Election statement 2019: I am the founder of Why the World Needs Anthropologists, an international event for promoting the value of anthropology, organised annually since 2013. I served as Convenor of EASA Applied Anthropology Network from its inception in 2011 to 2018 and was a member of Organising Committee at EASA conference 2008 in Ljubljana. I research at ZRC SAZU and IRI UL and teach at the University of Ljubljana. I have led many research projects, and have been involved in development of various ethnography-based IT solutions for supporting the sustainable development goals. I am the author of numerous articles and monographs on sustainable lifestyle, human-technology interaction, volunteering, and altruism. My forthcoming book, Seen: Why We Like Watching Others and Being Watched in Return, will be published in 2019.
I will devote my mandate in the EASA Exec to: 1. attracting younger anthropologists to the association, 2. enabling new job opportunities for anthropologists, 3. supporting interdisciplinary collaborations.
Nominating member: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo). Supporting member: Sarah Pink (Monash University).
Election statement 2015: I am an anthropologist from Slovenia, where I have been researching and teaching for the past ten years. In 2008 I co-organised the EASA biennial conference, which was held in Ljubljana. As a convenor of EASA Applied Anthropology Network, I initiated the international symposium Why the world needs anthropologists (Amsterdam 2013, Padua 2014, Ljubljana 2015), which presents best practices of anthropologists in solving contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental challenges.
If elected, I will devote my work in the Executive Committee to:
- Use of communication tools, including online social networks, to enhance cooperation of members and strengthen EASA’s position as the main information and intellectual hub of academics, practitioners, and those “betwixt and between”.
- Establishing a public directory of key anthropological skills and competences to extend employment opportunities for graduates and postgraduates in and outside academia.
- Promotion of anthropology through public events organised in cooperation with other national and international institutions, associations, and networks.
Nominated and supported by Rajko Muršič (University of Ljubljana) and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)