{"id":13594,"date":"2025-07-22T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=13594"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:01:32","slug":"pozniak","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/en\/pozniak\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Romana Pozniak"},"content":{"rendered":"<jgu-base-section react-props=\"{&quot;color&quot;:&quot;dark&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"jgu-bgsection bg bg-dark\"><div class=\"content padding-medium\"><jgu-base-heading react-props=\"{\n    &quot;index&quot;: &quot;Marie Sk\\u0142odowska-Curie Fellow&quot;,\n    &quot;color&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n    &quot;tags&quot;: {\n        &quot;htmlTag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;,\n        &quot;classTag&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;tag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;heading&quot;: &quot;Dr. Romana Pozniak&quot;,\n    &quot;textAlign&quot;: &quot;left&quot;,\n    &quot;anchor&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n}\"><\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><jgu-base-image react-props=\"{\n    &quot;image&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Pozniak.jpg&quot;,\n        &quot;id&quot;: 11905,\n        &quot;title&quot;: &quot;Pozniak&quot;,\n        &quot;width&quot;: 791,\n        &quot;height&quot;: 840,\n        &quot;srcset&quot;: &quot;https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Pozniak.jpg 791w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Pozniak-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\\\/\\\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\\\/fb05-iftek-kultur\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/573\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Pozniak-768x816.jpg 768w&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;hasLightbox&quot;: false,\n    &quot;caption&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;imgWidth&quot;: 0,\n    &quot;link&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;target&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;rel&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n    }\n}\" class=\"align-\">\n    \n<\/jgu-base-image><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><jgu-base-collapsiblearea class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-jgu-collapsible-area-is-layout-flow\" react-props=\"{&quot;visibleLines&quot;:5,&quot;collapse&quot;:&quot;always&quot;,&quot;collapsedHeight&quot;:150,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biography&lt;\\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;Romana Pozniak is a Marie Sk\\u0142odowska-Curie fellow with a PhD in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology obtained in 2022 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. Based on ethnographic research, her dissertation explores entangled practices of humanitarianism, activism and volunteerism in Croatia. Her research interests are based at the intersection of feminist approach to care, critical migration studies and anthropology of labor. She regularly presents her research at academic conferences and publishes in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2013, she has been involved in the work of NGOs and self-organized collectives advocating against border violence and for antiracist and non-hierarchical politics of care.    &lt;\\\/p&gt;\\n\\n&quot;,&quot;className&quot;:&quot;alignwide &quot;}\"><\/jgu-base-collapsiblearea>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2025\/08\/Romana-Pozniak-%E2%80%93-CV.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"11913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/573\/2025\/08\/Romana-Pozniak-publications2.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"11908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<jgu-base-accordion react-props=\"{&quot;selected&quot;:7,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;hasAllOpenButton&quot;:true,&quot;onlyOne&quot;:false,&quot;initAllClosed&quot;:true,&quot;enableSearch&quot;:false}\">\n    \n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Research Focus Areas&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;research-focus-areas&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\n<ul class=\"has-big-font-size wp-block-list\">\n<li>Humanitarianism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Politics of care<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical migration studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anthropology of labour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Research Projects&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;research-projects&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\n<p><strong>Politics of humanitarian care: aid, displacement and social reproduction in Croatia (REHUM)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea behind the REHUM project is that institutionalized care practices are being replaced by emergency aid. This process, understood as the humanitarization of care, will be approached through participative ethnography in two humanitarian settings: internal post-earthquake displacement and contemporary migration in the Balkan borderlands, particularly Croatia. The project will explore whether the expansion of humanitarian initiatives in these two contexts in Croatia highlights the same problem of erosion of institutionalized care while shedding light on the ambivalent transformations occurring within grassroots collectives in their attempts to replace such systems. By relying on feminist research of social reproduction, particularly its relationship to humanitarianism, REHUM aims to expand the critique of care. Starting from the assumption that care\u2014understood as an essential part of life and a practice crucial for human development\u2014is structurally devalued and externalized to the private sphere and informal aid initiatives, REHUM seeks to identify how humanitarianism in Croatia supports that process while situating limited state responses and their replacement with temporary humanitarian solutions within a broader political framework.    <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<jgu-base-accordionitem react-props=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Contact&quot;,&quot;init&quot;:false,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;contact&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;customSlug&quot;:false}\">\n    \n\n<p>Jakob-Welder-Weg 20<br>55128 Mainz<br>Philosophicum II (Neubau), 2. 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