Majda Hrženjak
Biographic Data
| ID | 309167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Majda Hrženjak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Majda |
| FAMILY NAME | Hrženjak |
| SIGNATURE | HRŽENJAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Institute- Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1809-5450 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care Extractivism Beyond Households: Migration and Care for Older People in the Post‐Yugoslav Semi‐Periphery
This article examines care‐labour mobility between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) within the state‐organised system of residential care for older people, situating it on Europe’s semi‐periphery. Addressing gaps in European research, largely focused on private households and East–West intra‐EU mobility, it shifts attention to welfare states as employers embedded in asymmetric geopolitical relations. Drawing on interviews with migrant ca…
Tacit Strategies of Labor Migration Management in Senior Care Homes at the European (Semi)Periphery
The article discusses affective management of care migration in state-governed care homes in Slovenia. Through the theoretical lens of the affective turn and interviews with stakeholders and migrant care workers, the analysis discloses tacit organizational strategies of mobilizing migrants’ intimacy, emotions, and affects as instruments of and targets for managing labor migration. The findings indicate that in a situation of extreme labor shortag…
Seeking Care in the Neighboring Country: An Institutional Analysis of Transnational Care for Older People Between Slovenia and Croatia
Using the concepts of care gap, transnationalization of care, and retirement migration—and based on interviews with stakeholders and an institutional analysis of care provision for older people in Slovenia and Croatia—the article examines retirement care migration between the two countries. It shows that the marketization of care in Croatia matches the care gap in public provision in Slovenia, which establishes “precarious hybrid transnational ca…
Affective Sex Work in a Post-Socialist Context
This article examines the transformations of the sex industry in the context of shifting structures of intimacy and labour in late capitalism, focusing on the post-socialist context in Slovenia. Using a mixed-methods approach, including an online survey, focus group discussions and netnography, it examines the evolving role of affective labour in sex work and its implications for the working conditions of sex workers. Findings indicate that affec…
The Intertwining of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Democracy Backlash: Making Sense of Journalism in Crisis
This article explores how the combination of the public health crisis and the authoritarian government of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party, along with its tendency to politically instrumentalize and economically devastate the media, impacted journalism during the Covid-19 pandemic. Of central concern are how journalists understand their roles in communication relating to Covid-19 and how these roles are shaped when the pandemic and trends…
Engendering media work: Institutionalizing the norms of entrepreneurial subjectivity
The article analyses how contemporary processes of media production involving temporary work contracts for journalists, long working hours, the demand for unconditional commitment to work and so on push women into unequal position compared to male employees. Attention is paid to ‘engendered’ work in ‘greedy’ media organizations characterized by precarization of work and the related devaluation of journalism as a profession. Rather than detecting …
Multi-local and cross-border care loops: Comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally d…
The meaning of care: The social construction of care for elderly people
Kvalitativno istraživanje prekarizacije tržišta rada i angažiranog očinstva u Sloveniji
Discussions about the reconciliation of work and family are often considered to be focussing on women and middle class people with safe employments. By identifying the differences among men in their capacities to engage in involved fatherhood that stem from their positions in the labour market, this article introduces the perspective of a deprivileged marginalised group in the labour market and critically reflects on the impact of labour flexibil…
Men and Gender Equality: European Insights
In this article, some of the most important findings of the European research project The Role of Men in Gender Equality (2011-2012) are discussed. This project was the first systematic research study of all European Union member states and associated European Free Trade Association states regarding men and gender equality in the fields of education and paid labor, the involvement of men in care and domestic work responsibilities, men's health, g…
Negotiating masculinity in informal paid care work
The theorisation of informal care markets from the perspective of global care chains focuses on the feminisation and racialisation of the field. Some recent research does, however, also discuss male migrant care workers, while national male care workers in informal care markets remain overlooked. The entrance of men into such an extremely feminised and racialised field as care work in private homes represents a challenge to masculinity. If the vu…
