Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jaka Repič

Jaka Repič, born in 1975 in Ljubljana, holds a PhD in ethnology and is an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. At the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, he teaches methodological subjects and subjects related to urban anthropology, anthropology of violence, migration, and ethnology of Australia and Oceania. He is the co-coordinator of the Joint Master's Program Creole: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes. He was head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (2017-2021) and chair of the Faculty of Arts' Executive Board (2018-2021).

His research interests include transnational migration, urban anthropology, the Slovenian diaspora in Argentina, identifications, anthropology of art, environmental anthropology, and, more recently, the issue of mass graves. He has conducted ethnographic research in Papua New Guinea, Slovenia, Argentina, and Spain. Since 2022, he has been the leader of the research program Ethnological Research of Cultural Knowledge, Practices, and Forms of Sociality, which brings together more than 20 researchers, and has received the highest AAA rating in 2025 pilot evaluation of research programs at the University of Ljubljana. He has been a member of several research projects, including the CHANSE project DigiFREN (2022-2025) and the ERC project DEAGENCY (2023-2028). He was a principal investigator of the bilateral research project entitled Art in the Diaspora: An Anthropological Research of Creativity among Slovenians in Argentina and Return Migrants (2015-2017, with the University of Buenos Aires).

He was a mentor to young researcher Dr. Ana Svetel and several other doctoral students at the University of Ljubljana. He was also a member of doctoral dissertation evaluation committees at the University of Ljubljana, the University of Nova Gorica, the University of Alicante, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the University of Buenos Aires. Between 2019 and 2020, he was a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has also lectured at several other foreign universities (University of Buenos Aires, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, University of Bern, University of Vienna, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Reykjavik University, University of Zadar, etc.).

Awards

- First prize from the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenians Abroad and Around the World for the best doctoral, master's, and bachelor's theses, 2007.

- ARRS Award for Excellence in Science, Excellence in Humanities for 2016, for the edited volume Moving places: Relations, Return and Belonging, coedited with Nataša Gregorič Bon and published by Berghahn Books.

- Mentor of Alina Bezlaj's master's thesis "Ballymun is me Heart": Place-Making in a Dublin Suburban Community, 2023, which received the Prešeren Award from the University of Ljubljana.

Selected bibliography (see full bibliography here: https://bib.cobiss.net/bibliographies/si/webBiblio/bib201_20260103_213845_22414.html):

Monographs:

REPIČ, Jaka. 2006. »Po sledovih korenin«: transnacionalne migracije med Argentino in Evropo. (Zbirka Županičeva knjižnica, št. 19). Ljubljana: Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo, Filozofska fakulteta.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2013. Urbanizacija in vzpostavljanje etničnih skupnosti v Port Moresbyju, Papua Nova Gvineja. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/book/100.

GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, Jaka REPIČ, Jaka in Alenka JANKO SPREIZER. 2013. (Ne)gibanje in vzpostavljanje kraja, (Prostor, kraj, čas, 2). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. http://iaps.zrc-sazu.si/sl/publikacije/ne-gibanje-in-vzpostavljanje-kraja#v

Edited volumes:

REPIČ, Jaka in Jože HUDALES, ur. 2012. Antropološki vidiki načinov življenja v mestih. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete.

GREGORIČ BON, Nataša in Jaka REPIČ, ur. 2016. Moving Places: Relations, Return and Belonging. London in New York: Berghahn Books. (Zbornik je 2017 prejel ARRS naslov Odlični v znanosti).

REPIČ, Jaka in Urša GERŠAK, ur. 2025. Pogledi na Branislavo Sušnik in njen prispevek k raziskavam paragvajskih staroselskih ljudstev. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Univerze v Ljubljani. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/book/722.

Special issues in scientific journals:

REPIČ, Jaka. 2017. Art and migration. Dve domovini/Two Homelands, vol 46.

REPIČ, Jaka in Petra HAMER. 2025. Agentive properties of the dead over time and in different social contexts. Anthropological Notebooks, vol. 31. nr. 2.

Articles in scientific journals:

REPIČ, Jaka. 2010. Ambivalent identities emerging in transnational migrations between Argentina and Slovenia. Dve domovini/Two homelands 31: 121-134.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2010. Migration, informal economy and social exclusion in Spain. Studia ethnologica Croatica 22: 165-186.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2011. Appropriation of space and water in informal urban settlements of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Anthropological notebooks 17(3): 73-87.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2012. Les Slovènes d'Argentine: le concept de patrie dans la construction d'une communautè diasporique. Ethnologie francaise 42(2): 231-240.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2014. Gibanje kot prostorske prakse in ekonomske strategije na primeru družinskega sirarstva v Bohinju. Ars & humanitas 8(1): 38-57.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2017. The impact of mobilities on visual arts in the Slovenian diaspora in Argentina. Dve domovini/Two Homelands 46: 7-22

