Gordana Djerić
Biographic Data
| ID | 6481067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordana Djerić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordana |
| FAMILY NAME | Djerić |
| SIGNATURE | DJERIĆ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1354-7470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who You are and Who You Want to Be: Exploring Symbolic, Spatial and Cultural Levels of Identity in Contemporary Serbia/Belgrade
This study focuses on the attitudes of Serbian citizens towards individual, local, national, regional, and supranational identity self-categorizations. Several layers of identification, grounded in history, politics, economics, spatial, and socio-cultural aspects of life are considered. The article aims to broaden and deepen the understanding what citizenship means for inhabitants that have faced important discontinuities since the break-up of Yu…
Is cultural intimacy crucial? Simit Sarayi at Obilicev Venac in Belgrade: Heterotopia, non-place and place of “others”
Drawing on renewed academic interest in the study of Serbian-Turkish relationships, this article addresses the complexities of the Ottoman heritage in a Serbian urban setting through its cultural-symbolic and anthropological dimensions. Specifically, this article explores ?what stands behind? Belgradians? negative attitude towards the Turkish coffee-shop chain Simit Sarayi. To do so, we use Michael Herzfeld?s (1997) cultural intimacy perspective …
Sinking river: On inconstant status of mentality and mental mapping phenomena
The paper examines the issue of inconstancy and academic exclusion of the term mentality, which occur despite a long history of its being studied by several scholarly disciplines and a broad usage in various public spheres. Being of the opinion that, in the academic sense, the term mentality is like a sinking river - intermittently present and absent - the authoress reminds us of dominant paradigms of mentality studies, both the ones that use the…
Cultural intimacy and nutrition: An interview and discussion
Proceeding from the assumption that the domain of food and food-related broader issues of relationship to nutrition are of the key importance for the development of a culture, the relationship of the Serbian society to food/nutrition was thematised through an internet discussion broached by the Miguel Rodriguez’s interview to the daily ’Politika’ - ’The Serbs are not a poor nation’. Since the discussion raised the question of food/nutrition as th…
Others in post-conflict contexts
Researches conducted so far within the project Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states focused on exploring the relations towards the Other in a state of conflict. Moreover: most of the author's and coauthors' contributions were oriented towards discourse analysis in the context of violence. Except for the peaceful dismemberment of Montenegro and Serbia, proclama…
Violence in social memory intimate beliefs regarding operation storm in the Croatian and Serbian publics
This text is part of a research conducted under the working title "What do we talk about when we are silent and what are we silent about when we are talking? - premises for the anthropology of silence about the nearest past." In the first part the author investigates the meaning of silence in the Croatian and Serbian press right before and during Croatia's Operation Storm. The ratio between silence, suppression of information and forgetting, on t…
Things talked about while we remain silence and things we’re silence about while talking: The starting assumptions for an anthropology of silence about the nearest past
Wars of the last decade of the 20th century in former Yugoslavia have brought the whole region into the center of media attention and, accordingly, have aroused interest of the western academic theory. Since the latest ?discovery of the Balkans? was brought into being precisely due to wars, one shouldn?t be surprised to find that many academic approaches to questions of Yugoslavia dismemberment are biased, superficial or exotic. On the other hand…
To sleep, perchance to dream… or staying awake: On Balkanism and the failure of the constructivist standpoint in Serbia: A view from the past
The paper examines the meanings of representations of Serbia, the Balkans and Europe at the time of encounter between Enlightenment and Romanticist traditions. The analysis starts from the assumption that the emergence of negative representations of South Eastern Europe cannot be discussed without placing it within the broader context of 18th and 19th century philosophy and literature and the consequences of new philosophical and literary ideas. …
European-enlightenment and national-romanticist sources of cultural memory: Reflections in contemporary debates
Each society is marked by a selective cultural memory which, beside events and traditions whose importance is emphasized, is also constituted by its parts and contents whose influence is either diminished or forgotten. Our society, too is marked by such kind of memory, with obvious reduction, value opposition and, in sum, general duality within the reception of cultural memory, which is always more complex than it appears in political speeches mo…
Milica Bakić-Hayden, U očima posmatrača, Varijacije na temu "Balkan", IFDT/IP "Filip Višnjić", 2006
podsticaj jednoj skoro nepostojeaeoj disciplini i drugim njenim anrovima koji se javljaju tek kao neka vrsta "privatnog pisma" pojedinih autora i koji se prepoznaju pod zajednièkim imenom simbolièka geografija
Silent and a audible stereotypes: The constitution of "ethnic character" in Serbian epic poetry
