Research Fellow

ana.vilenica@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Ana Vilenica is a co-investigator on the Sustaining Civil Society in the Context of Multiple Crises (SustainAction) project. She is employed at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade and affiliated with Södertörn University. Previously, she was a Research Fellow on the European Research Council project Inhabiting Radical Housing at the Polytechnic and University of Turin and a core member of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab from 2021 to 2025. In 2016, she was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission for a project on housing deprivation in Serbia and the UK, which she conducted at London South Bank University. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics and Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, a research associate at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Arts in Novi Sad. Ana is a member of the Radical Housing Journal editorial collective. Her research explores translocal, transnational, and transcontinental organizing within and beyond radical housing struggles in Europe and the Americas, with her latest projects focusing on anti-extractivist struggles in Serbia and infrastructures of engagement in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

• Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (eds.) (2025). Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Ana Vilenica (ed.) (2024). “Pursuing Tenant International: Learning from Struggles for Home in Abya-Yala (Part I).” In Judith Keller, Erin McElroy, Samantha Thompson, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Archiving the Housing Conjuncture. The Radical Housing Journal, 6(2), 1-10. DOI: 10.54825/ALYF7011.
• Ana Vilenica (ed.) (2023). Decoloniality in Eastern Europe: A Lexicon of Reorientation. Novi Sad: kuda.org.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Ana Vilenica, Nemanja Pantović, and Milan Škobić (2023). “CHF-Indexed Housing Debts and the Housing Struggle in Serbia.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 27(3-4), 636-653. Special Feature: Dependent Financialization and Urban Struggles in East Europe. DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2023.2229200.
• Ivana Pražić and Ana Vilenica (2023). “Gadji Feminism(s) in Serbia: Racial Privilege and ‘Intersectional’ Solidarity in an Eastern European Semiperiphery.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 44(2), 70-97. DOI: 10.1353/fro.2023.a902527.

Book chapters

• Ana Vilenica and Vladimir Mentus (2025). “Urbanization of Racial Capitalism in Serbia: Transition, Racialisation, Evictions.” In Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (2025). “Thinking from the East: Urban Marginality, Racialisation, and Interdependence in Eastern Europe.” In Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Ana Vilenica and Vladimir Mentus (2025). “Contradictions in Infra-Commoning Networks in Serbia: Evictions, Pandemic, Politics.” In Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer (eds.), Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.