Dr Nina Vodopivec
- nina.vodopivec@inz.si
- +386 (1) 200 31 35
- Research Associate
- SICRIS (bibliography)
Nina Vodopivec, with a PhD in social anthropology, has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History since 2006. Between 2010 and 2020, she worked as a research fellow in the Economic and Social History program (at Institute for Contemporary History), in 2021 she joined the Political History program.
Between 2006 and 2008 she managed the Research Infrastructure program, in 2009 she coordinated the international project digital research infrastructure program (Dariah, funded by the 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development). In 2010, she lectured at the Wittenberg University in Ohio, as a Fulbright Scholar.
She has studied processes of postsocialist and neoliberal transformations, in particular in relation to experiences of work. Her work has encompassed empirical research of the lives of industrial workers, but also social entrepreneurs and social experimentators. She has studied social changes in relation to experiences of time: past, present and future.
Her research is focused on anthropology of work, industrial workers, anthropology of postsocialism, memory and gender studies, anthropology of future and social entrepreneurship.
She has conducted her field research in Slovenia but her interests cover broader area. She has just published a book with a title Silencing the Sewing Machines. Work loss experiences and the collapse of the factory.
