PhD in Social Work, Health & Welfare, MSc. Social Sciences/Gender Studies, BSc. Gender Studies

Current employment and role: Assistant Professor in Social Work and Internationalisation and Sustanability Manager for Social Work Study Programme, Dalarna University (see more here)

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Publications

Knezevic, Z. (2025). Defiant, Antisocial or Agents of Social Justice? Understanding Children’s Resistances as Epistemic and Social Justice Issues. Journal of Progressive Human Services, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2025.2573531

Knezevic, Z. (2025). Unlearning nationalised social work in times of rising right-wing populism. Critical and Radical Social Work, 13(3), 477-487.

Knezevic, Z. (Ed.) (2024). Socialt arbete: i gränslandet mellan teori och praktik. Liber.

Knezevic, Z. (2024). En internationell postkolonial belysning av socialt arbete. In: Z. Knezevic (Ed.) Socialt arbete: i gränslandet mellan teori och praktik (pp. 78-96). Liber.

Knezevic, Z. (2024). Det sociala arbetets mångfasetterade verksamhetsfält: etnografiska perspektiv på det sociala arbetets praktik. In: Z. Knezevic (Ed.) Socialt arbete: i gränslandet mellan teori och praktik (pp. 60-76). Liber.

Knezevic, Z. (2024). Introduktion – Varför ännu en bok om teori och praktik för socialt arbete? In: Z. Knezevic (Ed.) Socialt arbete: i gränslandet mellan teori och praktik (pp. 9-26). Liber.

Knezevic, Z. (2024). Broadening Ethnographic Following: From Following Conflicts to Following Agreements and Silences in Vaccination Debates. Ethnos, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2024.2353100

Knezevic, Z. (2023). The Child as the Other: Some Epistemological Considerations. In: S. Myrebøe, V. Pálmadóttir and J. Sjöstedt (Eds.) Feminist Philosophy: Time, history and the transformation of thought (pp. 231-250). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola.

Knezevic, Z. (2022). The Biopolitics of Childhood. In: Stephen A. Webb (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work (pp. 192-204). Routledge.

Knezevic, Z., Nikupeteri, A., Laitinen, M. and Kallinen, K. (2022). Gender- and power sensitivity, securitisation and social peace: rethinking protection for children exposed to post-separation violence. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 6(1): 99-114.

Knezevic, Z., Eriksson, M., och Heikkilä, M. (2021). De/gendering violence and racialising blame in Swedish child welfare: what has childhood got to do with it?. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 5(2): 199-214.

Knezevic, Z. (2021). Speaking bodies – Silenced Voices: Child Protection and the knowledge culture of ‘evidencing’. Global Studies of Childhood, 11(3): 252-264.

Knezevic, Z. (2020). Social change in developmental times? On ‘changeability’ and the uneven timings of child welfare interventions. Time & Society, 29(4): 1040-1060.

Knezevic, Z.(2020). Child (Bio)Welfare and Beyond: Intersecting Injustices in Childhoods and Swedish Child Welfare. PhD dissertation. School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University.

Knezevic, Z.(2020). A Cry for Care But not Justice: Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare. Affilia, 35(2), 231–245.

Knezevic, Z. (2017). Amoral, im/moral and dis/loyal: Children’s moral status in child welfare. Childhood, 24(4), 470–484.

Other Publications (academic and popular science)

Knezevic, Z. (2017). SaraAhmed, feministiskt snap och överlevnad. MANA – Ljud, 2017(1).

Knezevic, Z. (2017).Antirasismens soundtrack. MANA – Ljud, 2017(1).  

Knezevic, Z. (2016).Obegripliga barn? MANA – Barn, 2016(4).

Knezevic, Z. (2016).Inre kamp. MANA – Barn, 2016(4).

Knezevic, Z. (2016).I tid och otid för asyl. MANA – Tid, 2016(2-3).

