Danijela Majstorovic


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Dr. Danijela Majstorović je redna profesorica na Oddelku za angleško jezikoslovje Univerze v Banja Luki v Bosni in Hercegovini, kjer predava predmete s področja diskurzivne analize, komunikologije, medijev in kulturnih študij. Je prejemnica štipendij Fulbright in Alexander von Humboldt ter avtorica številnih objav o javni rabi jezika, etničnosti in identitetni politiki, spolu ter migracijah. Ob akademskem delu je soustanovila Center za kulturo in družbeno obnovo, nevladno organizacijo, ki izvaja neodvisne družbene raziskave s poudarkom na marginaliziranih skupinah, vključno z ženskami ter spolnimi in etničnimi manjšinami. Je tudi avtorica dveh dokumentarnih filmov: »Counterpoint for Her« (2004), ki raziskuje trgovino z ljudmi za spolne namene, in »Dream Job« (2006), o vzhodnoevropskih ženskah v zabavni industriji. Njena najnovejša knjiga Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina ponuja empirično bogat, samorefleksiven opis nastajanja in razpada obrobnih identitet v postsocialistični Bosni in iz nje, skozi prizmo političnih, gospodarskih in ideoloških razvojnih trendov.





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Dr. Danijela Majstorović is a full professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she teaches courses in discourse analysis, communication, media, and cultural studies. She is a recipient of both the Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships and has published extensively on public language use, ethnicity and identity politics, gender, and migration. Beyond her academic work, she co-founded the Center for Culture and Social Cultural Repair, a nongovernmental organization that conducts independent social research focused on marginalized groups, including women and sexual and ethnic minorities. She is also the author of two documentaries: Counterpoint for Her (2004), which explores sex trafficking, and Dream Job (2006), about East European women in the entertainment industry. Her latest book Discourse and Affect in Postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina offers an empirically rich, self-reflexive account of the making and breaking of peripheral selves in and from postsocialist Bosnia, through the lens of political, economic, and ideological developments.