Traditiones: Announcements

Forthcoming Issues

Traditiones — 2024-11-20

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

2024, 53 (2): Obrazi izolacije / The Faces of Isolation
2024, 53 (3): Ethnographies, Travel Literature and Description of “Land und Leute”
2025, 54 (1): Dediščina na obrobju? Srednje- in vzhodnoevropske perspektive / Heritage on the Margins? Central and Eastern European Perspectives
2025, 54 (2): Dediščina večkulturnih območij / Heritage of Multicultural Regions
2025, 54 (3): Habsburške živali / Habsburg Animals

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.

Habsburške živali / Habsburg Animals – Traditiones 54 (3), 2025

Traditiones — 2024-11-20

We are delighted to announce a special themed issue dedicated to human-animal relations within the Habsburg Empire. This collection of articles will build on the recent Habsburg Animals Conference (Ljubljana, 2-3 October 2024) and delve into the intricate and multifaceted interactions between humans and animals throughout the long nineteenth century.

In recent decades, the “animal turn” has brought animals into the spotlight across numerous academic fields. Yet, they have remained relatively overlooked in scholarship focused on the Habsburg Empire. Central Europe, a region teeming with diverse animal species, underwent sweeping transformations in human-animal relationships during the empire’s final century, as evolving attitudes and practices reshaped animal lives in profound ways. To address this scholarly gap and ignite further discussion on animal-related themes, our issue will draw on anthropological inquiries to explore a wide range of historical topics—most notably, the development of agricultural science and its lasting impact on the contemporary world.

The deadline is February 20^th 2025.

Daša Ličen (ZRC SAZU, dasa.licen@zrc-sazu.si) and Wolfgang Göderle (University of Graz | Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology, goederle@gea.mpg.de).

Dediščina večkulturnih območij / Heritage of Multicultural Regions – Traditiones 54 (2), 2025

Traditiones — 2024-07-08

This thematic issue is dedicated to the role and understanding of cultural heritage and heritagisation in border regions or multicultural regions where different cultures and languages traditionally coexist(ed). It addresses the question of how heritage processes have been affected (and vice versa) by turbulent political-historical situations, in particular by changes in political borders (e.g. after the First and Second World Wars), the rise of populisms, demographic changes due to population transfers and “clashes” between different interpretations of the past and memories.

The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2024.

Guest editors: Anja Moric and Marjeta Pisk

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

Traditiones — 2024-03-11

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.

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

Traditiones — 2023-06-26

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?