Mina Petrović
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mina Petrović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mina |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrović |
| SIGNATURE | PETROVIĆ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4783-8188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The right to the city
Starting from the importance that neo-Marxist theory gives to the analysis of urban politics as a specific compromise between neoliberalism and neomanagerialism, which drastically violates social and other civil rights and radicalizes the question to whom the city belongs and who has the right to it, the paper first discusses Lefebvre?s concept of the right to the city in the academic field and from the perspective of urban social movements and d…
Potencijali i prepreke za transnacionalizaciju suvremenih ekoloških borbi u Srbiji
Considering the growing tendency of contemporary environmental movements from the Global North to internationalise their struggles, in this paper we try to explore the potentials and obstacles of recent environmental initiatives in Serbia - the protests against small hydropower plants and struggles against the exploitation of lithium - to scale-up from the lo- cal to national and transnational level. Focusing on the discursive framing of these in…
The experience of cities during the Covid 19 pandemic
The Covid 19 pandemic, taken as a social crisis, has pointed to the high vulnerability of the basic organizational principles of modern society and the inherent inequalities, particularly those related to the urban space. Therefore, the first part of the paper presents ideas and practices initiated by the Covid 19 pandemic regarding (re)conceptualization of urban mobility and (re)organization of urban spaces in searching for more sustainable and …
Obnova postsocialistične mestne identitete
Avtorice se v skladu s sodobno mestno politiko, katere cilj je oblikovati konkurenčno mestno identiteto, v članku ukvarjajo s postsocialistično identiteto Novega Pazarja, srednje velikega mesta na jugozahodu Srbije. Proučujejo oblikovanje mestne identitete na podlagi dinamične interakcije med akterji in družbeno-prostorskimi strukturami, pri čemer uporabljajo pojem mestnega habitusa, ki temelji na Bourdieujevi teoriji o habitusu, in Lefebvrov kon…
Rebuilding post-communist city identity
In line with contemporary urban policy to build a competitive city identity, this article deals with the post-communist identity of Novi Pazar, a medium-sized city in southwestern Serbia. Research attention is centred on building urban identity through the dynamic interaction between actors and socio-spatial structures. Following Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, the concept of a city’s habitus is employed as well as Lefebvre’s concept of the social …
Environmental Activism in Serbia
The paper explores recent trends in environmental activism in Serbia. Until recently, the Western Balkan region was described as lacking genuine grassroots mobilisation, its civil society dominated by professional organisations. Professional organisations have been under fire as donor-driven, artificial and lacking the constituency and capacity for significant socio-environmental change. A recent upsurge of civic protests against air pollution, i…
Whether transnational middle-class migrants perceive Belgrade as an attractive and comfortable city
The research focus is on whether transnational middle-class migrants perceive Belgrade as a city suitable for their way of life. At the outset, the analytical framework links the social production of contemporary cities to processes of globalization and transnational migration, with a focus on post-socialist cities and Belgrade as the object of empirical research. The second part of the paper contains data analysis based on the 21 semi-structured…
The Brand Potential of „Soft“ Factors of the Territorial Capital
The aim of this paper was to explore the brand potential of certain "soft" factors of territorial capital in the medium-sized cities in Serbia. The concept of territorial capital refers to the total city development potential that combines objective, "hard" and subjective, "soft" factors of an area, in order to attract investment and generate local development. As city branding has become an imperative of local development strategies, this paper …
Neo-endogenous development and ecological paradox
Postindustrial develoment and postfordist model of capitalism led to the shift in city development model, from programs that were strategically developed on a national level (top-down perspective) to a new concept that insists on locally based or neo - endogenous city development. The main aim of this paper is to shed light on a different conceptual and contextual approaches to the notion of the neo - endogenous development in European context, a…
Reafirmacija susedstva kroz prostorne prakse regulisanja poželjne prostorne i društvene distanciranosti
prostornu organizaciju naselja obezbede 'zavoenje reda u zaokruenoj celini'
Territorial identity
Paper takes a territory as a social construct and relational concept, according to which a society is seen as being in a constant process of deterritorilaization and retrriatorialization. First part of the paper focuses on transformation of territorial identity of individuals, from identity of island towards identity based on selective association of various territorial levels, or from old to new localism. Second part of the paper connects dimens…
