Darja Zaviršek
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darja Zaviršek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darja |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaviršek |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVIRŠEK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5355-0933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Človek s hendikepom mora vedno nekaj več pokazati, več narediti…« Življenje s senzorno oviro v času socializma: Spominjanje in pripovedovanje
Based on disability studies and a historical perspective, the article focuses on the rare memories of people with sensory impairments about how they survived socialist schooling, long-term social welfare institutions, and what their employment opportunities were. Their testimonies are reflected within the framework of socialist social policy and social protection for people with disabilities. Historicising the situation of people with sensory dis…
The Struggle for Humanity: Deinstitutionalization of the Post-Yugoslav Space in a Historic Perspective
Navigating Minefields: Social Work with People with Disabilities in the Context of War
The systematic dehumanization of people with disabilities in peaceful times is magnified in times of war and during post-war periods, especially in regions and countries with prevalent medical-pathological approaches towards individuals with disabilities. This discussion combines historical, current, and anticipated impacts and integrates the experiences of practitioners and communities. Using critical social work and critical disability studies …
Rethinking War and Peace from a Social Work Human Rights Perspective
Transnational Solidarity in Rough Times: Documenting and Engaging for Peace
Social work war studies that incorporate critical theory, including feminist, disability and crip studies, and postcolonial approaches, can be used to respond to the needs of people living through genocide, domicide, ecocide, and scholasticide, and for advocacy of human dignity regardless of state and ethnic affiliation, and thus for peace worldwide. The first case study presents a thematic analysis of the war memories of social work educators an…
Women, Disability, and Culture
Anti-Refugee Sentiment without Refugees: Human Rights Violations and Social Work in Post-Socialist Countries of Southeastern Europe in their Social Contexts
In the article, the authors pose a question: to what extent can we speak of social work practice in support of refugees in post-socialist Southeastern Europe given that in the region, which was part of the Balkans Humanitarian Corridor in 2015 and 2016, state-supported social work practice is very limited and very prescriptive at the same time? The vocal anti-refugee sentiment in Central and Southeastern Europe that accompanied the migrants can b…
Delayed deinstitutionalisation in post-socialism
A qualitative, mixed and partly covert research of the locally specific characteristics of deinstitutionalisation was carried out in Slovenia in 2015. The research showed that more than 20,000 adults with different disabilities still live in different long stay institutions and that there are not sufficient NGOs that would support community-based living. Deinstitutionalisation is viewed as a change for the worse and is therefore reduced to minor …
Stultifera Navis« na balkanski begunski poti
Zbirni in namestitveni centri za begunce, azilni domovi in centri za tujce so sodobna oblika institucionalizacije in prostorske segregacije ljudi. Nekoč dobro znani procesi »velikega zapiranja«, biopolitike in ustvarjanja »populacij« so danes prežeti z ideologijami evrocentrizma, kulturalizacije in kulturnega rasizma, ki jih širijo mediji. Primerjava s procesi zapiranja hendikepiranih pokaže, da so se po eni strani procesi deinstitucionalizacije …
Social Work in Eastern Europe
Poverty as a Culture of Dominance: An Ethnography among Social Work Students in the Postsocialist European Periphery
Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective
Journal Article Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective Get access Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek is professor for social work and disability studies and chair of Indosow-International Doctoral Studies in Social Work and the president of the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the Schools of Social Work. She works at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work, Ljubljana. Corresponden…
Engendering Social Work Education under State Socialism in Yugoslavia
Prior to the 1990s, social work in Eastern Europe lagged far behind its Western counterparts. Perceived as an activity for petite-bourgeois women in the early twentieth century, it was deemed an unsuitable activity by the communist regimes which came to power following the Second World War. The belief that socialism would be able to eradicate the need for social work interventions and would ensure the well being of every ‘human being’ was also pr…
Pictures and silences: Memories of sexual abuse of disabled people
The article de–individualises the debate about sexual abuse of disabled people, especially women, by showing that both the sexual and asexual identity of impaired persons are invariably fashioned within the institutional arrangement of domination and subjugation. It shows that if disabled persons are seen as asexual or if they are sexualised, they cannot escape sexual violence, which is not an aberration, but is intrinsic to the social constructi…
