Lana Zdravković, PhD
Researcher
Politics of emancipation exists only in the processes of proclaiming, declaring and performing that appear as active thought-practice which is at the same time and without mediation stated and implemented by its protagonist, activist, militant and is a result of a universal thought, where all differences disintegrate or become completely irrelevant.
– Lana Zdravković on politics of emancipation
Lana Zdravković (PhD in Philosophy with the thesis »Politics of emancipation: thought-practice of the militant subject«, 2013) is a researcher, publicist, political activist and artist. Fields of research interest include political engagement, radical equality, emancipatory praxes, thought-practice of the militant subject. She works as researcher at the Peace Institute, Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies. She occasionally publishes and collaborates within Slovene media: Dialogi – Magazine for Culture and Society, ČKZ – Journal for the Criticism of Science and New Anthropology, Borec – Journal for History, Anthropology and Literatures, Delo, Dnevnik, Večer, Mladina, Tribuna, Radio Student Ljubljana, Radio Student Maribor, and the Media Watch journal where she is also a member of the editorial board. She is a performer and co-founder of KITCH Institute of Art Production and Research. Fields of artistic interest include neoliberalization and economization of the art, political performance, pornography and art, kitsch and trash art.
Bibliography
- Zdravković, Lana (2016): What can we learn from the current ‘migrant crisis’?, v: Razor – wired: reflections on migration movements through Slovenia in 2015, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, str. 86-95.
- Zdravković, Lana (2016): Emancipatorni potencial gibanj v vstajah v Sloveniji 2012-2013 = Emancipatory potential of the movements in the uprisings in Slovenia 2012-2013. Družboslovne razprave, 32/ 82, str. 51-71.
- Zdravković, Lana (2015): The possibility of the impossible: the emancipatory potential of the uprisings in Slovenia. Synthesis philosophica International ed., 30, str. 319-340.
- Zdravković, Lana (2015): Meje identitete = Borders of identity. Razprave in gradivo / Treaties and documents, 74, str. 41-59.
- Zdravković, Lana (2015): Desubstantialisation of the Citizenship in the Name of Radical Equality, bEUcitizen research project, The bEUcitizen 2015 MidTerm international conference organized by Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University and Centre for the Study of Ethnicity, Citizenship and Migration (CEDIM), Faculty of Political Science – Zagreb University, Zagreb, 29. – 30. 06. 2015.
- Zdravković, Lana (2015): Inventing Citizenship, Inter-disciplinary.net, Becoming a citizen international conference organized by The Citizenship Project, Mansfield College, Oxford, 11. –13. 07. 2015.
- Zdravković, Lana in Nenad Jelesijević (2014): Onkraj štetja : umetnost in življenje = Beyond counting : art and life. Maska, 29, 165/168, str. 108-118.
- Zdravković, Lana (2013): Možnost nemogočega ali : “Ne bomo plačali vaše krize!” = The possibility of the impossible or: “We will not pay your crisis!”. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo, 40 [i. e. 41], 251, str. 64-73.
- Zdravković, Lana in Gordan Bosanac (ur). (2013): Imagination Castrated: Critical Rethinking of the Civil Society (Organisation) in Contemporary Society, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana.
- Zdravković, Lana (2011): An Arche or Barbarism : the responsibility of of being of/in the world. Journal of visual arts practice, 10, 2, str. 113-123.
- Zdravković, Lana in Iva Zenzerović Šloser (ur.) (2011): Imagi_nation. Civil Identities and Rights in European Nation-States: Securing the Rights of Migrant Workers as a Contribution for Sustainable Peace-Building, Centar za mirovne študije, Zagreb in Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana.
- Zdravković, Lana (2010): Ko boj za mezdo postane emancipacijski boj, v: Delo – Sobotna priloga (13. 3. 2010)
- Zdravković, Lana (2010): Emancipatory politics as a process of involving ‘wrong’ names, v: The renaming machine (ed. Suzana Milevska), Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., Ljubljana, str. 72-79.
- Zdravković, Lana (2010): The Struggle Against the Denial of Citizenship as a Paradigm of Emancipatory Politics, v: The Scars of the Erasure, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, str. 257-277.
- Zdravković, Lana (2010): Boj proti odrekanju državljanstva kot paradigma emancipacijske politike = The Struggle Against the Denial of Citizenship as a Paradigm of Emancipatory Politics, v: Brazgotine izbrisa: prispevek h kritičnemu razumevanju izbrisa iz registra stalnega prebivalstva Republike Slovenije, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, str. 251-269.
- Zdravković, Lana (2009): Paradoks koncepta človekovih pravic in boj zoper odrekanja državljanstva kot življenjske emancipacijske politike : primer Izbrisanih prebivalcev Slovenije = The Paradox of the concepts of human rights and the struggle against citizenship rejection as life emancipatory politics: the case of the Erased inhabitants of Slovenia. Časopis za kritiko znanosti, domišljijo in novo antropologijo, 37, 235/236, str. 289-294.
