Research Assistant, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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nastja.slavec@zrc-sazu.si
Since October 2020, Nastja Slavec is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies and a PhD student of anthropology at the Postgraduate school ZRC SAZU. Her research interests include linguistic anthropology, national, ethnic and linguistic minorities, and the anthropology of dance.
She is currently writing her dissertation with the working title Dancing as an Euskaldun: Experiences and Subjectivities of Basque Speakers and Dancers. The dissertation is based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork research in the city of Pamplona-Iruñea (Spanish autonomous community of Navarre).
Previously, she conducted also shorter ethnographic fieldwork in Ireland, which she wrote about in her master's thesis ‘To have’ Irish in Corca Dhuibhne: Language Ideologies and Practices in a Minority Language Community, which won several awards.
- Slavec, Nastja. 2021. "Kmetje", "snobi" in "jezikovni fašisti": položaj in podoba govorcev irščine na polotoku Corca Dhuibhne. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva 61(1): 42-53.
Nastja obtained a Bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Trieste in 2015. Subsequently, she enrolled in the European Joint Master Programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes at the University of Ljubljana, from which she graduated in 2019. During her studies, she received two Erasmus scholarships, one for a one-year-long study exchange at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Oviedo, Spain (2013/2014), and another for attending the 2nd year of the CREOLE MA at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth (2017/2018).