Dr Zala Volcic
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Communication and Arts
Books
Liu, Shuang, Volcic, Zala and Gallois, Cindy Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA United States: Sage, 2014.
Liu, Shuang, Volcic, Zala and Gallois, Cindy Introducing intercultural communication: Global cultures and contexts. London, England, U.K.: Sage, 2011.
Volcic, Zala Serbian spaces of identity: Narratives of belonging by the last "Yugo" generation. New York , NY, U.S.A.: Hampton Press, 2011.
Volcic, Zala, Erjavec, Karmen, Welzer-Družovec, Tatjana and Udir Mišič, Katja Mediji in identiteta : (medijski) prostori identitete in pripadnosti. Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press, 2008.
Book Chapters
Volcic, Zala and Simic, Olivera (2013). Localizing transitional justice: civil society practices and initiatives in the Balkans. In Volcic Zala and Olivera Simic (Ed.), Transitional justice and civil society in the Balkans (pp. 1-14) New York, NY, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5422-9_1
Erjavec, Karmen, Volcic, Zala, Kovacic, Melita Poler and Vobic, Igor (2012). Journalistic views on post-violent peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Olivera Simic, Volcic, Zala and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 91-108) New York, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_6
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2012). 'Media memories' in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Philip Lee and Pradip Ninan Thomas (Ed.), Public memory, public media and the politics of justice (pp. 163-183) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Volcic, Zala and Plansak, Mojca (2012). Radio stations as spaces for political alternatives during the Yugoslav wars. In Bojan Bilic and Vesna Jankovic (Ed.), Resisting the evil: [Post-]Yugoslav anti-war contention (pp. 175-196) Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos.
Simic, Olivera, Volcic, Zala and Philpot, Catherine R. (2012). Peace psychology in the Balkans: in times past, present, and future. In Olivera Simić, Zala Volčič and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 1-14) New York, NY United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_1
Simic, Olivera, Volcic, Zala and Philpot, Catherine R. (2012). Peace psychology in the Balkans: in times past, present and future. In Olivera Simic, Zala Volcic and Catherine R. Philpot (Ed.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (pp. 1-13) New York, United States: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_1
Volcic, Zala (2012). Branding Slovenia: "You can't spell Slovenia without love...". In Nadia Kaneva (Ed.), The Branding of Post-Communist Nations: Marketizing National Identities in the New Europe (pp. 147-167) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.doi:10.4324/9780203806814-15
Volcic, Zala and Dzihana, Amer (2011). Introduction: Towards peace journalism. In Amer Dzihana and Zala Volcic (Ed.), Media and national ideologies: Analysis or reporting on war crime trials in the former Yugoslavia (pp. 7-40) Sarajevo: Media Center Sarajevo.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011). Constructing transnational divas: Gendered production of Balkan Turbo-folk music. In Radha S. Hegde (Ed.), Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures (pp. 35-52) New York, United States: New York University Press.
Volcic, Zala (2011). Post-socialist recollections: Identity and memory in former Yugoslavia. In Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (Ed.), Heritage, memory & identity (pp. 187-198) Thousand Oaks, C.A., U.S.A.: Sage. doi:10.4135/9781446250839.n15
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011). Fame on the farm: class and celebrity on Slovene reality TV. In Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood (Ed.), Reality television and class (pp. 73-87) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2011). Commercial nationalism on Balkan reality television. In Marwan M. Kraidy and Katherine Sender (Ed.), The politics of reality television: Global perspectives (pp. 113-126) Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203843567-15
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2010). Slovene reality television: The commercial re-inscription of the national. In Amir Hetsroni (Ed.), Reality Television: Merging the Global and the Local (pp. 79-93) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010). A European public sphere? Communication deficit, the next generations, and Slovenia in the European Union. In Lee R. Duffield and Gary J. Ianziti (Ed.), Europe and the media : Building an new king of Europe; is mass media the key? (pp. 123-143) Saarbrücken , Germany: VDM Verlag.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volčič, Zala (2010). Von globalen zu lokalen Konflikten: Die Rekontextualisierung des "war on terror"-Diskurses in nationalistischen Diskursen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien [From global to local conflicts: The recontextualization of the "war on terror" discourse in nationalist di. In Wilhelm Berger, Brigitte Hipfl, Kirstin Mertlitsch and Viktorja Ratković (Ed.), Kulturelle Dimensionen von Konflikten: Gewaltverhältnisse im Spannungsfeld von Geschlecht, Klasse und Ethnizität (pp. 31-46) Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag.
