Veronika Zavratnik
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+386 1 2411 518
veronika.zavratnik@ff.uni-lj.si

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Tuesday, 1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.

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304

Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

Asst. Prof. Dr. Veronika Zavratnik

Veronika Zavratnik was born in 1990 in Ptuj, Slovenia. In 2011, she graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, with a thesis on the understanding of local ethnographic collections in the context of local communities. She completed her MA studies at the same faculty in 2014, specialising in material culture studies. In 2024, she completed her PhD with the dissertation Footwear in everyday life: A study in material culture.

From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, in the Laboratory for Telecommunications. Since 2019 she has been working at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and between 2021 and 2023 she also worked as a researcher at the Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana.

She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Svetovi/Worlds.

 

Research areas
Material culture, environment, handicrafts, digitalization.

Personal bibliography: https://bib.cobiss.net/bibliographies/si/webBiblio/bib201_20250526_1842…

 

Selected publication:

SVETEL, Ana (author, photographer), ZAVRATNIK, Veronika. Fragile sustainability or sustainable fragility? Local understanding of global terms in the Logar Valley = Krhka trajnostnost ali trajnostna krhkost? Lokalno razumevanje globalnih pojmov v Logarski dolini. Svetovi. feb. 2025, letn. 3, št. 1, str. 95-114, fotogr. ISSN 2820-6088. https://journals.uni-lj.si/svetovi-worlds/article/view/20073/18021, Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije - dLib.si, DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.3.1.95-114. 

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika. Worn-out and wanted : footwear and its temporalities. In: BAJIČ, Blaž (ed.), SVETEL, Ana (ed.). Sensory environmental relationships : between memories of the past and imaginings of the future. Washington; Malaga: Vernon Press, cop. 2023. Str. 175-193.

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika, SVETEL, Ana. "Coronacoaster" : local reflections on digital social networks. Etnologické rozpravy. 2021, roč. 28, č. 1, str. 65-95. ISSN 1335-5074.

SVETEL, Ana, ZAVRATNIK, Veronika. Lovljenje mimobežnosti : odsevi epidemije na spletnih družbenih omrežjih. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva. [Tiskana izd.]. 2021, 61, št. 2, str. 20-29.

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika, PODJED, Dan, TRILAR, Jure, HLEBEC, Nina, KOS, Andrej, STOJMENOVA DUH, Emilija. Sustainable and community-centred development of smart cities and villages. Sustainability. 2020, iss. 10, 3961, str. 1-17, ilustr. ISSN 2071-1050. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/10/3961, Repozitorij Univerze v Ljubljani – RUL, DOI: 10.3390/su12103961.

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika, HLEBEC, Nina, STOJMENOVA DUH, Emilija. Večdisciplinarni pristop kot bistveni dejavnik pametnega in trajnostnega razvoja podeželja. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2020, letn. 30 = 81, str. 89-109, ilustr. 

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika, KOS, Andrej, STOJMENOVA DUH, Emilija. Smart Villages : comprehensive review of initiatives and practices. Sustainability. 2018, iss. 7, 2559, str. 1-14, ilustr. 

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika. Pohištvo za vse čase : obravnava pohištva kot prispevek k raziskovanju materialne kulture. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2017, letn. 27 = 78, str. 65-81. 

ZAVRATNIK, Veronika (author, photographer). "Allstarke so pa malo dlje ostale" : čevlji kot del materialne kulture. Etnolog : glasnik Slovenskega etnografskega muzeja. [Nova vrsta]. [Tiskana izd.]. 2016, letn. 26 = 77, str. 147-163, ilustr.

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