Given the great amount of research carried out, as well as several undergraduate and graduate programs, we can say that cultural studies is today well established in Slovenia, especially considering the relative smallness of the country and the newness of the discipline. Within this context, however, it is possible to observe that, for the most part, such research merely borrows the concepts and rudimentary studies developed in other countries, primarily in Great Britain, which are then applied to local examples. While this naturally has its own weight and meaning, the Slovene cultural situation is, nevertheless, specific enough to oblige cultural studies here to develop, at least to some degree, a specific research apparatus that could perceive and thematize the distinctive aspects of Slovene culture. In the present text, the author ponders this possibility and highlights several specificities in the Slovene political, cultural, and historical context that could serve as a point of departure for the development of a distinctively Slovene cultural studies practice. He mentions specifically four basic elements: the fact that Slovene culture is actually an intersection of cultures; the fact that culture occupies a special symbolic place in Slovene public life; the experience of a successful communist revolution; and the powerful influence of the punk movement.
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