability: Invisible and Visible Obstacles 149 Cara Judea Alhadeff: Decolonizing Our Wombs: Gender Justice and Petro-Pharmaculture 167 underliningscollective (uC): together writing : fragments 199 Abstracts / Povzetki 215 About authors / O avtoricah in avtorjih 233 WELCOME Welcome. We are delighted to have you here. Be it as readers, authors, resear- chers, students, supporters, conference participants. As Editors of this special issue of Poligrafi, we are addressing these opening lines to you as a welcoming gesture, in hope to create a hospitable threshold which would be inviting enough for you to enter with curiosity, expectation and trust. With this intention in mind, we would like to provide you with an introductory overview of the nature and specificity of the selection of papers that constitute the present volume. The common denominator of these contributions is their meeting point, that is the International Conference titled “borders/debordering” − Towards a New World Culture of Hospitality. The Conference took place in Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, between June 30th and July 3rd 2016, and was organised by the Institu- te of Philosophical Studies (Science and Research Centre, University of Primorska, Slovenia) and the Global Center for Advanced Studi- es (USA). Surrounded by an inspiring pristine nature, a number of scholars and researchers from a variety of research and scientific fields such as philosophy, religion, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political economy and political geography, joined together on a common topic, discussing borders, their (im)possible debordering, and the hospitality that might (or might not) emerge from it. Covering the questions about national and geographical borders and transnati- onal debordered spaces and places, rediscovering social and economic borders and debordering of gender and race issues, re-questioning the borders between “the animal” and “the human,” discussing the role of the body in intersubjective situations, accounting for the options of de- bordering of the traditional dichotomies, sharing many different, and numerous stories about migration – all these allowed us to hold an im- pressive and wide debate on the issues at stake, confirming that there is much more to be done in future research. 3 POLIGRAFI The present issue of Poligrafi represents only a part of the proceedin- gs of the conference, another volume with contributions on borders, debordering and the culture of hospitality will be published later in 2017. Therefore, when reading the articles in this collection one should keep in mind that these are not all of the core topics of the conference, but rather a specific selection of writings that show us the possibilities of contemplating on borders, their debordering and different angles of view on hospitality, and hospitalities. Here, we find contributions on phenomenology, politics, law, migration, identity and nationality, history, mysticism, gender studies and feminism, pharmaceutical and medical issues, questions about language and accounts of literature. The variety of research fields might leave an impression of disconnectedness, but they all account for a specific liminality, a specific question that might be debordered by repositioning it in another possible way. Also, some of the papers do not strictly follow the traditional guidelines of scientific writing, but this fact does not diminish their importance, on the contrary – maybe it is about time that we try to deborder the limits of science itself and see what new thresholds we might discover. This is one of the possible forms of hospitality that our volume tries to elabo- rate on. * We open the journey of hospitality contemplation with a phenome- nological account provided by the philosopher Janko Lozar in the paper “Debordering the Borders of Time: Towards the Primordiality of Ho- spitality,” where the author takes us on a path of a better understanding of the possibility of a radical open being with the other through the analysis of the notion of time, devoting a special attention to its futural aspect, the “notyetness,” as he calls it. The author presents his point of view with the help of several important philosophers and their theories, such as Derrida’s phenomenology of the gift and its temporal objectifi- cation that destroys the gift itself, Husserl’s analysis of the nature of the “now”, Heidegger’s thesis on understanding of being only through and in time, or better, being being time, connecting it to Scheler’s ethics and Kant’s aesthetics and their view of affectivity. Lozar claims that the pos- 4 WELCOME sibility of hospitality lays in the thinking of “notyetness, as pure futurity without the past, and beyond the future to be expected.” He explains his position particularly with the analysis of Husserl’s debordering of time, where the now is understood as a temporal field, not a point, re- collection / past and expectation / future are its intrinsic elements, and therefore, as Lozar puts it, one’s sentiment is always under influence of resentment and disappointed expectation. This is why he sees the pos- sibility of hospitality mainly in the existential futural mode of being as primordial openness, with no expectation, no recollection. The author understands it as conviviality (he also names it joviality) that allows for a hospitable embracing of the other in their “notyetness.” An account of hospitable embracement of others is provided by Lana Pavić in her paper “Hospitality as a Virtue of the Place,” in whi- ch she introduces us to the case study of Slavonski Brod, a Croatian town on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, where an acceptance centre for refugees on the so called “Western Balkan Route” was allo- cated. With this case study she exposes the political implications of