Gordana Jovanović
Biographic Data
| ID | 213701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordana Jovanović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordana |
| FAMILY NAME | Jovanović |
| SIGNATURE | JOVANOVIĆ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4271-4808 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Co-Pollutant and Meteorological Predictors of Urban Benzene Variability Across Environmental Settings: An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Analysis
Benzene is a carcinogenic urban volatile organic compound whose variability reflects interactions among emissions, atmospheric chemistry, and meteorology. We quantified relationships between hourly benzene concentrations and O3, CO, SO2, NO2, and more than twenty meteorological predictors using regulatory air-quality observations from the Ksaverska cesta urban background station in Zagreb, Croatia, complemented by NOAA GDAS meteorological data (2…
(Childhood) Memories at the Intersection of Coloniality and Decoloniality
Urban Benzene Pollution During the Covid-19 State of Emergency: Insights from an Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Approach to Multi-Scale Urban Environmental Data
Benzene is a major carcinogenic urban pollutant whose variability reflects interactions between emission sources, human activity, and atmospheric conditions. Although COVID-19 restrictions generally reduced traffic-related emissions, the combined effects of mobility changes, residential activity, and policy interventions on urban benzene dynamics remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated benzene variability in Belgrade, Serbia, du…
Decolonizing psychology in a colonized world
Subverted Crisis and Critique
The aim of this paper is to reflect on historical vicissitudes of relationship between crisis and critique. Starting point is an observational diagnosis of present socio-political conditions, which have transformed crisis from a turning point into a continuation and radicalization of the existing order. In an attempt to understand the ongoing subversion of transformative potentials of crisis, a similar process of pacification and subversion of cr…
How Psychology Repressed Its Founding Father Wilhelm Wundt
Motivated historiography: Comments on Wolfgang Schönpflug’s reappraisal of German critical psychology
Introducing the concept of motivated historiography, we seek to answer the question of what constitutes a good history of psychology and of German Critical Psychology (CP) in particular. It is suggested that one needs to include questions about the purpose of historiography, the background and horizon of the historiographer, the quality and originality of the thesis, the quality of the material, selected and omitted, and the quality of interpreta…
How lost and accomplished revolutions shaped psychology: Early Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), Wilhelm Reich, and Vygotsky
On the occasion of recent centenaries of revolutions in Europe (1917, 1918–19), this article examines, within a general theme of different forms of relationships between revolution and psychology, two types of theories. First, this paper analyses Western theories that, while developing under conditions of a missed or lost revolution in Germany, argued for radical social change by referring to Marxism and psychoanalysis as necessary theoretical to…
Can We Abandon Mediation? A Commentary on the Article “Theorizing with/out ‘Mediators’”
In view of the status of mediation as a long standing and widely used developmental principle, it is clear that theoretical challenging of mediation would have far reaching consequences. Therefore, it is assumed that the best strategy to respond to challenge would be to examine the solidity of foundations of both the principle of mediation and the suggested alternative non-mediational position. This strategy has determined the structure of the pa…
A revival of Wundt’s heritage: Searching for the philosophical foundations of psychology from an historical perspective
The Hilandar manuscript of the eight parts of speech - translation from Serbian Slavonic and commentaries
The first known Slavonic grammatical treatise The Eight Parts of Speech survives in forty-three manuscripts, the two oldest of which (from the14th and 15th century respectively) belong to the Serbian, while all the others belong to the Russian redaction. Our study seeks to show that the text relies mostly (but not only) on The Art of Grammar by Dionysius Thrax and on his disciples. An analysis of the Slavonic grammatical terms and their Greek bas…
Vicissitudes of history in Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory
The aim of this article is to explore the ways and forms in which history is present, represented and used in Vygotsky’s theorizing. Given the fact that Vygotsky’s theory is usually described as a cultural-historical theory, the issue of history is necessarily implicated in the theory itself. However, there is still a gap between history as implicated in the theory and an explicit theorizing of history – both in Vygotsky’s writings and in Vygotsk…
Vygotsky in his, our and future times
Toward a social history of qualitative research
There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences. Relying upon the tenets of the qualitative approach which require a priority of subject matter over method and a necessary socio-historical contextualization, I reconstruct some aspects of a social history that have shaped the quantitative—qualitative dichotomy and the quanti…
