Mag. Dr. Edma Ajanovic
Academic staff - Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy
- edma.ajanovic@donau-uni.ac.at
- +43 2732 893-2766
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- Campus Krems, Tract N, Ground Floor, 0.01
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- Department for European Policy and the Study of Democracy
- Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30
- 3500 Krems
- Austria
About the person
Edma Ajanovic is researcher at the Department of European Politics and course director of the course Political Communication. She is currently leading the research project Digitalizing Youth Politics, in which she and her team analyse possibilities of political participation in context of digitalization processes. In particular, the project examines opportunities and obstacles for the political participation of young people. Her research also focuses on current de-democratization tendencies in Europe, post-socialist transformation processes, and intersectional racism and gender studies.
Projects (Extract Research Database)
Completed projects
Duration: 01/11/2019–31/10/2021
Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems): Edma Ajanovic
Funding: Bundesländer (inkl. deren Stiftungen und Einrichtungen)
Program: FTI Digitalisierung
Publications (Extract Research Database)
Ajanovic, E.; Fritsch, K. (2023). Framing Covid-19 through memes: a way for young people to shape the narrative in Austria. Journal of Youth Studies, Online (first): https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2199145
Ajanovic, Edma (2023). Femonationalism, Neoliberal Activation, and Anti-Feminism— The Shifting Discourses on Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in Austria. In: Beck, Dorothee; Habed, Adriano José; Henninger, Annette, Blurring Boundaries – 'Anti-Gender' Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses: 71-90, Verlag Barbara Budrich, Leverkusen
Ajanovic, E.; Hunklinger, M. (2022). Voting Right? Analyzing Electoral Homonationalism of LGBTIQ* Voters in Austria and Germany. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 29 (1): 24-49
Fraczek, S.; Lentner, G. M.; Ajanovic, E.; Donat, E.; Lessky, F. (2022). Veranstaltungs- und Ergebnisbericht zum UWK-Bürger_innendialog "Let's talk Europe: Die Zukunft der europäischen Hochschulbildung – wo stehen wir, wo wollen wir hin?", 31.3.2022. Universität für Weiterbildung Krems, Krems
Ajanovic, E.; Fritsch, K.; Zahorka, F. (2021). Digital verbunden Formen politischer Partizipation von Jugendlichen in Niederösterreich. Momentum Quarterly - Zeitschrift für sozialen Fortschritt, 10: 66-84
Mayer, s.; Ajanovic, E.; Sauer, B. (2020). Man, Woman, Family. Gender and the Limited Modernization of Right-Wing Extremism in Austria. In: Dietze, G.; Roth, J., Right-Wing Populism and Gender: 101-116, Transcript, Bielefeld
Ajanovic, E. (2019). Dissense über sexuelle Differenz in Serbien und Kroatien. Eine qualitative Dispositivanalyse postjugoslawischer Massenmedien (2009-2013) und quantitative Sekundärdatenauswertung der European Values Study (2008) zu Homophobie im Westbalkan. Südosteuropa, Band 67 Heft 3: 442-444
Ajanovic, E., Mayer S., Sauer B. (2018). Constructing “the People”: An Intersectional Analysis of Right-Wing Concepts of Democracy and Citizenship in Austria. Journal of Language and Politics, 17 (5): 636-635
Mayer, S., Iztok, Š., Sauer, B., Ajanovic, E. (2018). Mann, Frau, Volk. Familienidylle, Heteronormativität Und Femonationalismus Im Europäischen Rechten Populismus. Feministische Studien, 36 (2): 269-285
Mayer, S.; Ajanovic, E.; Sauer, B. (2018). Geschlecht Als Natur Und Das Ende Der Gleichheit. Rechte Angriffe Auf Gender Als Element Autoritärer Politischer Konzepte. FEMINA POLITICA - Zeitschrift Für Feministische Politikwissenschaft, 27 (1): 47-61
Kuhar, R., Ajanovic E. (2018). Sexuality Online: The Constructions of Right-Wing Populists’ “Internal Others” on the Web. In: Pajnik M., Sauer, B., In Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe: 141-156, Routledge, New York
Mayer, S.; Ajanovic, E.; Sauer, B. (2018). Kampfbegriff “Gender-Ideologie”. Zur Anatomie eines diskursiven Knotens. Das Beispiel Österreich. In: Lang, J., Peters, U., Antifeminismus in Bewegung: aktuelle Debatten um Geschlecht und sexuelle Vielfalt: 37-63, Marta Press, Hamburg
Lectures (Extract Research Database)
Queering public space – political graffiti and street art in Vienna
Democracies in Flux, 30/06/2023
Fighting over Gender and Equality in the EU
European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG) 2022, 08/07/2022
Kommentar zu Gabriele Dietze's Vortrag "Lockdown: Fürsorge oder Wegsperrung. Nachrichten aus Kulturen der Quarantäne"
Sicher prekär. Queer- und geschlechtertheoretische Beiträge zur Transformation von Kapitalismus und Demokratie, 20/05/2022
Framing Corona – Memes as a form of politicization among youth
Tag der Politikwissenschaft, ÖGPW, 26/11/2021
Anti-Genderism and the Shifting of Discourses in Austria
ECPR Joint Sessions, 21/05/2021
Buchbesprechung "Autoritäre Versuchungen" von Wilhelm Heitmeyer
Politisch-Literarisches Quartett, Strobl, Österreich, 23/10/2019
Claiming public space. Queer-political graffiti and sticker in Vienna
ECPG, Amsterdam, Niederlande, 03/07/2019
100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht in Österreich
Frauen wählen – wählen Frauen? Donau-Universität Krems, 08/03/2018