Nina Žnidaršič
Researcher
Nina Žnidaršič (1993) is a research assistant at the Institute of Criminology. Between 2020 and 2024, she was a junior researcher at the Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. She is currently completing her PhD thesis Autonomy of Journalism and the Journalist’s Action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in which she examines the forms of journalistic action and the creation of autonomous space in this historical period through oral history research. She graduated in journalism and sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and at the same time studied philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She has presented her reflections at national and international conferences and doctoral schools and was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana from October to December 2023.
Fields of research
history of political ideas, social/political philosophy and theory, scientific epistemology
- Žnidaršič, N. (2022). The journalist’s action in socialist Yugoslavia: Understanding the formulation journalist as a socio-political worker. Contributions to Contemporary History, 62(1), 82–102, table.
- Žnidaršič, N., & Kaluža, J. (2023). Tolerance as an integral part of solidarity: The example of socialist Yugoslavia. Dialogues, 59(5/6), 144–158.
- Amon Prodnik, J., & Žnidaršič, N. (2023). Researching journalism in socialist Yugoslavia and the role of Mitja Gorjup. In M. Prelesnik Zdešar & A. Štamcar (Eds.), Mitja Gorjup: (1943–1977), editor-in-chief of the newspaper Delo: A collection of articles on the 40th anniversary of Mitja Gorjup’s death (pp. 5–9). Ljubljana: Self-published. A. Gorjup.
- Amon Prodnik, J., Kalin Golob, M., Kerševan, T., Kostanjevec, J., Verovnik, T., Logar, N., Mance, B., Milosavljević, M., Poler Kovačič, M., Slaček Brlek, A. S., Spličhal, S., Tomanić Trivundža, I., Vobič, I., & Žnidaršič, N. (2021). Government destruction of the STA threatens the informational sovereignty of citizens and the state. Dnevnik, Dnevnik’s Objective, 71(53), photograph.
