Ana Mijić
Biographic Data
| ID | 184393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Mijić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mijić |
| SIGNATURE | MIJIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2409-6348 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Of Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones
Reflexive migration research emphasizes the critical examination of knowledge production—particularly concerning researchers’ positionalities, the categories they employ, and the institutional contexts in which they operate. We aim to extend this research stream by systematically engaging with linguistic positioning, which remains an underexplored feature in migration studies. Hence, our article critically engages with the multilingual challenges…
Navigating the Boundaries of Understanding
Qualitative researchers often face ethical and practical challenges when engaging participants across linguistic and cultural boundaries. These challenges arise at various stages of the research process, from obtaining genuine informed consent and selecting appropriate interview languages to determining whether data should be analyzed in its original language or translated. However, interpretive and reconstructive approaches—aimed at analyzing th…
A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia
Identifying the Impacts of Land‐Use Spatial Patterns on Street‐Network Accessibility Using Geospatial Methods
While the land use‐street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one‐way impacts of land‐use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land‐use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge. Their empirical correlations also lack geographical variability, constraining site‐specific land‐use practices. Therefore, this study overcame the aforementioned limitations by examining the two‐leve…
Symbolic boundaries and the negative classifications of the ‘Successful Other’ at the intersection of ethnicity, religion, gender, and refugeeness
Our paper focuses on how members of the national ingroup respond when confronted with ‘successful others’ who challenge prevailing perceptions of immigrants and national belonging. We empirically investigate this through a case study on Alma Zadić, Austria’s Minister of Justice since January 2020. Her non-Austrian origin initiated a heated public debate on the legitimacy of an immigrant or refugee holding one of the country’s most important polit…
Towards sustainability balance in water-food-land nexus global development
The significant differences between quality of life and resource use characterise a sustainability imbalance in current global development. Evidence shows that infrastructure development, environmental capacity, and resource dependence are three driving factors. These three factors should be investigated to reduce the imbalance in future development, so that people in all countries can live a better life supported by adequate resources, without c…
Experiencing forced migration
The paper focuses on the experiences of displaced Ukrainians who arrived in Austria following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We draw on the concept of 'arrival' as proposed by Ludger Pries, to delve into the multifaceted process of arrival that extends beyond mere physical relocation. By conducting group discussions and employing the documentary method, we reveal the challenges associated with 'arriving' at the individual, the int…
Refugees’ Arriving through the Lens of Fiction
In this article, we use fiction as a lens to study processes of refugees’ arriving in Austria. For that purpose, we draw on findings from our transdisciplinary and participatory project “The Art of Arriving—Reframing ‘Refugee Integration’” in which we have created a real-world laboratory and examined if and how the meaning-making processes involved in creating and interpreting art can foster reframing “refugee integration” concepts and provide al…
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities
Globally, urban areas face multiple challenges owing to climate change. Urban greening (UG) is an excellent option for mitigating flood risk and excess urban heat. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems can cope with plant irrigation needs and urban water management. In this study, we investigated how UG and RWH work together to mitigate environmental risks. By incorporating a new RWH module into the urban ecohydrological model Urban Tethys-Chloris (…
A meta-model of socio-hydrological phenomena for sustainable water management
Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making
The rights all people have for involvement in environmental decision making has long been established yet collaborative resource management has had mixed success. Natural capital; the renewable and non‐renewable natural assets that benefit societies, and the flow of ecosystem services these assets provide, are increasingly promoted as approaches that ensure consideration of the environment in decision making. Natural capital and ecosystem service…
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration
This study uses a sociology of knowledge perspective to analyse how former Bosnian refugees in Austria have integrated the experiences of ethnicized war and forced migration into their lives over the past three decades. The objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews with Bosnian-Austrians reveals significant differences between former child refugees and those who experienced war and migration as adolescents. From a sociology of know…
The Art of Arriving
The main objective of the transdisciplinary and arts-based research project 'The Art of Arriving: Reframing 'Refugee Integration'' is to explore the transformative potential of the arts for the sociology of migration and integration. By creating a real-world laboratory where sociologists accompany artists as they create, and recipients while they interpret aesthetic expressions, the project focuses on the process of refugees' arriving. The aim is…
An urban planning sustainability framework
Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood
Characteristics from the social construction of ‘self’ and of ‘others’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina show that the creation of a positive self-image in this post-war society is strongly connected with collective self-victimisation of one’s own in-group. An objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews conducted with Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Serbs reveals five self-victimisation strategies: Two dissociative strategies, which conspi…
Protecting rivers by integrating supply-wastewater infrastructure planning and coordinating operational decisions
