Adriana Zaharijević
Biographic Data
| ID | 354210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriana Zaharijević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriana |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaharijević |
| SIGNATURE | ZAHARIJEVIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4884-7158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space
If disposing of this product, please recycle the paper.This book was conceived at the first meeting of the GenPolSEE informal network in November 2022, gathering scholars from the Western Balkans region who deal with gender and politics.One solid strand of the GenPolSEE network continued to steadily evolve in the years that followed.Our edited volume is the key testimony to this.It is, however, also a testimony to joyful exchange, enthusiasm, act…
Postsocialist Feminism. The Conceptual Tools of Our Own
The guiding question of the article refers to the epistemological and affective tools available to the feminists born and living in any part of what used to be Eastern Europe during the Cold War. To describe these tools, four main debates within Eastern European feminism are revisited: the East/West debate, the debate on postsocialism and postcolonialism, the debate on history, and the gender/class debate. The assumptions and the stakes of these …
Philosophy of menstruation
The question this text raises is how do we think about the bodies that bleed, "we" being in particular those whose bodies bleed regularly? The question is philosophical in kind, as it tests our capacities to think about such bodies. Philosophy as a corpus has had little to say about menstruating bodies, which curiously also applies to feminist philosophy. Since these bodies do exist and we need to think of them in some way - not only for the sake…
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault
The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific period of his work, situated between the disciplinary phase and the beginning of the 1980s when Foucault began to develop the idea of the aesthetic of existence. We argue that in this period Foucault developed the notion of resistance as agenti…
Family as a Safe Haven? Families in Social Practice and Narratives in Times of Crises. Introduction
What connects the homeless woman and her children fighting for a right to social housing with a mother in a non-monogamous relationship and a couple living in the post-socialist village at the EU border?At first glance, their stories barely rub against each other.As social researchers, we also tend to categorise them as if they have little in common, and we accordingly approach them from perspectives as diverse as the sociology of housing, the an…
Gordana Subotić
Reviewed Publication: \nGordana Subotić 2022. Gender, Nation, and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo. A Political Ethnography. London / New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology). 192 pp., ISBN 9781032045139 (hardcover), ISBN 9781032045146 (paperback), ISBN 9781003193562 (eBook), £104.00 / £31.19 / £31.19
Butler Traveling East
Theories travel, and their destinations matter. Instead of dwelling on what happens to them while they journey, the article seeks to understand how theories enter different circumstances, what facilitates or obstructs their mobility and what is the context in which they land. It proposes to consider how Judith Butler’s theories traveled to the East of Europe, more particularly to Serbia and the Balkans. The article proceeds diachronically, from t…
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe
This introduction to the thematic cluster “Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe” identifies and analyzes its core concept—the narrative of return. Families of today are talked about differently, and how they are narrativized matters. The narrative that stresses that family is under threat and in need of defense or a special form of care, figuring care as restitution of the natural, traditional, or proper family, …
Equal bodies
The aim of the article is to offer a reading of Judith Butler’s understanding of the precarious, the notion which gives rise to her particular understanding of precarity. The first part of the article discusses the transition from the theory of performativity to the theory of precarity and claims that the body provides the link between a performative act and a precarious life. The second part scrutinizes the idea of the precarious as it appears i…
Against the Individual. Who qualifies as “one”
The aim of this paper is to focus specifically on the description of the homo politicus as a sovereign individual who governs itself. Searching to understanding of neoliberalism as a governing rationality through which everything becomes economized
Philosophical fantasy
The main question of this article is why imagine other worlds. In addition to shedding light on the motivation, we also examine the imaginative processes, their resources and the associative arrangements available to imagination in the construction of new worlds. We see ‘other worlds’ as both utopian and as fantastic spaces, following the hypothesis that the space of fantasy is never entirely free. We place particular emphasis on the space and ti…
Becoming a Master of an Island Again
