The book was included as an excellent example of contemporary ethnographic research in the Encyclopaedia of Anthropology (Selwyn, T. forthcoming 2017. Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Entry on tourism, travel, pilgrimage: anthropological approaches. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell). The book, published by Springer publishing house in 2017, analyses the relation between different discourses and actors in Northern Adriatic through an ethnographic approach, showing not only how fishermen in Slovenia respond to international political economy, how they struggle to survive but also how they generate small changes. Fishing in the north-eastern part of the Adriatic Sea makes for a substantial economy anchored in many stories. Regional conflicts, wars, the demise of empires and the rise of nation states with ensuing maritime border issues, socialist heritage, transnational and transformational processes in Europe, and the growth of capitalist relations between production and consumption in coastal areas, have all contributed to the specific discourses that have affected this relatively under-researched area. How this complex, layered and ambiguous quarrelling is constituted at different levels and how this situation is lived and experienced by the local fishermen working along the present Slovene coast effectively forms the core of this book.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40971821
The chapter is part of the edited volume entitled Moving Places which is co-edited by Nataša Gregorič Bon and Jaka Repič and published by one of the leading publisher in anthropology and other social science disciplines, Berghahn Books. The book focuses on physical movements of people, places, things and ideas with their spatial and temporal implications. It explores interrelatedness between practices and politics of place- making and movement as a mode of mobility and immobility. Contributions ethnographically explore the specificities of a given region, addressing issues of place-making, the topographic and social positioning of its inhabitants, the production of centrality and marginality, and return as either conceptual, physical or symbolic movement in place, with the attendant notions of roots, rootedness and locality. The chapter Rooting Routes focuses various modes of movements and nonmovements of migrants who claim to originate from one of the villages of the bilingual (Albanian and Greek speaking) area in Southern Albania. It explains how migrants, through their continuous movements, generate their sense of rootedness and belonging to their natal village. Their feelings of belonging are paradoxically based on their sense of rootedness in a particular locale, as well as to their continuous movements and migrations. The book was awarded with the Excellent in science in social sciences and humanities in 2017.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40652333
Publication in GEOBIA proceedings refers to the research of spatial and anthropological studies in Southern Albania. The paper explores the environmental change monitoring on the Albanian coastline (Vlora area) by analysing yearly Landsat optical data of the period between 1984 and 2015. By using the change vector analysis (CVA) technique and geographic object-based image analysis it compares pixel- and object-based approaches. The coastline and coastal change maps produced at 30 m resolution, applying both pixel- and object-based approaches, showed that CVA approach is a preferred technique when analysing Landsat data for coastal change detection. Apart from identifying spatial changes through time, this study showed the corresponding relationship between landscape changes and population movements. This article argues that movements of both people and landscape strongly impact each other and form an intertwining relationship.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40709421
The article was published in an important scientific journal Landscape Research (Taylor and Francis) and it deals with Istria, a peninsula in N Adriatic. Istria has always been a place through which many roads have passed and where boundaries have constantly changed. This paper takes up a concrete route and discusses it from three different perspectives: as a trade route connecting rural Istria with the city of Trieste and used in the twentieth century by women traders called Šavrinkas; the Šavrinkas’ route as transposed into a work of literature; and as an ethnographic route, specifically the track that we ourselves traversed and documented. The purpose of our study is to discuss the interrelation between routes, narratives and walking, while walking is deployed as a cognitive and methodological tool. By discussing these questions, the article contributes to the general debates within landscape research, while it also elaborates on walking as a practice of understanding as well as a method enabling a smooth entrance of the researcher into the research field.
COBISS.SI-ID: 41852717
The article describes the material, practical and narrative conditions through which water is understood in rural Serbia, in an environmental setting marked by abundance of water resources on one side and heavy droughts, pollution, floods, deforestation, and huge industrial demands on the other. Four open-ended ethnographic vignettes act as a lens through which the paper explores various modes of attending to and imagining the water resources in the Morava River valley. The study provides an anthropological insight into how imaginative hold and intimate experiences of water shape present-day understandings of subjectivity, and inform personal and collective ideas about responsibility to the realm we call nature.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40763693