The Conditions of Possibility of Critical Psychology
I argue for an approach to critical psychology that is strongly foundationalist and radically anti-fundamentalist. By laying foundations for psychology in the historical and social conditions of its subject matter, the paper works against the psychological fundamentalism that has become a remarkable feature of postmodern societies. The general framework for my approach is that of modernity understood as a project of self-foundation. Within the mo…
Dentalium beads - shells of fosillised sea molluscs at the Vinca-Belo brdo site
During excavation of the Vinca-Belo Brdo site a significant number of decorated items made from clay, stone, bone, and seashells or snail shells have been collected over the years. Amongst the decorated objects which could be classified as jewellery the majority are bracelets, pendants, and beads made from Spondylus and Glycymeris shells, as well as beads made from Dentalium shells. The appearance of these beads and the question of their origin h…
Historizing Epistemology in Psychology
The Columbia history of Western philosophy
Reading and Living Images of Masculinity: Comments on Parker's 'Wild Men
Hermeneutic impulses which continue the interpretative flows around the foci indicated in Parker's 'Masculinity and Cultural Change: Wild Men' (1995) do not just flow by themselves, but open new lines for discovery. As the 'Wild Man' is understood in Parker's text as sthe eruption into the body politic of a new version of psychoanalytic subjectivity', new meanings of Reichian and Habermasian forms of psychoanalytic knowledge are explored (stressi…
Toward a social history of qualitative research
There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences. Relying upon the tenets of the qualitative approach which require a priority of subject matter over method and a necessary socio-historical contextualization, I reconstruct some aspects of a social history that have shaped the quantitative—qualitative dichotomy and the quanti…
Historizing Epistemology in Psychology
Dentalium beads - shells of fosillised sea molluscs at the Vinca-Belo brdo site
During excavation of the Vinca-Belo Brdo site a significant number of decorated items made from clay, stone, bone, and seashells or snail shells have been collected over the years. Amongst the decorated objects which could be classified as jewellery the majority are bracelets, pendants, and beads made from Spondylus and Glycymeris shells, as well as beads made from Dentalium shells. The appearance of these beads and the question of their origin h…
Vicissitudes of history in Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory
The aim of this article is to explore the ways and forms in which history is present, represented and used in Vygotsky’s theorizing. Given the fact that Vygotsky’s theory is usually described as a cultural-historical theory, the issue of history is necessarily implicated in the theory itself. However, there is still a gap between history as implicated in the theory and an explicit theorizing of history – both in Vygotsky’s writings and in Vygotsk…
Reading and Living Images of Masculinity: Comments on Parker's 'Wild Men
Hermeneutic impulses which continue the interpretative flows around the foci indicated in Parker's 'Masculinity and Cultural Change: Wild Men' (1995) do not just flow by themselves, but open new lines for discovery. As the 'Wild Man' is understood in Parker's text as sthe eruption into the body politic of a new version of psychoanalytic subjectivity', new meanings of Reichian and Habermasian forms of psychoanalytic knowledge are explored (stressi…
Reading and Living Images of Masculinity: Comments on Parker's 'Wild Men
Hermeneutic impulses which continue the interpretative flows around the foci indicated in Parker's 'Masculinity and Cultural Change: Wild Men' (1995) do not just flow by themselves, but open new lines for discovery. As the 'Wild Man' is understood in Parker's text as sthe eruption into the body politic of a new version of psychoanalytic subjectivity', new meanings of Reichian and Habermasian forms of psychoanalytic knowledge are explored (stressi…
The Columbia history of Western philosophy
The Conditions of Possibility of Critical Psychology
I argue for an approach to critical psychology that is strongly foundationalist and radically anti-fundamentalist. By laying foundations for psychology in the historical and social conditions of its subject matter, the paper works against the psychological fundamentalism that has become a remarkable feature of postmodern societies. The general framework for my approach is that of modernity understood as a project of self-foundation. Within the mo…
Dentalium beads - shells of fosillised sea molluscs at the Vinca-Belo brdo site
During excavation of the Vinca-Belo Brdo site a significant number of decorated items made from clay, stone, bone, and seashells or snail shells have been collected over the years. Amongst the decorated objects which could be classified as jewellery the majority are bracelets, pendants, and beads made from Spondylus and Glycymeris shells, as well as beads made from Dentalium shells. The appearance of these beads and the question of their origin h…