The article deals with the explanatory relevance of the concept of stereotype in one of its original meanings - as a "mental image". This meaning of the term is the starting point for further differentiations, such as: between linguistic and behavioral stereotypes (in the sense of nonverbal, expected responses); universal and particular stereotypes; self representative and introspective stereotypes; permanent and contemporary stereotypes; and fin…
Stereotype: End of (a) story
The paper is an analytic retrospective of the author?s work during the preceding research period, involving the study of role, meaning and place of stereotypes in identity discourses. In order to explain the reasons for and ways of dealing with stereotypes, she reviews the evolution of her own research approach and the alternative approaches to the topic from the perspective of various scholarly disciplines. Seeking to avoid the trap of ?interpre…
"The concepts of time and space through the lense of "mental maps
The article explores the meaning and usages of "communicative and cultural memory" in the context of "mental maps". It looks particularly at theories which, on the basis of constructed symbolic divisions (such as "Europe" vs. "Balkans"), connote a "lasting Balkan/European reality". The explication focuses on the content considered by these theories as specifically Balkan (or specifically Serbian) understanding of the concepts of Space and Time
Ideas and strategies of discursive equalization of life and death
By analyzing discursive equalization of the categories of life and death in different spoken and written genres in the 1990s, the author uncovers a number of ideas and strategies around which the discourses guided by this phenomenon are structured. The first part of the paper is aimed at understanding the relation of these categories in Serbian folk culture and possible influences of the latter on recent articulations of the examined phenomenon. …
Mythical aspects of Serbian identity
The paper deals with the use of mythical contents of Serbian national identity and stereotypes about Serbs in different kinds of public discourses; publicist. political and scientific. Mythical content and stereotypes are related to 'comprehensive image of the Serbian people', not to empirically testable particular identifiers. Moreover, vague stories about Serbian national being have epistemological priority over unambiguous descriptions of comm…
Ideas and strategies of discursive equalization of life and death
By analyzing discursive equalization of the categories of life and death in different spoken and written genres in the 1990s, the author uncovers a number of ideas and strategies around which the discourses guided by this phenomenon are structured. The first part of the paper is aimed at understanding the relation of these categories in Serbian folk culture and possible influences of the latter on recent articulations of the examined phenomenon. …
Stereotype: End of (a) story
The paper is an analytic retrospective of the author?s work during the preceding research period, involving the study of role, meaning and place of stereotypes in identity discourses. In order to explain the reasons for and ways of dealing with stereotypes, she reviews the evolution of her own research approach and the alternative approaches to the topic from the perspective of various scholarly disciplines. Seeking to avoid the trap of ?interpre…
Mythical aspects of Serbian identity
The paper deals with the use of mythical contents of Serbian national identity and stereotypes about Serbs in different kinds of public discourses; publicist. political and scientific. Mythical content and stereotypes are related to 'comprehensive image of the Serbian people', not to empirically testable particular identifiers. Moreover, vague stories about Serbian national being have epistemological priority over unambiguous descriptions of comm…
Ideas and strategies of discursive equalization of life and death
By analyzing discursive equalization of the categories of life and death in different spoken and written genres in the 1990s, the author uncovers a number of ideas and strategies around which the discourses guided by this phenomenon are structured. The first part of the paper is aimed at understanding the relation of these categories in Serbian folk culture and possible influences of the latter on recent articulations of the examined phenomenon. …
"The concepts of time and space through the lense of "mental maps
The article explores the meaning and usages of "communicative and cultural memory" in the context of "mental maps". It looks particularly at theories which, on the basis of constructed symbolic divisions (such as "Europe" vs. "Balkans"), connote a "lasting Balkan/European reality". The explication focuses on the content considered by these theories as specifically Balkan (or specifically Serbian) understanding of the concepts of Space and Time
Silent and a audible stereotypes: The constitution of "ethnic character" in Serbian epic poetry
The article deals with the explanatory relevance of the concept of stereotype in one of its original meanings - as a "mental image". This meaning of the term is the starting point for further differentiations, such as: between linguistic and behavioral stereotypes (in the sense of nonverbal, expected responses); universal and particular stereotypes; self representative and introspective stereotypes; permanent and contemporary stereotypes; and fin…
Stereotype: End of (a) story
