Ljubica Milosavljević
Biographic Data
| ID | 907948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ljubica Milosavljević |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ljubica |
| FAMILY NAME | Milosavljević |
| SIGNATURE | MILOSAVLJEVIĆ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3430-8084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Constructing the Local Identity of the Belgrade Jazz Festival during the 1970s era of the 20th Century
The aim of this paper was to examine the process of constructing the local identity of the Belgrade Jazz Festival during the 1970s era of the twentieth century. Based on the example of the Newport Jazz Festival, organized in Belgrade as a partial revival of the original event from 1971 to 1973, and drawing on a variety of printed sources, the paper traces the subsequent development of the Belgrade Jazz Festival from 1974 onwards. The theoretical …
Jazz Press in Serbia from 1953 to 1965
The aim of the paper was to introduce the specialized press oriented towards jazz music and its practitioners that was published from 1953 to 1965 on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The marked period was chosen for consideration since it represents the most fruitful stage in the development of the press of a specific thematic profile, but also because of the significant changes in the entire Yugoslav society. These changes, as it was pos…
(Post)Yugoslavian Music Press in Transition
The development of the Internet and digital technologies has influenced the ever- greater migrations of printed content to the digital sphere (blogs, online media, Internet portals, social networks), which has also brought with itself changes in readers’ habits and in the concept and format of texts as wells. Music press is no exception in that respect. In the context of South European states, these processes coincide with the period of political…
Inside and Outside the Film Genre: Old Age on the Way
This paper analyses Croatian film Night boats (2012), directed by Igor Mirković, from the anthropology of film and anthropology of age point of view. The film story is analyzed as the so-called diegetic universe, i.e. as an ethnography of the film, and is connected to the real experiences of the elderly. The plot of the film follows the meeting and emotional bonding of Helena and Jakov in one of Zagreb's nursing homes. Shortly after their brief a…
Funny” Edge of Ageism – Representations of Old People in Domestic Humour
The central topic of the paper is the humoristic production during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chief focus is on the main representations of the eldest members of the society during this dramatic period, when they were declared to be the most endangered, but also the ones who endanger others by their vulnerability. The research was limited to the first year of the critical period, when the state of emergency was declared, from March 15th to May 6t…
Anthropological Analysis of the Depiction of Deprivation in Old Age In the Case of the Movie Night Boats
This anthropological analysis focuses on the Croatian feature film Night Boats (2012), directed by Igor Mirković. The subject of the movie is a partnership that develops between two residents of a nursing home in Zagreb, highlighting, among other things, numerous problems and difficulties that the elderly face while trying to pursue a new romantic relationship at the very end of their lives, in specific nursing home conditions. The couple’s escap…
From an End to the End: The Fourth Age in the Movie Amour
The paper aims to relate the movie narrative of a highly acclaimed film Amour (2012) by Michael Haneke and the concept of the fourth age which is constructed in relation to the third age concept, understood as its antithesis in the 20th century. The film illustrates a rapid and irreversible transformation of a retired piano teacher, who shifts from being an active and successful elderly person in control of her life plans to facing a sudden healt…
Old Age in a Music Video: An Anthropological Perspective
The anthropological analysis is focused on the five music videos that use old age and old people in different ways. Music videos are treated as commercial messages of their own kind whose primary task is to draw attention to the performer and the song, whereas old age – no matter whether it is only introduced by the text or the video itself – is considered as both the way to speak about the given social phenomenon and the indicator of an extremel…
Music festivals as a space for construction of local identities on the example of the manifestation jazz in the garden
Based on the several decades-old tradition of presenting jazz through festivals firstly in Yugoslavia, and consequently in Serbia, the Jazz in the Garden manifestation was founded in Belgrade in 2021. The name of the new festival apostrophises the location of the event - ?Jevremovac? Botanical Garden. With the anthropological analysis of this manifestation, we will strive to demonstrate how the manifestation in development like this one influence…
At Her Age: "An Anthropological Analysis of the Construct of Age in the TV Series "Muddy Tires
This anthropological analysis of the Serbian TV series Muddy Tires (Kaljave Gume), which aired in the spring of 2021 on the Radio Television of Serbia, aims to point out the principal meanings which can be subsumed under the three dominant problems faced by the protagonist Vesna when she finds herself in situations that demand a reexamination of previously accepted norms regarding older members of contemporary Serbian society. The analytical proc…
Working Time and New Organizational Values as an Indicator of Acceleration of the Serbian Society During the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Anthropological Analysis
Based on the results of anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2015 and 2016, the paper aims to review the employees’ experience regarding the process of the acceleration of time in the office of one multinational company in Belgrade. The scientific focus is placed on working hours and certain temporal boundaries that characterize it. The most significant outcome is that the experience of a given phenomenon is the result of the fact that time spe…
Working Time as a Measure of Acceleration of the Serbian Society at the Turn of the Century: Anthropological Analysis