A Historical Overview of Women's Hysteria in Slovenia
The article is a discursive analysis of medical, ecclesiastic and lay articles on women's hysteria published in Slovenia between 1877 and 1935. The analysis shows which discourses of women's hysteria dominated across Europe at the turn of the century and how they influenced the construction of the image of female biological and mental inferiority. Special attention is paid to the issue of how far the medical discourse on hysteria helped to justif…
Anti-Refugee Sentiment without Refugees: Human Rights Violations and Social Work in Post-Socialist Countries of Southeastern Europe in their Social Contexts
In the article, the authors pose a question: to what extent can we speak of social work practice in support of refugees in post-socialist Southeastern Europe given that in the region, which was part of the Balkans Humanitarian Corridor in 2015 and 2016, state-supported social work practice is very limited and very prescriptive at the same time? The vocal anti-refugee sentiment in Central and Southeastern Europe that accompanied the migrants can b…
Engendering Social Work Education under State Socialism in Yugoslavia
Prior to the 1990s, social work in Eastern Europe lagged far behind its Western counterparts. Perceived as an activity for petite-bourgeois women in the early twentieth century, it was deemed an unsuitable activity by the communist regimes which came to power following the Second World War. The belief that socialism would be able to eradicate the need for social work interventions and would ensure the well being of every ‘human being’ was also pr…
Delayed deinstitutionalisation in post-socialism
A qualitative, mixed and partly covert research of the locally specific characteristics of deinstitutionalisation was carried out in Slovenia in 2015. The research showed that more than 20,000 adults with different disabilities still live in different long stay institutions and that there are not sufficient NGOs that would support community-based living. Deinstitutionalisation is viewed as a change for the worse and is therefore reduced to minor …
Stultifera Navis« na balkanski begunski poti
Zbirni in namestitveni centri za begunce, azilni domovi in centri za tujce so sodobna oblika institucionalizacije in prostorske segregacije ljudi. Nekoč dobro znani procesi »velikega zapiranja«, biopolitike in ustvarjanja »populacij« so danes prežeti z ideologijami evrocentrizma, kulturalizacije in kulturnega rasizma, ki jih širijo mediji. Primerjava s procesi zapiranja hendikepiranih pokaže, da so se po eni strani procesi deinstitucionalizacije …
Pictures and silences: Memories of sexual abuse of disabled people
The article de–individualises the debate about sexual abuse of disabled people, especially women, by showing that both the sexual and asexual identity of impaired persons are invariably fashioned within the institutional arrangement of domination and subjugation. It shows that if disabled persons are seen as asexual or if they are sexualised, they cannot escape sexual violence, which is not an aberration, but is intrinsic to the social constructi…
Navigating Minefields: Social Work with People with Disabilities in the Context of War
The systematic dehumanization of people with disabilities in peaceful times is magnified in times of war and during post-war periods, especially in regions and countries with prevalent medical-pathological approaches towards individuals with disabilities. This discussion combines historical, current, and anticipated impacts and integrates the experiences of practitioners and communities. Using critical social work and critical disability studies …
Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective
Journal Article Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective Get access Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek is professor for social work and disability studies and chair of Indosow-International Doctoral Studies in Social Work and the president of the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the Schools of Social Work. She works at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work, Ljubljana. Corresponden…
A Historical Overview of Women's Hysteria in Slovenia
The article is a discursive analysis of medical, ecclesiastic and lay articles on women's hysteria published in Slovenia between 1877 and 1935. The analysis shows which discourses of women's hysteria dominated across Europe at the turn of the century and how they influenced the construction of the image of female biological and mental inferiority. Special attention is paid to the issue of how far the medical discourse on hysteria helped to justif…
A Historical Overview of Women's Hysteria in Slovenia
The article is a discursive analysis of medical, ecclesiastic and lay articles on women's hysteria published in Slovenia between 1877 and 1935. The analysis shows which discourses of women's hysteria dominated across Europe at the turn of the century and how they influenced the construction of the image of female biological and mental inferiority. Special attention is paid to the issue of how far the medical discourse on hysteria helped to justif…
