Project: VEGA2/0068/23
Duration: 01.01.2023 Koniec: 31.12.2026
Principal investigator: Ústav politických vied SAV, v.v.i., Norbert Kmeť
Co-investigators: From SAV Dirk Dalberg, Norbert Kmeť, Juraj Marušiak, Matej Navrátil
Investigators from the Institute for Sociology of SAS: Miroslav Tížik
Co-investigators: Outside of SAV Brhlíková Radoslava, Mészárosová – Lampl Zuzana, Öllös László

Political activities are limited by the existing disputes and they also play their part in specific historical developments. Over about the past hundred years, Slovakia has undergone a few radical political changes. These have been associated with medium-term periods, when one generation could experience life in two or more types of political regimes and constellations. During each generation, new forms of political and public life were created. This has led to significant changes in self-definition not only in politics but also in other spheres of public life, including culture and science. Ideologies provide a strong impetus for fundamental transformation for they reframe the evaluation of the past and the definition of others, creating new fields of collective imagination. The project aims to perform a series of analyses of political, public and academic discourse to see how the power and ideological influences of the time pan out to create a morally defined self-image and the image of others.