Publications
Learn more about DEAGENCY project publications. Explore published special issues, published papers in scholarly journals, edited books, volumes, published books and more.
DEAGENCY Special Issues
As an outcome of DEAGENCY international conferences, the project team have published the following special issues:
- Mencej, Mirjam (ed). 2025. “Agency of the Dead”.Foklore. Elektronic Journal of Foklore 96. Vol. 96, LM Scholarly Press, Tartu 2025
- Repič, Jaka and Petra Hamer (eds). 2025. “Agentive properties of the dead over time and in different social contexts”. Anthropological Notebooks 31(2).
- Bužeková, Tatiana (ed). (2026). Český lid Issue 1, Vol. 113
Other Editorial Work
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Published papers in scholarly journals
- Mencej, Mirjam: The Dead in Vernacular Magic Practices among Bosniaks (ed. Mirjam Mencej, Éva Pócs, Journal: Religions, 2024)
- Bužeková, Tatiana: Commemoration of the Dead in the Context of Alternative Spirituality: Collective and Solitary Rituals, (ed. Mirjam Mencej, Éva Pócs, Journal: Religions, 2024)
- De Jager, Juan: Making porosity more porous : an open call for brainstorming after Tanya Luhrmanns recent findings (ed. Michal Uhrin, Manca Račič, Journal: Svetovi – Worlds: Journal for Ethnology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2024)
- Uhrin, Michal: Funeral rituals: Classical Inspirations and Contemporary Research (ed. Jan Kapusta, Antropowebzin, Department of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, 2024)
- Mencej, Mirjam: Uncanny experience and its meaning-making as moral experience (Numen, International Review for History of Religions, Brill Publishers, Leiden, 2025)
- Poklukar, E:”A ni to malo strašljivo?” – doživljanje stika z umrlimi. (ed. Saša Babič, Katja Hrobat Virloget, Studia Mythologica Slavica, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2025)
- Ivnik, Tina: Afterlife Beliefs and Dream Encounters with the Dead Among Spiritual Practitioners in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ed. Saša Babič, Katja Hrobat Virloget, Studia Mythologica Slavica, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2025)
- Mencej, Mirjam. 2025. “Paved-Over Graveyards in Bosnia: The Agency of the Dead, Personal Experience Narrratives, and Legends in the Media.” Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore, no. 96: 187-212.
- Ivnik, Tina. 2025. “Comforting Dreamscapes: Exploring the Agency of the Dead Through Dreams Among Spiritual People in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina .” Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 96: 139-166.
- Hesz, Agnes. 2025. “Individual Views and Global Trends: The Conceptualisation of the Dead. A Case Study.” Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 96: 79–98.
- Zupanc, Simona K. (2025). Living connections: Continuing bonds between the living and the deceased in rural northeastern Slovenia. Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore, 96, 167–186)
- Bužeková, Tatiana. 2025. “Right Place, Right Behaviour: Deathscapes as a Moral Space in the Context of Alternative Spirituality in Slovakia.” Folklore Electronic Journal of Folklore 96:115-138.
- Uhrin, Michal. 2025. “The role of the experiences with the dead in the lives of individu-als in rural Slovakia: Practices and rituals.” Anthropological Notebooks 31(2): 189-213.
- Hamer, Petra. 2025. “The Enduring Agency of Fikret the Smiling Bodybuilder in Suada’s Journey.” Anthropological Notebooks 31(2): 74-99.
- Repič, Jaka. 2025. Mass graves and exhumations in Slovenia: Agency of the dead, their remains and the materiality of mass graves. Anthropological Notebooks 31(2): 27-51.
- Uhrin, Michal. 2025. “Selected methodological and ethical issues in anthropological and ethnographic research on death.” Etnologicé rozpravy / Ethnological Debates 32 (2): 72-89.
- Mencej, Mirjam. 2025. Obcestni duhovi v Bosni: Izginjajoča štoparka. Studia ethnologica Croatica 37(1): 165-183.
- Hamer, Petra. 2026. “Between Camp and the Cross: Ambiguity, Memory, and Commemoration in Trnopolje.” MonitorISH 27(2): 5-29.
- Uhrin. Michal. 2026. “Religious Holidays and Ceremonies as Points ofRemembrance of the Dead: The Case of All Saints’ Dayand All Souls’ Day in Slovakia”. Český Lid 113(1): 73-98.
- Repič, Jaka. 2026. Unearthing memories : the agency of place and material remains in mass grave exhumations and commemorations in Sloveni
- Hamer, Petra. 2026. “Uloga Fikreta, bodybuildera sa osmijehom, na život žene Suade.” Pregled LXVI(3): 209-228.
- Uhrin, Michal. 2025. “From House to Funeral Home”: Changes in Funeral Rituals in Rural Slovakia.” Ethnographic Journal 85(1) 91-113.
- Hamer, Petra. 2026. “Mrtvi iz prijedorskih grobišč kot relacijski akterji v povojni Republiki Srbski.” Svetovi 4(2): 84-101.
Published papers in edited books/volumes
- Mencej, M. (2023). Werewolves as social others: Contemporary oral narratives in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (pp. 183–208). Springer International Publishing.
- Mencej, Mirjam. 2024. “Mrtvi kot nadzorniki norm vedenja.” (The Dead as Controllers of Norms of Behaviour), in Jezik in književnost v spreminjanju : [Slovenski slavistični kongres, Celje, 26.-28. september 2024], eds. Jožef-Beg Jožica, Hočevar Mia, Kočnik Neža (Ljubljana: Zveza društev Slavistično društvo Slovenije), 123-133.
