Mojca Pajnik

Dr Mojca Pajnik

Small Group Project 2016-17

Comparing Croatian and Slovenian Prostitution Regimes: Surpassing Exclusions and Securing Human rights

Prostitution is a taboo topic in the former Yugoslav countries and engaging in sex work is criminalised in these countries, except in Slovenia (although the instrusive offering of sexual services in public has been prohibited since 2006). There is a lack of research on prostitution, while the development of policy is ideological rather than empirically driven (Radacic, forthcoming; Pajnik, forthcoming). This comparative research will assess commonalities and differences of prostitution policies in the two countries - if and how the differences are reflected in legal discourses as well as the narratives of sex workers.

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Research outcomes

Pajnik, M., & Radačić, I. (2020).

Organisational Patterns of Sex Work and the Effects of the Policy Framework. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18(3), 575-587.

Areas of interest

Gender Migration Populism Racism Media Political Theory Citizenship

Cohort

FG2

Biography

Mojca Pajnik earned her PhD from communications at the University of Ljubljana in 2005. She is scientific counsellor at the Peace Institute and professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), University of Ljubljana where she lectures at the study programs on communications and media.

She has authored more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters from the fields of media and political theory, populism, citizenship, gender (in)equality and migration regimes. Her books include Media and Gender (ed. with B. Luthar, FSS, 2019), Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe (ed. with B. Sauer, Routledge, 2017) andContesting Integration, Engendering Migration (ed. with F. Anthias, Palgrave, 2014).

She is active as editorial board member of Global Media and Communication, Migration and Ethnic Themes and Journal of Alternative and Community Media. She has been a guest lecturer and researcher at the University of Florence, Vienna, Helsinki, Bielefeld, the Central European University in Budapest, Loughborough University, Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik and the Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt.

She was awarded for scientific excellency by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (2014) and by the Slovenian Research Agency (2021).

Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26