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The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion
Ljubljana, 25. 10. 2023
To delo avtorja Milica Popović je ponujeno pod Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
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Dr. Milica Popović (Sciences Po CERI) is a political scientist, specializing in Memory Studies, Political Sociology and Higher Education Studies. She obtained a PhD in Comparative Political Sociology at Sciences Po Paris and in Balkan studies at the University of Ljubljana. She has been Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Lead at the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom at Central European University in Vienna from 2021 to 2023, and for her work at CEU she is a recipient of DAAD Fundamental Academic Values Award for Early Career Scientists. Popović also worked as a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.Currently, she is working as an independent researcher and consultant on various projects within and beyond higher education, including her contractual researcher position at the Institut Jacques Delors in Paris, where she researches issues regarding the Western Balkans and accession to the European Union. She has been Fernandes Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick (November 2021), and has been awarded a Visegrad Scholarship Fund at Open Society Archives in Budapest for January/February 2024. While finalizing her monograph on Yugonostalgia and the memory narratives of the generation of the last pioneers in the (post)Yugoslav space, she is currently developing a new research project on the memory narratives of deserters in Yugoslav wars of the 1990s
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- identifikatorhttps://hdl.handle.net/11686/57446
- naslov
- The silence of saying no. Narrating desertion
- Ljubljana, 25. 10. 2023
- avtor
- Milica Popović
- predmet
- Jugoslavija
- kulturni spomin
- politična sociologija
- opis
- Putting the act of desertion and draft resistance in the frame of cultural memory studies and political sociology, I will present the project which aims to answer the question how, in the interplay of public and private, memory narratives create a story of the deserter of the Yugoslav wars in today’s (post)Yugoslav space. The project aims to expand the cultural understanding of desertion in a post-conflict society, an understanding colored by dissent, resistance, shame, and silence. The mnemonic community of deserters and draft resisters, beyond anti-war activists, has remained unresearched. Not necessarily heroes or anti-war leaders, the ordinary deserters have nonetheless refused to participate in the ethno-nationally framed Yugoslav wars for a multiplicity of reasons. In the aftermath of the war, the last Yugoslav Defense Minister, Veljko Kadijević, claimed that draft resisters and deserters were the key factors for undermining the capacity of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) in the Yugoslav wars (Kadijević 1993) and thus, possibly, contributing to shortening the war. In 1995, Stojan Cerović, a famous opposition journalist, called for the erection of a monument to An Unknown Deserter – the only true heroes of the Yugoslav wars who deserve a monument. Yet, to this day, there is no single monument in the (post)Yugoslav space dedicated to deserters and draft resisters. This presentation focuses on the initial literature review as well as media representations, documented acts, and narratives on desertion in three (post)Yugoslav states – Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia–from 1990 to today. Further, the project includes additional media archival research in Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia and judicial archives providing a number of indictments and verdicts by military courts. After finalizing the research phase of depicting the situation in real and discursive terms during the wars of the 1990s, the project would then focus on deserters’ narratives. The temporality of the interviews would construct the research object as a memory narrative, providing insight into various perspectives of the act of desertion and its link to ethno-national and (anti)nationalist identities, as well as the socio-economic and cultural capital that induces the undertaking of such a resistance act. Memory narratives from deserters themselves, or their children and grandchildren, would further uncover the family transmission of the memory and emotions of pride and/or shame embedded in the creation of family stories.
- Dr. Milica Popović (Sciences Po CERI) is a political scientist, specializing in Memory Studies, Political Sociology and Higher Education Studies. She obtained a PhD in Comparative Political Sociology at Sciences Po Paris and in Balkan studies at the University of Ljubljana. She has been Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Lead at the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom at Central European University in Vienna from 2021 to 2023, and for her work at CEU she is a recipient of DAAD Fundamental Academic Values Award for Early Career Scientists. Popović also worked as a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.Currently, she is working as an independent researcher and consultant on various projects within and beyond higher education, including her contractual researcher position at the Institut Jacques Delors in Paris, where she researches issues regarding the Western Balkans and accession to the European Union. She has been Fernandes Visiting Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick (November 2021), and has been awarded a Visegrad Scholarship Fund at Open Society Archives in Budapest for January/February 2024. While finalizing her monograph on Yugonostalgia and the memory narratives of the generation of the last pioneers in the (post)Yugoslav space, she is currently developing a new research project on the memory narratives of deserters in Yugoslav wars of the 1990s
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- 2023
- 25. 10. 2023
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