Plansak, Mojca and Volcic, Zala (2010). Reimagining national belonging with community radio. In Kevin Howley (Ed.), Understanding community media (pp. 78-86) Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.: Sage.
Volcic, Zala (2010). The struggle to express, create and represent in the Balkans. In Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Isar (Ed.), Cultures and globalization : Cultural expression, creativity and innovation (pp. 158-165) London, U.K.: SAGE Publications. doi:10.4135/9781446251010.n14
Volcic, Zala (2009). Television in the Balkans: The rise of commercial nationalism. In Graeme Turner and Jinna Tay (Ed.), Television studies after TV: Understanding television in the post-broadcast era 1st ed. (pp. 115-124) Abingdon Oxford: Routledge.
Volcic, Zala (2009). Neither “East” nor “West”: The past and present life of Yugoslav identity.. In Petya Kabakchieva and Alexander Kiossev (Ed.), “Rules” and “Roles”: Fluid institutions and hybrid identities in East European transformation processes (1989 – 2005. Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology 1st ed. (pp. 251-266) Berlin: Lit Verlag.
Volcic, Z. and Louw, P. E. (2007). Defining the other as irrational: Western coverage of the Balkans and the foundations of the Western Gaze. In M. Zlateva (Ed.), The Image of the Balkans (pp. xx-xx) Thessaloniki, Greece ; Sofia: Institute for Balkan Studies ; Unesco.
Journal Articles
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2015) Watching pink reality TV. Feminist Media Studies, 15 1: 74-91. doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.988393
Kožuh, Ines, Hintermair, Manfred, Holzinger, Andreas, Volčič, Zala and Debevc, Matjaž (2014) Enhancing universal access: deaf and hard of hearing people on social networking sites. Universal Access in the Information Society, 14 4: 537-545. doi:10.1007/s10209-014-0354-3
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2014) Transnational celebrity activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina: local responses to Angelina Jolie's film In the Land of Blood and Honey. European Journal of Cultural Studies, OnlineFirst 3: 1-20. doi:10.1177/1367549414526728
Volčič, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2013) 'I want to leave Slovenia for a sunny, relaxed and open Australia': imagining Australia in Slovenia. Media International Australia, 1 149: 55-66.
Volcic, Zala, Erjavec, Karmen and Peak, Mallory (2013) Branding post-war Sarajevo: journalism, memories, and dark tourism. Journalism Studies, 15 6: 726-742. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2013.837255
Volcic, Zala (2013) Connecting the Disconnected: Balkan Culture Studies. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 10 2-3: 333-339. doi:10.1080/14791420.2013.812597
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2013) Commercial and sexualized nationalism on Serbian reality TV. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 6: 597-614. doi:10.1177/1367877912441440
Volcic, Zala and Zajc, Melita (2013) Hybridisation of slovene public broadcasting: from national community towards commercial nationalism. Media International Australia, 146: 93-102.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2012) A continuous battle: relationships between journalists and politicians in Slovenia. Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 7 2: 1-9.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2011) Hidden minorities in Kosovo: "We feel like ghosts in our own communities". Dve Domovini = Two Homelands, 33 2: 123-140.
Volcic, Zala and Mark Andrejevic (2011) Nation branding in the era of commercial nationalism. International Journal of Communication, 5 1: 598-618.
