Iztok Šori, PhD
Director
Patriarchal power relations, victimisation and criminalisation in prostitution are maintained by the fact that prostitutes constitute a hidden social group and that legal policies are not based on their needs and interests.
– Iztok Šori on prostitution
Iztok Šori, PhD in Sociology (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2012), is a director and a researcher at the Peace Institute. He is in particular interested in intersection of gender, migration and work, which he researches within different social fields (sex work, politics, private lives). He has participated in several research projects that addressed gender equality, political representation and emancipation, prostitution, trafficking in persons, racism, populism, migration and lifestyles. In 2015 he published a book Being Single: Between the Ideology of Family and Ideology of Choice (Aristej).
Featured project
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Fathers and Employers in Action – ODA
The project focuses on fathers in precarious forms of employment and fathers at managerial positions at the point of work-life balance, and addresses employers with implementation of ‘fathers-friendly’ measures...
Projects
- Research network FRANET
- Parliament for the Future of Europe
- Citizenship and discrimination: intersectional approach to research social exclusion
- Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in European Union
- Occupational risks in sex work at the intersections of policy framework and social stigma (ORIS)
- Equality and human rights in times of global governance
- Human Rights Guide
- Solidarity-Equality-Sameness
- The Break in Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Conceptual Change
- BEHAVE – SEE Beyond Hate: Learning and Acting to Counter Hate Speech Online in South East Europe
- Reducing and eliminating discrimination based on ethnicity, ‘race’, nationality and/or religion
- Political and Media Populism: “Refugee crisis” in Slovenia and Austria
- Masculinities, equality, care practices – MESP
- Workshops on hate speech, media and migration
- MEET, Media Education for Equity and Tolerance
- Workshops on hate speech and migrations
- Fathers and Employers in Action – ODA
- Digital Citizenship (DIG-CIT)
- Hate Speech and Populist Othering in Europe Through the Racism, Age, Gender Looking Glass – RAGE
- E-Engagement Against Violence
- Gender Structure of the Contemporary Slovene Society and Gender Positioning in the Field of Politics
- Mig@net: Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender
Featured publication
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Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
Publications
- Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
- Reported User-Generated Online Hate Speech: The ‘Ecosystem’, Frames, and Ideologies
- Chapter on ethno-national populism in the Slovenian context
- Hateful narratives in online media and online communication in Slovenia
- Collection of scientific papers ‘Social Inequality and Politics’
- Teorija in praksa: Special thematic cluster Masculinities and care
- Article Policies on Citizenship, Media and Intercultural Education: A Comparative Perspective of European States
- Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe, Chapter on Slovenia
- Book / Transformations of Fatherhood: Men between Parenthood and Work
- Fathers. Short Stories about Contemporary Parenthood
- Article Populism in Slovenian Context between Ethno-nationalism and Re-traditionalization
- Singleness. Between the ideology of family and the ideology of choice
- Aricles on Populism, Media and Education
- Racism: A Divided World, thematic issue of the ČKZ