Preconditions for new environmental governance in Serbia
The preconditions for new environmental governance in Serbia, which should be developing with country's accession to EU, are the object of analysis. Relying on regime theory, the paper is focused on the role of state and civil society actors. The analysis is informed by two empirical researches. Firstly, the concept of new governance regime is described as well as different types of civic activism: participative and transactional. Secondly, the l…
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
Children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in three Belgrade neighbourhoods
The article examines children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in the neighbourhood in the context of Serbian society undergoing turbulent transformation. The evidence for the analysis comes from a small-scale survey with parents and 13–14-year-old schoolchildren and eight group interviews with the children in three Belgrade urban settings. The data show that the main difference between children's and parents' perspective is situat…
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
Researching social aspects of urban neighborhood
Firstly, the paper aims to present basic analytical concepts in researching social aspects of urban neighborhoods: community, social cohesion, social capital, as well as relationship between physical and social structures within the neighborhood. Secondly, the paper presents empirical research that explores if there is a process of differentiation in the perception of neighborhood among professionals living in the neighborhoods exposed to signifi…
Globalization and cities
This paper deals with the basic concepts on cities within contemporary globalisation. First, it briefly reviews the city perspective within the world system theory (concepts of over-urbanisation, under-urbanisation, and dependent urbanisation), new international division of labour, theory of the second circuit of capital and informational society. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the concepts of global and world cities and their impli…
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
Children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in three Belgrade neighbourhoods
The article examines children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in the neighbourhood in the context of Serbian society undergoing turbulent transformation. The evidence for the analysis comes from a small-scale survey with parents and 13–14-year-old schoolchildren and eight group interviews with the children in three Belgrade urban settings. The data show that the main difference between children's and parents' perspective is situat…
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
Globalization and cities
This paper deals with the basic concepts on cities within contemporary globalisation. First, it briefly reviews the city perspective within the world system theory (concepts of over-urbanisation, under-urbanisation, and dependent urbanisation), new international division of labour, theory of the second circuit of capital and informational society. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the concepts of global and world cities and their impli…
Researching social aspects of urban neighborhood
Firstly, the paper aims to present basic analytical concepts in researching social aspects of urban neighborhoods: community, social cohesion, social capital, as well as relationship between physical and social structures within the neighborhood. Secondly, the paper presents empirical research that explores if there is a process of differentiation in the perception of neighborhood among professionals living in the neighborhoods exposed to signifi…
Children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in three Belgrade neighbourhoods
The article examines children's and parents' perspectives on risks and safety in the neighbourhood in the context of Serbian society undergoing turbulent transformation. The evidence for the analysis comes from a small-scale survey with parents and 13–14-year-old schoolchildren and eight group interviews with the children in three Belgrade urban settings. The data show that the main difference between children's and parents' perspective is situat…
The Gates of Belgrade
Belgrade has experienced a construction boom for private, gated, high-security housing as the "winners" in the postcommunist transition literally wall themselves off from urban crime and poverty
The Belgrade Wall
In this article, we discuss the proliferation of gated housing in the Serbian capital of Belgrade since the end of state socialism in 1989. We argue that Belgrade offers insights into the phenomenon of gated housing that the rapidly burgeoning global literature on gated communities has thus far overlooked. Specifically, whereas the literature has focused on the gated community per se (i.e. on relatively large residential groupings to which outsid…
Preconditions for new environmental governance in Serbia
The preconditions for new environmental governance in Serbia, which should be developing with country's accession to EU, are the object of analysis. Relying on regime theory, the paper is focused on the role of state and civil society actors. The analysis is informed by two empirical researches. Firstly, the concept of new governance regime is described as well as different types of civic activism: participative and transactional. Secondly, the l…