Multiple processes in modern Serbia occurred at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century. Almost all of them regard political, economic, and social changes. Influences caused by these changes can be seen in the social template across the spectrum of plans, encompassing various spheres of life of individuals from business to private, all the way to the point where this division, for many, is gradually disappearing. In…
On the Other Side of the Genre Boundary: An Anthropological Analysis of Compromises as Jazz Musicians' Strategy of Action
The fieldwork conducted in Belgrade during the summer and autumn of 2017 was oriented towards jazz musicians, and their strategies of action, in gist, implied playing other popular music genres through compromise – function work. Such business tactics are a consequence of jazz musicians’ ever-insecure position, but strategic goals have changed over time with the nature of that insecurity. Going beyond the genre boundary first became a means of se…
Dead end: "An anthropological analysis of the film "Stairless
The anthropological analysis of the film Stairless (2014) will encompass: shedding light on the most important data on the production of the film, a description of the diegesis with an analysis and fragmental reception of the film, as well as some of its effects. The specifics of this film, aside from the fact that it belongs to the category of TV movie, which has a rich tradition in Serbia, but a lesser attraction than commercial films, at least…
Gastarbeiters’ old age: Strategies of life choices among the migrant population of pensioners
The focus of our research was on the old age life strategies of retired gastarbeiters. For labor migrants who went to work “temporarily” abroad, becoming pensioners opens up a slew of problematic issues about their social status in host countries. This is a topic which has been neglected in Serbian academia, and has recently attracted the attention of the global scientific community through the attempt to make an interdisciplinary connection betw…
The "third option": Oscilliatory migrations of retired guest workers
The subject of this study is focused on new migration tendencies of retired guest workers. This paper represents one part of a study conducted during 2014 in eastern Serbia and Vienna regarding life strategies of retired labor migrants. In domestic (Serbian) social sciences this subject was neglected, but recently it has attracted global social scientific attention with an idea of interdisciplinary merge of migration and age studies. To the day, …
Nursing homes as the perspective and reality of guest workers in old age
The aim of this paper is to present the results of research conducted as part of the “Ambivalent nostalgia in the cultural heritage of gastarbeiters” project of the Ethnological-anthropological society of Serbia. The research was conducted in Kučevo and Wienna in 2014. The research focused on older guest workers or gastarbeiters who are mostly in the status of disabled pensioners, and seniors whose family members work abroad. An important criteri…
Ljubav u treće doba. Partnerski odnosi korisnika domova za stara lica i strategije delovanja
Research was carried out in the period from 2011 to 2014 in six retirement homes in the territory of the Republic of Serbia. By analysing partner relationships entered into by occupants of retirement homes, research aims to answer the question about attitudes towards emotional and sexual life in old age. In addition, the paper also indicates specific strategies of action that result in improvements in the residents' quality of life, as well as fa…
Short cuts: Anthropological study of contemporary comercials
The anthropological study of commercials is based on the meaning of the entire content of the commercial, in order to contextualize the time and space in which the commercial is made and used. On the basis of this analytical step it can be determined which values the commercial contains and what its relationship to the value system in its surroundings is. The analytical steps of the semiology of commercials, as the most important methodological a…
Constructing the Political Potential of the Retired Segments of Society
The paper represents an attempt to address the issue of ways in which the political potential of the retired population is constructed. This process can be divided into two distinct periods. The first started with the introduction of the multiparty system, when the political potential of pensioners was imbedded into the activities of the Socialist Party of Serbia which had been in power at the time. This indicates the failure of political parties…
Why Have the “Cantankerous Old People” Left the Neighborhood? The Representation of Old Age in Serbian Television Commercials – a Repeated Study
The paper represents an attempt to examine to what extent the way in which older members of society are represented in Serbian television commercials has changed in comparison to representations which were present in commercials during the three months in 2009 (Milosavljevic 2010a) when the first study was conducted. As was the case in the first study, the focus is on dominant societal attitudes toward old people and old age which were utilized i…
An Analysis of Newspaper Texts with a View to Studying the "First" Old People’s Homes
Newspaper texts published in the period between the end of World War II and the late 1950s in the Belgrade dailies Borba and Politika have been analyzed for the purpose of studying the process of how old age, as a social issue, has repeatedly "appeared" and "disappeared" from the public eye. These texts illustrate one of the fundamental tenets of constructionism that leads to reality perceived as, and provide insight into the reasons that this so…
The "Cantankerous Old People" Next Door: How Old Age Is Represented in Serbian Television Commercials
This paper is the result of a three-month monitoring of Serbian television commercials which aimed to study the way elderly people are represented in the media. Elderly people appear in only six commercials, more often as a functional part of a series than as protagonists. Yet in spite of the small number of commercials in which they appear, it is easy to identify the stereotypes which are translated from a social paradigm into the sphere of the …
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An Analysis of Newspaper Texts with a View to Studying the "First" Old People’s Homes
