Traditiones: Announcements

Forthcoming issues

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In the years 2024 and 2025, we are preparing the following thematic issues:

2024, 53 (1): Ethnographies, Travel Literature and Description of “Land und Leute”
2024, 53 (2): Žival v žarišču: novi koncepti raziskav živali v humanistiki / Animal in Focus: New Concepts for Animal Research in Humanities
2024, 53 (3): Obrazi izolacije / The Faces of Isolation
2025, 54 (1): Dediščina na obrobju? Srednje- in vzhodnoevropske perspektive / Heritage on the Margins? Central and Eastern European Perspectives

For more information about these issues, please refer to their announcements accessible through the links provided under the individual titles.

Journal editors also encourage the submission of research articles on topics outside thematic issues.

Obrazi izolacije / The Faces of Isolation – Traditiones 53 (3), 2024

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In this thematic issue of Traditiones, the authors examine what it means to be isolated. Based on research in isolated communities and in abandoned, remote, and degraded areas, they explore how experiences of isolation are formed and how different types of isolation – from social and physical to digital, infrastructural, and ideological – frame experiences and values, shaping as well understandings of space and time. Their contributions focus on analyzing the ambivalent natures of isolation, solitude, and loneliness. They depict how, on the one hand, isolation may negatively affect demographic and spatial changes, while on the other hand, some people may seek refuge in isolated locations in search of a better life. The contributions of this issue thus portray the diversity of isolation and identify the processes that lead to states of isolation in both positive and negative terms.

Žival v žarišču: novi koncepti raziskav živali v humanistiki / Animal in Focus: New Concepts for Animal Research in Humanities – Traditiones 53 (2), 2024

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If we want to follow the ontological turns in the humanities, it is necessary to rethink the difference between humans and animals, the ethical and ontological status of animals, and to go beyond the distinction based on new insights and political practices. Rethinking animals so that they are no longer those between zoé and bios (Wadiwel 2015; Agamben 1999). According to Paul Taylor (1986), from the viewpoint of biocentric equality, all organisms, regardless of their species, have the same internal value and right to be treated respectfully. In this way researchers have already started their journey towards biocentrism and ecocentrism.

The thematic issue Traditiones is therefore an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary set of discussions from different humanities, from zoofolklore studies to cultural and critical animal studies and others sciences that put the animal at the centre.

Dediščina na obrobju? Srednje- in vzhodnoevropske perspektive / Heritage on the Margins? Central and Eastern European Perspectives – Traditiones 54 (1), 2024

2023-06-26T14:52:38+02:00

The history of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been characterized by the violent changing of borders and routes ever since WW1 and WW2. Post-war events continue to shape everyday local realities, state formations, and displacement of communities. (Self)imposed views on centrality and/or marginality of the region come strongly to the fore when considering these developments, producing inherent diversity. Socialism and post-socialism can be understood as a unifying experience in the region, but it is also highly differentiated, when considered alongside historical events and local political developments. How are all these diverse historical developments affecting heritage related processes in the region? What kind of perspectives can be gained from CEE heritage-making processes?