Migracija in kultura: koncepti in recepti

Cilj predmeta je aktiviranje širšega vpogleda v zelo razvejan preplet migracij in kulture ter kritične distance do izbranega problemskega področja. Predmet bo, izhajajoč iz temeljnih družboslovnih in humanističnih (spo)znanj, študentom odprl specifično – na eni strani migracijsko perspektivo v polje teoretskih razprav o kulturi in na drugi strani kulturno perspektivo v polje migracijskih študij. Posebna pozornost bo poleg srečevanja s temeljnimi koncepti namenjena raznolikim študijam primera – tako njihovi metodologiji kot vsebinski oziroma tematski raznolikosti.

Pri predmetu Migracija in kultura: koncepti in recepti se pričakuje predznanje s področja humanističnih in družboslovnih ved, s poudarkom na teorijah o kulturi in družbi v povezavi s sociološko, antropološko, zgodovinsko in kulturološko tematiko. Od študentov se pričakuje aktivno znanje angleškega jezika.

Pajdaštvo migracije in kulture stresa kupe zgodb iz katerih rastejo gore vprašanj. Recimo zgodba o vesolji kranjski klobasi, ki jo je v vsemir odnesla astronavtka s slovenskimi koreninami, ne zastavlja le vprašanja o etnični in narodni identiteti objekta in subjekta zgodbe, o vsemiru in nemiru ponosa in zanosa, o materialni kulturi in medijih, temveč vsiljuje tudi nekakšna temeljna migracijska in kulturna vprašanja: Kaj je v tej zgodbi pravzaprav migracijskega? In kaj kulturnega? In prav s temi kulturno-migracijsko raztresenimi zgodbami in vprašanji – tako temeljnimi kot tistimi na videz manj ambicioznimi – se bo hranil predmet, ki bo poskušal razkriti v kakšni meri je migracija kulturni fenomen in kultura migracijski fenomen. Ob tem razkrivanju bodo seveda odkrite tudi številne teoretske, konceptualne in terminološke zadrege in težave, ki jih prinaša to pajdaštvo (npr. transkulturnost, multikulturnost, globalna kultura, transmigracije, etničnost, nacionalnost, transnacionalnost, diasporičnost idr.).

Študentje bodo osvojili znanja, ki so zgoščeno prikazana med cilji in kompetencami, in se bodo izkazovala v aktivni udeležbi oziroma ustnem nastopu, pisnih refleksijah in izpitni nalogi. Študentom bo s pomočjo pridobljenega znanja omogočena predvsem kritična refleksija osnovnih kulturološko-migracijskih pojmov, konceptov in teorij. Posebna pozornost bo namenjena tudi pridobivanju epistemološke širine in metodološke kritičnosti.

• Papastergiadis, Nikos (2000). The turbulence of migration. Globalization, deterrirization and hybridity. Cambridge, Polity press. Katalog
• Vojnović, Goran (2008):Čefurji raus!.Beletrina, Ljubljana. Katalog
• Mlekuž, Jernej (2011): Burek.si!? Koncepti / recepti. Studia Humanitatis, Ljubljana. Katalog
• Mlekuž, Jernej (2011): ABC migracij. Založba ZRC, Ljubljana.

• zaključna pisna naloga (do 5000 besed) (70 %), - aktivna udeležba v študijskem procesu (30 %).

Jernej Mlekuž has had (not always by his fault) a few issues with his disciplinary identity throughout his career. That is why you’ll find him dressed differently: sometimes as an ethnologist, geographer, anthropologist, culturologist, historian or even hydrologist... He tends to associate migration research with the more banal aspects of life such as food and drink (e.g. burek, Carniolan sausage, slivovitz) or news printing! Of course, he is interested in several other things. In addition to (and about this), he lectures at the ERUDIO School of Sustainable Tourism, is part of the editorship of Migracije, and is the former editor of Dve Domovini / Two Homelands, as well as is the chair of the Research Committee at the Slovenian Migration Institute. Most of all, he enjoys river rapids.

His research focus is on migration theory and methodology, cultural aspects of migration processes, material culture, epistemology, epiphenomena and water levels and gauges.

Selected publications

Slivovitz and Everyday Nationalism: The Analysis of Slovene Newspapers in Interwar Yugoslavia. Nationalities Papers, 2023: 1-16. doi:10.1017/nps.2023.20, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/slivovitz-and-everyday-nationalism-the-analysis-of-slovene-newspapers-in-interwar-yugoslavia/4BE15C2A0FD0A785118D0BE13EA2D9D1
Kalorien und Nationalstolz. Oder wie die Krainer Wurst zur Entstehung der slowenischen Nation beitrug. Wien: LIT Verlag, 2022. https://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91226-8
ABCČĆ migracij. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2021. https://isim.zrc-sazu.si/en/publikacije/abccc-migracij#v
The renaissance of sausage: the role of Kranjska sausage in the contemporary process of reconstructing the Slovenian nation. Nations and nationalism, 2020, 26/2: 407–423 (selected as exceptional scientific achievements by Slovenian Research Agency). doi: 10.1111/nana.12572, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nana.12572
The sausage that awakened a nation: the Carniolan sausage in the Slovenian national imagination, 1849–1918. Rethinking history, 2020, 24/3–4: 503–522. doi: 10.1080/13642529.2020.1831352, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13642529.2020.1831352?needAccess=true
Pijača z zaslugami za narod: slivovka in banalni nacionalizem v izbranem časopisju socialistične Jugoslavije. Traditiones, 2020, 49/3: 115-134. doi: 10.3986/Traditio2020490306, https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/article/view/9432/8537
I feel Kranjska klobasa: Kako je kranjska kobasica podignula slovensku naciju. Zagreb: Srednja Evropa, 2018 (Murko award 2018 by Slovene Ethnological Society for outstanding achievement in ethnology in the previous year). https://srednja-europa.hr/proizvod/i-feel-kranjska-kobasica/
Kranjsko klobasanje: Slovenska zgodovina, kot jo pišejo packe kranjske klobase na časopisnem papirju. Ljubljana: Beletrina, 2017 (awarded by Gourmand International as the best book in the category Culinary History, 2018). https://beletrina.si/knjiga/kranjsko-klobasanje
»We asked for workers. We got bureks instead.« The Meanings and Significance of the Burek in Slovenia. Ethnologia Europaea 2017, 47/2: 72–86. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346319176_WE_ASKED_FOR_WORKERS_WE_GOT_BUREKS_INSTEAD_Meanings_and_Material_Significance_of_the_Burek_in_Slovenia
When the grease runs through the paper: On the consumption of ultragreasy bureks. Food, power, and agency (eds. Jürgen Martschukat, Bryant Simon). London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 169–190. https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/food-power-and-agency/ch8-when-the-grease-runs-through-the-paper-on-the-consumption-of-ultragreasy-bureks
Bosanci, čefurji, čapci and other burekalised creatures: Images of immigrants and their descendants in Slovenian media and popular culture. Citizens at heart? Perspectives on integration of refugees in the EU after the Yugoslav wars of succession (eds. Li Bennich-Björkman et al. ). Uppsala: Uppsala University. 2016, 69–85. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:987355/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Burek: A culinary metaphor. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2015 (translated in Slovenian, Serbian and Albanian, awarded by Gourmand International as the best book in the category Culinary History Best food writing, 2016). https://www.ceu.edu/article/2015-09-22/burek-culinary-metaphor