Vol. 53 No. 1 (2024): Živali v žarišču: novi koncepti raziskav živali v humanistiki / Animals in Focus: New Concepts for Animal Research in Humanities

Volume Editor: Marjetka Golež Kaučič

This issue of Traditiones places animals in focus, to contemplate its point of view, and replace the anthropocentric stance with the zoocentric one, and deconstructs the social position of animals today in imagination and reality. Authors are thinking about animal position in new ontological paradigms and present the relationship between human and animal through representations in folklore, literature, film, language, and photography. The block opens with a conceptual overview on complex multidisciplinary research of animals based on new insights and political practices by Marjetka Golež Kaučič. Zoltan Nagy and Lizanne Henderson examine the image of the Siberian and Polar bear in culture and society. Anthropocentrism in language is presented by Saša Babič through the stereotyping of animals in short folklore forms. Kalina Zahova examine the position of animals reflected through the exploration of negative and positive representations of animals in children’s textbooks, in the literature curriculum developed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Sciences. The issue concludes with Branislava Vičar's s study of the animal bodies in the Anthropocene by analyses of five photographs from the genre of animal photojournalism that capture, contest, and reconfigure the relations between animal bodies and specific places of exposure.