Poler Kovacic, Melita, Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2010) Media coverage of health issues: A study of advertorials in the Slovene daily newspapers. China Media Research, 6 4: 32-42.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010) 'Target', 'cancer' and 'warrior': Exploring painful metaphors of self-presentation used by girls born of war rape. Discourse and Society, 21 5: 524-543. doi:10.1177/0957926510373981
Erjavec, Karmen and Volčič, Zala (2010) Living with the sins of their fathers: An analysis of self-representation of adolescents born of war rape. Journal of Adolescent Research, 25 3: 359-386. doi:10.1177/0743558410361373
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2010) Information literacy: A means of preparing the students in Slovenia for the information society. Journal of Children and Media, 4 1: 59-76. doi:10.1080/17482790903407325
Volčič, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2010) The paradox of Ceca and the turbo-folk audience. Popular Communication, 8 2: 103-119. doi:10.1080/15405701003676121
Louw, Eric and Volcic, Zala (2010) Diasporic grief and grievance on-line: How South African and Serbian diasporas use the web. Global Media Journal: African Edition, 4 1: 1-19.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Rehabilitating Milošević: Posthumous coverage of the Milošević regime in Serbian newspapers. Social Semiotics, 19 2: 125-147. doi:10.1080/10350330902815899
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) A Slovene president’s self-help discourse: Making Slovenes more positive. Critical Discourse Studies, 6 2: 97-110. doi:10.1080/17405900902749965
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Management through spiritual self-help discourse in post-socialist Slovenia. Discourse & Communication, 3 2: 123-143. doi:10.1177/1750481309102449
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2009) Nostalgia for Greater Serbia: Media coverage of Radovan Karadžic’s arrest. Journal of Global Mass Communication, 11 1/2: 24-46.
Volcic, Zala and Plansak, Mojca (2009) Social networking as a way of crafting the identity. Kulturen Zivot, 54 1/2: 72-78.
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2009) Journalistic (re)production of history: Televized coverage of Radovan Karadžić’s arrest in Serbia. Solsko Polje, 20 5/6: 75-99.
Volcic, Zala (2009) Phenomenon of self-branding on social networking sites. Kulturen Zivot, 54 3/4: 10-17.
Cokley, John D. and Volcic, Zala (2009) Body image drives new environment for news delivery. Asian-Pacific Business Review, 5 2: 49-60. doi:10.1177/097324700900500204
Hanusch, Folker, Obijiofor, Levi M. and Volcic, Zala (2009) Theoretical and practical issues in team-teaching a large undergraduate class. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21 66-74.
Volcic, Zala and Andrejevic, Mark (2009) That’s me: Nationalism and identity on Balkan reality TV. Canadian Journal of Communication, 34 1: 7-24.
Volcic, Z. (2008) Former Yugoslavia on the world wide web: Commercialization and branding of nation-states. The International Communication Gazette, 70 5: 395-413. doi:10.1177/1748048508094292
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Z. (2008) 'We Defend Western Civilization': Serbian Representations of a Cartoon Conflict. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 19 3: 305-321. doi:10.1080/09596410802127979
Volcic, Z. (2008) Media, Identity, and Gender: Tracking Feminist Media and Journalism Theories and Methodologies. Media Research: Croatian Journal for Journalism and Media, 14 1: 5-20.
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2008) Technological developments in Central-Eastern Europe: A case study of a computer literacy project in Slovenia. Information, Communication and Society, 11 3: 326-347. doi:10.1080/13691180802025350
Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (2007) 'War on terrorism' as a discursive battleground: Serbian recontextualization of G.W. Bush's discourse. Discourse and Society, 18 2: 123-137. doi:10.1177/0957926507073370
Volcic, Zala (2007) Scenes from the last Yugoslav generation: The long march from Yugo-Utopia to Nationalisms. Cultural Dynamics, 19 1: 67-89. doi:10.1177/0921374007077270
Volcic, Z. (2007) Yugo-nostalgia: Cultural memory and media in the former Yugoslavia. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 1: 21-38. doi:10.1080/07393180701214496
Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. (2007) The Kosovo battle: Media's recontextualization of the Serbian nationalistic discourses. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12 3: 67-86. doi:10.1177/1081180X07302943
Erjavec, Karmen and Volcic, Zala (2007) Recontextualizing Traumatic Pasts: Croatian Justification of War Crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Global Media Journal: Mediterranean Edition, 2 1: 10-22.
