Bilateral Croatian-Slovenian research project 2020 - 2023 This urban ethnological/cultural anthropological project is dedicated to in-depth research of future-making in selected Croatian and Slovenian cities. Future-making refers to comprehensive...
Cultural Animal Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Traditional Practices (ANIMAL)
The project Cultural Animal Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Traditional Practices (ANIMAL) starts from the beginnings of cultural animal studies and current animalistic outreaches in Croatia, accomplishments of cultural-animalistic...
The record industry in Croatia from 1927 to the end of the 1950s
Project supported by Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-2024 This project is the first instance of a systematic scholarly approach to the topic of record industry in Croatia. It focuses on the period from 1927 until the end of the 1950s,...
The European Irregularized Migration Regime in the Periphery of the EU: from Ethnography to Keywords (ERIM)
Project supported by Croatian Science Foundation, 2020-2024 The European migration regime and irregularized migration movements, including those along the Balkan route that crosses Croatia, among other countries, are key contemporary phenomena that...
Legacy of the 1990s Discourses and Everyday Life
We launched the project “Legacy of the 1990s: Discourses and Everyday Life” in 2019 with the idea of researching the 1990s as the decade (we call it a “zero decade”) in which many processes that still determine Croatian society took shape. These...
Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions In the Balkans (INFORM)
Obzor 2020, 2016-2019Summary: As the countries of the Western Balkans (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania) come closer to the European Union, the gap between formal and informal institutional practices does not...
Urban processes and identities
By continuing the decades long orientation of the Institute’s research projects to urban environments, the platform Urban processes and identities establishes a systematic research of the city from the ethnological and cultural anthropological...
Transformativeness and perspectives of work in posttransitional Croatia: concepts, symbolism and effects
This project is focused on the anthropological concept of work and devotes its theoretical and fieldwork research to themes such as: work culture in conditions of strikes, unemployment, precarity and unpaid salaries; unemployment and the culture of...
From the old writings to the new orality
The starting point is Jan Assmann's articulation of a controversy which still generates polemics. The increased interest in the European cultural heritage, tradition and, consequently, genres of oral literature, is the outcome of the loss of...
Intangible culture and digital humanistics
The intention of the project is to continue the fundamental research of traditional culture and culture of contemporary everyday life through the prism of the relationship between the intangible culture and digital humanistics. Contemporary social...