- Mencej, Mirjam. 2025. “The Dead and Atmospheric Water”, in Good thoughts on folklore and mythology: Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell. Vol. 1, Folklore, ed. Ásdísardóttir, Ingunn et al. (Budapest: Trivent),125-135.
Other (introductions/prefaces in scholarly journals, book reviews, conference reports)
- Uhrin, M. (2024). Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, by Dimitris Xygalatas. Svetovi: Revija Za Etnologijo, Antropologijo in Folkloristiko, 2(2), 82–83.
- Mencej, Mirjam. 2025. “Introduction.” Folklore. Electronic Journal of Folklore 96: 5-8.
- Repič, Jaka and Petra Hamer. 2025. “Introduction: Agentive properties of the dead over time and in different social contexts.” Anthropological Notebooks 31(2):1-6.
Useful websites
- https://www.siefhome.org/index.shtml
- https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cmrt20
- https://deathandsociety.org/ /ASDS
- https://americanfolkloresociety.org/
- https://kuolemantutkimus.fi/en/etusivu-english/
- https://www.deathstudies.org/
- https://www.radicaldeathstudies.com/
- https://deathlab.org/
- https://thedeathstudiespodcast.com/
- https://deathandsociety.org/
- https://sites.google.com/view/nimo-networkinitaliano/contatti?authuser=0
- https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/death-life-studies/
- https://www.australiandoulacollege.com.au/
- https://tanatologia.org.mx/
- https://uel.unipd.it/master-e-corsi/endlife-death-studies-and-the-end-of-life-for-supportive-interventions/
- https://www.winchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/ma-death-religion-and-culture-2025/
- https://www.edgewood.edu/academics/programs/master-of-science-in-thanatology/
- https://www.rcsi.com/online/find-a-course/masters/l/o/loss-and-bereavement
- https://www.adec.org/
- https://sites.google.com/view/nimo-networkinitaliano/home?authuser=0
- https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/contact/
- https://prolongedgrief.columbia.edu/
- https://www.ernestbecker.org/
- https://wels.open.ac.uk/research/open-thanatology
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https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/research/centres-and-networks/sheffield-death-group
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https://www.york.ac.uk/sociology/research/death-and-culture/
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https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-death-society/
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https://deathandsociety.org/death-dying-and-disposal-conferences/
- https://www.cemeteryresearch.org/organisations/page/2/
- https://isfnr.org/
Media mentions
- Delo /23.10.2025
Mrtvi so še vedno aktivni del družbe - Delo /28.8.2025
Islandske ljudske zgodbe: duhovi se niso držali hiš, ampak ljudi - RTV Slovenia – Radio 1 / Kulturni fokus / 1.11.2024
Nemirni duhovi v življenju ljudi v krajih težkih tranzicij - Megafon TV / 8.11.2024
Oddaja Tema tedna: odnos do umrlih - Sta.si / 1.11.2023
Etnologinja Mirjam Mencej izpostavlja pomen vloge umrlih v življenju posameznika - Politikis.si / 1.11.2023
Nova paradigma žalovanja: Mrtvi vplivajo na mišljenje, vrednote in vedenje živih, ob tem so spominske vezi kontakt s preminulimi ljubljenimi - Dolenjski list.si / 1.11.2023
V spomin na mrtve množični obiski pokopališč - Dnevnik.si / 1.11.2023
Etnologinja Mirjam Mencej: Mrtvi vplivajo na mišljenje, vrednote in vedenje živih - Metropolitan.si / 1.11.2023
Etnologinja Mirjam Mencej: “Mrtvi ostajajo v življenju živih” - Humanistika.si (Humanistka, to si ti – Evropska noč raziskovalcev) / 30.6.2023
ERC projekt za prof. dr. Mirjam Mencej
Intervju: Vloga mrtvih v življenju živih. Mirjam Mencej na Noči raziskovalcev - Zrs-kp.si / 9.6.2023
V Sloveniji trend naraščanja števila pridobljenih projektov Evropskega raziskovalnega sveta - Ministrstvo za visoko šolstvo, znanost in inovacije / 13.6.2023
Dr. Mirjam Mencej: Kaj pomeni pridobitev projekta ERC za razvoj kariere in nadaljnje raziskave? - Val 202/RTV Slo / 4.5.2023
Po poteh mrtvih in o zgodovini žensk v tranzicijskih obdobjih - Ljubljanainfo.si / 31.3.2023
Izjemen uspeh za slovensko znanost: Ljubljanska raziskovalka pridobila projekt, vreden skoraj dva milijona evrov - Zelena Slovenija / 31.3.2023
Evropski raziskovalni svet razglasil prejemnike razpisa Obzorje Evropa - Delo.si / 30.3.2023
Etnologinji Mirjam Mencej projekt ERC, vreden skoraj dva milijona evrov - Aris-rs.si (Javna agencija za javnoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije) / 30.3.2023
Na razpisu Evropskega raziskovalnega sveta za uveljavljene raziskovalce tokrat uspešna prof. dr. Mirjam Mencej - N1info.si / 30.3.2023
Slovenska antropologinja bo v evropskem projektu preučevala vlogo mrtvih - Sta.si / 30.3.2023
Mirjam Mencej prejela ERC projekt za raziskave na temo vloge mrtvih v sodobni družbi
Project on Role of the Dead in Society wins ERC grant - Gov.si / 30. 3. 2023
Raziskovalka dr. Mirjam Mencej prejemnica uglednega projekta ERC - Uni-lj.si (Univerza v Ljubljani) / 30.3.2023
Prof. dr. Mirjam Mencej pridobila ugledni erc projekt, vreden skoraj 2 milijona evrov