Alenka Švab
Biographic Data
| ID | 208770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alenka Švab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alenka |
| FAMILY NAME | Švab |
| SIGNATURE | ŠVAB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3013-4953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Involved Fatherhood Ideals and Practices in European Post‐Socialist Societies
This thematic issue examines how involved fatherhood is negotiated across post‐socialist Europe, where expectations of paternal engagement remain unevenly institutionalised and practiced. Bringing together seventeen contributions covering eleven post‐socialist countries and a 16‐country comparison, the issue analyses how fathers navigate tensions between traditional breadwinner norms and emerging caregiving ideals. The articles reveal substantial…
‘If the Father Says So, That’s How It Is’: Meanings Ascribed to the Notion of the Military Family
This paper builds on findings from the first systematic study of military families in Slovenia (2019–2022) to critically examine how military families are perceived and constructed within broader sociocultural and institutional frameworks. Using perspectives from family studies, military sociology, defense studies, and critical military theory, the study investigates whether these perceptions continue to reproduce the traditional binary logic tha…
Between Supportive and Involved Fatherhood in Slovenia
The article draws on four qualitative studies of fatherhood in Slovenia performed over 15 years (2005, 2008, 2015, and 2020) to analyse factors shaping the involvement of fathers in child‐rearing through a diachronic perspective, situating the empirical findings within broader socioeconomic and policy transformations. The period under study included several ambivalent developments. On one hand, the intensification of work, flexibilisation, and pr…
Gender Equality Plan at the University of Ljubljana: The Case of Work–Life Balance
The article addresses the challenges to achieving gender equality in academia, with a particular focus on work–life balance as outlined in the University of Ljubljana’s Gender Equality Plan (2022–2027). Based on a 2022 survey of 820 academic staff members, the study investigates how caregiving responsibilities, institutional practices, and organizational culture affect career advancement and satisfaction with the work environment, particularly co…
Coping with the absence of parents: Growing up in military families in Slovenia
Growing up in a military family with long-term and frequently absent parents presents unique psychosocial challenges to children and families. The purpose of this paper is to examine what growing up in a military family with absent parents looks like from a child's perspective, what the biggest challenges are, and how children cope with them. We took a life course approach and conducted retrospective, semi-structured in-depth interviews with 13 a…
Between Heteronormativity and Acceptance: Gays and Lesbians in Private and Public Space in a Comparative Perspective
The article presents selected results from the two studies on the everyday life of lesbians and gays in Slovenia carried out in 2004 and 2014. It focuses on the experiences of homophobia and violence and coming out in different social settings. The findings are presented in a comparative perspective with an attempt to identify the main changes in the ten-year period. Although it was expected that the comparative analysis would show an improvement…
Military Families' Health and Well-Being: A Socioecological Model of Risks
This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a theoretical perspective on the risks and challenges affecting them.
Coming Out into a Transparent Closet: Gays and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin
Gender Differences in Epidemic Everyday Scenarios: An Exploratory Study of Family Life in Slovenia
The article focuses on the changed dynamics of family life due to the first wave of Covid-19—starting in the spring of 2020—and the consequent longstanding social lockdown in the fall of 2020. We employ the concept of “forced nuclearisation” to describe the process that required a rapid reorganisation of otherwise self-evident and established social patterns and relationships, above all new adjustments of care relations both inside and outside th…
The Transparent and Family Closets: Gay Men and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin
This article builds on data collected in research on the everyday lives of gay men and lesbians in Slovenia, focusing on the families of origin and family relations. It pays special attention to the process of coming out and its consequences for further relationships among family members. It concentrates on the process of negotiating new family relations after coming out. The authors introduce the concepts of “transparent closet” and “family clos…
The Only Gay in the Village? Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Rural Slovenia
The article deals with the comparison of the characteristics, experiences, and perceptions of everyday life of gays and lesbians living in rural and urban areas of Slovenia. We focus on the following thematic aspects: (1) coming out; (2) intimate partnerships; (3) the access and the use of gay infrastructure; and (4) violence against gays and lesbians. The article also addresses and discusses the urban/rural divide as a Western construct that mig…
“I Only Have to Ask Him and He Does It…” Active Fatherhood and (Perceptions of) Division of Family Labour in Slovenia
The paper analyzes changes in the gendered division of family labour and the recent phenomenon of active fatherhood in Slovenia. Based on qualitative empirical evidence, the authors argue that changes in the relocation of care between women and men in family life arc significant in the values and expectations of individuals rather than in practices. Gender inequality in family labour is not seen only in the allocation of domestic work and childca…
The Interplay between Hatred and Political Correctness: The Privatisation of Homosexuality in Slovenia