Reading Robinson Crusoe 300 years after its first publication can help us understand two major fantasies of our current moment: the desire to be in complete possession of oneself and thus invulnerable to the endless reconfigurations of the world one merely happens to be part of; and the desire to return to the times when society was ordained as an aggregate of self-contained, self-actualizing individuals. Both fantasies have been invested in the …
Social ontology
This short contribution is written on the occasion of the book discussion of Sophie Loidolt?s Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity (2018) at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. It presents an attempt to read the two key notions Loidolt elaborates in her book - spaces of meaning and spaces of the public and private - from a critical perspective offered by Judith Butler?s taking up of Arendt?s work. O…
Las trayectorias del concepto de vida en el pensamiento de Judith Butler
En este ensayo, nos proponemos explorar los diferentes significados de los conceptos de vivibilidad y vida en el pensamiento de Judith butler. si bien es crucial para su obra temprana —butler se refiere por primera vez a este concepto en su introducción del libro, El género en disputa de 1999—, el concepto en sí emerge con más claridad y elaboración en su obra tardía (Deshacer el género, Vida precaria y Apuntes hacia una teoría performativa de as…
We refugees
The paper is divided in two related parts. The first one offers a textual chain based on the short text “We Refugees” written by Hannah Arendt in 1943. What does this ‘we refugees’ mean, who are those ‘we’, and could we not once become refugees? The figure of a refugee is read through several instances of the phrase introduced by Arendt, with the special emphasis on the ideas of human rights, citizenship, fear, territory and belonging. The figure…
Pawning and challenging in concert
An introduction of sorts, this text opens the thematic collection of articles on engagement. It takes up the idea that a particular group of people engage the idea of engagement in order to establish a field of study. In so doing, the text proposes to tackle the specific creation of the field and of the ?we? that engages with its creation. The first portion of the text deals with the multiple meanings of engagement; the second with the idea of th…
Footnote in a global history
The paper attempts to offer an alternative reading of the history of Yugoslav feminism. It focuses on birth and development of feminism during socialism, and its aftermath in times of war and disintegration of the common state. What were the trajectories of feminism that emerged in a socialist state? What were its chosen paths when both socialism and the state ceased to exist? The conceptual framework the paper uses draws upon the notion of citiz…
What does the reform do? How dungeon became prison
The paper examines the meanings of the notion of reform. Is reform an act or a process; what is an object of reform and how is it performed; is the scope of its performance limited or does it permeate deeper social structures? The approach to reform in this paper is genealogical, through the analysis of the processes of institutionalisation of the prison in Great Britain in 18th and 19th centuries. Although the elaboration of these processes revo…
Transformations of gender, sexuality and citizenship in South East Europe
Dissidents, disloyal citizens and partisans of emancipation
From the rights of man to the human rights
The insistence on the fact that human rights and the rights of man (codified in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, respectively) are not one and the same, which could be deduced from the notion of man common to both terms, is the key thesis of this text. By developing this motive, I try to determine the following: that the notion of man, by definition inclusive and abstractly non-dis…
Dissidents, disloyal citizens and partisans of emancipation
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe
This introduction to the thematic cluster “Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe” identifies and analyzes its core concept—the narrative of return. Families of today are talked about differently, and how they are narrativized matters. The narrative that stresses that family is under threat and in need of defense or a special form of care, figuring care as restitution of the natural, traditional, or proper family, …
Equal bodies
The aim of the article is to offer a reading of Judith Butler’s understanding of the precarious, the notion which gives rise to her particular understanding of precarity. The first part of the article discusses the transition from the theory of performativity to the theory of precarity and claims that the body provides the link between a performative act and a precarious life. The second part scrutinizes the idea of the precarious as it appears i…
Transformations of gender, sexuality and citizenship in South East Europe
Becoming a Master of an Island Again
Reading Robinson Crusoe 300 years after its first publication can help us understand two major fantasies of our current moment: the desire to be in complete possession of oneself and thus invulnerable to the endless reconfigurations of the world one merely happens to be part of; and the desire to return to the times when society was ordained as an aggregate of self-contained, self-actualizing individuals. Both fantasies have been invested in the …
