PARANOIA: SPELLBOUND SPACES OF CULTURE AND POLITICS

Dialogi, Journal of Culture and Society, no. 3-4/2011, vol. 47, publication July 2011

ISSN 0012-2068

Bilingual edition (all articles appear in both English and Slovene), 160 x 235 mm, 316 pp, of which 159 pp are in English

Price: EUR 10.00 + postage (EUR 4.48 to Europe, EUR 5.82 to USA)

Cultural and political paranoia, with its obligatory elements of conspiracy theory, nowadays enters many fields of our lives: we discern conspiracy through various religious dogmas about the end of the world, through bizarre new age ideas, through fantastic stories about extraterrestrial beings, crop circles and UFOs, through stories of intentionally triggered global epidemics and the chemical poisoning of citizens, and conspiracies of particular governments or nations. Such theories are most rapidly used to explain certain unusual, dramatic, and tragic events, from the assassination of J. F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate affair to the modern paradigm, the terrorist attack on New York on 11 September 2001. The thematic issue of Dialogi entitled Paranoia: Spellbound Spaces of Culture and Politics analyzes these phenomena from the perspectives of different areas of the social sciences. It opens up new horizons of interpretation, both theoretical and practical, since it touches on dimensions such as those found in literature, fiction, politics, religion, and culture.

YOUTH 2010

The social profile of young people in Slovenia

Editor: Miran Lavrič

Published in 2011 by the Ministry of Education and Sports – Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth and Aristej Publishing House

ISBN 978-961-220-078-7

Format 165 x 232 mm, dutch binding, 639 pp

Price: EUR 15.00 EUR + postage
(EUR 7.99 to Europe and USA)

Youth 2010 is a comprehensive decade-long study of Slovenian youth, led by Dr. Miran Lavrič and colleagues from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Maribor. The following fields are examined: demographic changes and intergenerational cooperation; education and training; creativity, culture, leisure; the virtualization of everyday life; employment and entrepreneurship; a sustainable method of social functioning; residential and housing conditions; health and wellbeing; participation and social inclusion; voluntary activity; the mobility of young people and globalization.