Asst. Prof. Dr. Ana Svetel

Selected publications (2020-2025)

Monographs and edited volumes:

Bajič, B, A. Svetel & V. Zavratnik, eds. (2021). Razgledi treh dolin [Views of the Three Valleys]. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press.

Svetel, A., V. Zavratnik & B. Bajič, eds. (2022). Pogledi od blizu: mladi, prihodnost in zamišljanje razvoja na Solčavskem [Closeups: Youth,Future, and Imagining Development in Solčava]. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press.

Bajič, B. & A. Svetel, eds. (2023). Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future. Malaga:Vernon Press.

Svetel, A. (2024). Spremenljive krajine severovzhodne Islandije: Vreme, letni časi, svetloba in tema [Changing Landscapes of NortheasternIceland: Weather, Seasons, Light and Darkness]. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press.

 

Scientific articles:

Svetel, A. & V. Zavratnik (2021). ‘Lovljenje mimobežnosti: odsevi epidemije na spletnih družbenih omrežjih’ [Catching the Transient: EpidemicReflections on Social Networking Sites]. Glasnik SED 61(2): 20-29.

Zavratnik V. & A. Svetel (2021). ‘”Coronacoaster”: local reflections on digital social networks.’ Etnologické rozpravy / Ethnological Debates 28(1): 65-95.

Svetel, A. (2023). ‘Za kaj skrbimo, ko skrbimo za krajino?: toponimi, ovce in ruševine na severovzhodni Islandiji’ [What We Care About WhenWe Care About Landscape: Toponyms, Sheep, and Ruins in Northeastern Iceland]. Traditiones 52(1): 85–107.

Svetel, A. (2023). ‘Ptičja perspektiva sezonskih krajin severovzhodne Islandije’ [A Bird's Eye View of the Seasonal Landscapes of NortheastIceland]. Svetovi 1(2): 118-133.

Svetel, A. (2024). ‘To see and to respect: On the relations between humans, supernatural beings and the landscape in Northeast Iceland.’ Studia Mythologica Slavica 27: 125-145.

Svetel A. & V. Zavratnik. (2025). ‘Fragile sustainability or sustainable fragility? Local understandings of global terms in the Logar Valley.’ Svetovi 3(1): 70-89.

 

Chapters in edited volumes:

Svetel, A. (2022). ‘Moving, Returning, Staying: Mobilities of Rural Youth in the Solčavsko Region.’ In: A. Bartulović and G. Máté, eds. RethinkingUrban-Rural Relations/Migrations in Central-Europe: The Case of Slovenia and Hungary. Pécs: University of Pécs. Pp. 74–86.

Svetel, A. (2022) ‘Nevidne prisotnosti: hygge v luči idealizacije »nordijskega« načina življenja’ [Invisible Presences: Hygge in Light of theIdealization of the 'Nordic' Way of Life]. In: Muršič, R, B. Bajič & S. Abram, eds. Občutki mest: antropologija, umetnost, čutne transformacije. Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press. Pp. 171-200.

Bajič, B. & A. Svetel (2023). ‘Affordances for/of the future: relating/reconfiguring environments, temporalities, and people.’ In: Bajič, B. & A.Svetel, eds. Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future. Malaga: Vernon Press.. Pp. 9-32.

Compulsory Courses

• Methodology in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Elective Courses

• Anthropology and Writing

• Pre-Diploma Seminar General Ethnology, Urban, Modern and Traditional Lifeways

• Pre-diploma Seminar in Contemporary Ethnological and Anthropological Topics

• Seminar in Contemporary Ethnological and Anthropological Topics

• Seminar in General Ethnology, Urban, Modern and Traditional Lifeways