Rašeljka Krnić

Deeply rooted in personal and social identity, over the last two decades, the home has become an increasingly propulsive area of research within the social sciences and humanities. The concept of home often serves as a platform for understanding complex social relationships between individuals and groups and reveals the meanings arising from interactions with material culture. In this paper, we use data obtained through the interview method to find out how our participants – younger middle-aged, middleclass professionals – value the aesthetic dimension of their home and what meanings they ascribe to it. The analysis of the narratives on aesthetics, taste, and processesrelated to decision-making provides insight into how certain attitudes are associated with various dimensions of participants’ identities. The results demonstrated that through the elaboration of the visual identity of space, it is possible to articulate different aspects of personal and collective identities. Although the obtained data show how taste andattitudes towards aesthetics function as inherited cultural capital, they also reveal how other cultural influences in a complex postmodern consumer context shape attitudes and tastes beyond directly inherited values.

This paper explores experiences of persons engaging in survival sex in Croatia. While research on commercial sex in Croatia is generally scarce, there is ‎an absence of qualitative inquires into the life stories and experiences of per sons selling se...

Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) ( Centar za mirovne studije – CMS ) falls under the broader corpus of examples of youth activation where organisation has used its work to highlight the existence of a ‘critical mass’ among youth in Croatia. This ethnographic research deals with social activism through attempts to make up for (according to the actors) inefficient state care for marginalised groups, in this specific case migrants. Participatory observation method and semi-structured interviews provided us with an in-depth insight into the activities of the organisation, but also into the specific motives, values and norms of young people gathered around the organisation. The basic research questions refer to the specific sets of motives of young people involved in volunteering and their attitude towards their own culture and cultural heritage as an indicator of the strategy of constructing their own identity and attitudes towards the ‘other’.

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