Social ontology
This short contribution is written on the occasion of the book discussion of Sophie Loidolt?s Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity (2018) at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. It presents an attempt to read the two key notions Loidolt elaborates in her book - spaces of meaning and spaces of the public and private - from a critical perspective offered by Judith Butler?s taking up of Arendt?s work. O…
Pawning and challenging in concert
An introduction of sorts, this text opens the thematic collection of articles on engagement. It takes up the idea that a particular group of people engage the idea of engagement in order to establish a field of study. In so doing, the text proposes to tackle the specific creation of the field and of the ?we? that engages with its creation. The first portion of the text deals with the multiple meanings of engagement; the second with the idea of th…
From the rights of man to the human rights
The insistence on the fact that human rights and the rights of man (codified in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, respectively) are not one and the same, which could be deduced from the notion of man common to both terms, is the key thesis of this text. By developing this motive, I try to determine the following: that the notion of man, by definition inclusive and abstractly non-dis…
What does the reform do? How dungeon became prison
The paper examines the meanings of the notion of reform. Is reform an act or a process; what is an object of reform and how is it performed; is the scope of its performance limited or does it permeate deeper social structures? The approach to reform in this paper is genealogical, through the analysis of the processes of institutionalisation of the prison in Great Britain in 18th and 19th centuries. Although the elaboration of these processes revo…
Transformations of gender, sexuality and citizenship in South East Europe
Dissidents, disloyal citizens and partisans of emancipation
Footnote in a global history
The paper attempts to offer an alternative reading of the history of Yugoslav feminism. It focuses on birth and development of feminism during socialism, and its aftermath in times of war and disintegration of the common state. What were the trajectories of feminism that emerged in a socialist state? What were its chosen paths when both socialism and the state ceased to exist? The conceptual framework the paper uses draws upon the notion of citiz…
Pawning and challenging in concert
An introduction of sorts, this text opens the thematic collection of articles on engagement. It takes up the idea that a particular group of people engage the idea of engagement in order to establish a field of study. In so doing, the text proposes to tackle the specific creation of the field and of the ?we? that engages with its creation. The first portion of the text deals with the multiple meanings of engagement; the second with the idea of th…
Las trayectorias del concepto de vida en el pensamiento de Judith Butler
En este ensayo, nos proponemos explorar los diferentes significados de los conceptos de vivibilidad y vida en el pensamiento de Judith butler. si bien es crucial para su obra temprana —butler se refiere por primera vez a este concepto en su introducción del libro, El género en disputa de 1999—, el concepto en sí emerge con más claridad y elaboración en su obra tardía (Deshacer el género, Vida precaria y Apuntes hacia una teoría performativa de as…
We refugees
The paper is divided in two related parts. The first one offers a textual chain based on the short text “We Refugees” written by Hannah Arendt in 1943. What does this ‘we refugees’ mean, who are those ‘we’, and could we not once become refugees? The figure of a refugee is read through several instances of the phrase introduced by Arendt, with the special emphasis on the ideas of human rights, citizenship, fear, territory and belonging. The figure…
Becoming a Master of an Island Again
Reading Robinson Crusoe 300 years after its first publication can help us understand two major fantasies of our current moment: the desire to be in complete possession of oneself and thus invulnerable to the endless reconfigurations of the world one merely happens to be part of; and the desire to return to the times when society was ordained as an aggregate of self-contained, self-actualizing individuals. Both fantasies have been invested in the …
Social ontology
This short contribution is written on the occasion of the book discussion of Sophie Loidolt?s Phenomenology of Plurality: Hannah Arendt on Political Intersubjectivity (2018) at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. It presents an attempt to read the two key notions Loidolt elaborates in her book - spaces of meaning and spaces of the public and private - from a critical perspective offered by Judith Butler?s taking up of Arendt?s work. O…
Against the Individual. Who qualifies as “one”
The aim of this paper is to focus specifically on the description of the homo politicus as a sovereign individual who governs itself. Searching to understanding of neoliberalism as a governing rationality through which everything becomes economized