Hierarchization and Segmentation of Informal Care Markets in Slovenia
The article is the result of qualitative research of informal care markets in Slovenia in the field of childcare, elder care, and cleaning. The author assesses Slovenia's position in the “global care chain” and finds that “local care chains” prevail in the field of childcare and elder care, while a co-occurrence of female gender, “other” ethnicity, and poverty is typical in the field of household cleaning. The main emphasis of the article is on t…
Female Sex Trafficking in Asia. The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World: Vidyamali Samarasinghe
New York, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 978-0-415-29668-7, 234 pp. In her book Samarashinghe analyses female sex trafficking in Asia from definitional, theoretical, and case-study-base
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
Men and Gender Equality: European Insights
In this article, some of the most important findings of the European research project The Role of Men in Gender Equality (2011-2012) are discussed. This project was the first systematic research study of all European Union member states and associated European Free Trade Association states regarding men and gender equality in the fields of education and paid labor, the involvement of men in care and domestic work responsibilities, men's health, g…
Hierarchization and Segmentation of Informal Care Markets in Slovenia
The article is the result of qualitative research of informal care markets in Slovenia in the field of childcare, elder care, and cleaning. The author assesses Slovenia's position in the “global care chain” and finds that “local care chains” prevail in the field of childcare and elder care, while a co-occurrence of female gender, “other” ethnicity, and poverty is typical in the field of household cleaning. The main emphasis of the article is on t…
Engendering media work: Institutionalizing the norms of entrepreneurial subjectivity
The article analyses how contemporary processes of media production involving temporary work contracts for journalists, long working hours, the demand for unconditional commitment to work and so on push women into unequal position compared to male employees. Attention is paid to ‘engendered’ work in ‘greedy’ media organizations characterized by precarization of work and the related devaluation of journalism as a profession. Rather than detecting …
Negotiating masculinity in informal paid care work
The theorisation of informal care markets from the perspective of global care chains focuses on the feminisation and racialisation of the field. Some recent research does, however, also discuss male migrant care workers, while national male care workers in informal care markets remain overlooked. The entrance of men into such an extremely feminised and racialised field as care work in private homes represents a challenge to masculinity. If the vu…
The Intertwining of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Democracy Backlash: Making Sense of Journalism in Crisis
This article explores how the combination of the public health crisis and the authoritarian government of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party, along with its tendency to politically instrumentalize and economically devastate the media, impacted journalism during the Covid-19 pandemic. Of central concern are how journalists understand their roles in communication relating to Covid-19 and how these roles are shaped when the pandemic and trends…
Multi-local and cross-border care loops: Comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally d…
Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A critical frame analysis of gender policies in Europe
This book aims to map the diversity of meanings of gender equality across Europe and reflects on the contested concept of gender equality. In its exploration of the diverse meanings of gender equality it not only takes into account the existence of different visions of gender equality, and the way in which different political and theoretical debates crosscut these visions, but also reflects upon the geographical contexts in which visions and deba…
Female Sex Trafficking in Asia. The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World: Vidyamali Samarasinghe
New York, London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, ISBN: 978-0-415-29668-7, 234 pp. In her book Samarashinghe analyses female sex trafficking in Asia from definitional, theoretical, and case-study-base
Hierarchization and Segmentation of Informal Care Markets in Slovenia
The article is the result of qualitative research of informal care markets in Slovenia in the field of childcare, elder care, and cleaning. The author assesses Slovenia's position in the “global care chain” and finds that “local care chains” prevail in the field of childcare and elder care, while a co-occurrence of female gender, “other” ethnicity, and poverty is typical in the field of household cleaning. The main emphasis of the article is on t…
Negotiating masculinity in informal paid care work
