Locked in Place: Young People's Immobilities and the Slovenian Erasure

Stuart C. Aitken

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016, vol. 106, issue 2, 358-365

Abstract: The case of Slovenia's erased minority populations (Izbrisani) is cited as one of the worst human rights abuses in contemporary Europe. While engaging debates on the nation-state and neoliberalism, this article discusses the struggles of Izbrisani youth from 1992 to the present day through a consideration of the spatial effects of erasure, including trauma to families forced apart and young people locked in place. Theoretical insights are drawn from Agamben's ideas about bare life, Rancière's politicization of aesthetics, and Žižek's notion of radical ethical acts, which respectively provide lenses for understanding Izbrisani youth privations, awakenings, and transformations.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1100059

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