Evolucija Politične Teorije v Sloveniji

Pikalo, Jernej

doi:10.51936/tip.59.posebnastevilka1.235-248

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“…Since the mid-1980s, some demographic analyses have warned of the low birth rate in Slovenia as a threat to the pension system (e.g. Proposal for Population Policy in the SR Slovenia (Podlage prebivalstvene politike v SR Sloveniji) (cited in Mencin Čeplak 2005a, 112;Malačič 1984)). In the political discourses of farright and populist right-wing politics, these warnings are transformed into the thesis of the extinction of the Slovene nation.…”

Section: Biopolitical Governmentality and The Issue Of Securing The B...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Dry Branch on the Nation’s Body: The Nation’s Biological Reproduction between Gender and Sexuality

Šabec,

Mencin,

Perger

2021

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija Za Narodnostna Vprašanja

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The article proceeds from the thesis that discriminatory discourses in the field of gender and sexuality in Slovenia are based on ideas surrounding the nation’s biological reproduction and that increasing the fertility rate is crucial for the nation’s viability. The authors substantiate this thesis with Foucault’s biopolitical governmentality, Balibar’s concepts of nationalism and fictive ethnicity, and Yuval-Davis’ analysis of women’s roles in the construction of ethnic and national collectivities. The research question is how the assumption of the nation’s biological origin affects the understanding of the state and citizenship. We analyse political debates in Slovenia over a period of 30 years, focusing on those that expose any relation between gender and sexual norms and the understanding of the state as an ethnic rather than a civic category: the right to abortion, biomedically assisted reproduction, and the legal equality of intimate partnerships.

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Section: Biopolitical Governmentality and The Issue Of Securing The B...mentioning

confidence: 99%