The article deals with the question of homophobia in Slovenia, focusing on the process of the privatisation of homosexuality. Taking three homophobic incidents that took place in Slovenia in three different time periods (the end of the 1980s, the mid-1990s and the beginning of the new millennium) as examples, the authors strive to illustrate how tolerance towards homosexuals in Slovenia is conditioned by their public non-recognition. The privatis…
Behind and Beyond Hajnal's Line: Families and Family Life in Slovenia
By tracing the history and characteristics of family life in Slovenia in the last 60 years, the article attempts to shed light on family and demographic trends that are quite similar to those in Western countries as well as on those which are distinctively Slovenian. Some trends, such as the pluralisation of family forms and the decline in marriage and fertility rates started in approximately the same period as in Western countries, i.e. from the…
Consuming Western Image of Well-Being - Shopping Tourism in Socialist Slovenia
The text deals with theoretically and empirically overlooked theme from everyday life in the time of socialism – the shopping tourism. In general, consumption became analytically interesting only lately through cultural studies and consumption in socialism was overlooked due to several ideological, sociological and other prejudices against studying consumption and everyday life in socialism. However,shopping tourism seems to be allembracing and c…
The Only Gay in the Village? Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Rural Slovenia
The article deals with the comparison of the characteristics, experiences, and perceptions of everyday life of gays and lesbians living in rural and urban areas of Slovenia. We focus on the following thematic aspects: (1) coming out; (2) intimate partnerships; (3) the access and the use of gay infrastructure; and (4) violence against gays and lesbians. The article also addresses and discusses the urban/rural divide as a Western construct that mig…
Consuming Western Image of Well-Being - Shopping Tourism in Socialist Slovenia
The text deals with theoretically and empirically overlooked theme from everyday life in the time of socialism – the shopping tourism. In general, consumption became analytically interesting only lately through cultural studies and consumption in socialism was overlooked due to several ideological, sociological and other prejudices against studying consumption and everyday life in socialism. However,shopping tourism seems to be allembracing and c…
Between Supportive and Involved Fatherhood in Slovenia
The article draws on four qualitative studies of fatherhood in Slovenia performed over 15 years (2005, 2008, 2015, and 2020) to analyse factors shaping the involvement of fathers in child‐rearing through a diachronic perspective, situating the empirical findings within broader socioeconomic and policy transformations. The period under study included several ambivalent developments. On one hand, the intensification of work, flexibilisation, and pr…
Gender Equality Plan at the University of Ljubljana: The Case of Work–Life Balance
The article addresses the challenges to achieving gender equality in academia, with a particular focus on work–life balance as outlined in the University of Ljubljana’s Gender Equality Plan (2022–2027). Based on a 2022 survey of 820 academic staff members, the study investigates how caregiving responsibilities, institutional practices, and organizational culture affect career advancement and satisfaction with the work environment, particularly co…
Between Heteronormativity and Acceptance: Gays and Lesbians in Private and Public Space in a Comparative Perspective
The article presents selected results from the two studies on the everyday life of lesbians and gays in Slovenia carried out in 2004 and 2014. It focuses on the experiences of homophobia and violence and coming out in different social settings. The findings are presented in a comparative perspective with an attempt to identify the main changes in the ten-year period. Although it was expected that the comparative analysis would show an improvement…
The Interplay between Hatred and Political Correctness: The Privatisation of Homosexuality in Slovenia
The article deals with the question of homophobia in Slovenia, focusing on the process of the privatisation of homosexuality. Taking three homophobic incidents that took place in Slovenia in three different time periods (the end of the 1980s, the mid-1990s and the beginning of the new millennium) as examples, the authors strive to illustrate how tolerance towards homosexuals in Slovenia is conditioned by their public non-recognition. The privatis…
Behind and Beyond Hajnal's Line: Families and Family Life in Slovenia
By tracing the history and characteristics of family life in Slovenia in the last 60 years, the article attempts to shed light on family and demographic trends that are quite similar to those in Western countries as well as on those which are distinctively Slovenian. Some trends, such as the pluralisation of family forms and the decline in marriage and fertility rates started in approximately the same period as in Western countries, i.e. from the…
Consuming Western Image of Well-Being - Shopping Tourism in Socialist Slovenia
The text deals with theoretically and empirically overlooked theme from everyday life in the time of socialism – the shopping tourism. In general, consumption became analytically interesting only lately through cultural studies and consumption in socialism was overlooked due to several ideological, sociological and other prejudices against studying consumption and everyday life in socialism. However,shopping tourism seems to be allembracing and c…
Behind and Beyond Hajnal's Line: Families and Family Life in Slovenia
By tracing the history and characteristics of family life in Slovenia in the last 60 years, the article attempts to shed light on family and demographic trends that are quite similar to those in Western countries as well as on those which are distinctively Slovenian. Some trends, such as the pluralisation of family forms and the decline in marriage and fertility rates started in approximately the same period as in Western countries, i.e. from the…
“I Only Have to Ask Him and He Does It…” Active Fatherhood and (Perceptions of) Division of Family Labour in Slovenia
