Žiga Korbar (1998) grew up in Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia. In 2017, he began studying ethnology and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Arts (University of Ljubljana) graduating in 2024 with a master’s thesis examining contemporary forms of hunting from the perspectives of environmental anthropology and political ecology. His research interests include interspecies relations and the ways in which social relations with the non-human world are shaped by the interplay of different knowledge systems, legal frameworks and institutional practices. He is currently employed as a research assistant at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU, where, under the supervision of Špela Ledinek Lozej, PhD, he is pursuing a PhD in critical heritage studies. His doctoral research explores the interactions and intersections between different protection regimes that shape and regulate hunting practices.
Žiga Korbar is an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on environmental relations, cultural heritage, and contemporary hunting practices. During his studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, he participated in various student research projects addressing sustainable food systems, social innovation, museology, and criminal justice, as well as in fieldwork in Slovenia and abroad. Solčavsko has been a central focus of his fieldwork for several years, during which he has explored hunting, cultural heritage, music, and the effects of environmental change on local activities. In 2023, he participated in the international intensive programme Methodological Imagination at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. In 2024, he undertook a research trainee placement at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, where he contributed to research on the digital aestheticization of fragile environments.
After completing his studies, he joined the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), where he contributed to research on public health policies for the prevention of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, health inequalities, and the sustainability of preventive measures within the European JA PreventNCD project.
He is currently an assistant and junior researcher at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU, as part of the inter-institutional research programme Heritage at the Margins: New Perspectives on Heritage and Identity Within and Beyond the National. Under the mentorship of Špela Ledinek Lozej, PhD, he researches contemporary hunting practices in Slovenia from the perspective of critical heritage studies. His research focuses on specific situations in which abstract protection regimes take material form and become the subject of negotiation.