The paper is an analytic retrospective of the author?s work during the preceding research period, involving the study of role, meaning and place of stereotypes in identity discourses. In order to explain the reasons for and ways of dealing with stereotypes, she reviews the evolution of her own research approach and the alternative approaches to the topic from the perspective of various scholarly disciplines. Seeking to avoid the trap of ?interpre…
To sleep, perchance to dream… or staying awake: On Balkanism and the failure of the constructivist standpoint in Serbia: A view from the past
The paper examines the meanings of representations of Serbia, the Balkans and Europe at the time of encounter between Enlightenment and Romanticist traditions. The analysis starts from the assumption that the emergence of negative representations of South Eastern Europe cannot be discussed without placing it within the broader context of 18th and 19th century philosophy and literature and the consequences of new philosophical and literary ideas. …
European-enlightenment and national-romanticist sources of cultural memory: Reflections in contemporary debates
Each society is marked by a selective cultural memory which, beside events and traditions whose importance is emphasized, is also constituted by its parts and contents whose influence is either diminished or forgotten. Our society, too is marked by such kind of memory, with obvious reduction, value opposition and, in sum, general duality within the reception of cultural memory, which is always more complex than it appears in political speeches mo…
Milica Bakić-Hayden, U očima posmatrača, Varijacije na temu "Balkan", IFDT/IP "Filip Višnjić", 2006
podsticaj jednoj skoro nepostojeaeoj disciplini i drugim njenim anrovima koji se javljaju tek kao neka vrsta "privatnog pisma" pojedinih autora i koji se prepoznaju pod zajednièkim imenom simbolièka geografija
Things talked about while we remain silence and things we’re silence about while talking: The starting assumptions for an anthropology of silence about the nearest past
Wars of the last decade of the 20th century in former Yugoslavia have brought the whole region into the center of media attention and, accordingly, have aroused interest of the western academic theory. Since the latest ?discovery of the Balkans? was brought into being precisely due to wars, one shouldn?t be surprised to find that many academic approaches to questions of Yugoslavia dismemberment are biased, superficial or exotic. On the other hand…
Others in post-conflict contexts
Researches conducted so far within the project Spinning out of control: rhetoric and violent conflict. Representations of 'self' - 'other' in the Yugoslav successor states focused on exploring the relations towards the Other in a state of conflict. Moreover: most of the author's and coauthors' contributions were oriented towards discourse analysis in the context of violence. Except for the peaceful dismemberment of Montenegro and Serbia, proclama…
Violence in social memory intimate beliefs regarding operation storm in the Croatian and Serbian publics
This text is part of a research conducted under the working title "What do we talk about when we are silent and what are we silent about when we are talking? - premises for the anthropology of silence about the nearest past." In the first part the author investigates the meaning of silence in the Croatian and Serbian press right before and during Croatia's Operation Storm. The ratio between silence, suppression of information and forgetting, on t…
Cultural intimacy and nutrition: An interview and discussion
Proceeding from the assumption that the domain of food and food-related broader issues of relationship to nutrition are of the key importance for the development of a culture, the relationship of the Serbian society to food/nutrition was thematised through an internet discussion broached by the Miguel Rodriguez’s interview to the daily ’Politika’ - ’The Serbs are not a poor nation’. Since the discussion raised the question of food/nutrition as th…
Sinking river: On inconstant status of mentality and mental mapping phenomena
The paper examines the issue of inconstancy and academic exclusion of the term mentality, which occur despite a long history of its being studied by several scholarly disciplines and a broad usage in various public spheres. Being of the opinion that, in the academic sense, the term mentality is like a sinking river - intermittently present and absent - the authoress reminds us of dominant paradigms of mentality studies, both the ones that use the…
Who You are and Who You Want to Be: Exploring Symbolic, Spatial and Cultural Levels of Identity in Contemporary Serbia/Belgrade
This study focuses on the attitudes of Serbian citizens towards individual, local, national, regional, and supranational identity self-categorizations. Several layers of identification, grounded in history, politics, economics, spatial, and socio-cultural aspects of life are considered. The article aims to broaden and deepen the understanding what citizenship means for inhabitants that have faced important discontinuities since the break-up of Yu…
Is cultural intimacy crucial? Simit Sarayi at Obilicev Venac in Belgrade: Heterotopia, non-place and place of “others”
Drawing on renewed academic interest in the study of Serbian-Turkish relationships, this article addresses the complexities of the Ottoman heritage in a Serbian urban setting through its cultural-symbolic and anthropological dimensions. Specifically, this article explores ?what stands behind? Belgradians? negative attitude towards the Turkish coffee-shop chain Simit Sarayi. To do so, we use Michael Herzfeld?s (1997) cultural intimacy perspective …
Sociology (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Serbian (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (7 works) · History (7 works)