Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.41.1.3
Perforated Democracy: Disintegration, State-building, Europeanisation and the Erased of Slovenia
Damjan Mandelc
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tjaša Učakar
orcid.org/0000-0002-6864-1213
; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
This article explores the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the state-building process in Slovenia and the context of the specific phenomenon – the erasure that took place in Slovenia in the early 1990s. It reconstructs the socio-historic and political contexts in which the independence of Slovenia occurred. While describing the state-building process, the process of democratisation and the dilemmas about minority protection in Slovenia – including the distinction between the recognised “autochthonous” minorities and the non-recognised “new” minorities – it paves the ground for theoretical and sociological discussion of the “erased”. The theoretical discussion is based on the questions of human rights, nationalism and citizenship, both in its classic (nation-state) conception and its alternative forms such as global citizenship. Sociologically, it places the “erasure” into a broader frame of investigating the processes of democratisation and Europeanisation, thus highlighting the key factors that caused the perforation of Slovene democracy in its twenty years of independence.
Keywords
state disintegration; state-building; Europeanisation; the erased of Slovenia; democratisation; human rights; citizenship
Hrčak ID:
67817
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2011.
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