REPIČ, Jaka. 2018. Memorialization of the first world war in the landscape of the Julian Alps. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 73: 27-46. DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2018.73.repic.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2019. Yugoslavia from the other side : memorialization of the Yugoslavian communist revolution among Slovenians in Argentina = Jugosławia z drugiej strony : rytualizacja wspomnień o jugosłowiańskiej rewolucji komunistycznej wśród Słoweńców w Argentynie. Łódzkie studia etnograficzne. 2019, tom 58, str. 117-134. DOI: 10.12775/LSE.2019.58.07.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2021. Podobe o Branislavi Sušnik med Slovenci v Argentini : migracija, življenje v Paragvaju in povezave z domovino. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu 53: 11-26. DOI: 10.3986/dd.2021.1.02.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2022. Begunstvo, nasilje in domovina v likovni umetnosti povojne skupnosti Slovencev v Argentini. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. 32: 71-87. https://www.etno-muzej.si/sl/etnolog/etnolog-32-2022/begunstvo-nasilje-in-domovina-v-likovni-umetnosti-povojne-skupnosti-slovencev-v-argentini.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2023. Violence, exile, and homeland in visual arts in the Slovenian diaspora in Argentina. Arts. 12: 93. DOI: 10.3390/arts12030093.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2025. Mass graves and exhumations in Slovenia : agency of the dead, their remains and the materiality of mass graves. Anthropological notebooks 31(2): 27-51. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17469410.

Chapters in edited volumes:

REPIČ, Jaka. 2012. Umetnost, urbanost in diaspora: kulturni center Museo conventillo Marjan Grum v Buenos Airesu. V: Antropološki vidiki načinov življenja v mestih, Jaka Repič in Jože Hudales, ur. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. Str. 211-230.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2013. Prazniki, socialni spomin in oblikovanje slovenske skupnosti v Argentini. V: Politika praznovanja : prazniki in oblikovanje skupnosti na Slovenskem, Božidar Jezernik idr., ur. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. Str. 153-172.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2014. Rituals in the Slovenian diasporic community in Argentina. V: The ritual year 8: migrations, (The Yearbook of the SIEF working group on the ritual year, ISSN 2228-1347). Dobrinka PARUSHEVA in Lina, GERGOVA, ur. Sofia: Institute of ethnology and folklore studies: Ethnographic museum, Bulgarian academy of science. Str. 78-95.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2016. Tracing Roots: Slovenian Diaspora in Argentina and Return Mobilities. V: Moving Places: Relations, Return and Belonging. Nataša Gregorič Bon in Jaka Repič, ur. London in New York: Berghahn Books. Str. 85-104.

GREGORIČ BON, Nataša in REPIČ, JAKA. 2016. Introduction. V: Moving Places: Relations, Return and Belonging. Nataša Gregorič Bon in Jaka Repič, ur. London in New York: Berghahn Books. Str. 1-20.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2017. Jugoslavija z druge strani: Ritualizacija spominov na jugoslovansko komunistično revolucijo med Slovenci v Argentini. V: JEZERNIK, Božidar (ur.), SLAVEC GRADIŠNIK, Ingrid (ur.). Države praznujejo: Državni prazniki in skupnosti na območju bivše Jugoslavije, (Zbirka Zupaničeva knjižnica, ISSN 1855-671X, št. 45). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. Str. 255-270.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2021. Spominska krajina in dediščina prve svetovne vojne v Julijskih Alpah. V: FIKFAK, Jurij (ur.), JEZERNIK, Božidar (ur.). Dediščina prve svetovne vojne : reprezentacije in reinterpretacije. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, 2021. Str. 175-196, ilustr. Zupaničeva knjižnica, št. 49. ISBN 978-961-06-0415-0. ISSN 1855-671X. https://e-knjige.ff.uni-lj.si/znanstvena-zalozba/catalog/view/251/357/5880-1, DOI: 10.4312/9789610604143.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2023. Environmental relationships in transhuman pastoralism in Bohinj, North-Western Slovenian Alps. V: BAJIČ, Blaž (ur.), SVETEL, Ana (ur.). Sensory environmental relationships : between memories of the past and imaginings of the future. Washington; Malaga: Vernon Press, cop. 2023. Str. 109-131.

REPIČ, Jaka. 2025. Animizem, perspektivizem in večvrstna družba v zgodnjih raziskavah Branislave Sušnik. V: REPIČ, Jaka (ur.), GERŠAK, Urša (ur.). Pogledi na Branislavo Sušnik in njen prispevek k raziskavam paragvajskih staroselskih ljudstev. Ljubljana: Založba Univerze, 2025. Str. 203-225. Zbirka Zupaničeva knjižnica, št. 57. ISBN 978-961-297-528-9. ISSN 1855-671X. https://ebooks.uni-lj.si/ZalozbaUL/catalog/view/722/1101/11263.