Tanja Petrović
Biographic Data
| ID | 225184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanja Petrović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanja |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrović |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVIĆ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8105-8797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women in the Socialist Fish-Canning Industry
This article discusses the implications of including women in the labor force of the fish-canning factories on the Adriatic coast in socialist Yugoslavia. The discussion is based on ethnographic interviews with former workers from the Plavica (Cres), Kvarner (Lošinj), and Sirena (Lastovo) canneries. The authors offer insights into the socially relevant discursive registers in which this gendered labor is situated. As they reminisced, the intervie…
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Gender-sensitive language use in Serbia
Charting dominant views on gender-sensitive language in the Serbian public sphere, this article points to the ways sociopolitical transformations are grasped and dealt with in postsocialist Serbia. It looks at a case where the legislative action by the state, namely the adoption of the Gender Equality Bill in 2021, disrupted the usual pattern of mutual support between national linguistic experts and the nationalist politics of the state. The deba…
Naša Krmača and the Politics of Humor in 1990s and Early 2000s Serbia
Political Parody and the Politics of Ambivalence
This article offers insight into the meanings of the unprecedented political potential of humor in the early twenty-first century by discussing three parodic forms of contemporary political humor: carnivalesque politics, parodic reworkings of political discourses, and political protests and satirical activism. Revealing how political parody both produces ambiguity and hinges on it, the article proposes a shift in attention from its effects and ca…
Towards an affective history of Yugoslavia
The article discusses the necessity for the diversification of (hi)stories of Yugoslavia, arguing for the importance of incorporating the affects and experiences of Yugoslavia?s citizens into the historical narratives. Acknowledging the difficulties emerging form the fact that what is articulated as historical narrative is still part of the experience for millions of citizens of post-Yugoslav societies, the article reflects upon the potential for…
Divided Modernities. Citizenship, Agency and Public Spaces in a Central Serbian Town
e article addresses the ways in which public spaces have been recon gured since the end of socialism in Jagodina, a medium-sized industrial town in central Serbia.Unlike the majority of provincial towns, Jagodina experienced extensive building over the last decade.It is viewed as a success-story, and as a rare Serbian provincial town which has managed to develop economically in spite of the challenging economic and political circumstances in the …
Serbia in the Mirror
This article analyzes the Serbian fake news site Njuz.net, exploring the dynamics of its production, consumption, and appropriation in Serbian postsocialist, pre-EU-accession society. The increasing presence and importance of parodic media genres and the embrace of satire as a viable way to interpret and deal with social and political reality are explained in terms of both Serbia's historical trajectory and its media landscape as well as the glob…
Museums and Workers
The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as well as their voices and affects in the museum narrat…
The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices
Article The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices: Self-Organized Choirs in the Former Yugoslavia was published on March 1, 2011 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 59, issue 3
Political Parody and the Politics of Ambivalence
This article offers insight into the meanings of the unprecedented political potential of humor in the early twenty-first century by discussing three parodic forms of contemporary political humor: carnivalesque politics, parodic reworkings of political discourses, and political protests and satirical activism. Revealing how political parody both produces ambiguity and hinges on it, the article proposes a shift in attention from its effects and ca…
Serbia in the Mirror
This article analyzes the Serbian fake news site Njuz.net, exploring the dynamics of its production, consumption, and appropriation in Serbian postsocialist, pre-EU-accession society. The increasing presence and importance of parodic media genres and the embrace of satire as a viable way to interpret and deal with social and political reality are explained in terms of both Serbia's historical trajectory and its media landscape as well as the glob…
Towards an affective history of Yugoslavia
The article discusses the necessity for the diversification of (hi)stories of Yugoslavia, arguing for the importance of incorporating the affects and experiences of Yugoslavia?s citizens into the historical narratives. Acknowledging the difficulties emerging form the fact that what is articulated as historical narrative is still part of the experience for millions of citizens of post-Yugoslav societies, the article reflects upon the potential for…
Museums and Workers
The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as well as their voices and affects in the museum narrat…
The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices
Article The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices: Self-Organized Choirs in the Former Yugoslavia was published on March 1, 2011 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 59, issue 3
Women in the Socialist Fish-Canning Industry
This article discusses the implications of including women in the labor force of the fish-canning factories on the Adriatic coast in socialist Yugoslavia. The discussion is based on ethnographic interviews with former workers from the Plavica (Cres), Kvarner (Lošinj), and Sirena (Lastovo) canneries. The authors offer insights into the socially relevant discursive registers in which this gendered labor is situated. As they reminisced, the intervie…
Gender-sensitive language use in Serbia
Charting dominant views on gender-sensitive language in the Serbian public sphere, this article points to the ways sociopolitical transformations are grasped and dealt with in postsocialist Serbia. It looks at a case where the legislative action by the state, namely the adoption of the Gender Equality Bill in 2021, disrupted the usual pattern of mutual support between national linguistic experts and the nationalist politics of the state. The deba…
Divided Modernities. Citizenship, Agency and Public Spaces in a Central Serbian Town
e article addresses the ways in which public spaces have been recon gured since the end of socialism in Jagodina, a medium-sized industrial town in central Serbia.Unlike the majority of provincial towns, Jagodina experienced extensive building over the last decade.It is viewed as a success-story, and as a rare Serbian provincial town which has managed to develop economically in spite of the challenging economic and political circumstances in the …
The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices
Article The Political Dimension of Post-Socialist Memory Practices: Self-Organized Choirs in the Former Yugoslavia was published on March 1, 2011 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 59, issue 3
Museums and Workers
The article discusses tensions, ambiguities, and political implications of the fact that what is nowadays negotiated as industrial heritage is still part of the lived experience of several generations of men and women in the former Yugoslavia. It argues that the issues of representation of industrial labor essentially have to do with the place given to the working communities, their members as well as their voices and affects in the museum narrat…
Serbia in the Mirror
This article analyzes the Serbian fake news site Njuz.net, exploring the dynamics of its production, consumption, and appropriation in Serbian postsocialist, pre-EU-accession society. The increasing presence and importance of parodic media genres and the embrace of satire as a viable way to interpret and deal with social and political reality are explained in terms of both Serbia's historical trajectory and its media landscape as well as the glob…
Towards an affective history of Yugoslavia
The article discusses the necessity for the diversification of (hi)stories of Yugoslavia, arguing for the importance of incorporating the affects and experiences of Yugoslavia?s citizens into the historical narratives. Acknowledging the difficulties emerging form the fact that what is articulated as historical narrative is still part of the experience for millions of citizens of post-Yugoslav societies, the article reflects upon the potential for…
Divided Modernities. Citizenship, Agency and Public Spaces in a Central Serbian Town
e article addresses the ways in which public spaces have been recon gured since the end of socialism in Jagodina, a medium-sized industrial town in central Serbia.Unlike the majority of provincial towns, Jagodina experienced extensive building over the last decade.It is viewed as a success-story, and as a rare Serbian provincial town which has managed to develop economically in spite of the challenging economic and political circumstances in the …
Political Parody and the Politics of Ambivalence
This article offers insight into the meanings of the unprecedented political potential of humor in the early twenty-first century by discussing three parodic forms of contemporary political humor: carnivalesque politics, parodic reworkings of political discourses, and political protests and satirical activism. Revealing how political parody both produces ambiguity and hinges on it, the article proposes a shift in attention from its effects and ca…
Naša Krmača and the Politics of Humor in 1990s and Early 2000s Serbia
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Gender-sensitive language use in Serbia
Charting dominant views on gender-sensitive language in the Serbian public sphere, this article points to the ways sociopolitical transformations are grasped and dealt with in postsocialist Serbia. It looks at a case where the legislative action by the state, namely the adoption of the Gender Equality Bill in 2021, disrupted the usual pattern of mutual support between national linguistic experts and the nationalist politics of the state. The deba…
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Women in the Socialist Fish-Canning Industry
This article discusses the implications of including women in the labor force of the fish-canning factories on the Adriatic coast in socialist Yugoslavia. The discussion is based on ethnographic interviews with former workers from the Plavica (Cres), Kvarner (Lošinj), and Sirena (Lastovo) canneries. The authors offer insights into the socially relevant discursive registers in which this gendered labor is situated. As they reminisced, the intervie…
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