Research Fellow
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Nataša Gregorič Bon is a social anthropologist with many years of research experience in Albania. The area of her research interest includes spatial anthropology, (non)movements and (im)mobility, border dynamic, Europeanisation, anthropology of future, anthropology of water. She is the author of the monograph entitled Spaces of Discordance which was translated into Albanian language and published by the Morava Publishing House, Tirana, Albania in 2015. She is also the co-author of the monograph (Non)movement and Place-Making (ZRC Publishing House) and co-editor of the volume Moving Places (Berghahn Books). For the latter she and her colleague/co-editor Jaka Repič received the Slovenian Research Agency's award Excellent in Science (Ljudje in kraji v gibanju). Since 2008 she is a book review editor of the journal Anthropological Notebooks and since 2013 she is co-editor of the Series Space, Place, Time at the ZRC Publishing House. She was a Departmental Visitor at the University of Canberra (Australia), Visiting Fellow at the SSEES, UCL (UK) and Centre of South Eastern and European Studies (CSEES), University of Graz (Austria) and Visiting Lecturer at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki (Finland), University of Nagoya (Japan).
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2019. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: the 'where' and 'when' in present-day Albania. In: Montgomery, David W. (ed.). Everyday life in the Balkans. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 201-210.
- -----, 2018. Poskusi tlakovanja prihodnosti: preoblikovanje mišljenjskih matric v praksah družbeno odgovornega podjetništva v Albaniji. Glasnik Slovenskega etnološkega društva, 58 (3/4): 25-38.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, JOSIPOVIČ Damir, KANJIR Urša. 2018. Linking geomorphological and demographic movements: The case of Southern Albania. Applied Geography, 100: 55-67.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2017. Movement matters: The Case of Southern Albania. In: de Rapper, Gilles (ed.). Albanie: Renaissance d´ unediscipline, EthnologieFrançaise, 47 (2): 301-308.
- –––––, 2017. Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in Southern Albania. In: Donnan, Hastings, Hurd, Madeleine, Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin (eds.). Migrating borders and moving times: temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe, (Rethinking borders). Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 140-156.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, REPIČ, Jaka, 2016. Introduction. In: Gregorič Bon, Nataša, Repič, Jaka (eds.). Moving places: Relations, return, and belonging, (EASA Series, 29). New York, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-20.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2016. Rooting routes: (Non-) movements in southern Albania. In: Gregorič Bon, Nataša, Repič, Jaka (eds.). Moving places: Relations, return, and belonging, (EASA Series, 29). New York, Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 63-84.
- –––––, 2015. Hapësira mospërputhjesh: etnografi hapësire dhe vendi në fshatin Dhërmi/Drimades, Shqipëria e Jugut.: Tiranë: Morava.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, Jaka REPIČ in Alenka JANKO SPREIZER, 2013. (Ne)gibanje in vzpostavljanje kraja (Zbirka Prostor, kraj, čas). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
- GREGORIČ BON, Nataša, 2014. Secular journeys, sacred places: Pilgrimage and home-making in the Himarë/Himara of Southern Albania area. In: Eade, John, Mario Katić (eds.). Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe: Crossing the Borders. Surrey: Asgate.
- –––––, 2010, Migrant routes and local roots: negotiating property in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. In: Bönisch-Brednich, Brigitte, Catherine Trundle (eds.). Local lives: Migration and the politics of place, (Studies in migration and diaspora). Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 17-30.
- –––––, 2008a, Prostori neskladij: Etnografija prostora in kraja v vasi Dhërmi/Drimades, Južna Albanija. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC.
- –––––, 2008b, Storytelling as a spatial practice in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. Anthropological Notebooks. 14 (2): 7-29.
- –––––, 2008c, "Where are we? Europe or Albania": regionalism as seen by the local people of Dhërmi/Drimades in southern Albania. Dve domovini/Two Homelands, 27: 83-106.
- –––––, 2008d, Negotiating Rubbish in Dhërmi/Drimades of Southern Albania. Tourism, Culture and Communication. 8 (2): 123-134.
Anthropological and Spatial Studies ( research programme • 01. january 2015 - 31. december 2021)
Seizing the Future: A Comparative Anthropological Study of Expectations of the Future in Southeast Europe ( temeljni_raziskovalni • 01. january 2016 - 31. december 2018)
Ethnographies of Land and Water Routes: A Comparative Approach to (Im)mobility ( raziskovalni • 01. july 2014 - 30. june 2017)
Experiencing water environments and environmental changes: An anthropological study of water in Albania, Serbia and Slovenia ( raziskovalni • 01. july 2019 - 30. june 2022)
BA of Culturology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 2001
MA, Ljubljana Graduate School of the Humanities, 2004
PhD, University of Nova Gorica, 2008