Ana Pajvančić - Cizelj

• PhD in Sociology
• Professor (Associate) at University of Novi Sad

This article uses a feminist political economy framework to analyse economic violence against women in the context of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the introduction of neoliberal regimes in its successor states from the late 1980s until 2015. The authors’ focus is on the following processes before, during and after the breakup: the w...

The aim of the edited volume “Experiencing Postsocialist Capitalism – Urban Changes and Challenges in Serbia” is to explore current urban developments in Serbia, a former Yugoslav country, three decades after socialism. Contributions in this book deal with challenges stemming from the socio-spatial transformation of Serbian cities under the influe...

This paper investigates the spatialities of feminist urban politics by combining the concept of multiple converging spatialities of contentious politics with recent literature on policy mobilities and urban movements. The research begins with the hypothesis that networks are significant mediators of feminist urban politics, but their effects depend...

This paper aims to answer two main questions: 1. what is the relation between urbanization, gender regimes and everyday lives of women at the European semiperiphery and 2. what is the role of urban planning in shaping gender relevant social changes? The authors present an historical overview of intersections between urbanization, planning and gende...

This paper examines the role of European urban networks (UNs) in the Europeanization of Balkan cities and their influence on urban transformation across the region. The research uses desk analysis to map the UNs and expert interviews with network members in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Pristina. It shows that UNs ‘Europeanize’ the Balkans by shaping their...

This paper brings the “scale question” into the discussion of urban movements in Southeast Europe and offers a multispatial framework for their analysis. It focuses on the shifting scale of urban movements in Serbia, which was recently united in a wider citizen's platform. The paper reveals that scaling up from the single-issue initiative to a nati...

First presentation of the MSCA-IF EURoWEB project

This paper provides an overview and findings of the research on the social aspects of COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. We aimed to investigate the immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyday life. The general hypothesis was that it contributed to changes in common rituals and routines, especially in the areas we focused on: family and housewo...

More than 30 years after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the academic debate about the character of post-socialist urban transformations is still very alive. While those debates are mainly focused on the built environment, the transformation of the natural environment in the post-socialist urban context has been largely missing from the di...

Starting from a feminist political economy and intersectional approach, the authors describe and explain gender economic inequalities and the economic position of women in Serbia, and present the most important results of existing research on this topic. Presented research includes economic violence against women and tendencies in women’s and famil...

The paper presents selected results of qualitative research conducted in 2017 in refugee camps in Šid by using the observation, life stories and interviews. By relying on authors such as Agier (2011), Turner (2015), Feldman (2015) and Sanyal (2013), we proceed from the idea that refugee camps should be seen justas the places of “bare life” and biop...

U radu su prikazani odabrani rezultati anketnog istraživanja sprovedenog tokom 2015. godine na reprezentativnom uzorku od 503 stanovnika Novog Sada. Predmet istraživanja su susedski odnosi u Novom Sadu sa ciljem analize njihovog kvaliteta u različitim delovima grada i povezanosti sa različitim društvenim obeležjima. Polazna hipoteza je da kvalitet...

The paper highlights the sociological perspective in the study of built heritage and the pos­sibilities arising from the inclusion of this topic in sociology. Three key sociological problems are identified: 1) social production of built heritage 2) social functions of the heritage and 3) relationships between different actors within the policies of...

Apstrakt: U radu opisujemo nastanak, razradu, reafirmaciju i domete ideja o prostoru kao javnom/zajedničkom dobru. Ističemo razlike između javnog i zajedničkog dobra kao i analitičke razlike između javnih/zajedničkih dobara unutar izgrađenog (urbanog) i prirodnog prostora (okruženja). Korene ovakvih ideja pronalazimo u ranim socijalističkim utopija...

The author discusses the theoretical and methodological basis of environmental sociology, in relation to the debate between proponents of the classical sociological tradition (Frederick Büttel) and the new ecological paradigm (Riley Dunlap, William Catton). Authors analyse whether the works of the three key representatives of classical sociological...

This paper deliberates the conditions under which the idea of sustainable development is being shaped in two, mutually opposed directions: (a) as a set of strong globalizing processes and (b) as weak localized processes. Their opposition can be observed in each of five inextricably interwoven conditions through which the idea of sustainable develo...

The paper presents selected results of an empirical research about the attitudes of Vojvodinian citizens towards ecological problems. Its starting hypothesis is that the sensibility of citizens' attitudes towards ecological problems is the crucial key to create participative model of decision-making processes regarding environment. Research goals a...

У раду су представљени резултати емпиријског истраживања еколошке свести, спроведеног путем упитника, на узорку од 364 испитаника из пет војво-ђанских градова на Дунаву. Еколошка свест је анализирана преко сазнајне, вре-дносне и делатне димензије, са почетном хипотезом да, с обзиром на друштвени контекст, наведене димензије још увек не представљају...

Sve veći demografski i ekonomski jaz između razvijenog i nerazvijenog dela sveta udružen sa procesom globalizacije, dovodi do promene intenziteta, strukture i pravaca (međunarodnih) migracija. Demografska slika Evropske Unije je nepovoljna a na porast i vitalnost populacije poslednjih godina sve više utiče imigracioni faktor. Priliv imigranata u EU...

Author analyses theories of social development and dominant development practice (dominant models of social development) from critical feminist perspective. The key problem of dominant development model is found to be an equation of social development with economic growth. Review of feminist theories of development from WID to GAD approach is given...

Recent trends in the development of tourism are redirecting attention away from mass tourism toward alternative forms, harmonized with the principle of sustained development of tourism. As a form of alternative tourism, ecotourism is based on combining nature visits with nature conservation. Along with the development of ecotourism, there is also a...

The paper presents the results of the research on the attitudes of the citizens of Vojvodina towards ecological problems. It tested the knowledge of the respondents about ecological issues, explanations of their main causes and value orientations towards nature. The main goal was descriptive and exploratory in nature: to reveal general attitudes to...

Th e paper presents the results of the research on the attitudes of the citizens of Vojvodina towards ecological problems. It tested the knowledge of the respondents about ecological issues, explanations of their main causes and value orientations towards nature. The main goal was descriptive and exploratory in nature: to reveal general attitudes t...