Ivan Rajković
Biographic Data
| ID | 100402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Rajković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajković |
| SIGNATURE | RAJKOVIĆ I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2667-6637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ghosts, Rewilded
Over the last decade, an unprecedented wave of environmental mobilizations has swept across the Balkans. The energy transition, depopulation, and popular environmentalism have entwined environment and reproduction which, in turn, has triggered a major historical reckoning. In this introduction to a thematic cluster, we explore environmental reverberations as ways in which ecological distribution conflicts not only antagonize different social grou…
Whose death, whose eco-revival
When environmental activists in Serbia encountered decarbonization in form of predatory hydropower, they launched a massive campaign against an actual degrowth that plagued their depopulating lands. This bridging of environmental and reproductive concerns helped to create a broad ecopopulist alliance that saved the local rivers, and yet it sneaked in another quasi-universalist subject—urban, middle-aged, and male—who assumed a central role in the…
Goran Musić
Could the self-managed bodies have stopped the expressions of nationalism that tore Yugoslavia apart?Why did the workers seem so eager to support market reforms, and abolish the very institutions that gave them so much power?In this long-awaited monograph, Goran Musić seeks to answer such questions by underlining the agency of the working class-not simply as a heroic actor, as the communist party depicted it for so long, nor as just a pawn in the…
Dark finance
Mutating states
On the Side of Predictable
In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people's reasonin…
Yugoslav Peasants Land Apollo 8
For an anthropology of the demoralized
Recently, the leitmotif of much anthropological writing became that of the virtue of precarity: the belief that people continue to exercise their ethical imagination in the most trying circumstances. While refreshingly non-deterministic, the Foucauldian approach to freedom that guides this vision neglects those situations in which people see their ability to be moral as irreparable, and structurally compromised. Such is the case of a Serbian firm…
Concern for the state
Ethnographies of the post-Yugoslav region often focus on the production of the ‘state effect’ through narratives of statelessness, namely on the normative imagination evident in the yearnings for ‘normal life’. Drawing from fieldwork research in various after-sites of ‘Zastava’ industrial complex in Kragujevac - from car enthusiasts to the newly unemployed - I explore how such entrenched discursive tropes transform in a context of chronic superfl…
For an anthropology of the demoralized
Recently, the leitmotif of much anthropological writing became that of the virtue of precarity: the belief that people continue to exercise their ethical imagination in the most trying circumstances. While refreshingly non-deterministic, the Foucauldian approach to freedom that guides this vision neglects those situations in which people see their ability to be moral as irreparable, and structurally compromised. Such is the case of a Serbian firm…
On the Side of Predictable
In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people's reasonin…
Concern for the state
Ethnographies of the post-Yugoslav region often focus on the production of the ‘state effect’ through narratives of statelessness, namely on the normative imagination evident in the yearnings for ‘normal life’. Drawing from fieldwork research in various after-sites of ‘Zastava’ industrial complex in Kragujevac - from car enthusiasts to the newly unemployed - I explore how such entrenched discursive tropes transform in a context of chronic superfl…
For an anthropology of the demoralized
Recently, the leitmotif of much anthropological writing became that of the virtue of precarity: the belief that people continue to exercise their ethical imagination in the most trying circumstances. While refreshingly non-deterministic, the Foucauldian approach to freedom that guides this vision neglects those situations in which people see their ability to be moral as irreparable, and structurally compromised. Such is the case of a Serbian firm…
Yugoslav Peasants Land Apollo 8
Mutating states
On the Side of Predictable
In order to be able to contextualize and understand social worlds, anthropologists pay close attention. We observe how individuals and communities relate to each other and to their ideas. We study the intimate and subjective, as well as the large-scale cosmologies by which people make themselves and the world. Our participatory methods and reflective analysis document the complex, intricate, patterned, and also random aspects of people's reasonin…
Dark finance
Goran Musić
Could the self-managed bodies have stopped the expressions of nationalism that tore Yugoslavia apart?Why did the workers seem so eager to support market reforms, and abolish the very institutions that gave them so much power?In this long-awaited monograph, Goran Musić seeks to answer such questions by underlining the agency of the working class-not simply as a heroic actor, as the communist party depicted it for so long, nor as just a pawn in the…
Whose death, whose eco-revival
When environmental activists in Serbia encountered decarbonization in form of predatory hydropower, they launched a massive campaign against an actual degrowth that plagued their depopulating lands. This bridging of environmental and reproductive concerns helped to create a broad ecopopulist alliance that saved the local rivers, and yet it sneaked in another quasi-universalist subject—urban, middle-aged, and male—who assumed a central role in the…
Ghosts, Rewilded
Over the last decade, an unprecedented wave of environmental mobilizations has swept across the Balkans. The energy transition, depopulation, and popular environmentalism have entwined environment and reproduction which, in turn, has triggered a major historical reckoning. In this introduction to a thematic cluster, we explore environmental reverberations as ways in which ecological distribution conflicts not only antagonize different social grou…
Political science (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)