Rhinocheilus, R. lecontei

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Percepcije avtentičnosti in tradicionalnosti

Percepcije avtentičnosti in tradicionalnosti - od izvirne neposrednosti do pragmatične uporabnost

Multikulturnost vs. monokulturnost

Nove realnosti v praksi spodbujajo tudi nove teoretične koncepte. V njihovem ospredju so kompleksni procesi, ki segajo od deteritorializacije kulture, translacije, transkulturacije, globalizacije, glokalizacije, mestizacije, kreolizacije, sinkretizmov, hibridnosti, multikulturnosti. Predvsem se znotraj identitetnega konteksta nenehno odločamo, kako se bomo identificirali, kdaj bomo sprejeli in uporabili potrditveni diskurz kulture in kdaj procesualnega. Vzporedno s tem se odvijajo multikulturna stekanja, stapljanja, približevanja, ko se med seboj srečajo sicer ločene kulturne tradicije. Te se posledično spreminjajo, prilagajajo ena drugi in ustvarjajo nove kakovosti. Ena od teh novih kakovosti, sploh v času vedno bolj centralizirane globalizacije, je pojav monokulturnega multikulturalizma. Za njega je značilno, da zajema prvine kulturnega, etničnega in jezikovnega izročila različnih kultur, predvsem s težnjo k ustvarjanju lastne stabilnosti. Etnični pluralizem v Istri je omogočal ohranjevanje zavesti o regionalni celovitosti. Istočasno je močno izražena teritorialna identifikacija, ki je izražena skozi istrsko identiteto kljubovala številnim državno-administrativnim, političnim in kulturnim pritiskom, katere so na območju Istre izvajali različni režimi in različne države v preteklosti. Skozi teoretične in empirične perspektive se v članku soočamo z novejšimi etničnimi transformacijami na območju istrskega polotoka, ki nastajajo kot rezultat ali kot posledica sodobnih globalizacijskih in glokalizacijskih procesov. Problematika globalne multikulturnosti na eni in glokalne monokulturnosti na drugi strani je na območju Istre izražena kot inovacija, kot alternativa oziroma kot nov kulturni in jezikovni model, zasnovan na etnično heterogeni družbi.New realities in practice stimulate new theoretical concepts. In their foreground lie complex processes ranging from the deterritorialisation of culture, translations, transculturation, globalisation, glocalisation, mestizas, creolisation, syncretism and hybridity to multiculturalism. In particular, within the context of identity we constantly decide how we identify ourselves when we accept and use the discourse of culture confirmation and the processing one. Parallel to this, multicultural concourses may be reported, creating an alignment when confronted with each other through separate cultural traditions. They are consequently amended, adapted to each other and create new values. One of these new values, even at a time of today\u27s ever increasingly centralised globalisation, is the emergence of monocultural multiculturalism. Its characteristic is that it incorporates elements of the cultural, ethnic and linguistic traditions of different cultures, especially the tendency to create their own stability. Ethnic pluralism in Istria has enabled the awareness of regional integrity to be preserved. At the same time, it has expressed a strong territorial identification, with the Istrian identity having withstood a number of state-administrative, political and cultural pressures implemented in the area of Istria by different regimes and different countries in the past. In the article, through a theoretical and empirical perspective we address the recent ethnic transformation in the area of the Istrian peninsula which may be a result of contemporary globalisation and glocalisation processes. The issue of global multiculturalism on one hand and glocal monoculturalism on the other in the region of Istria is seen as an innovation, an alternative or a new cultural and linguistic model based on an ethnically heterogeneous society

Actual and Future Perspectives of Isothermal NSC-Engines

It is doubtless that the world population, energy consumption and worldwide environment and biosphere pollution are growing almost synchronously and exponentially and this fact is causing enormous environmental problems and will continue to do so (CO2, NOX and the consequences; global earth warming, global earth dimming, ozone hole, global climate changes etc. The energy reserves of the planet will be approx. until the end of the actual century well exhausted). One can deduce that the solutions for a number of mentioned problems are in the improvement of some of the primary causal factors, especially the current thermal engines. This can satisfactorily be achieved only: A) By developing new high efficiency thermal engine concepts, e.g. the newly-developed “NSC-Concept” (NSC=New Stirling engine Concept [1]), and on this concept based “Isothermal NSC-engines [4]”, geared for consequent use of actual conventional and alternative energy sources (e.g. all combustible gases - especially hydrogen, solar energy sources, geothermal and other energy sources and waste heat or waste cold sources). B) By invention and application of new energy sources and technologies, especially the industrial hydrogen production and in this way to start the “Hydrogen energy age” [3]. This topic and NSC-concept was thoroughly analysed by the first author (PhD Thesis [1]). Both authors reported about it several times and recently in [5], [6] and [12]. The research results show that new isothermal NSC-engines are and will be suitable for nearly all application fields of the actual thermal engines. The paper presents an overview of the latest results of the above-mentioned research and presents actual and possible future application perspectives of isothermal process based thermal NSC-engines