Larisa Kurtović
Biographic Data
| ID | 105502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larisa Kurtović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurtović |
| SIGNATURE | KURTOVIĆ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8839-3352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Liberty Leading the People: Satire, the Consociational State and Metapolitical Critique in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
Labours of Representation: A Bosnian Workers' Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography
Collaborative graphic ethnography can generate new ways of identifying, materializing, and documenting political possibility in what otherwise seems like an overdetermined world, and in doing so, offers a model for practicing anthropology differently. We come to these insights through our work in the embattled Bosnian detergent factory "Dita," located on the outskirts of the post-industrial city of Tuzla, whose workers scored an unprecedented vic…
Post‐socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans
When the “People” Leave: On the Limits of Nationalist (Bio)Politics in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article examines the social and political effects produced by the most recent wave of emigration in postwar Bosnia, widely understood to be the result of continued political instability and economic decline that followed the 1992–95 war. Drawing on ethnographic research in a deindustrialized Bosnian town and analysis of popular discourses seeking to make sense of this new wave of departures, I show how the phenomenon of postwar exit impacts …
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory
Can futures be assembled out of ruins? This article engages this question through an ethnographic account of a workers' struggle in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina to restart production in a bankrupted factory almost destroyed by privatization. From 2011 through 2015, workers of Dita organized to challenge liquidation of the factory assets. Their struggle resulted in an unprecedented victory when production was restarted in 2015 and the factory r…
An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper chronicles the ongoing efforts of several groups of Bosnian activists, artists and academics, to create archives of the often forgotten, and nowadays variously threatened, heritage of political and social life during Yugoslav socialism. Postsocialist archives in other parts of Eastern Europe have typically been motivated by the need to ‘settle accounts’ with communism, understood in this context to be a totalitarian project. By contras…
Interpellating the state: Activists seek political authority in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
No longer the sole purview of comedians, satire is increasingly used by activists as a tool of political intervention. During a protest campaign in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, activists used the satirical frame of a fake confession as a form of an "inverse interpellation" to provoke a response from the disinterested and dysfunctional postwar state authorities. This unusual series of events involved an unpopular prime minister, incriminating g…
After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world
In this introduction to special issue 'After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World', we explore the theoretical implications for thinking about activism as a form of historically situated practice in the former socialist world. Building on insights from the papers included in this issue, which draw on ethnographic research in Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia and along the Balkan refugee route, our introduction consi…
"Conjuring "the people
In June 2013, a breakdown in the routine functioning of state bureaucracy sparked the largest and up to that point most significant wave of protests in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, named the Bosnian Babylution. The protest centered on the plight of newborn babies who, because of this particular administrative problem, could no longer be issued key documents, even to travel outside the country for life-saving medical care. These events exposed the …
Book Conversation with Mike McGovern
Cannibal states, empty bellies: Protest, history and political imagination in post-Dayton Bosnia
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
‘Who sows hunger, reaps rage’: On protest, indignation and redistributive justice in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper reflects upon the socio-economic legacies of Dayton Peace Accords, and the ways in which these legacies were brought into focus by the 2014 Bosnian Uprising. This wave of protests, which started in February of 2014 in the industrial city of Tuzla but quickly spread all over the country, was the (un)anticipated result of rising popular indignation over high unemployment, economic decline and general sense of futurelessness. Protesters a…
Tito on Ice: Max Andersson and Helena Ahonen, dirs. 76 min. New York: Nail Films, 2012
Cannibal states, empty bellies: Protest, history and political imagination in post-Dayton Bosnia
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world
In this introduction to special issue 'After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World', we explore the theoretical implications for thinking about activism as a form of historically situated practice in the former socialist world. Building on insights from the papers included in this issue, which draw on ethnographic research in Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia and along the Balkan refugee route, our introduction consi…
An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper chronicles the ongoing efforts of several groups of Bosnian activists, artists and academics, to create archives of the often forgotten, and nowadays variously threatened, heritage of political and social life during Yugoslav socialism. Postsocialist archives in other parts of Eastern Europe have typically been motivated by the need to ‘settle accounts’ with communism, understood in this context to be a totalitarian project. By contras…
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory
Can futures be assembled out of ruins? This article engages this question through an ethnographic account of a workers' struggle in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina to restart production in a bankrupted factory almost destroyed by privatization. From 2011 through 2015, workers of Dita organized to challenge liquidation of the factory assets. Their struggle resulted in an unprecedented victory when production was restarted in 2015 and the factory r…
Interpellating the state: Activists seek political authority in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
