Vesna Vučinić Nešković
Biographic Data
| ID | 89973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vesna Vučinić Nešković |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vesna Vučinić |
| FAMILY NAME | Nešković |
| SIGNATURE | NEŠKOVIĆ V V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2954-0399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anthropology of Diplomacy: Theory, Practice, and Contemporary Challenges
This paper explores the theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions of the anthropology of diplomacy to the study of international relations, emphasizing its relevance in addressing contemporary global challenges. Anthropology of diplomacy highlights Interdisciplinarity, ethnographic approaches, and critical reflections on diplomatic practices, examining key concepts such as diplomatic discourse, everyday diplomacy, and embodied prac…
Serbia, Anthropology in
The complex historical and contemporary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia warrants a comprehensive exploration of its transformative sociopolitical events, key intellectual currents, and influential figures and their contributions. Therefore, the initial part of this entry offers a historical overview, tracing the evolution of the discipline from the late nineteenth century through to the early twenty‐first century, and highlights…
Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: Research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, it provides insights into the main subdisciplines, fields, and themes of research since 2006, a time when significant publishing activity was invigorated an…
Historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia
The article sets to present the historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia. The first part is devoted to the historical overview which portrays the development of the discipline from the late 19th to the early 21st century. It ends with an explanation of the use of the concept "ethnology" and "anthropology" in present-day naming of the discipline. In the second part, the most important institutions, professional s…
A Brief History of the First Global Survey of Anthropological Practice and Some Lessons Learned
This brief article is intended to complement "The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings" in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored t…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
On March 10, 2020, four days after the first case was reported in Serbia, the government announced that the COVID-19 epidemic was within our national borders and pronounced a state of emergency starting on March 15. This meant closure of all institutions and businesses except for food stores and pharmacies, a ban on use of the parks, the total prohibition of movement for people over sixty-five, and a partial movement ban for everyone else (on wee…
Interview of Vesna Vučinić Nešković by Virginia R. Dominguez
I nternational A ssociation for S outheast E uropean A nthropology ( InAsea )
The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA), founded in 1999, is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars who study social and cultural processes manifested in the practices and beliefs of the people of Southeast Europe. Its members deal with Southeast European ethnology, cultural and social anthropology, folklore, ethnography, historical anthropology, and cognate disciplines. They come from the region as well …
Introducing anthropology at schools: Global challenges and local strategies
Contribution to the Forum Teaching Anthropology in the Secondary School, Anuac, vol. 5, n° 2
World Anthropologies: Building the World Anthropological Community
Will Knjaz Miloš Belong to Foreigners? The Privatization and Image of Multinational Companies in the Serbian Media (2000-2005)
This study analyses the media coverage of the privatization of Knjaz Miloš, Serbia’s most famous mineral water factory, as well as the manner in which the multinational companies were presented in this process. The focus of the paper is on the conflict between major stakeholders as they were presented in analyzed media texts. Three phases of the privatization process are analysed in this paper. The first phase is the period from October 2000 to S…
Negotiating Partnership: How Serbian Hauzmajstor Established a Business Relationship with Austrian Rustler
This study is an account of how Serbian Hauzmajstor negotiated and entered into partnership with the Austrian Rustler. The introduction is devoted to the development of Hauzmajstor, a small real estate maintenance firm, founded by a Serbian repatriate in 2004. Beginning with its start up as the first daughter firm of Komon sens, a consulting and project development firm, the study follows its adaptation to the local business environment, concentr…
Organization of Time in the Chinese Countryside: Labor, Rhythms and Gender in the Later Maoist Period (1958-1978)
This paper deals with the question of how the state policies during the later Maoist period, from the beginning of the Great Leap Forward (1958) to the introduction of the Modernization Reforms (1978), affected the organization of time in the Chinese countryside. After abandoning the initial Soviet model of modernization, based on the exclusive strengthening of heavy industry, the China’s leadership developed a strategy of parallel development of…
Some Observations on Cultural Opposites in Contemporary China: Kuming and Beijing Twenty Years Later
This paper considers the cultural opposites observed in various segments of Chinese culture during the author's three stays in China over a period of twenty years. The first and second stay, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, coincided with the initial period of the implementation of modernization reforms in China, when their results were just beginning to be felt. The third stay was in 2009, towards the end of the third decade of reform implementati…
The Stuff of Christmas Homemaking: Transforming the House and Church on Christmas Eve in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro
The domestic burning of Yule logs on Christmas Eve is an archaic tradition characteristic of the Christian population in the central Balkans. In the fifty years following World War Two, the socialist state suppressed these and other popular religious practices. However, ethnographic research in Serbia and Montenegro in the late 1980s showed that many village households, nevertheless, preserved their traditional Christmas rituals at home, in cont…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia
The article sets to present the historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia. The first part is devoted to the historical overview which portrays the development of the discipline from the late 19th to the early 21st century. It ends with an explanation of the use of the concept "ethnology" and "anthropology" in present-day naming of the discipline. In the second part, the most important institutions, professional s…
Interview of Vesna Vučinić Nešković by Virginia R. Dominguez
