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The article draws on an analysis exploring how the content and aims of secondary school political education have been framed in official Croatian policy documents following the country' s war for independence, with particular focus on the underlying conception of citizenship promoted in such a post-conflict setting. The article also addresses how official textbooks for the secondary school subject of ' politics and economics' shape this conception of citizenship through their choice of topics. It is argued in the article that the case of Croatian political education illustrates how a social and historical tipping point can influence what counts as official political knowledge to be transmitted in schools, and thus exemplifies the transitional nature of such knowledge in emergency settings. This locates the issue of knowledge transmitted in Croatian secondary school political education in a broader theoretical discussion on how knowledge can be radically affected by 'paradigm shifts' in social and political circumstances, and raises the question of ways in which its arbitrariness can be minimised. To this end, special attention is given to the role of skills and values in political education.

IN CROATIAN: Pojmovi pandemijskih društvenih praksi, kapitala i ekonomije brige uokviruju ovaj rad koji se bavi osjećajima, mislima i praksama žena tijekom karantene u prvom valu pande-mije bolesti COVID-19 u travnju 2020. godine u Hrvatskoj. Temelji se na uvidima dobive-nima online istraživanjem u kojem je sudjelovalo 213 visokoobrazovanih žena različite dobi. Postavljena pitanja bila su otvorena i omogućavala prikupljanje osobnih narativa: tražene su ključne riječi za koje sudionice smatraju da dobro opisuju svijet, njihovu obitelj i prijatelje te njih same za vrijeme pandemije kao i iskustva svakodnevnice i razmišljanja o vlastitom životu i budućnosti u kontekstu pandemije. Nalazi ovog istraživanja pokazuju da responzivne pan-demijske prakse prožimaju svakodnevnicu žena u karanteni, da su njihovi životi u karanteni rutinirani, emotivno kompleksni, kao i da su žene s malom djecom premorene i preopterećene te da karantena naglašava rodne nejednakosti. Odgovori sudionica također ilustriraju otpor-nost u kriznoj situaciji zahvaljujući dostupnim materijalnim resursima, ali i kako su neke od njih u prekarnim pozicijama i zabrinute za moguću nepovoljnu promjenu svog ekonomskog statusa. Otpornosti nekih od njih doprinose i kvalitetni odnosi s drugima kao i njihovi hobiji, koji uključuju vježbanje online joge ili pak online kulturne sadržaje. Učinci pandemije prema našim sugovornicama mogu uključivati ekonomsku krizu, produbljivanje nejednakosti, ogra-ničenja ljudskih sloboda te otuđenost među ljudima, ali i veću brigu za prirodu, politički i ekonomski zaokret prema održivijem društvu te jačanje solidarnosti. --- IN ENGLISH: The article draws on concepts such as pandemic social practices, economy of care and capi-tals in order to explore women's feelings, thoughts and practices during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Croatia in April 2020. It is based on on-line research which gathered the responses from 213 women of different age groups who, based on their educational level and profession, belong to the dominant class. The research consisted of a series of open questions which enabled the collection of personal narratives. Our study partici-pants noted key words they felt captured the world, their family and friends, and themselves during the pandemic as well as what their daily lives look like during lockdown and what thoughts they are having about their lives in the present and future. Our findings show that responsive pandemic practices shape everyday life during lockdown, that life during lockdown is routinised, emotionally complex, that women with small children are overburdened and ex-hausted and that lockdown sharpens gender inequalities. We find that being financially secure adds to our participants' resilience, as well as that some of them are in precarious positions and concerned about their financial prospects. Good relationships with others and hobbies, which include on-line yoga and on-line cultural practices, are also conducive to their resilience. According to the women participating in our study, the pandemic may result in an economic crisis, deepening inequalities, curbed personal freedoms and alienation among people, but it may also lead to more concern for nature, a political and economic shift to a more sustainable society and strengthened solidarity.