No longer the sole purview of comedians, satire is increasingly used by activists as a tool of political intervention. During a protest campaign in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, activists used the satirical frame of a fake confession as a form of an "inverse interpellation" to provoke a response from the disinterested and dysfunctional postwar state authorities. This unusual series of events involved an unpopular prime minister, incriminating g…
"Conjuring "the people
In June 2013, a breakdown in the routine functioning of state bureaucracy sparked the largest and up to that point most significant wave of protests in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, named the Bosnian Babylution. The protest centered on the plight of newborn babies who, because of this particular administrative problem, could no longer be issued key documents, even to travel outside the country for life-saving medical care. These events exposed the …
When the “People” Leave: On the Limits of Nationalist (Bio)Politics in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article examines the social and political effects produced by the most recent wave of emigration in postwar Bosnia, widely understood to be the result of continued political instability and economic decline that followed the 1992–95 war. Drawing on ethnographic research in a deindustrialized Bosnian town and analysis of popular discourses seeking to make sense of this new wave of departures, I show how the phenomenon of postwar exit impacts …
‘Who sows hunger, reaps rage’: On protest, indignation and redistributive justice in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper reflects upon the socio-economic legacies of Dayton Peace Accords, and the ways in which these legacies were brought into focus by the 2014 Bosnian Uprising. This wave of protests, which started in February of 2014 in the industrial city of Tuzla but quickly spread all over the country, was the (un)anticipated result of rising popular indignation over high unemployment, economic decline and general sense of futurelessness. Protesters a…
Tito on Ice: Max Andersson and Helena Ahonen, dirs. 76 min. New York: Nail Films, 2012
Book Conversation with Mike McGovern
Cannibal states, empty bellies: Protest, history and political imagination in post-Dayton Bosnia
In February 2014, Bosnia-Herzegovina witnessed its largest and most dramatic wave of civic protests since the end of the 1992-1995 war and the signing of Dayton Peace Accords. Confrontations with the police and the destruction of dozens of government buildings subsequently gave way to the formation of plenums - town hall assemblies - where protesters collectively articulated their grievances against the country's corrupt and deeply unpopular poli…
"Conjuring "the people
In June 2013, a breakdown in the routine functioning of state bureaucracy sparked the largest and up to that point most significant wave of protests in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, named the Bosnian Babylution. The protest centered on the plight of newborn babies who, because of this particular administrative problem, could no longer be issued key documents, even to travel outside the country for life-saving medical care. These events exposed the …
An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina
This paper chronicles the ongoing efforts of several groups of Bosnian activists, artists and academics, to create archives of the often forgotten, and nowadays variously threatened, heritage of political and social life during Yugoslav socialism. Postsocialist archives in other parts of Eastern Europe have typically been motivated by the need to ‘settle accounts’ with communism, understood in this context to be a totalitarian project. By contras…
Interpellating the state: Activists seek political authority in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
No longer the sole purview of comedians, satire is increasingly used by activists as a tool of political intervention. During a protest campaign in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, activists used the satirical frame of a fake confession as a form of an "inverse interpellation" to provoke a response from the disinterested and dysfunctional postwar state authorities. This unusual series of events involved an unpopular prime minister, incriminating g…
After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world
In this introduction to special issue 'After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World', we explore the theoretical implications for thinking about activism as a form of historically situated practice in the former socialist world. Building on insights from the papers included in this issue, which draw on ethnographic research in Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia and along the Balkan refugee route, our introduction consi…
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory
Can futures be assembled out of ruins? This article engages this question through an ethnographic account of a workers' struggle in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina to restart production in a bankrupted factory almost destroyed by privatization. From 2011 through 2015, workers of Dita organized to challenge liquidation of the factory assets. Their struggle resulted in an unprecedented victory when production was restarted in 2015 and the factory r…
Post‐socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans
When the “People” Leave: On the Limits of Nationalist (Bio)Politics in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article examines the social and political effects produced by the most recent wave of emigration in postwar Bosnia, widely understood to be the result of continued political instability and economic decline that followed the 1992–95 war. Drawing on ethnographic research in a deindustrialized Bosnian town and analysis of popular discourses seeking to make sense of this new wave of departures, I show how the phenomenon of postwar exit impacts …
Labours of Representation: A Bosnian Workers' Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography
Collaborative graphic ethnography can generate new ways of identifying, materializing, and documenting political possibility in what otherwise seems like an overdetermined world, and in doing so, offers a model for practicing anthropology differently. We come to these insights through our work in the embattled Bosnian detergent factory "Dita," located on the outskirts of the post-industrial city of Tuzla, whose workers scored an unprecedented vic…
Liberty Leading the People: Satire, the Consociational State and Metapolitical Critique in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina
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