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In this episode of Voices Across Waters, Jasmina Husanović speaks with Svetlana Balovska Đurković about ecofeminism as a lived and daily practice rooted in care, resilience, and intergenerational responsibility.
Svetlana reflects on her feminist awakening in childhood, her path through LGBTQI+ activism, and her experience of motherhood. She explains how raising a daughter deepened her ecological consciousness and transformed her relationship with everyday life.
From that experience, ecofeminism became a practical way of living and caring.
Now living on a Mediterranean island, Svetlana shares how ecofeminism takes shape through community education, soil regeneration, rainwater collection, composting, and protecting the sea from plastic pollution.
Together, Jasmina and Svetlana also reflect on trust inside activist spaces and on the importance of preventing burnout.
This conversation highlights why joy and love are not luxuries, but necessary political forces. At its core, the episode reminds us that transformation begins close to the ground, in the air we breathe and the water we protect.
Svetlana Balovska Đurković (interviewee) is an anthropologist and ecofeminist queer activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Currently based in Croatia, she is a pioneer of the LGBTIQ+ movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and now dedicates her work to environmental justice.
Jasmina Husanović (interviewer) is an activist, scholar, and professor from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is one of the founders of EKOFEM BiH, working on the politics of the commons and emancipatory social transformation.
Voices Across Waters, a podcast series of the Ecofeminism in the Mediterranean initiative. It uses a chain-interview format to create relational dialogue across territories, experiences, and struggles.
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.
Find out more at degrowth.org
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