Reafirmacija susedstva kroz prostorne prakse regulisanja poželjne prostorne i društvene distanciranosti
prostornu organizaciju naselja obezbede 'zavoenje reda u zaokruenoj celini'
Territorial identity
Paper takes a territory as a social construct and relational concept, according to which a society is seen as being in a constant process of deterritorilaization and retrriatorialization. First part of the paper focuses on transformation of territorial identity of individuals, from identity of island towards identity based on selective association of various territorial levels, or from old to new localism. Second part of the paper connects dimens…
Neo-endogenous development and ecological paradox
Postindustrial develoment and postfordist model of capitalism led to the shift in city development model, from programs that were strategically developed on a national level (top-down perspective) to a new concept that insists on locally based or neo - endogenous city development. The main aim of this paper is to shed light on a different conceptual and contextual approaches to the notion of the neo - endogenous development in European context, a…
The Brand Potential of „Soft“ Factors of the Territorial Capital
The aim of this paper was to explore the brand potential of certain "soft" factors of territorial capital in the medium-sized cities in Serbia. The concept of territorial capital refers to the total city development potential that combines objective, "hard" and subjective, "soft" factors of an area, in order to attract investment and generate local development. As city branding has become an imperative of local development strategies, this paper …
Whether transnational middle-class migrants perceive Belgrade as an attractive and comfortable city
The research focus is on whether transnational middle-class migrants perceive Belgrade as a city suitable for their way of life. At the outset, the analytical framework links the social production of contemporary cities to processes of globalization and transnational migration, with a focus on post-socialist cities and Belgrade as the object of empirical research. The second part of the paper contains data analysis based on the 21 semi-structured…
Environmental Activism in Serbia
The paper explores recent trends in environmental activism in Serbia. Until recently, the Western Balkan region was described as lacking genuine grassroots mobilisation, its civil society dominated by professional organisations. Professional organisations have been under fire as donor-driven, artificial and lacking the constituency and capacity for significant socio-environmental change. A recent upsurge of civic protests against air pollution, i…
Obnova postsocialistične mestne identitete
Avtorice se v skladu s sodobno mestno politiko, katere cilj je oblikovati konkurenčno mestno identiteto, v članku ukvarjajo s postsocialistično identiteto Novega Pazarja, srednje velikega mesta na jugozahodu Srbije. Proučujejo oblikovanje mestne identitete na podlagi dinamične interakcije med akterji in družbeno-prostorskimi strukturami, pri čemer uporabljajo pojem mestnega habitusa, ki temelji na Bourdieujevi teoriji o habitusu, in Lefebvrov kon…
Rebuilding post-communist city identity
In line with contemporary urban policy to build a competitive city identity, this article deals with the post-communist identity of Novi Pazar, a medium-sized city in southwestern Serbia. Research attention is centred on building urban identity through the dynamic interaction between actors and socio-spatial structures. Following Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, the concept of a city’s habitus is employed as well as Lefebvre’s concept of the social …
Potencijali i prepreke za transnacionalizaciju suvremenih ekoloških borbi u Srbiji
Considering the growing tendency of contemporary environmental movements from the Global North to internationalise their struggles, in this paper we try to explore the potentials and obstacles of recent environmental initiatives in Serbia - the protests against small hydropower plants and struggles against the exploitation of lithium - to scale-up from the lo- cal to national and transnational level. Focusing on the discursive framing of these in…
The experience of cities during the Covid 19 pandemic
The Covid 19 pandemic, taken as a social crisis, has pointed to the high vulnerability of the basic organizational principles of modern society and the inherent inequalities, particularly those related to the urban space. Therefore, the first part of the paper presents ideas and practices initiated by the Covid 19 pandemic regarding (re)conceptualization of urban mobility and (re)organization of urban spaces in searching for more sustainable and …
The right to the city
Starting from the importance that neo-Marxist theory gives to the analysis of urban politics as a specific compromise between neoliberalism and neomanagerialism, which drastically violates social and other civil rights and radicalizes the question to whom the city belongs and who has the right to it, the paper first discusses Lefebvre?s concept of the right to the city in the academic field and from the perspective of urban social movements and d…
Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Regional Development and Management Studies (5 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (5 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (4 works) · Context (archaeology) (4 works)