Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Biographic Data
| ID | 138663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Špela Drnovšek Zorko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Špela Drnovšek |
| FAMILY NAME | Zorko |
| SIGNATURE | ZORKO Š D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6719-5488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing Walls, Remembering Solidarity
Situated within recent debates about post-socialism and postcolonialism as conditions with something to say to each other, “simultaneously or with a time lag”, the article suggests that post-socialist memory in relation to migration is an ongoing labour of reflection and translation through which meanings of solidarity and exclusion are re-worked and reimagined. It thinks along with life narratives and contemporary art to highlight material and e…
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK
The article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339-1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data on the experiences of Central-East European (CEE) migrants in the two countries to unpack how whiteness is constructed in relation to different histories and patterns of immigration in each national context. While CEE migrants in Japan benefi…
Guarding the “Balkan Route” on the postsocialist frontier
IntroductionVaruh meje, Maja Weiss’ debut film, dates back to 2002 – when Slovenia was soon to join the European Union (EU), when the state was first taking up its role as EU “border guard,” and when Slovenian society was reacting to the first wave of undocumented Asian migrants transiting the country. With elements of postsocialist realism and folk horror, Varuh meje was notable on its release for being the first Slovenian feature film for adult…
Cultures of risk
The disintegration of Yugoslavia not only marked the end of a decades-long socialist multinational project, but also reorganised former Yugoslavs' possibilities for imagining certain futures. This article examines intergenerational narratives of rupture amongst migrant families living in Britain, showing how uncertain pasts produce distinctly diasporic post-Yugoslav cultures of risk. Unlike sociological accounts of risk that foreground the condit…
Articulations of race and genealogies of encounter among former Yugoslav migrants in Britain
While the question of race has been largely underexplored in the study of postsocialist Europe, the logic of coloniality remains at the heart of Europeanness, complicating the assumption that migrants from the region only encounter racial difference once they arrive in a "multicultural" society. The article contributes to recent debates on racializing Central and East European studies as well as the literature on migrant encounters with differenc…
See(m)ing strange
Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work on the stranger and Anne-Marie Fortier’s approach to remembering home, this article argues for a methodology of memory and migration that would explore individuals’ encounters between lived spatio-temporalities without affirming a migrant ontology. I look to my ethnographic research on diasporic narratives among migrants from the former Yugoslavia in the United Kingdom to ask how recounted memories of home might be bo…
Articulations of race and genealogies of encounter among former Yugoslav migrants in Britain
While the question of race has been largely underexplored in the study of postsocialist Europe, the logic of coloniality remains at the heart of Europeanness, complicating the assumption that migrants from the region only encounter racial difference once they arrive in a "multicultural" society. The article contributes to recent debates on racializing Central and East European studies as well as the literature on migrant encounters with differenc…
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK
The article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339-1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data on the experiences of Central-East European (CEE) migrants in the two countries to unpack how whiteness is constructed in relation to different histories and patterns of immigration in each national context. While CEE migrants in Japan benefi…
Cultures of risk
The disintegration of Yugoslavia not only marked the end of a decades-long socialist multinational project, but also reorganised former Yugoslavs' possibilities for imagining certain futures. This article examines intergenerational narratives of rupture amongst migrant families living in Britain, showing how uncertain pasts produce distinctly diasporic post-Yugoslav cultures of risk. Unlike sociological accounts of risk that foreground the condit…
See(m)ing strange
Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work on the stranger and Anne-Marie Fortier’s approach to remembering home, this article argues for a methodology of memory and migration that would explore individuals’ encounters between lived spatio-temporalities without affirming a migrant ontology. I look to my ethnographic research on diasporic narratives among migrants from the former Yugoslavia in the United Kingdom to ask how recounted memories of home might be bo…
See(m)ing strange
Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work on the stranger and Anne-Marie Fortier’s approach to remembering home, this article argues for a methodology of memory and migration that would explore individuals’ encounters between lived spatio-temporalities without affirming a migrant ontology. I look to my ethnographic research on diasporic narratives among migrants from the former Yugoslavia in the United Kingdom to ask how recounted memories of home might be bo…
Articulations of race and genealogies of encounter among former Yugoslav migrants in Britain
While the question of race has been largely underexplored in the study of postsocialist Europe, the logic of coloniality remains at the heart of Europeanness, complicating the assumption that migrants from the region only encounter racial difference once they arrive in a "multicultural" society. The article contributes to recent debates on racializing Central and East European studies as well as the literature on migrant encounters with differenc…
Cultures of risk
The disintegration of Yugoslavia not only marked the end of a decades-long socialist multinational project, but also reorganised former Yugoslavs' possibilities for imagining certain futures. This article examines intergenerational narratives of rupture amongst migrant families living in Britain, showing how uncertain pasts produce distinctly diasporic post-Yugoslav cultures of risk. Unlike sociological accounts of risk that foreground the condit…
Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK
The article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339-1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data on the experiences of Central-East European (CEE) migrants in the two countries to unpack how whiteness is constructed in relation to different histories and patterns of immigration in each national context. While CEE migrants in Japan benefi…
Guarding the “Balkan Route” on the postsocialist frontier
IntroductionVaruh meje, Maja Weiss’ debut film, dates back to 2002 – when Slovenia was soon to join the European Union (EU), when the state was first taking up its role as EU “border guard,” and when Slovenian society was reacting to the first wave of undocumented Asian migrants transiting the country. With elements of postsocialist realism and folk horror, Varuh meje was notable on its release for being the first Slovenian feature film for adult…
Tracing Walls, Remembering Solidarity
Situated within recent debates about post-socialism and postcolonialism as conditions with something to say to each other, “simultaneously or with a time lag”, the article suggests that post-socialist memory in relation to migration is an ongoing labour of reflection and translation through which meanings of solidarity and exclusion are re-worked and reimagined. It thinks along with life narratives and contemporary art to highlight material and e…
Sociology (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)