Jasmina Husanović is a scholar and activist whose interdisciplinary work spans critical cultural and political and emancipatory practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. She is a Full Professor of Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She earned her PhD in 2003 at the Aberystwyth University, UK, and was a visiting professor and fellow at various universities, including LSE, Stanford University and University of Edinburgh. Amongst other things, she is the founder of the platform for ecofeminist engagement in Bosnia and Herzegovina EKOFEM BiH and a chair of the Gender Equality Council at the University of Tuzla.
Her research interests are in the field of cultural and political theory dealing with the politics of witnessing, equality and solidarity, governance of life and culture of trauma, and emancipatory politics in the intersecting public spaces of cultural and knowledge production and grassroots activism. She publishes widely both nationally and internationally on these topics, and her most recent monograph is Culture, Community and Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Emancipatory Trajectories (Tuzla, 2020). She has been involved in various local and international interdisciplinary platforms concerned with the politics of commons and transformative social change, at the intersection of art, academia and activism.
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