Placing water quality in rivers at the centre of water infrastructure planning and management is an important objective. In response there has been a range of ‘whole system’ analyses. Few studies, however, consider both abstraction (water removed from rivers) and discharge (water returned) to inform the future planning of water systems. In this work we present a systems approach to analysing future water planning options where system development …
Together divided–divided together
The inspiration for the following research arose from an identified ambivalence regarding the question of how relevant ethnic belonging – being Bosniak, being Croat, being Serb – is in everyday life of ex-Yugoslavian Viennese people. A qualitative analysis of narrative interviews as well as participant observations on Vienna’s Ottakringer Straße, a neighbourhood highly frequented by immigrants from the former Yugoslavia and their descendants, ind…
Umstrittenes Verzeihen. Nachkrieg in Bosnien-Herzegowina
Don’t Talk About the Elephant
In December 1995, the guns fell silent on Bosnia-Herzegovina and so did much dialogue. Silence is omnipresent in this postwar society: People conceal their suffering; they remain silent about their potential responsibility and guilt and—in interethnic encounters—the violent past is often wholly screened out. Drawing on a literature analysis as well as own interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 2007, the art…
Economic analysis of wider benefits to facilitate SuDS uptake in London, UK
Urban water management via Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) has been successfully applied in cities worldwide. This infrastructure has proven to be a cost efficient solution to manage flood risks whilst also delivering wider benefits. Despite their technical performance, large-scale SuDS uptake in many places has been slow, mostly due to reasons beyond the engineering realm. This is the case of England and Wales, where the implementation…
The Art of Arriving
The main objective of the transdisciplinary and arts-based research project 'The Art of Arriving: Reframing 'Refugee Integration'' is to explore the transformative potential of the arts for the sociology of migration and integration. By creating a real-world laboratory where sociologists accompany artists as they create, and recipients while they interpret aesthetic expressions, the project focuses on the process of refugees' arriving. The aim is…
Experiencing forced migration
The paper focuses on the experiences of displaced Ukrainians who arrived in Austria following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We draw on the concept of 'arrival' as proposed by Ludger Pries, to delve into the multifaceted process of arrival that extends beyond mere physical relocation. By conducting group discussions and employing the documentary method, we reveal the challenges associated with 'arriving' at the individual, the int…
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration
This study uses a sociology of knowledge perspective to analyse how former Bosnian refugees in Austria have integrated the experiences of ethnicized war and forced migration into their lives over the past three decades. The objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews with Bosnian-Austrians reveals significant differences between former child refugees and those who experienced war and migration as adolescents. From a sociology of know…
Together divided–divided together
The inspiration for the following research arose from an identified ambivalence regarding the question of how relevant ethnic belonging – being Bosniak, being Croat, being Serb – is in everyday life of ex-Yugoslavian Viennese people. A qualitative analysis of narrative interviews as well as participant observations on Vienna’s Ottakringer Straße, a neighbourhood highly frequented by immigrants from the former Yugoslavia and their descendants, ind…
Don’t Talk About the Elephant
In December 1995, the guns fell silent on Bosnia-Herzegovina and so did much dialogue. Silence is omnipresent in this postwar society: People conceal their suffering; they remain silent about their potential responsibility and guilt and—in interethnic encounters—the violent past is often wholly screened out. Drawing on a literature analysis as well as own interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 2007, the art…
A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia
Towards sustainability balance in water-food-land nexus global development
The significant differences between quality of life and resource use characterise a sustainability imbalance in current global development. Evidence shows that infrastructure development, environmental capacity, and resource dependence are three driving factors. These three factors should be investigated to reduce the imbalance in future development, so that people in all countries can live a better life supported by adequate resources, without c…
Economic analysis of wider benefits to facilitate SuDS uptake in London, UK
Urban water management via Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) has been successfully applied in cities worldwide. This infrastructure has proven to be a cost efficient solution to manage flood risks whilst also delivering wider benefits. Despite their technical performance, large-scale SuDS uptake in many places has been slow, mostly due to reasons beyond the engineering realm. This is the case of England and Wales, where the implementation…
Umstrittenes Verzeihen. Nachkrieg in Bosnien-Herzegowina
Don’t Talk About the Elephant
In December 1995, the guns fell silent on Bosnia-Herzegovina and so did much dialogue. Silence is omnipresent in this postwar society: People conceal their suffering; they remain silent about their potential responsibility and guilt and—in interethnic encounters—the violent past is often wholly screened out. Drawing on a literature analysis as well as own interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 2007, the art…
Protecting rivers by integrating supply-wastewater infrastructure planning and coordinating operational decisions
Placing water quality in rivers at the centre of water infrastructure planning and management is an important objective. In response there has been a range of ‘whole system’ analyses. Few studies, however, consider both abstraction (water removed from rivers) and discharge (water returned) to inform the future planning of water systems. In this work we present a systems approach to analysing future water planning options where system development …
Together divided–divided together