Erjavec, K. and Volcic, Z. (2006) Mapping the notion of "terrorism" in Serbian and Croation newspapers. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30 4: 298-318. doi:10.1177/0196859906290429
Volcic, Zala (2006) Blaming the media: Serbian narratives of national(ist) identity. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 20 3: 313-330.doi:10.1080/10304310600814177
Volcic, Zala and Erjavec, Karmen (2006) Media education success in Slovenia: What next?. Media Development, 1 Celebrating Cultural Diversity: 47-52.
Volcic, Z (2006) French theory and media studies: What can media cultural studies learn from M. Foucault, P. Bourdieu and J.P. Sartre?. Identities Journal - Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 5 1: 45-63.
Volcic, Z. (2006) Media, identities, and immigrants:Arab satellite televisions in Italy. Medijska Istrazivanja, Croatian Journal for Journalism and the Media, 12 2: 63-77.
Volcic, Z. and Erjavec, K. (2006) Becoming media literate? Media Education in Slovenia after Ten Years. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 61 3: 284-296. doi:10.1177/107769580606100306
Volcic, Z (2005) Belgrade vs. Serbia: Spatial re-configurations of belonging. Journal of Ethnic And Migration Studies, 31 4: 639-658. doi:10.1080/13691830500109746
Volcic, Z. (2005) The notion of 'the West' in the Serbian national imaginary. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 2: 155-175. doi:10.1177/1367549405051842
Volcic, Z. (2005) 'The machine that creates Slovenians': The role of Slovenian public broadcasting in re-affirming the Slovenian national identity. National Identities, 7 3: 287-308. doi:10.1080/14608940500201847
Volcic, Zala (2004) Place and resistance: narratives of living in Serbia's 1990s. European Journal of Anthropology, 2004 44: 103-118. doi:10.3167/092012904782311317
Volčič, Zala (2003) Who wants to be a media literate? Locating media research methods and applying them to the media literacy concept. Medijska istraživanja: hrvatski znanstveno-stručni časopis za novinarstvo i medije, 9 2: 35-67.
Conference Papers
Volcic, Zala (2012). Turbo-folk music in the Balkans: Ceca as a transnational femme fatale. In: Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference (CSAA 2012), Sydney, Australia, (). 4-6 December 2012.
Volcic, Zala (2010). Commercial nationalism on Slovene television. In: International Communication Association Conference 2010 (ICA 2010), Singapore, (). 2-5 July 2010.
Volcic, Zala (2010). Community radio in Slovenia: Some issues. In: International Association for Media and Communication Research, Braga, Portugal, (). 20-25 July 2010.
Welzer, T., Volcic, Z., Brumen, B., Golob, I., Kamisalic, A. and Holbl, M. (2008). Conceptual model - Meeting of cultures. In: Information Systems and e-Business Technologies - 2nd International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2008, Proceedings. 2nd International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria, (365-370). 22-25 April 2008.
Volcic, Z. (2006). Mapping civil society in former Yugoslavia. In: Proceedings of: 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Networking Communication Research. 56th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Networking Communication Research, Dresden, Germany, (). 19-23 June 2006.
Volcic, Z. (2006). Former Yugoslavia on the world wide web: Commercialization and branding of nation-states. In: 7th Annual AoIR Conference: Internet Convergences, Brisbane, Australia, (). 27-30 September 2006.