BASIC INFO
Andrej Naterer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. He completed undergraduate study of sociology and philosophy at University
of Maribor and PhD study of anthropology at University of Ljubljana Slovenia. He is lecturer and researcher at the Department of sociology, Faculty of Arts, lecturer at the Department of media communication, Faculty for computer engeneering and lecturer and head of the Department of pre-clinical studies, Medical faculty, University of Maribor. Andrej is an editor of scientific mongraphy series Subcultures, researcher at Center for the Study of Post-Socialist Societies, member of an editorial board for AIDS studies (Macrothink Institute) and member of several regional commitites for youth and Ngo’s. His main research focus is on youth, youth social formations, youth marginalization and poverty. He conducted three anthropological fieldworks (Phenomena of street children in Ukraine (fieldwork 2000-2012), India (fieldwork 2003) and Zambia (fieldwork 2013)). He was project manager at University of Maribor in international project Silver – Sounds Identifying Learners Values in Europe (2009-2010) and was in charge of qualitative part of research team in project Youth 2010 and Youth 2013 (national surveys).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
NATERER, Andrej, LAVRIČ, Miran. Using social indicators in assessing factors and numbers of street children in the world. Child indicators research, ISSN 1874-8988, 2016, vol. 9, iss. 1, str. 21-37,

NATERER, Andrej. Violence and the code of the street : a study of social dynamics among street children in Makeevka, East Ukraine. Journal of interpersonal violence, ISSN 0886-2605, 2015, vol. 30, 8, str. 1387-1402,

NATERER, Andrej. Cestni otroci in življenje zunaj tradicionalnih okvirov socializacije. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, ISSN 0351-4285, 2012, letn. 39 [i. e. 40], št. 249, str. 116-127, 183, 187.

NATERER, Andrej, GODINA, Vesna V. Bomzhi and their subculture : an anthropological study of the street children subculture in Makeevka, eastern Ukraine. Childhood, ISSN 0907-5682. [Print ed.], 2011, 18, [no.] 1, str. 20-38.

NATERER, Andrej, FIŠTRAVEC, Andrej. Makejevka – subkultura cestnih otrok. Družboslovne razprave, ISSN 0352-3608. [Tiskana izd.], dec. 2006, letn. 22, št. 53, str. 75-91.

NATERER, Andrej. Bomži : cestni otroci v Makejevki, (Knjižna zbirka Frontier, 035). Maribor: Subkulturni azil, 2007. 261 str. (scientific monograph)

NATERER, Andrej. Portraits of the interviewees. V: LAVRIČ, Miran (ur.), et al. Youth 2010 : the social profile of young people in Slovenia. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Ministry of Education and Sports, Office for Youth; Maribor: Aristej, 2011, str. 475-576, portreti.

NATERER, Andrej. A synthesis of qualitative research findings. V: LAVRIČ, Miran (ur.), et al. Youth 2010 : the social profile of young people in Slovenia. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Ministry of Education and Sports, Office for Youth; Maribor: Aristej, 2011, str. 577-614.

NATERER, Andrej. Zeitgeist of young people. V: LAVRIČ, Miran (ur.), et al. Youth 2010 : the social profile of young people in Slovenia. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Ministry of Education and Sports, Office for Youth; Maribor: Aristej, 2011, str. 615-623.

SELECTED PROJECTS
2014: Life strategies and survival strategies of households and individuals in South-East European Societies in the time of crisis, SCOPES Research grant, Swiss National Science Foundation

2013: Youth 2013 – researcher (Slovenian youth 2013 : living in times of disillusionment, risk and precarity : first CEPYUS Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Youth Survey)

2010: Youth 2010 – qualitative team leader and researcher (national youth survey)

2009-2010: project manager at University of Maribor in international project Silver ( Sounds Identifying Learners Values in Europe)

2007: researcher (Final evaluation of the “Youth 2000-2006” community programme)