Monografija Between the Wardrobe and the Sidewalk raziskuje odnos med ljudmi in obutvijo kot delom vsakdanjega življenja. Izhaja iz na videz samoumevnega dejanja – nošenja čevljev – in pokaže, kako pomembno vlogo ima obutev pri oblikovanju naših navad, odločitev in družbenih vlog.
Na podlagi etnografskega raziskovanja v Ljubljani avtorica analizira, kako ljudje izbirajo, nosijo, vzdržujejo in shranjujejo čevlje ter kako se ti vključujejo v širše prakse oblačenja. Posebno pozornost namenja vprašanjem udobja, primernosti in situacijskih zahtev, ki jih posamezniki vsakodnevno usklajujejo.
Knjiga spremlja “življenje čevljev” – od garderobe do ulice – ter pokaže, kako obutev sodeluje pri prehajanju med različnimi situacijami in družbenimi vlogami, hkrati pa nosi sledi uporabe in osebnih zgodb.
To ni knjiga o modi, temveč o vsakdanjih praksah, skozi katere se razkrivajo identiteta, čas in družbeni odnosi.
🇬🇧 Short description:
What do the shoes we wear say about us?
Between the Wardrobe and the Sidewalk explores the relationship between people and their footwear as part of everyday life. Based on ethnographic research in Ljubljana, the book examines how shoes are chosen, worn, maintained, and integrated into broader dressing practices.
It highlights how ideas of comfort, appropriateness, and social context are constantly negotiated, and how shoes accompany individuals across different situations and life stages, becoming part of personal and social narratives.
📌 Za bralce, ki jih zanimajo:
- vsakdanje življenje in kultura
- antropologija oblačenja
- materialna kultura
- identiteta in družbeni odnosi
Založnik o knjigi:
The monograph explores the relationship between people and the shoes they wear. Taking the seemingly habitual act of wearing shoes as its starting point, the book examines how people engage with footwear as part of broader dressing practices, including choosing, wearing, maintaining, and storing shoes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Ljubljana, the monograph shows how footwear actively participates in everyday practices and experiences, highlighting how notions of comfort, appropriateness, and situational demands are negotiated, and how shoe wardrobes are continuously reconfigured in relation to changing social contexts, seasons, and life circumstances. Following the “life of shoes”, the monograph shows how footwear participates in shifts between situations and social roles, accumulates traces of use, and becomes tied to individual life trajectories. Through the accounts of interlocutors, it focuses on the situations in which such choices are made, showing how people navigate what to wear, when, and why.
