Emina Bužinkić researches, organizes, facilitates, and writes at the crossroads of migration, education, race, transnational solidarities, peace building, feminist praxis, and the pedagogies of resistance. As a community accountable researcher, she moves through narrative and feminist critical ethnographies and decolonial methodologies crafting inquiries that unsettle dominant ways of knowing. Her writings appear in antidisciplinary and interdisciplinary journals that bridge scholarship and struggle (Critical Sociology, Movements, American Ethnologist). She recently co-edited the book The Organization of Irresponsibility: Reassessing COVID-19 in Europe, and previously these volumes: Seditious Acts (2024), Breath and Death: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter and Virality (2022), Formation and Disintegration of the Balkan Refugee Corridor: Camps, Routes and Borders in Croatian Context (2016), and The First Ten Years of the Development of the Asylum System in Croatia: With Reflections on Asylum Systems in the Region (2013). She co-builds wider transnational solidarity movements and world-making across borders, most vividly through the Free Palestine Initiative, Transnational Solidarities conversations from the ground, and with the editorial collective of AGITATE! – Unsettling Knowledges. She is currently concluding her postdoctoral work with the Institute for Development and International Relations with a focus on digital capitalism and platform work. Last year, she was honored with the Krunoslav Sukić Peace Award for her commitment to justice and peacebuilding.
This presentation and discussion will be structured around three interconnected nodes. The first focuses on my work with young Syrian women in Croatia, their educational and everyday experiences, as well as examples of mutual solidarity and transnational political and affective connections with Palestine and Iran. The second node opens questions of pedagogical orientations and political organizing within the Free Palestine Initiative, particularly through reflections on solidarity, public pedagogy, and collective action in the context of genocide and militarization. The third focuses on the Transnational Solidarities program in a Zagreb microlocation as a space of encounter, learning, and political organizing across different experiences of migration, war, racialization, and resistance.
The workshop is imagined as a shared space for conversation that opens questions about our commitments to the collective, the possibilities of building political and affective solidarities, but also the fractures, tensions, and limitations within solidarity movements present in each of these examples.