Dr Jana Kujundzic

Jana's doctoral project explored the socio-legal structures and power dynamics that affect the perception, prosecution, and penalisation of marital rape in Croatia. Drawing on in-depth interviews with a diverse range of professional actors, including lawyers, judges, prosecutors, social workers, coordinators of feminist NGOs, women’s shelters’ workers, psychologists, journalists, and academics, and the first-hand observation of a rape trial, her thesis developed new insights into the legal, political and social implications of marital rape in a post-conflict, post-socialist context. 

She has presented her research at more than a dozen local and international conferences. Her current project is seeking to develop the theory and praxis of abolition feminism in the Former Yugoslav region. This includes developing publications problematising capitalism, patriarchy and the state's responses to domestic and sexual violence. The project seeks to critique carceral responses and feminist carceral activism; to map the devastation of the heatlth and social welfare systems following the privatisation and transition in Croatia; and to illuminate the erosion of the progressive socialist legacy of community responses and solidarity in former Yugoslavia.

Her research interests also include the political economy of violence, abolition feminism, decolonial feminism, and queer Marxism.

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• Social Work and Domestic Violence in Croatia Through a Gendered Lens: Between Power and Precarity: Socijalni rad i obiteljsko nasilje u Hrvatskoj kroz orođeni pogled: između moći i prekarijata, Kujundzic, J. 31 Jan 2023, In: Croatian Sociological Review
• Sexual Violence and New Forms of Religious Traditionalism in the Croatian Post-Conflict Context, Kujundzic, J. 13 Sep 2019, In: Facta Universitatis, Series: Law and Politics
• Silovanje u braku kao politička ekonomija nasilja, Kujundzic, J. 9 Mar 2023, Radovi sa znanstvenog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, naslijeđe / Rizici i resursi: rod i politika raspodjele“ , Zagreb, Croatia, Zagreb: Centre for Women's Studies
• Security technology and domestic abuse prevention: offering solutions or creating new problems?, Rowlands, D., Kujundzic, J., Brennan, I., O'Leary, N. 3 Mar 2023
• Ankica Čakardić: Sablasti tranzicije. Socijalna historija kapitalizma, Kujundzic, J. 31 Dec 2020, In: Croatian Sociological Review

• Criminology PhD March 23 2022
• Women's Studies MA June 20 2014
• Sociology MA July 26 2013
• Philosophy BA July 20 2011