The inspiration for the following research arose from an identified ambivalence regarding the question of how relevant ethnic belonging – being Bosniak, being Croat, being Serb – is in everyday life of ex-Yugoslavian Viennese people. A qualitative analysis of narrative interviews as well as participant observations on Vienna’s Ottakringer Straße, a neighbourhood highly frequented by immigrants from the former Yugoslavia and their descendants, ind…
An urban planning sustainability framework
Identity, ethnic boundaries, and collective victimhood
Characteristics from the social construction of ‘self’ and of ‘others’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina show that the creation of a positive self-image in this post-war society is strongly connected with collective self-victimisation of one’s own in-group. An objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews conducted with Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Serbs reveals five self-victimisation strategies: Two dissociative strategies, which conspi…
Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making
The rights all people have for involvement in environmental decision making has long been established yet collaborative resource management has had mixed success. Natural capital; the renewable and non‐renewable natural assets that benefit societies, and the flow of ecosystem services these assets provide, are increasingly promoted as approaches that ensure consideration of the environment in decision making. Natural capital and ecosystem service…
(Re-)Construction of Identity and Belonging after Forced Migration
This study uses a sociology of knowledge perspective to analyse how former Bosnian refugees in Austria have integrated the experiences of ethnicized war and forced migration into their lives over the past three decades. The objective hermeneutical analysis of narrative interviews with Bosnian-Austrians reveals significant differences between former child refugees and those who experienced war and migration as adolescents. From a sociology of know…
The Art of Arriving
The main objective of the transdisciplinary and arts-based research project 'The Art of Arriving: Reframing 'Refugee Integration'' is to explore the transformative potential of the arts for the sociology of migration and integration. By creating a real-world laboratory where sociologists accompany artists as they create, and recipients while they interpret aesthetic expressions, the project focuses on the process of refugees' arriving. The aim is…
Refugees’ Arriving through the Lens of Fiction
In this article, we use fiction as a lens to study processes of refugees’ arriving in Austria. For that purpose, we draw on findings from our transdisciplinary and participatory project “The Art of Arriving—Reframing ‘Refugee Integration’” in which we have created a real-world laboratory and examined if and how the meaning-making processes involved in creating and interpreting art can foster reframing “refugee integration” concepts and provide al…
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities
Globally, urban areas face multiple challenges owing to climate change. Urban greening (UG) is an excellent option for mitigating flood risk and excess urban heat. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems can cope with plant irrigation needs and urban water management. In this study, we investigated how UG and RWH work together to mitigate environmental risks. By incorporating a new RWH module into the urban ecohydrological model Urban Tethys-Chloris (…
A meta-model of socio-hydrological phenomena for sustainable water management
Identifying the Impacts of Land‐Use Spatial Patterns on Street‐Network Accessibility Using Geospatial Methods
While the land use‐street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one‐way impacts of land‐use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land‐use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge. Their empirical correlations also lack geographical variability, constraining site‐specific land‐use practices. Therefore, this study overcame the aforementioned limitations by examining the two‐leve…
Symbolic boundaries and the negative classifications of the ‘Successful Other’ at the intersection of ethnicity, religion, gender, and refugeeness
Our paper focuses on how members of the national ingroup respond when confronted with ‘successful others’ who challenge prevailing perceptions of immigrants and national belonging. We empirically investigate this through a case study on Alma Zadić, Austria’s Minister of Justice since January 2020. Her non-Austrian origin initiated a heated public debate on the legitimacy of an immigrant or refugee holding one of the country’s most important polit…
Towards sustainability balance in water-food-land nexus global development
The significant differences between quality of life and resource use characterise a sustainability imbalance in current global development. Evidence shows that infrastructure development, environmental capacity, and resource dependence are three driving factors. These three factors should be investigated to reduce the imbalance in future development, so that people in all countries can live a better life supported by adequate resources, without c…
Experiencing forced migration
The paper focuses on the experiences of displaced Ukrainians who arrived in Austria following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. We draw on the concept of 'arrival' as proposed by Ludger Pries, to delve into the multifaceted process of arrival that extends beyond mere physical relocation. By conducting group discussions and employing the documentary method, we reveal the challenges associated with 'arriving' at the individual, the int…
Navigating the Boundaries of Understanding
Qualitative researchers often face ethical and practical challenges when engaging participants across linguistic and cultural boundaries. These challenges arise at various stages of the research process, from obtaining genuine informed consent and selecting appropriate interview languages to determining whether data should be analyzed in its original language or translated. However, interpretive and reconstructive approaches—aimed at analyzing th…
A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia
Of Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones
Reflexive migration research emphasizes the critical examination of knowledge production—particularly concerning researchers’ positionalities, the categories they employ, and the institutional contexts in which they operate. We aim to extend this research stream by systematically engaging with linguistic positioning, which remains an underexplored feature in migration studies. Hence, our article critically engages with the multilingual challenges…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)