The Stuff of Christmas Homemaking: Transforming the House and Church on Christmas Eve in the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro
The domestic burning of Yule logs on Christmas Eve is an archaic tradition characteristic of the Christian population in the central Balkans. In the fifty years following World War Two, the socialist state suppressed these and other popular religious practices. However, ethnographic research in Serbia and Montenegro in the late 1980s showed that many village households, nevertheless, preserved their traditional Christmas rituals at home, in cont…
Some Observations on Cultural Opposites in Contemporary China: Kuming and Beijing Twenty Years Later
This paper considers the cultural opposites observed in various segments of Chinese culture during the author's three stays in China over a period of twenty years. The first and second stay, in 1986 and 1989 respectively, coincided with the initial period of the implementation of modernization reforms in China, when their results were just beginning to be felt. The third stay was in 2009, towards the end of the third decade of reform implementati…
Organization of Time in the Chinese Countryside: Labor, Rhythms and Gender in the Later Maoist Period (1958-1978)
This paper deals with the question of how the state policies during the later Maoist period, from the beginning of the Great Leap Forward (1958) to the introduction of the Modernization Reforms (1978), affected the organization of time in the Chinese countryside. After abandoning the initial Soviet model of modernization, based on the exclusive strengthening of heavy industry, the China’s leadership developed a strategy of parallel development of…
Will Knjaz Miloš Belong to Foreigners? The Privatization and Image of Multinational Companies in the Serbian Media (2000-2005)
This study analyses the media coverage of the privatization of Knjaz Miloš, Serbia’s most famous mineral water factory, as well as the manner in which the multinational companies were presented in this process. The focus of the paper is on the conflict between major stakeholders as they were presented in analyzed media texts. Three phases of the privatization process are analysed in this paper. The first phase is the period from October 2000 to S…
Negotiating Partnership: How Serbian Hauzmajstor Established a Business Relationship with Austrian Rustler
This study is an account of how Serbian Hauzmajstor negotiated and entered into partnership with the Austrian Rustler. The introduction is devoted to the development of Hauzmajstor, a small real estate maintenance firm, founded by a Serbian repatriate in 2004. Beginning with its start up as the first daughter firm of Komon sens, a consulting and project development firm, the study follows its adaptation to the local business environment, concentr…
World Anthropologies: Building the World Anthropological Community
Introducing anthropology at schools: Global challenges and local strategies
Contribution to the Forum Teaching Anthropology in the Secondary School, Anuac, vol. 5, n° 2
I nternational A ssociation for S outheast E uropean A nthropology ( InAsea )
The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA), founded in 1999, is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars who study social and cultural processes manifested in the practices and beliefs of the people of Southeast Europe. Its members deal with Southeast European ethnology, cultural and social anthropology, folklore, ethnography, historical anthropology, and cognate disciplines. They come from the region as well …
Interview of Vesna Vučinić Nešković by Virginia R. Dominguez
Anthropologists Answer Four Questions about the Pandemic
On March 10, 2020, four days after the first case was reported in Serbia, the government announced that the COVID-19 epidemic was within our national borders and pronounced a state of emergency starting on March 15. This meant closure of all institutions and businesses except for food stores and pharmacies, a ban on use of the parks, the total prohibition of movement for people over sixty-five, and a partial movement ban for everyone else (on wee…
A Brief History of the First Global Survey of Anthropological Practice and Some Lessons Learned
This brief article is intended to complement "The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings" in this issue of ViBrAnt. The article details the internal processes within the World Council of Anthropological Associations through which the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP) was initiated and developed. It also discusses the issues and challenges the research team faced, as well as how it endeavored t…
The WCAA Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (2014-2018): Reported Findings
The Global Survey of Anthropological Practice (GSAP), the first of its kind, was undertaken by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) to provide insights about anthropology as a transnational profession, the ongoing relevance of the discipline in addressing global problems, issues in employment and gender equity, and the range of anthropological practice and expertise. Respondents to the survey were living in 113 different count…
Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: Research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, it provides insights into the main subdisciplines, fields, and themes of research since 2006, a time when significant publishing activity was invigorated an…
Historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia
The article sets to present the historical and current developments in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia. The first part is devoted to the historical overview which portrays the development of the discipline from the late 19th to the early 21st century. It ends with an explanation of the use of the concept "ethnology" and "anthropology" in present-day naming of the discipline. In the second part, the most important institutions, professional s…
Serbia, Anthropology in
The complex historical and contemporary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia warrants a comprehensive exploration of its transformative sociopolitical events, key intellectual currents, and influential figures and their contributions. Therefore, the initial part of this entry offers a historical overview, tracing the evolution of the discipline from the late nineteenth century through to the early twenty‐first century, and highlights…
Anthropology of Diplomacy: Theory, Practice, and Contemporary Challenges
This paper explores the theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions of the anthropology of diplomacy to the study of international relations, emphasizing its relevance in addressing contemporary global challenges. Anthropology of diplomacy highlights Interdisciplinarity, ethnographic approaches, and critical reflections on diplomatic practices, examining key concepts such as diplomatic discourse, everyday diplomacy, and embodied prac…
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