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Anthropologist Dan Podjed, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. From the founding of the EASA Applied Anthropology Network in 2010 to 2018, he was its Convenor and continues to serve as one of the network’s Executive Advisors. In 2013 he was the founder and from 2013 to 2018 and again in 2023 the organiser of the international event Why the World Needs Anthropologists, which has become the main international meeting place for applied anthropologists. From 2022 to 2023, he was a member of a national team of experts on Covid-19 established by the National Institute of Public Health.

Since 2022, he has been directing a national research programme Ethnological, Anthropological, and Folklore Studies Research on Everyday Life. He has led several national and international research projects (as national coordinator) and participated in numerous EU projects (Horizon 2020, Erasmus+, Creative Europe, etc.). Currently, he is Principal Investigator of the project Isolated People and Communities in Slovenia and Croatia.

He was awarded twice (2013, 2021) for his scientific work under the Excellence in Science programme of the Slovenian Research Agency. In 2023, he received the Spade of the Year award presented by the Večer newspaper.

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Crisolation: A Science Story of Isolated People

At a time when the crisis is becoming the new normality, a new human is emerging: homo insulatus. She or he lives between four walls and in front of screens, seemingly connected to the community, but in fact disconnected from reality and increasingly isolated. Can the isolated human, who is the opposite of Yuval Noah Harari’s idea of homo deus, break the shackles of crisolation, i.e. the intertwining of crisis and isolation, detach her or his gaze from the screen and step out into the open? This book provides answers to such questions and shows that both isolation and crisis have different images, which the author places in front of the mirror. Not everyone will necessarily be happy with the reflection.

*edition in Slovenian language

Edited By Dan Podjed

Crisolation: A Fiction Tale of Isolated People

People are hiding in the isolation of their own homes, and no one knows what has happened outside. During the crisis, which has dragged on indefinitely, they work, study and socialise remotely, while their essentials, which they order online, are delivered to them through a drawer in the door… One day, teenager Zarja who lives in one of the apartments wakes up with a severe stomach ache. All the signs point to appendicitis. The e-doctor is unresponsive, so Zarja’s mother tries to call a house council meeting and ask for help from neighbours she has never met before. Will the inhabitants of the house manage to get out from isolation and help the teenager? Can they do it? And do they even want to?

*edition in Slovenian language

Edited By Dan Podjed