Historizing Epistemology in Psychology
Toward a social history of qualitative research
There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences. Relying upon the tenets of the qualitative approach which require a priority of subject matter over method and a necessary socio-historical contextualization, I reconstruct some aspects of a social history that have shaped the quantitative—qualitative dichotomy and the quanti…
Vicissitudes of history in Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory
The aim of this article is to explore the ways and forms in which history is present, represented and used in Vygotsky’s theorizing. Given the fact that Vygotsky’s theory is usually described as a cultural-historical theory, the issue of history is necessarily implicated in the theory itself. However, there is still a gap between history as implicated in the theory and an explicit theorizing of history – both in Vygotsky’s writings and in Vygotsk…
Vygotsky in his, our and future times
The Hilandar manuscript of the eight parts of speech - translation from Serbian Slavonic and commentaries
The first known Slavonic grammatical treatise The Eight Parts of Speech survives in forty-three manuscripts, the two oldest of which (from the14th and 15th century respectively) belong to the Serbian, while all the others belong to the Russian redaction. Our study seeks to show that the text relies mostly (but not only) on The Art of Grammar by Dionysius Thrax and on his disciples. An analysis of the Slavonic grammatical terms and their Greek bas…
A revival of Wundt’s heritage: Searching for the philosophical foundations of psychology from an historical perspective
Can We Abandon Mediation? A Commentary on the Article “Theorizing with/out ‘Mediators’”
In view of the status of mediation as a long standing and widely used developmental principle, it is clear that theoretical challenging of mediation would have far reaching consequences. Therefore, it is assumed that the best strategy to respond to challenge would be to examine the solidity of foundations of both the principle of mediation and the suggested alternative non-mediational position. This strategy has determined the structure of the pa…
How lost and accomplished revolutions shaped psychology: Early Critical Theory (Frankfurt School), Wilhelm Reich, and Vygotsky
On the occasion of recent centenaries of revolutions in Europe (1917, 1918–19), this article examines, within a general theme of different forms of relationships between revolution and psychology, two types of theories. First, this paper analyses Western theories that, while developing under conditions of a missed or lost revolution in Germany, argued for radical social change by referring to Marxism and psychoanalysis as necessary theoretical to…
Subverted Crisis and Critique
The aim of this paper is to reflect on historical vicissitudes of relationship between crisis and critique. Starting point is an observational diagnosis of present socio-political conditions, which have transformed crisis from a turning point into a continuation and radicalization of the existing order. In an attempt to understand the ongoing subversion of transformative potentials of crisis, a similar process of pacification and subversion of cr…
How Psychology Repressed Its Founding Father Wilhelm Wundt
Motivated historiography: Comments on Wolfgang Schönpflug’s reappraisal of German critical psychology
Introducing the concept of motivated historiography, we seek to answer the question of what constitutes a good history of psychology and of German Critical Psychology (CP) in particular. It is suggested that one needs to include questions about the purpose of historiography, the background and horizon of the historiographer, the quality and originality of the thesis, the quality of the material, selected and omitted, and the quality of interpreta…
Decolonizing psychology in a colonized world
Co-Pollutant and Meteorological Predictors of Urban Benzene Variability Across Environmental Settings: An Explainable Artificial Intelligence Analysis
Benzene is a carcinogenic urban volatile organic compound whose variability reflects interactions among emissions, atmospheric chemistry, and meteorology. We quantified relationships between hourly benzene concentrations and O3, CO, SO2, NO2, and more than twenty meteorological predictors using regulatory air-quality observations from the Ksaverska cesta urban background station in Zagreb, Croatia, complemented by NOAA GDAS meteorological data (2…
(Childhood) Memories at the Intersection of Coloniality and Decoloniality
Urban Benzene Pollution During the Covid-19 State of Emergency: Insights from an Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Approach to Multi-Scale Urban Environmental Data
Benzene is a major carcinogenic urban pollutant whose variability reflects interactions between emission sources, human activity, and atmospheric conditions. Although COVID-19 restrictions generally reduced traffic-related emissions, the combined effects of mobility changes, residential activity, and policy interventions on urban benzene dynamics remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated benzene variability in Belgrade, Serbia, du…
Philosophy (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Representations and Identity (8 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works)