Dr Maja Mikula

Mikula, M.H. 2008, Key Concepts in Cultural Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke UK and New York.

Mikula, M.H. 2010, 'Highways of Desire: Cross-Border Shopping in Former Yugoslavia, 1960s-1980s' in Hannes Grandits and Karin Taylor (eds), Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s), CEU Press, Budapest and New York, pp. 211-237.
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Mikula, M.H. 2007, 'Games, Toys, and Pastimes' in Bayer, Gerd (eds), Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture, Greenwood Press, Westport, USA, pp. 173-194.
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Mikula, M.H. 2005, 'Embrace or Resist: Women and Collective Identification in Croatia and Former Yugoslavia Since WW11' in Maja Mikula ed. (ed), Women, Activism and Social Change: Stretching Boundaries, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 82-98.
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Mikula, M.H. 2004, 'Gender and patriotism in Carla Capponi's 'With the Heart of a Woman'' in Scarparo, Susanna; Wilson, Rita (eds), Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives, University of Delaware Press, Newark, USA, pp. 70-85.
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Mikula, M.H. 2004, 'Lara Croft: between a feminist icon and male fantasy' in Schubart,Rikke; Gjelvsik, Anne (eds), Femme Fatalities: Representations of Strong Women in the Media, Nordicom, G÷teborg Sweden, pp. 57-70.
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Mikula, M.H. 2002, 'Croatia's independence and the language politics of the 1990s' in Anthony J Liddicoat and Karis Muller (eds), Pesrpectives on Europe: language issues and language planning in Europe, Language Australia Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 109-123.

Mikula, M.H. 2008, 'Displacement and shifting geographies in the noir fiction of Cesare Battisti' in Allatson, P., McCormack, J. (eds), Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities, Rodopi, Amsterdam, New York, pp. 209-223.

Mikula, M.H. 2007, 'Displacement and shifting geographies in the noir fiction of Cesare Battisti' in Gong Siyi, Hu Xiaohan and Gu Haiyue (eds), Kuibuji--2006 Shanghai > Daxue--Xini Keji Daxue Xueshu Yantaohui Lunwenji [First Steps: A > Collection of Essays...], Shanghai Daxue Chubanshe > [Shanghai University Press], Shanghai, pp. 211-223.
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Mikula, M.H. 2007, 'Displacement and shifting geographies in the noir fiction by Cesare Battisti', Belphegor Popular Literature and Media Culture, vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 1-13.
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Cesare Battisti - an Italian author and former member of the ultra-left guerrilla group called Armed Proletarians for Communism, which was active in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s - writes his novels and short stories from the vantage point of a ventennial exilic experience in Mexico and France. By looking closely at Battisti's fiction, published in French and Italian,2 this paper examines displacement and exile in the current Italian and European socio-political context.

Mikula, M.H. 2005, 'Intellectual Engagement in Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Fiction', Storytelling: A Critical Journal of Popular Narrative, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 31-41.
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Mikula, M.H. 2004, 'Naked in the Gymnasium: Women as Agents of Social Change', Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-12.
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Women have throughout history participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class and race or ethnic group. It appears that generations of women in a wide range of political and social movements, individual women resisting social injustice and at least three waves of conscious feminism(s) have not yet succeeded in defeating the popular stigma surrounding female activism. Women moving in the public arena still evoke the same negative images they have conjured for centuries, reflected in such derogatory appellations as `viragos,+ `witches,+ `femmes-hommes,+ or `hyenas in petty-coats+. This paper looks at social change from the perspective of its arguably most cogent, but nevertheless controversial, agents. It examines a range of recent theories concerning gender and social change, to affirm women+s revolutionary potential beyond the boundaries of political revolution.

Mikula, M.H. 2003, 'Gender and Videogames: the political valency of Lara Croft', Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 79-87.
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Mikula, M.H. 2003, 'Virtual Landscapes of Memory', Information, Communication & Society, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 169-186.
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This paper will focus on two World Wide Web projects: the virtual nation of Cyber- Yugoslavia (www.juga.com) and the homepage of former Yugoslav president Tito (www.titoville.com). Both projects problematize our understanding of nationhood and political leadership through skilful manipulation of the structural characteristics of the medium. The virtual, performative and transitory nature of both the nation and the state will be exemplifed by Cyber-Yugoslavia - a virtual nation- building endeavour conjured up by Belgrade expatriate playwright Zoran Bacic. The changing character of political leadership will be discussed against the backdrop of Tito's homepage, which archives numerous image and sound files documenting the life of the former Yugoslav president. The two projects share at least three common elements: their genre is parody; their subject matter is repressed collective memory; and they reflect the anxieties of the postmodern condition in their treatment of its most emblematic medium, the Internet. The repressed collective memory encapsulated in these projects is that of South-Slav unity, as an alternative to the now dominant particularist ethno-nationalisms of the Yugoslav successor states.

Allatson, P.V., Lu, Y., Mikula, M.H., Pratt, M. & Le Nevez, A.T. 2002, 'Average Stray Aliens': An Average Australian Conversation on Eurocentrism', Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 17-31.
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Prompted by a recent error in an Australian newspaper, by which voice-recognition technology inadvertently transformed `average Australians+ into `average stray aliens+, this paper appears as a conversation about Eurocentrism between five participants, all of whom work in European studies as teachers and researchers in Australia, the place of `stray aliens+. Our dialogue proceeded cumulatively in August 2001, with e-mail responses circulating between contributors. Our aim was to dislocate the debate about `Europe+ and `Eurocentrism+ away from the Eurocentre to one of Europe+s blind spots, Australia. Emerging in the debate is a strong sense of the ways in which power and privilege inevitably accrue centrifugally: Eurocentrism affects and re-writes itself on us in ways perhaps unimagined in the Eurocentre. As a bid toward resistant practice against the centre, we have refrained self-consciously from explaining every local reference in our self-reflective, dialogic, and open-ended discussion about the ways `Europe+ and `Eurocentrism+ touch us as teachers, researchers and `average stray aliens+.

Mikula, M.H. 2002, 'Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Exclusion', Southeast European Politics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 62-70.
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Mikula, M.H. 2006, 'Fantastic Architecture and the Building of Europe in Valerio Evangelisti's Eymerich Fiction', DAB, UTS, October 2005 in Imaginary Worlds Symposium, ed Hill, Michael and Karaminas, Vicki, UTS, Sydney, pp. 1-13.
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