The theorisation of informal care markets from the perspective of global care chains focuses on the feminisation and racialisation of the field. Some recent research does, however, also discuss male migrant care workers, while national male care workers in informal care markets remain overlooked. The entrance of men into such an extremely feminised and racialised field as care work in private homes represents a challenge to masculinity. If the vu…
Men and Gender Equality: European Insights
In this article, some of the most important findings of the European research project The Role of Men in Gender Equality (2011-2012) are discussed. This project was the first systematic research study of all European Union member states and associated European Free Trade Association states regarding men and gender equality in the fields of education and paid labor, the involvement of men in care and domestic work responsibilities, men's health, g…
Kvalitativno istraživanje prekarizacije tržišta rada i angažiranog očinstva u Sloveniji
Discussions about the reconciliation of work and family are often considered to be focussing on women and middle class people with safe employments. By identifying the differences among men in their capacities to engage in involved fatherhood that stem from their positions in the labour market, this article introduces the perspective of a deprivileged marginalised group in the labour market and critically reflects on the impact of labour flexibil…
The meaning of care: The social construction of care for elderly people
Multi-local and cross-border care loops: Comparison of childcare and eldercare policies in Slovenia
This article provides a comparative analysis of two different care systems, childcare and eldercare, in Slovenia, an Eastern-European post-transition country, with a dual-breadwinner full-time employment regime, a relatively low level of migration and a fast growing share of the 65+ population. The analysis shows that both care systems follow two different kinds of logic of egalitarianism, which means that the national care regime is internally d…
Engendering media work: Institutionalizing the norms of entrepreneurial subjectivity
The article analyses how contemporary processes of media production involving temporary work contracts for journalists, long working hours, the demand for unconditional commitment to work and so on push women into unequal position compared to male employees. Attention is paid to ‘engendered’ work in ‘greedy’ media organizations characterized by precarization of work and the related devaluation of journalism as a profession. Rather than detecting …
The Intertwining of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Democracy Backlash: Making Sense of Journalism in Crisis
This article explores how the combination of the public health crisis and the authoritarian government of Janez Janša’s Slovenian Democratic Party, along with its tendency to politically instrumentalize and economically devastate the media, impacted journalism during the Covid-19 pandemic. Of central concern are how journalists understand their roles in communication relating to Covid-19 and how these roles are shaped when the pandemic and trends…
Tacit Strategies of Labor Migration Management in Senior Care Homes at the European (Semi)Periphery
The article discusses affective management of care migration in state-governed care homes in Slovenia. Through the theoretical lens of the affective turn and interviews with stakeholders and migrant care workers, the analysis discloses tacit organizational strategies of mobilizing migrants’ intimacy, emotions, and affects as instruments of and targets for managing labor migration. The findings indicate that in a situation of extreme labor shortag…
Seeking Care in the Neighboring Country: An Institutional Analysis of Transnational Care for Older People Between Slovenia and Croatia
Using the concepts of care gap, transnationalization of care, and retirement migration—and based on interviews with stakeholders and an institutional analysis of care provision for older people in Slovenia and Croatia—the article examines retirement care migration between the two countries. It shows that the marketization of care in Croatia matches the care gap in public provision in Slovenia, which establishes “precarious hybrid transnational ca…
Affective Sex Work in a Post-Socialist Context
This article examines the transformations of the sex industry in the context of shifting structures of intimacy and labour in late capitalism, focusing on the post-socialist context in Slovenia. Using a mixed-methods approach, including an online survey, focus group discussions and netnography, it examines the evolving role of affective labour in sex work and its implications for the working conditions of sex workers. Findings indicate that affec…
Care Extractivism Beyond Households: Migration and Care for Older People in the Post‐Yugoslav Semi‐Periphery
This article examines care‐labour mobility between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) within the state‐organised system of residential care for older people, situating it on Europe’s semi‐periphery. Addressing gaps in European research, largely focused on private households and East–West intra‐EU mobility, it shifts attention to welfare states as employers embedded in asymmetric geopolitical relations. Drawing on interviews with migrant ca…
Sociology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Care work (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works)