Deana finished her book manuscript which will soon be published with a prestigous university published. Her book is based on ethnography from an industrial town in Serbia where a copper-processing company was intimately interwoven with the fabric of everyday life. The book explores how the future promises can be enacted and performed and what kinds of material, political, social and temporal effects such performances have in environment which depends on the state support and extractive potentials.  

Deana also explores citizenship in the context of environmental struggle in different post-Yugoslav polluted industrial towns, which has been, so far, insuficiently ethnographically explored. In addition, she explores the material side of the intersection between the futures, the state and the market by looking at how people live with electricity, district heating, and sewage systems. Currently, she is focusing on burning matters around social disputes in the former Yugoslav region that relate to urban infrastructures, by exploring access to citizenship through pipes, taps and valves within the context of global inequalities.

She is also publicly engaged in addressing issues of global academic precarity. In 2018 she published an article “Engaging with precarity: the fatiguing job seeking journey of an early career anthropologist” (Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares 73(1), 33-38).