Schmitt, I., Gustavson, M., Bercht, S., Pan, M., Quadflieg, C., Sobocan, AM., Streib-Brzic, U., Zavirsek, D., Linderoth, K. and Knezevic, Z. (2011). Skolan är ute?! Barn och ungdomar med hbtq-föräldrar och deras erfarenheter i skolan i Tyskland, Slovenien och Sverige. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 

Conferences

Knezevic, Z., Mintaraga, GW, Pettersson, A. (2024). Toward sustainable international social work: The case of an Indonesian-Swedish collaboration. Deinstitutionalising social work: rethinking logics of research and practice. The International Social Work & Society Academy (TiSSA) Conference, Athens, Greece, 23-28 August.

Knezevic, Z. (2024). Beyond ‘the war on vaccines’: An improvised approach to controversies and conflicts in the vaccination debate. SANT 2024 Improvisation Conference in Uppsala, 24-26 April.

Knezevic, Z. (2023). Internationalising a nationalised programme: challenges and opportunities. Abolishing the University and Borders in Higher Education Conference, Department of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University and the Independent Social Research Foundation, 12 October.

Knezevic, Z. (2023). Epistemic Justice: A Useful Concept for Children and Young People? The 11th International Conference on Nusantara Philosophy: Epistemic Justice: Contesting Knowledge within Social World, Faculty of Philosophy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2-3 November.

Knezevic, Z. (2022). Bortom biovälfärden: Intersektionella orättvisor i barndomar och den sociala barnavården. Med barn och familj i fokus: En konferens om behov, dilemman och möjligheter. RICH (Reproduktiv hälsa, barn och ungdomars hälsa), Falun, 28 April.

Knezevic, Z. (2022). Young and Vaccinated?: Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Covid-19 Vaccinations. Poster presentation. 10-årsjubileum av Socionomprogrammet vid Högskolan Dalarna, Dalarna University, Sweden, 5 May.

Knezevic, Z. (2022). NY-SATS Socialtjänstens insatser som domän för skydd och delaktighet för barn: Ett förändringsprojekt för nya insatser. Poster presentation. 10-årsjubileum av Socionomprogrammet vid Högskolan Dalarna, Dalarna University, Sweden, 5 May.

Knezevic, Z. (2019).Surviving as a Critical Scholar in the Academia: Challenges & Affirmative Approaches. g19 Rethinking Knowledge Regimes – Solidarities and Contestations, Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research Gothenburg, Sweden, 7-9 October.

Knezevic, Z. (2018).Speaking Bodies – Silenced Voices: Children’s Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economies of Child Welfare. TISSA, The International Social Work & Society Academy, Social Work and Solidarity: In Search of New Paradigms. Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 19-22.

Knezevic, Z.(2016). Barns Behov i Centrum: Ett Ramverk med Barns Kunskap i Fokus? Doktorandernas dag, Mälardalens högskola. Västerås, Sweden, March 10.

Knezevic, Z. (2016).Bridging the Gap between Feminist Philosophy and Childhood Studies: Conceptualisations of Knowledge and Children’s Epistemic Status. Feminist Philosophy: Time & History, Nordic Summer University. Umeå University, Sweden, 15-17 March.

Knezevic, Z. (2016).Re/considering the Comparative – Child protection and Epistemic Cultures: The Case of Swedish BBIC. European Conference for Social Work Research, Catholic University of Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal, 30/3-1/4.

Knezevic, Z. (2015).Children Exposed to Violence in a Cross-Cultural ‘Translation’ between Child Welfare Assessment Models – From British ICS to Swedish BBIC. European Conference on Domestic Violence, Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland, 6th-9th September.

Reviewing & Editing

2022-2024 editor of an anthology

Reviewer for Academic Journals (childhood studies/gender studies/social work/anthropology)

2016-2020 Member of the editorial board of the magazine MANA (editor, freelance writer, photography, translation, etc.)

Education

2020-2021 Social Anthropology, advanced, Stockholm University

2014-2020 PhD Programme, Social Work, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University

2009–2012 MSc. Master in Social sciences and the humanities, major in Gender studies. Department of Gender Studies, Lund University (Sweden) and Utrecht University (the Netherlands).

2005-2008 BSc. Programme in Gender Studies, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University.

Qualitative Methods (education and experience)