Miha Zobec
Pliskovica – Razvojno društvo Pliska, SLORI, 2013
Invisible and forgotten: a research on emigration to Argentina during the world wars, based on the case of the rural community of Pliskovica
The book is the adaptation of the thesis Biti Argentinec in živeti doma (To be Argentine and live at home), which obtained the second prize in the competition for the best graduation, master and doctoral theses of the Office for Slovenians abroad in the category dedicated to emigration. The book is the result of the author’s interest in historical processes which permeated the Karst rural areas and had, at the same time, a universal note. The author was stimulated by the work of the development association Razvojno društvo Pliska from Pliskovica, which started to search the roots of the village inhabitants and their relatives in Argentina. He managed to deepen and broaden their ideas with the aid of the knowledge offered by several fields, from social history to historical anthropology, sociology and oral history.