As Jean-Luc Nancy says, our pleasure in views, scents, and sounds has been a political issue since the birth of Europe. The idea of landscape has nothing in common with the idea of unspoiled nature. Landscapes are formed through planned deforestation, afforestation, and controlled planting. These processes are influenced by economic, health care, and other […]

The curriculum for teaching Croatian as a foreign language emphasizes the use of role play, drama, expressive reading, staging fairy tales, writing and reading postcards. In combination with textbook for learning Croatian as a foreign language and postcards sent from the United States to Croatia, these teaching methods become the starting point of improvised and […]

Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian […]