ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the legal status of most Izbrisani still residing in Slovenia is now resolved, but there remains political and legal wrangling about reparations and the extent to which the protracted struggle of these people is to be written as part of a shared national culture. It explains young Izbrisanis' struggle; their privations, their awakening, their evolving focus and their poetics. Slovenia's poetic history and identity are writ large in Ljubljana. An arresting statue of France Preseren presides over a square in Ljubljana to the north of the city's famous Tromostovje, and by so doing he also overlooks one of the more popular places for young people to congregate. Jacques Ranciere's work suggests the possibility of spontaneous popular uprisings through a post-structural understanding of aesthetics. Ranciere's view on aesthetics pushes traditional ideas of beauty, landscape and artistic sensibilities to a consideration of the 'distribution of the sensible'.
