Primož Pipan – Heriscope

Alpine Heritage in Slovenia: Between Authorisation and Imagination – chapter in Springer monograph “Discourses on Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia”

Springer has published a monograph entitled “Discourse on the Mountains of Montenegro and Slovenia.” The authors of chapter 22 are members of the program group Heritage on the Margins: Špela Ledinek Lozej, Primož Pipan and Maja Topole. Link to the article: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99017-5_22 Abstract: The chapter analyses the official registers of heritage institutions in Slovenia. It…
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Primož Pipan 12. 03. 2026 0

Approaching Salt-working: From Heritage to Experiential Environmental Wisdom

Between March 14 and 19, 2025, the 13th It’s About People conference, organized by Alma Mater Europaea University, was held in Maribor. The theme of the conference was Social and Technological Resilience for Health and Sustainable Development. On March 19, 2025, an online scientific panel entitled “Approaching Salt-working: From Heritage to Experiential Environmental Wisdom” was…
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Primož Pipan 06. 03. 2026 0

Fieldwork in the salterns of Nin, Pag and Ston in Croatia

In collaboration between the research programme “Heritage on the margins: new perspectives on heritage and identity within and beyond the national” (ARIS, P5-0408 (A)) and the research project “Grain of salt, crystallising cohabitation. Salt making as experiential environmental wisdom” (ARIS, J6-50196), the researcher Primož Pipan – Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences…
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Primož Pipan 27. 09. 2024 0

Fish as heritage: The case of mullet and farmed sea bass in the northeastern Adriatic

Fish is not just a fish. It can also be a means of assessing how heritage, as a particular type of imaginary, conveys social, cultural, political, and economic transformations. According to Salazar (2012), imaginaries are “socially transmitted representational assemblages that interact with people’s personal imaginings and are used as meaning-making and world-shaping devices”. In this…
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Primož Pipan 16. 02. 2024 0

Sečovlje salt pans: heritagisation of culture or nature?

Introduction The landscape of the Sečovlje salt pans was studied through literature, films, videos, volunteer work and in-depth visits. This paper highlights the uncoordinated activity between the actors or managers of (new) nature and culture and encourage their integration. In the case of the Sečovlje salt pans, there are two main actors: the Sečovlje Salina…
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Primož Pipan 12. 05. 2023 0

Walking seminar: the valley of the rivers Dragonja and Rižana in Istria

Between March 30 and April 1, 2023, a three-day international walking seminar was held in Istria, in the valleys of the Dragonja and Rižana rivers, as part of the project Route biographies: walking and writing as methods for researching border regions (ARRS, J6-4611). Twelve participants took part. Ten participants from the Research Centre of the…
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Primož Pipan 11. 05. 2023 0

Branding, labelling and certification – Special issue of Acta geographica Slovenica 62,2 (2022)

Špela Ledinek Lozej, a member of multidisciplinary research group Heritage on the margins has together with Nika Razpotnik Visković edited Acta geographica Slovenica 62,2 (2022) Special issue: Branding, labelling and certification and published an introductory article with the title Branding, labelling and certification: Geographical and anthropological insights (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.11265). Link to the journal Acta Geographica Slovenica:…
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Primož Pipan 06. 01. 2023 0

Book Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives

Four members of multidisciplinary research group Heritage on the margins have issued 2 chapters in the book: Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives at the Routledge publishing house. Marjeta Pisk and Špela Ledinek Lozej have written the chapter: Cross-border landscape as heritage? Insights from Slovenian borderlands (DOI: 10.4324/9781003195238-12). Primož Pipan and Maja Topole have written the…
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Primož Pipan 18. 11. 2022 0

Gastronomy, territory and tourism – Special issue of Acta Geographica Slovenica: 61, 1 (2021)

In the year Slovenia is entitled European Gastronomic Region 2021, Anton Melik Geographical Institute ZRC SAZU published a special issue of Acta Geographica Slovenica: 61, 1 (2021), Gastronomy, territory and tourism. Special edition contributions with DOI links: Gastronomy tourism: A brief introduction(Nika Razpotnik Visković, Blaž Komac)DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.10258 Culinary events in the Slovenian countryside: Visitors’ motives,…
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Primož Pipan 11. 08. 2021 0

Thematic conference of International Geographic Union – Heritage Geographies: Politics, Uses and Governance of the Past

On 27 and 28 May 2021, the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, hosted a thematic virtual regional conference of International Geographical Union entitled Heritage Geography: Policies, Use and Governance in the Past. It was scheduled to be live in 2020, but its staging was prevented by the outbreak of a COVID-19 global pandemic. Papers…
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Primož Pipan 31. 05. 2021 0

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