Ecofeminism in the Western Balkans
Voices Across Waters is a living chain of conversations among ecofeminist activists from across the Mediterranean: Svetlana Balovska Đurković, Mariona Bonsfills Clotet, Noe Diaferia, Asmaa Elmalky, Simona Getova, Jasmina Husanović, Lena Penšek, Roula Seghaier, and Shereen Talaat. Through intimate and courageous dialogue, the series amplifies voices, stories, and political imagination rooted in care, solidarity, resistance, and transformation.
Across borders and struggles, each episode explores how ecofeminism challenges patriarchal, colonial, capitalist and extractivist systems while nurturing collective alternatives grounded in justice, dignity and ecological balance.
These are not just interviews. They are acts of alliance building towards collective liberation. They are conversations between commerades, between friends. They are hope.
In this episode, Mariona speaks with Jasmina about ecofeminism emerging from the wounds of war, neoliberal transition, and extractivist violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Jasmina traces her journey from feminist peace activism during the 1990s war to co-founding a national ecofeminist platform connecting nearly 30 organizations across the country. Together, they unpack how environmental destruction, energy poverty, toxic waste, and so-called “green transition” projects turn the Western Balkans into a sacrifice zone for global capital.
The conversation explores environmental democracy, radical municipal assemblies, the crisis of social reproduction, and the urgent need for sustained, face-to-face solidarity across the Mediterranean. At its heart, this episode is about rebuilding trust and defending society itself in a time of authoritarian capitalism.
Jasmina Husanović (interviewee) is an activist, a scholar and a professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a founder of the EKOFEM BiH platform, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation.
Mariona Bonsfills Clotet (interviewer) is an ecofeminist researcher, labour unionist and organiser from Catalonia. She is part of Research and Degrowth International, and an activist on ruralism and the transition toward an ecosocialist future.
This podcast series is part of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative and was developed as a chain-interview format designed to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
An initiative by Research & Degrowth International: Research & Degrowth is an academic association dedicated to advancing research, training, and collective reflection on degrowth, ecological justice, and post-growth transformations. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it supports critical thinking and collective action toward socially just and ecologically viable futures. Project coordination and leadership by Lena Penšek, activist and communicator of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean project, with visual identity and artwork by Alexandra Mestre Garcia. Find out more at https://degrowth.org/
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