This article focuses on the role of class analysis in envisioning a better world, in both the past and the present. It critically reflects on class research conducted in the second half of the 20th century in Yugoslavia, and contemporary class research from selected countries of former Yugoslavia, in order to explore the place that class analysis as systemic critique occupied and occupies in a socialist and capitalist context. This approach is informed by Wright's (2015) evaluation of different forms of class analysis through the game metaphor. According to Wright, whereas Marxist class analysis questions "what game to play," Weberian class analysis engages with "the rules of the game" and Durkheimian class analysis examines "moves in the game." Our historical case study of Yugoslav scholarship on class during state socialism illustrates that, despite its role in sanctifying the status quo, class analysis also drew on both Marxism and Weberian inspired life-chances research as tools for systemic critique. On the other hand, our review of post-Yugoslav class research suggests that, currently, class analysis as an instrument for the critique of capitalism is not prominent. Indeed, in contrast to the late Yugoslav period in which sociology engaged class analysis in order to question what game should be played, the post-socialist 1990s and 2000s brought a silencing of Marxist left critique, while sociologists transformed their research into what Wright (2015) would describe as struggles over the rule of the game: problematizing the variety of capitalism that emerged in post-socialism rather than capitalism itself.

IN ENGLISH: This article provides a panoramic view of research findings on social inequalities in access to higher education in Croatia since the 1960s, guided by the question of what has changed in the findings. Our review shows that there is stark continuity over the last five decades: students from better educated family backgrounds tend to be overrepresented in higher education ; students from better educated and white-collar family backgrounds are more likely to enrol in academic as opposed to professional study courses ; students at one Croatian university in particular stand out in terms of their more privileged social background ; and medicine seems to be the prime academic field for observing social reproduction. We note that these persistent findings run parallel to a dramatically changing political, economic and social context in Croatia, including transformations in the 1990s resulting from social ownership of the means of production to widespread private ownership, as well as transformations from a one-party political system to the establishment of a multi-party political system. The article maps possible theoretical explanations for the resilience of social inequalities in access to higher education in the context of dynamic times. It also questions the role of educational policies in this process. --- IN CROATIAN: U članku se daje pregled rezultata istraživanja društvenih nejednakosti u pristupu visokom obrazovanju u Hrvatskoj od 1960-tih do danas, vodeći se pitanjem o mogućim promjenama. Pokazuje se da postoji izraziti kontinuitet u rezultatima istraživanja u zadnjih pet desetljeća: studenti više obrazovanih roditelja u pravilu su nadzastupljeni u visokom obrazovanju; studenti više obrazovanih roditelja i roditelja službenika češće upisuju akademske nego stručne studijske programe; studenti jednog hrvatskog sveučilišta izdvajaju se u smislu njihovog privilegiranog socijalnog porijekla; medicina se pokazuje kao područje studija u kojem je društvena reprodukcija najzastupljenija. Ističe se postojanost ovih nalaza u okolnostima izrazitih političkih, ekonomskih i socijalnih promjena, uključujući tranzicijske procese iz 1990-tih. U članku se mapiraju moguća teorijska objašnjenja postojanosti društvenih nejednakosti u pristupu visokom obrazovanju u kontekstu društvenih promjena. Preispituje se i uloga obrazovnih politika u ovome procesu.