Philosophical fantasy
The main question of this article is why imagine other worlds. In addition to shedding light on the motivation, we also examine the imaginative processes, their resources and the associative arrangements available to imagination in the construction of new worlds. We see ‘other worlds’ as both utopian and as fantastic spaces, following the hypothesis that the space of fantasy is never entirely free. We place particular emphasis on the space and ti…
Equal bodies
The aim of the article is to offer a reading of Judith Butler’s understanding of the precarious, the notion which gives rise to her particular understanding of precarity. The first part of the article discusses the transition from the theory of performativity to the theory of precarity and claims that the body provides the link between a performative act and a precarious life. The second part scrutinizes the idea of the precarious as it appears i…
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe
This introduction to the thematic cluster “Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe” identifies and analyzes its core concept—the narrative of return. Families of today are talked about differently, and how they are narrativized matters. The narrative that stresses that family is under threat and in need of defense or a special form of care, figuring care as restitution of the natural, traditional, or proper family, …
The Cambridge World History of Sexualities
Volume IV examines the intersections of modernity and human sexuality through the forces, ideas, and events that have shaped the modern world. Through eighteen chapters, this volume examines connections between sexuality and the defining forces of modern global history including capitalism, colonialism, migration, consumerism, and war; sexuality in modern literature and print media; sexuality in dictatorships and democracies; and cultural changes…
Resistance as desubjectivation in Foucault
The article scrutinizes Foucault’s articulations of resistance, arguing against the entrenched understanding that resistance in Foucault is necessarily negative, or impossible. We concentrate on a specific period of his work, situated between the disciplinary phase and the beginning of the 1980s when Foucault began to develop the idea of the aesthetic of existence. We argue that in this period Foucault developed the notion of resistance as agenti…
Family as a Safe Haven? Families in Social Practice and Narratives in Times of Crises. Introduction
What connects the homeless woman and her children fighting for a right to social housing with a mother in a non-monogamous relationship and a couple living in the post-socialist village at the EU border?At first glance, their stories barely rub against each other.As social researchers, we also tend to categorise them as if they have little in common, and we accordingly approach them from perspectives as diverse as the sociology of housing, the an…
Gordana Subotić
Reviewed Publication: \nGordana Subotić 2022. Gender, Nation, and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo. A Political Ethnography. London / New York: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology). 192 pp., ISBN 9781032045139 (hardcover), ISBN 9781032045146 (paperback), ISBN 9781003193562 (eBook), £104.00 / £31.19 / £31.19
Butler Traveling East
Theories travel, and their destinations matter. Instead of dwelling on what happens to them while they journey, the article seeks to understand how theories enter different circumstances, what facilitates or obstructs their mobility and what is the context in which they land. It proposes to consider how Judith Butler’s theories traveled to the East of Europe, more particularly to Serbia and the Balkans. The article proceeds diachronically, from t…
Postsocialist Feminism. The Conceptual Tools of Our Own
The guiding question of the article refers to the epistemological and affective tools available to the feminists born and living in any part of what used to be Eastern Europe during the Cold War. To describe these tools, four main debates within Eastern European feminism are revisited: the East/West debate, the debate on postsocialism and postcolonialism, the debate on history, and the gender/class debate. The assumptions and the stakes of these …
Philosophy of menstruation
The question this text raises is how do we think about the bodies that bleed, "we" being in particular those whose bodies bleed regularly? The question is philosophical in kind, as it tests our capacities to think about such bodies. Philosophy as a corpus has had little to say about menstruating bodies, which curiously also applies to feminist philosophy. Since these bodies do exist and we need to think of them in some way - not only for the sake…
Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space
If disposing of this product, please recycle the paper.This book was conceived at the first meeting of the GenPolSEE informal network in November 2022, gathering scholars from the Western Balkans region who deal with gender and politics.One solid strand of the GenPolSEE network continued to steadily evolve in the years that followed.Our edited volume is the key testimony to this.It is, however, also a testimony to joyful exchange, enthusiasm, act…
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