The second issue of the volume 2012 of the leading French ethnological/anthropological journal Ethnologie Fançaise, under the editorialship of Martine Segalen, presents Slovenia and SLovenian ethnology/sociocultural anthropology to the French public. Slovenia is for the French readers relatively unknown country; it is especially unknown in ethnological research of Slovenia. Publishing of the special issue entitled Slovenie: Entre l’Ouest et l’Est is the first integral presentation of Slovenian ethnology/sociocultural anthropology in French speaking cultural area, and as well the first presentation of the achievements od contemporary Slovenian authors and researchers in France.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 4539658Collaborative ethnography, supported with exciting visual material, presents the so-called grass-roots venues, i.e. non-governmental youth centres which were established under a local initiative and are working independently, although in very basic material conditions. The monograph is a result of collaboration of the leader of the research and actors who are actively engaged in programme of those youth centres. Active participants in grass-roots youth centres collected data about other centres and participated in writing and editing of the monograph. The monograph is the proof that it is possible to invite the local people in writing of the final ethnographic report. It is as well an example of efficient applied anthropology. The material collected and analyses of financing and operating of independent youth centres will become the ground for the future youth policy.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 260919040At the excellently organized and scholarly wellgrounded conference with participation of some leading world and European anthropologists (e.g. Arjun Appadurai, Martine Segalen, Verena Stolcke, etc.), with more than 120 participants from all around the world, especially Europe, the participants presented and discussed history of the discipline, its theory and methodology, and especially its applicability and engagement.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 253350400Manifold responsibilities are appearing when we do engaged and applied ethnography in our own societies or social milieux. The text discusses epistemological pitfalls generated from our positions of speaking. There is no neutrality, no neutral zone, no scientific objectivity, and no scholarly independent and neutral position. There is a vast area of new spaces appearing for new anthropology. An ethnographer is in privileged position to enunciate cultural reality, to make it real, to manage its potentials and limitations. Ethnography may be done on many different ways and aimed in different use. Ethnological enunciation is a specific social act that defines new symbolic/discursive field. It announces different kinds of engagement in anthropology. If at the moment there are not many jobs available for anthropologists in Europe, it may change – and should change.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 260929536The workshop represents the peak of so far workshop-making: its author once more tested the limits and potentials of ethnographic practice. She aimed at redefining the formation and location of meaning within people’s everyday and social life, mostly in connection to sensorial modalities and perception. Thus, she lead the participants to experientially explore different (complementary) ways of researching, understanding and interpreting individual and/or group (social) dynamic and the those inner (psycho-somatic) activities, which in daily practices are pushed on the level self-evidence, utilitarian functionality and automatisms – consequently, also making it difficult for anthropology to acknowledge these as information for analyses.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
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