RESEARCHES IN THE YEARS OF STUDIES

Although I have already finished my studies in 2008 and I have obtained the title of Master of Science, I still remember those days when I was a student of social anthropology at the ISH institute in Ljubljana. I had luck because at that time we had really the best professors possible at our study program. Not only Slovene professors, but also from the United States and Croatia. It was really a great study program and in the time of my studies I had the possibility to know a lot of people to travel for research purposes and make friends.
In these years I did some researches for the subjects we were studying. I will mention below all the researches I did in the years I was still a student in social anthropology.
My researches and their titles. Some are in Slovene, some in English.

1. Being a tourist:Social suspension of status and social roles. (in Slovene)
   
2. Living in Casas particular in Cuba and the beginning of fictive kinship.(in Slovene)
   
3. Prekmurje in Tourist texts: the white storks and the melancholic, dreamy, mysterious, calm landscape of the forgotten region. (in English)
   
4. Travelling: In search of paradise. (in Slovene)
   
5. Slovene tourist industry from Socialism to Post-socialism: Tourism as a media to create the national image.
   
6. People in the photos of the magazine "Horizont": Camera lens as the weapon of culture/cultural power. (in Slovene)
   
7. Cuba: Female sex tourists and "jineteros": the disguised power of the "Other" over the eroticized body of the "Exotic Other".
8. Minorities from the Former Yugoslavia between the improper media definition and the ostrich state policy. (in Slovene)
9. The research method using porno videos as a fieldwork. Very interesting indeed. We were analysing the concept of racism in porn movies, especially what concerns women in the industry. Unfortunately the records of this research are saved on a diskette that are nowadays obsolete.

And finally, the greatest and most important research I did to finish my studies and get my Master, was the research I did in Colombia. Thanks to my friends in Colombia, mostly in the region Valle del Cauca, in Cali, I could carry out my research. Without their help, I would have been lost there. I could finish it in time and I hope a did a good job there. The result of that has the following title:

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND QUALITY OF LIFE:THE CASE OF VALLE DEL CAUCA, COLOMBIA


sugar cane in the Cauca Valey (Valle del Cauca)


ARTICLES THAT WERE PUBLISHED:

1. In the magazine MONITOR, they published in 2007 my article in English: CONSTRUCTION OF URBAN AND NON-URBAN SPACES IN TRAVEL MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHS
2. In the magazine MONITOR, it was published in 2008 an article out of a research I did for the University. Its title is: MINORITIES FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MEDIA AND THE POLICY OF THE STATE