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Irena Weber »Ona je iz vzhodne Evrope«: o spolu in geografiji srečanja na potovanju
Univerza na Primorskem, Leta 1993 sem del šestmesečnega potovanja po Mehiki in Srednji Ameriki delila
Fakulteta za turistične študije – Turistica,
s škotsko zdravnico. Ob vsaki priložnosti, ko so domačini vprašali, od kod priha-
Slovenija
java, je rekla: »Jaz sem iz Škotske, ona je pa iz vzhodne Evrope,« pri tem pa pou-
University of Primorska, Faculty
darila besedo »vzhodne«. Poudarjanje razlike med specifično geografsko lokacijo
of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Slovenia
njene identitete in geografsko ohlapnim definiranjem moje identitete z nezgre-
irena.weber@fts.upr.si
šljivo ideološkim predznakom je imelo dodatno dimenzijo zapletenega obstoja
nove državne identitete. Dve leti po razglasitvi neodvisnosti je bilo mogoče po
Srednji Ameriki potovati s potnim listom države, ki uradno ni več obstajala, nam-
reč Jugoslavije, medtem ko Slovenije na konzulatih Gvatemale, Salvadorja in Ni-
karagve ni bilo na spisku obstoječih držav, kar je onemogočalo izdajanje potoval-
nih vizumov. Če je bil spol element povezovanja na potovanju, je bila geografija
element razlikovanja. V sodobnih razpravah o presečiščih med geografijo sreča-
nja in intersekcionalnostjo so izpostavljeni dominantni diskurzi, ki vplivajo na iz-
ražanje pripadnosti in identitete tako v načrtovanih kot nenačrtovanih srečanjih,
kakršna se dogajajo na potovanju. Srečanje ni nevtralna, ampak historično po-
gojena kategorija, v konkretnem primeru srečanje »imperija« in »periferije«. Na
podlagi kombinacije avtoetnografije in etnografskega branja sodobnih ženskih
potopisov prispevek analizira intersekcionalne naracije v kontekstu srečevanja
družbeno in kulturno konstruiranih razlik na potovanju. Relacije moči in pozici-
oniranje v kontekstu srečevanj oblikujejo pogajanja, ki ohranjajo oziroma pogla-
bljajoproces Drugačenja ali,v transformativnem srečanju simbolneinverzije, pre-
maknejo diskurzivne narative.
Ključne besede: spol, intersekcionalnost, geografija srečanja, potovanje

‘She Comes from Eastern Europe’: On the Gender and Geography
of Encounter in Travel
In 1993 I spent part of a six-month trip to Mexico and Central America with a Scot-
tish doctor. Every time the locals asked where we were from, she would say: ‘I
am from Scotland, and she is from eastern Europe,’ with emphasis. The empha-
sis on the difference between the specific geographical location of her identity
and the loose geographical definition of my identity, with its unmistakable ide-
ological overtones, had the added dimension of complicating the existence of a
new national identity. Two years after independence, it was possible to travel in
Central America with the passport of a country that no longer officially existed,
namely Yugoslavia, while Slovenia was not on the list of existing countries at the
consulates of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, which made it impossible
to issue travel visas. If gender was the unifying element of the journey, geogra-
Enakost, pravičnost in vključevalnost
spolov v akademskem okolju phy was the differentiating element. Contemporary debates on the intersections
Povzetki drugega posveta between the geographies of encounter and intersectionality highlight the dom-
oenakosti spolovzavključujočo inant discourses that influence the expression of belonging and identity in both
univerzo in družbo
planned and unplanned encounters such as those that take place during travel.
Koper, 15. november 2024 Encounter is not a neutral but a historically conditioned category, in the concrete
case of the encounter between ‘empire’ and ‘periphery.’ Based on a combination
Gender Equality, Equity and Inclusivity
in Academia of autoethnography and ethnographic readings of contemporary women’s travel
Abstracts of the Second Symposium writing, the paper analyses intersectional narratives in the context of encounter-
on Gender Equality for an Inclusive ing socially and culturally constructed differences on the road. Power relations
University and Society and positioning in the context of encounters shape negotiations that maintain or
Koper, 15 November 2024 deepen the process of Othering or, in the transformative encounter of symbolic
inversion, shift discursive narratives.
Key words: gender, intersectionality, geography of encounter, travel

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