معرفی
Andreja Trdina serves as Assistant Professor (External Teaching Staff) at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, specializing in Sociology with research spanning tourism, media, and mobility studies. Her institutional affiliation centers on graduate teaching in sociology-focused programs, particularly through courses like Sociology of Culture and Tourism.
Her research agenda integrates three core domains: the mediatization of tourism examining how mobile geomedia technologies reshape tourist experiences; travel as social practice analyzing class distinctions in emerging trends like vanlife and slow travel; and politics of mobility investigating belonging in transnational contexts. This interdisciplinary work bridges sociological theory with contemporary tourism phenomena, emphasizing how globalization and digitalization transform identity formation.
Recent publications reveal consistent thematic evolution toward platform economies in tourism (2021) and memory-displacement dynamics (2022), with notable contributions to Routledge volumes and tourism journals. Her work increasingly examines how personal media devices mediate tourist experiences while maintaining critical focus on social stratification.
Dr. Trdina cultivates critical social sensibility through student-centered teaching, emphasizing active learning to analyze tourism's societal implications. Her accessible supervision approach via Teams/email supports students in deconstructing complex socio-cultural processes underlying contemporary mobility practices, reflecting deep commitment to developing critical perspectives on tourism's role in social configurations.
