I would best describe myself as a traveler, seeking ways to open spaces for communication, intersections, meeting points of differences and similarities, various epistemologies and cosmologies, different points of views on the world, society
and life in general.

As a researcher, lecturer and NGO activist I struggle to fight various forms of social exclusion, discrimination, xenophobia and racism. My interests lie in the communication with various publics and cross disciplinary collaboration.

My research is focused on industrial workers, anthropology of postsocialism, organization of labor, meanings of work, memory and gender studies, Central/Eastern Europe
and the Balkans, intercultural communicaion. Besides my published work, I have organized and coordinated intercultural communication workshops for children, professional
trainings for professors and street actions in the field of intercultural dialogue, global education and social responsibility.


PhD degree in Social Anthropology (2006), Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis – Graduate School of the Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Bachelor degree (1999), Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University Ljubljana, Slovenia

Affiliated Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Allied Humanitas Society for Human Rights and Supportive Action, Ljubljana, Slovenia


Bibliography


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Država, trg, podjetje : o razmerjih in družbeni izključenosti. In: VODOPIVEC, Nina (ed.). Med državo in trgom : cikli in prelomi v zgodovini, (Vpogledi, 9). Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2014, str. 165-186; http://www.inz.si/publikacije/povzetki/vpogledi9.pdf 

   On the Road to Modernity: Textile Workers and Post-socialist Transformations in Slovenia. History 97/4, October 2012 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hist.2012.97.issue-328/issuetoc

Intervju, Nina Vodopivec (Ervin Milkharčič Hladnik, Kristina Božič) http://www.dnevnik.si/objektiv/intervjuji/nina-vodopivec-  

"Svoboda je navidezna, dejansko gre za ideal regulacije. Vse skupaj spremljajo strah, nezadovoljstvo, občutek nemoči, naše življenje obvladuje politika hitrosti", intervju Nina Vodopivec (klemen Košak, Mladina, 9.8.2013, http://www.mladina.si/147113/dr-nina-vodopivec-svoboda-je-navidezna-dejansko-gre-za-ideal-regulacije-vse-skupaj-spreml/

·         Yesterday's Heroes: Spinning Webs of Memory in a Postsocialist Textile Factory in Slovenia. In Kolova, Daniela (Ed). Negotiating Normality Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. 43-63
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·         Challenging global citizenship through interculturality: Crossing borders and practicing solidarity. Critical literacy: Theories and Practices 6/1 2012,http://criticalliteracy.freehostia.com/index.php?journal=criticalliteracy&page=article&op=viewPDFInterstitial&path[]=107&path[]=81

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·         2007: Labirinti postsocializma: socialni spomin tekstilnih delavk in delavcev, (Labyrinths of postsocialism: social memory of textile workers), Knjižna zbirka Documenta, 16. Ljubljana: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij.

·         Koncept spola v feministični antropologiji [The Concept of Gender in the Feminist Anthropology and Feminist Theory]. Delta - Slovene journal of feminist literary criticism 2001/7, 1/2. 121-132.

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