Pictures and silences: Memories of sexual abuse of disabled people
The article de–individualises the debate about sexual abuse of disabled people, especially women, by showing that both the sexual and asexual identity of impaired persons are invariably fashioned within the institutional arrangement of domination and subjugation. It shows that if disabled persons are seen as asexual or if they are sexualised, they cannot escape sexual violence, which is not an aberration, but is intrinsic to the social constructi…
Engendering Social Work Education under State Socialism in Yugoslavia
Prior to the 1990s, social work in Eastern Europe lagged far behind its Western counterparts. Perceived as an activity for petite-bourgeois women in the early twentieth century, it was deemed an unsuitable activity by the communist regimes which came to power following the Second World War. The belief that socialism would be able to eradicate the need for social work interventions and would ensure the well being of every ‘human being’ was also pr…
Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective
Journal Article Social Work with Adults with Disabilities: An International Perspective Get access Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek Darja Zaviršek is professor for social work and disability studies and chair of Indosow-International Doctoral Studies in Social Work and the president of the Eastern European Sub-Regional Association of the Schools of Social Work. She works at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Work, Ljubljana. Corresponden…
Social Work in Eastern Europe
Poverty as a Culture of Dominance: An Ethnography among Social Work Students in the Postsocialist European Periphery
Delayed deinstitutionalisation in post-socialism
A qualitative, mixed and partly covert research of the locally specific characteristics of deinstitutionalisation was carried out in Slovenia in 2015. The research showed that more than 20,000 adults with different disabilities still live in different long stay institutions and that there are not sufficient NGOs that would support community-based living. Deinstitutionalisation is viewed as a change for the worse and is therefore reduced to minor …
Stultifera Navis« na balkanski begunski poti
Zbirni in namestitveni centri za begunce, azilni domovi in centri za tujce so sodobna oblika institucionalizacije in prostorske segregacije ljudi. Nekoč dobro znani procesi »velikega zapiranja«, biopolitike in ustvarjanja »populacij« so danes prežeti z ideologijami evrocentrizma, kulturalizacije in kulturnega rasizma, ki jih širijo mediji. Primerjava s procesi zapiranja hendikepiranih pokaže, da so se po eni strani procesi deinstitucionalizacije …
Anti-Refugee Sentiment without Refugees: Human Rights Violations and Social Work in Post-Socialist Countries of Southeastern Europe in their Social Contexts
In the article, the authors pose a question: to what extent can we speak of social work practice in support of refugees in post-socialist Southeastern Europe given that in the region, which was part of the Balkans Humanitarian Corridor in 2015 and 2016, state-supported social work practice is very limited and very prescriptive at the same time? The vocal anti-refugee sentiment in Central and Southeastern Europe that accompanied the migrants can b…
Women, Disability, and Culture
Navigating Minefields: Social Work with People with Disabilities in the Context of War
The systematic dehumanization of people with disabilities in peaceful times is magnified in times of war and during post-war periods, especially in regions and countries with prevalent medical-pathological approaches towards individuals with disabilities. This discussion combines historical, current, and anticipated impacts and integrates the experiences of practitioners and communities. Using critical social work and critical disability studies …
Rethinking War and Peace from a Social Work Human Rights Perspective
Transnational Solidarity in Rough Times: Documenting and Engaging for Peace
Social work war studies that incorporate critical theory, including feminist, disability and crip studies, and postcolonial approaches, can be used to respond to the needs of people living through genocide, domicide, ecocide, and scholasticide, and for advocacy of human dignity regardless of state and ethnic affiliation, and thus for peace worldwide. The first case study presents a thematic analysis of the war memories of social work educators an…
Človek s hendikepom mora vedno nekaj več pokazati, več narediti…« Življenje s senzorno oviro v času socializma: Spominjanje in pripovedovanje
Based on disability studies and a historical perspective, the article focuses on the rare memories of people with sensory impairments about how they survived socialist schooling, long-term social welfare institutions, and what their employment opportunities were. Their testimonies are reflected within the framework of socialist social policy and social protection for people with disabilities. Historicising the situation of people with sensory dis…
The Struggle for Humanity: Deinstitutionalization of the Post-Yugoslav Space in a Historic Perspective
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