Osnovni cilj rada je naglašavanje važnosti socijalne dimenzije reforme visokog školstva u Hrvatskoj i Europi, imajući pritom u vidu činjenicu, da je iznalaženje europskih političkih preporuka za poboljšanje kvalitete i pravednosti javnih sustava visokog obrazovanja osnovna zadaća ministarskih konvencija Bolonjskog procesa. Sukladno tome, pokušava se odgovoriti na pitanja doprinose li, na normativnoj razini, institucije visokog obrazovanja uklanjanju nejednakosti u pristupu i sudjelovanju u visokom obrazovanju, odnosno na koji se način učešće u visokoškolskom obrazovanju posreduje širim društvenim statusom. Analizi ovih pitanja pristupa se u tri koraka: najprije se na osnovi analize službenih dokumenata Bolonjskog procesa konceptualno određuje "socijalna dimenzija" visokog obrazovanja ; potom se daje kratki pregled karakterističnih teorijskih pristupa vezanih uz tematiku obrazovne i socijalne nejednakosti ; da bi se na kraju analizirali neki normativni aspekti sustava visokog obrazovanja u Hrvatskoj i dostupni empirijski podaci vezani uz socijalne karakteristike hrvatskih studenata/ica. (IN ENGLISH: The article emphasizes the importance of the social dimension of higher education reforms in Croatia and Europe, in view of the central task of Bologna process ministerial meetings to define European policy recommendations which target the improvement of quality and equality in European higher education systems. In line with that, the article attempts to address issues concerning the normative level of higher education participation in Croatia and whether higher education institutions contribute to reducing inequalities in access and progress to higher education study, as well as whether higher education participation in Croatia is mediated by social status. These issues are approached in three steps. Firstly, on the basis of analysing Bologna process official documents, the 'social dimension' of higher education is conceptualised. This is followed by a short review of characteristic theoretical approaches to educational and social inequalities; and finally, some aspects of the Croatian higher education system are analysed on both a normative and empirical level, the latter giving an insight into the social characteristics of the Croatian student body.)

The purpose of this paper is to lay the groundwork, and provoke others to dig it up, for the holistic understanding of the economic hopes and geophysical drivers behind the themes of green economy and degrowth. It first fights for the voice in which to frame the warning of global civilizational collapse, its physical and historic drivers and experiential instantiations. The paper surveys the opinions of scholars from environmental science, biology, history, leftist social theory and economics addressing the notion that the global civilisation as we know it is facing a collapse of human societies and practices sustaining it1. Whilst there are historical narratives that evoke hope for a technological overcoming of this problem, in the text I endeavour to show how such a gamble is based on ontological confusion about the fundamental elements of the modern developmental success. The paper elucidates how the key collapse-mitigating model is not a matter of small life-style changes reliant on technological transcence of physical constraints, but a matter of serious social restructuring that would replace the missing technological fix. But for that to become democratically acceptable, the societies must renegotiate the indicators and definitions of what wellbeing consists in, whilst humanity must redefine what its endurance is to consist of, not hope for the miracle of green economy. (IN CROATIAN: Cilj ovog rada jest postaviti temelje za holističko poimanje ekonomskih nada i geofizičkih pokretača u pozadini zelene ekonomije i od-rasta (eng. degrowth), te potaknuti druge da ih iskopaju. Rad ponajprije nastoji oblikovati okvir koji bi ujedinio upozorenja o slomu globalne civilizacije, njegovim fizičkim i povijesnim pokretačima i iskustvenim otjelotvorenjima. Baveći se idejom da globalnoj civilizaciji kakvu poznajemo prijeti slom ljudskih društava i praksi koje ih održavaju, rad donosi pregled stavova znanstvenika iz područja znanosti o okolišu, biologije, povijesti, ljevičarske društvene teorije i ekonomije. Iako postoje historijski narativi koji pobuđuju nadu u tehnologiju kao sredstvo prevladavanja ovog problema, u ovome ću tekstu nastojati pokazati da se ta vrsta rizika temelji na ontološkoj zabuni oko temeljnih elemenata suvremenog razvojnog uspjeha. Rad pojašnjava da ključni model za ublažavanje sloma ne počiva na malim promjenama u životnom stilu koje, pak, ovise o tehnološkom nadilaženju fizičkih ograničenja, već na ozbiljnom društvenom restrukturiranju koje bi zamijenilo tehnološko rješenje koje nedostaje. No da bi takvo što postalo demokratski prihvatljivo, društva moraju iznova otvoriti pitanje indikatora i definicija komponenata blagostanja; na čovječanstvu je, pak, da napusti nadu u čudo zelene ekonomije i umjesto toga propita u čemu leži njegova održivost.)