- Zdravković, Lana, Nenad Jelesijević, Suzana Milevska, Lev Kreft (2009): Življenje na meji / migracije subverzije = Living on a Border / Migration of Subversions, v: Borec 657/661, ZAK, Ljubljana.
- Zdravković, Lana in Nenad Jelesijević (2009): Mutacije meja v času nenehnega čakanja = Mutations of borders in the time of permanent waiting, v: Borec 657/661, ZAK, Ljubljana.
- Zdravković, Lana (2009): Paradoks koncepta človekovih pravic in boj zoper odrekanja državljanstva kot življenje emancipacijske politike: primer Izbrisanih prebivalcev Republike Slovenije = The Paradox of the concepts of human rights and the struggle against citizenship rejection as life emancipatory politics: the case of the Erased inhabitants of Slovenia, v: Časopis za kritiko znanosti 235/236, Študentska založba, Ljubljana, str. 289-294.
- Zdravković, Lana (2007): Between a Citizen and a Human Being, v: Humor Works Reader [international artistic and cultural collaboration : Bratislava – Sarajevo – Ljubljana – Berlin], Mesto žensk, Ljubljana.
- Zdravković, Lana (2006): Barbari prihajajo! Evropske migracijske politike danes = Barbarians are coming! : European migration policies of today, v: Poročilo skupine za spremljanje nestrpnosti 05, Zbirka MediaWatch, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, str. 96-119.
- Zdravković, Lana (2006): Kakšna javnost so mediji?, v: Medijska Preža, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, št. 27, december 2006.
- Zdravković, Lana (2005): Zahteva po univerzalnem temeljnem dogodku kot (moralna) zahteva po dejanski pravičnosti onkraj tradicionalno liberalnega modela spektakelske družbe dela (urednica tematskega sklopa), v: Dialogi, revija za kulturo in družbo, Založba Aristej, Maribor, št. 10, 2005.
- Zdravković, Lana (2003): Sammuel Beckett, novator romaneskne forme, v: Dialogi, revija za kulturo in družbo, Založba Aristej, Maribor, št. 7-8, 2003.
Full bibliography (Cobiss)
Featured project
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The Break in Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Conceptual Change
This project uses Hannah Arendt’s thesis of the “break of tradition” and the consequences of this break for political theory.
Projects
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- The Break in Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Conceptual Change
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- Reducing and eliminating discrimination based on ethnicity, ‘race’, nationality and/or religion
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- MIGRASCOPE – Extending the Scope of Labour Market Integration of Immigrants
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- Social & Solidarity Economy as Development Approach for Sustainability in EYD 2015 and beyond – SUSY
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- CEINAV – Cultural Encounters in Interventions Against Violence (Violence, Inequality, and Human Rights)
- Digital Citizenship (DIG-CIT)
- South East European Media Observatory: Building Capacities and Coalitions for Monitoring Media Integrity and Advancing Media Reforms (Phase 2)
- Civil Society: Substance or Substitute
- CoMiDe – Consistency of Migration and Development Policy
- EWSI – European Web Site on Integration
- Cross-Border Experience: The Interfaces of the EU and the SEE Countries Enhancing a Successful Enlargement Process
- INTEGRACE – Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices
- Re-Integrated: Slovenia and Croatia in Joint Framework of EU Values and Supranational Identity
- Minorities for Minorities – Good Practices from Western Balkan States
- Patterns of Political Instrumentalisation and Clientelism in the Media in South East Europe
- RARE – Responsibility and Responsiveness – Advocating/Promoting Mechanisms to Respect Citizens Interests/Voice in the Media in Slovenia
- At the Crossroads of Cultural Politics: The Western Balkans
- Human Rights Press Point During the Slovenian EU Presidency
- PRIME – Anti-Discrimination Training for Media and Equality
- The Erased People of Slovenia – A Challenge of a Young Nation-State
- The Role of the State in the Media Sector in Slovenia
- 16 Years Later: Political and Legal Aspects of Erasure in Slovenia
- Living on a Border: Migration of Subversions – Western Balkan and Turkey
- Living on a Border: Migration of Subversions
- Future of Multicultural Societies in Europe and the Role of the Media – Good Policy and Practice from the UK
- Media for Citizens
- Media Watch – Project for Monitoring, Research and Reporting on Media Policy and Media Practices
Featured publication
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Razor-Wired. Reflections on Migrant Movements through Slovenia in 2015
The goal is to present facts, explain changes in state policies and procedures used to “process” the refugees, and to analyse state, media and the general public’s responses.
Publications
- Razor-Wired. Reflections on Migrant Movements through Slovenia in 2015
- Imagination Castrated: Critical Rethinking of the Civil Society (Organisation) in Contemporary Society
- Imagi_nation. Civil Identities and Rights in European Nation-States: Securing the Rights of Migrant Workers as a Contribution for Sustainable Peace-Building
- The Scars of the Erasure