The paper analyzes changes in the gendered division of family labour and the recent phenomenon of active fatherhood in Slovenia. Based on qualitative empirical evidence, the authors argue that changes in the relocation of care between women and men in family life arc significant in the values and expectations of individuals rather than in practices. Gender inequality in family labour is not seen only in the allocation of domestic work and childca…
The Interplay between Hatred and Political Correctness: The Privatisation of Homosexuality in Slovenia
The article deals with the question of homophobia in Slovenia, focusing on the process of the privatisation of homosexuality. Taking three homophobic incidents that took place in Slovenia in three different time periods (the end of the 1980s, the mid-1990s and the beginning of the new millennium) as examples, the authors strive to illustrate how tolerance towards homosexuals in Slovenia is conditioned by their public non-recognition. The privatis…
The Transparent and Family Closets: Gay Men and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin
This article builds on data collected in research on the everyday lives of gay men and lesbians in Slovenia, focusing on the families of origin and family relations. It pays special attention to the process of coming out and its consequences for further relationships among family members. It concentrates on the process of negotiating new family relations after coming out. The authors introduce the concepts of “transparent closet” and “family clos…
The Only Gay in the Village? Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Rural Slovenia
The article deals with the comparison of the characteristics, experiences, and perceptions of everyday life of gays and lesbians living in rural and urban areas of Slovenia. We focus on the following thematic aspects: (1) coming out; (2) intimate partnerships; (3) the access and the use of gay infrastructure; and (4) violence against gays and lesbians. The article also addresses and discusses the urban/rural divide as a Western construct that mig…
Coming Out into a Transparent Closet: Gays and Lesbians and Their Families of Origin
Gender Differences in Epidemic Everyday Scenarios: An Exploratory Study of Family Life in Slovenia
The article focuses on the changed dynamics of family life due to the first wave of Covid-19—starting in the spring of 2020—and the consequent longstanding social lockdown in the fall of 2020. We employ the concept of “forced nuclearisation” to describe the process that required a rapid reorganisation of otherwise self-evident and established social patterns and relationships, above all new adjustments of care relations both inside and outside th…
Military Families' Health and Well-Being: A Socioecological Model of Risks
This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a theoretical perspective on the risks and challenges affecting them.
Coping with the absence of parents: Growing up in military families in Slovenia
Growing up in a military family with long-term and frequently absent parents presents unique psychosocial challenges to children and families. The purpose of this paper is to examine what growing up in a military family with absent parents looks like from a child's perspective, what the biggest challenges are, and how children cope with them. We took a life course approach and conducted retrospective, semi-structured in-depth interviews with 13 a…
Between Heteronormativity and Acceptance: Gays and Lesbians in Private and Public Space in a Comparative Perspective
The article presents selected results from the two studies on the everyday life of lesbians and gays in Slovenia carried out in 2004 and 2014. It focuses on the experiences of homophobia and violence and coming out in different social settings. The findings are presented in a comparative perspective with an attempt to identify the main changes in the ten-year period. Although it was expected that the comparative analysis would show an improvement…
‘If the Father Says So, That’s How It Is’: Meanings Ascribed to the Notion of the Military Family
This paper builds on findings from the first systematic study of military families in Slovenia (2019–2022) to critically examine how military families are perceived and constructed within broader sociocultural and institutional frameworks. Using perspectives from family studies, military sociology, defense studies, and critical military theory, the study investigates whether these perceptions continue to reproduce the traditional binary logic tha…
Between Supportive and Involved Fatherhood in Slovenia
The article draws on four qualitative studies of fatherhood in Slovenia performed over 15 years (2005, 2008, 2015, and 2020) to analyse factors shaping the involvement of fathers in child‐rearing through a diachronic perspective, situating the empirical findings within broader socioeconomic and policy transformations. The period under study included several ambivalent developments. On one hand, the intensification of work, flexibilisation, and pr…
Gender Equality Plan at the University of Ljubljana: The Case of Work–Life Balance
The article addresses the challenges to achieving gender equality in academia, with a particular focus on work–life balance as outlined in the University of Ljubljana’s Gender Equality Plan (2022–2027). Based on a 2022 survey of 820 academic staff members, the study investigates how caregiving responsibilities, institutional practices, and organizational culture affect career advancement and satisfaction with the work environment, particularly co…
Involved Fatherhood Ideals and Practices in European Post‐Socialist Societies
This thematic issue examines how involved fatherhood is negotiated across post‐socialist Europe, where expectations of paternal engagement remain unevenly institutionalised and practiced. Bringing together seventeen contributions covering eleven post‐socialist countries and a 16‐country comparison, the issue analyses how fathers navigate tensions between traditional breadwinner norms and emerging caregiving ideals. The articles reveal substantial…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Closet (4 works) · Everyday life (4 works)