10/09/2026
U suizdanju Sveučilišta u Zadru i Instituta za etnologiju i folkloristiku u Zagrebu, a u sklopu biblioteke Nova etnografija, objavljena je nova knjiga izv. prof. dr. sc. Tomislava Oroza "Uzburkano mirovanje: etnografija otočnih svjetova". Knjiga je rezultat višegodišnjih etnografskih istraživanja provedenih na Dugom otoku, nastala u okviru međunarodnog projekta DigiFREN – Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments, financiranog kroz program CHANSE.
Polazeći od teorije afekta i metodološki se oslanjajući na senzo-digitalne šetnje kao oblik utjelovljenog znanja, autor istražuje načine na koje otočni svjetovi nastaju i mijenjaju se te kako se različite temporalnosti susreću i isprepliću u svakodnevnom otočnom životu. U središtu knjige nije otok kao stabilan i jasno omeđen prostor, nego krhki otočni svjetovi koji afektivno pulsiraju kroz dinamične odnose ljudi, okoliša, tehnologija i više-nego-ljudskog života. Upravo stoga otočni se svjetovi oblikuju kao zone prožimanja u kojima istodobno supostoje izoliranost i povezanost, ranjivost i otpornost, lokalni ritmovi života i globalne promjene antropocena.
Kroz iskustva outdoor entuzijasta i trail trkača, ribara, poljoprivrednika i turista, ali i kroz promjene u morskom okolišu, "Uzburkano mirovanje" pokazuje kako se otok može razumjeti kao konstelacija fragmenata, odnosa, čekanja i različitih oblika trajanja u uvjetima koje nije moguće u potpunosti razriješiti. Takva perspektiva otvara i šira pitanja o krhkosti suvremenog svijeta, okolišnim promjenama te načinima na koje ljudi zamišljaju i nastanjuju moguće budućnosti. Knjiga stoga poziva na promišljanje otoka ne kao izoliranih rubova, nego kao dinamičnih zona susreta, prožimanja i neprestanog preoblikovanja.
Urednica knjige je dr. sc. Jelena Ivanišević s Instituta za etnologiju i folkloristiku, recenzentice su dr. sc. Sanja Đurin i prof. dr. sc. Senka Božić Vrbančić, a ilustraciju naslovnice potpisuje Enia Radanović, studentica diplomskog studija etnologije i antropologije i povijesti umjetnosti na Sveučilištu u Zadru.
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Published jointly by the University of Zadar and the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, as part of the Nova etnografija (New Ethnography) series, the new book by Associate Professor Tomislav Oroz, PhD, Uzburkano mirovanje: etnografija otočnih svjetova (Ever Moving Stillness: An Ethnography of Island Worlds), has been released. The book is the result of several years of ethnographic research conducted on Dugi otok and was developed within the international DigiFREN – Digital Aestheticization of Fragile Environments project, funded through the CHANSE programme.
Drawing on affect theory and methodologically relying on senso-digital walks as a form of embodied knowledge, the author explores the ways in which island worlds emerge and transform, and how different temporalities meet and intertwine in everyday island life. At the centre of the book is not the island as a stable and clearly bounded space, but rather fragile island worlds that affectively pulse through dynamic relations among people, environments, technologies, and more-than-human life. Island worlds are therefore understood as zones of entanglement in which isolation and connectedness, vulnerability and resilience, local rhythms of life and the global transformations of the Anthropocene coexist simultaneously.
Through the experiences of outdoor enthusiasts and trail runners, fishermen, farmers, and tourists, as well as through transformations in the marine environment, Ever Moving Stillness shows how the island can be understood as a constellation of fragments, relations, waiting, and different forms of endurance under conditions that cannot be fully resolved. Such a perspective also opens up broader questions concerning the fragility of the contemporary world, environmental change, and the ways in which people imagine and inhabit possible futures. The book therefore invites us to think of islands not as isolated margins, but as dynamic zones of encounter, entanglement, and continual transformation.
The book was edited by Jelena Ivanišević, PhD, from the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. The reviewers were Sanja Đurin, PhD, and Professor Senka Božić-Vrbančić, PhD. The cover illustration was made by Enia Radanović, a graduate student of Ethnology and Anthropology and Art History at the University of Zadar.