Newspaper texts published in the period between the end of World War II and the late 1950s in the Belgrade dailies Borba and Politika have been analyzed for the purpose of studying the process of how old age, as a social issue, has repeatedly "appeared" and "disappeared" from the public eye. These texts illustrate one of the fundamental tenets of constructionism that leads to reality perceived as, and provide insight into the reasons that this so…
The "Cantankerous Old People" Next Door: How Old Age Is Represented in Serbian Television Commercials
This paper is the result of a three-month monitoring of Serbian television commercials which aimed to study the way elderly people are represented in the media. Elderly people appear in only six commercials, more often as a functional part of a series than as protagonists. Yet in spite of the small number of commercials in which they appear, it is easy to identify the stereotypes which are translated from a social paradigm into the sphere of the …
Constructing the Political Potential of the Retired Segments of Society
The paper represents an attempt to address the issue of ways in which the political potential of the retired population is constructed. This process can be divided into two distinct periods. The first started with the introduction of the multiparty system, when the political potential of pensioners was imbedded into the activities of the Socialist Party of Serbia which had been in power at the time. This indicates the failure of political parties…
Why Have the “Cantankerous Old People” Left the Neighborhood? The Representation of Old Age in Serbian Television Commercials – a Repeated Study
The paper represents an attempt to examine to what extent the way in which older members of society are represented in Serbian television commercials has changed in comparison to representations which were present in commercials during the three months in 2009 (Milosavljevic 2010a) when the first study was conducted. As was the case in the first study, the focus is on dominant societal attitudes toward old people and old age which were utilized i…
Short cuts: Anthropological study of contemporary comercials
The anthropological study of commercials is based on the meaning of the entire content of the commercial, in order to contextualize the time and space in which the commercial is made and used. On the basis of this analytical step it can be determined which values the commercial contains and what its relationship to the value system in its surroundings is. The analytical steps of the semiology of commercials, as the most important methodological a…
Nursing homes as the perspective and reality of guest workers in old age
The aim of this paper is to present the results of research conducted as part of the “Ambivalent nostalgia in the cultural heritage of gastarbeiters” project of the Ethnological-anthropological society of Serbia. The research was conducted in Kučevo and Wienna in 2014. The research focused on older guest workers or gastarbeiters who are mostly in the status of disabled pensioners, and seniors whose family members work abroad. An important criteri…
Ljubav u treće doba. Partnerski odnosi korisnika domova za stara lica i strategije delovanja
Research was carried out in the period from 2011 to 2014 in six retirement homes in the territory of the Republic of Serbia. By analysing partner relationships entered into by occupants of retirement homes, research aims to answer the question about attitudes towards emotional and sexual life in old age. In addition, the paper also indicates specific strategies of action that result in improvements in the residents' quality of life, as well as fa…
Gastarbeiters’ old age: Strategies of life choices among the migrant population of pensioners
The focus of our research was on the old age life strategies of retired gastarbeiters. For labor migrants who went to work “temporarily” abroad, becoming pensioners opens up a slew of problematic issues about their social status in host countries. This is a topic which has been neglected in Serbian academia, and has recently attracted the attention of the global scientific community through the attempt to make an interdisciplinary connection betw…
The "third option": Oscilliatory migrations of retired guest workers
The subject of this study is focused on new migration tendencies of retired guest workers. This paper represents one part of a study conducted during 2014 in eastern Serbia and Vienna regarding life strategies of retired labor migrants. In domestic (Serbian) social sciences this subject was neglected, but recently it has attracted global social scientific attention with an idea of interdisciplinary merge of migration and age studies. To the day, …
Dead end: "An anthropological analysis of the film "Stairless
The anthropological analysis of the film Stairless (2014) will encompass: shedding light on the most important data on the production of the film, a description of the diegesis with an analysis and fragmental reception of the film, as well as some of its effects. The specifics of this film, aside from the fact that it belongs to the category of TV movie, which has a rich tradition in Serbia, but a lesser attraction than commercial films, at least…
On the Other Side of the Genre Boundary: An Anthropological Analysis of Compromises as Jazz Musicians' Strategy of Action
The fieldwork conducted in Belgrade during the summer and autumn of 2017 was oriented towards jazz musicians, and their strategies of action, in gist, implied playing other popular music genres through compromise – function work. Such business tactics are a consequence of jazz musicians’ ever-insecure position, but strategic goals have changed over time with the nature of that insecurity. Going beyond the genre boundary first became a means of se…
Working Time and New Organizational Values as an Indicator of Acceleration of the Serbian Society During the Second Decade of the 21st Century: Anthropological Analysis
Based on the results of anthropological fieldwork conducted in 2015 and 2016, the paper aims to review the employees’ experience regarding the process of the acceleration of time in the office of one multinational company in Belgrade. The scientific focus is placed on working hours and certain temporal boundaries that characterize it. The most significant outcome is that the experience of a given phenomenon is the result of the fact that time spe…
Working Time as a Measure of Acceleration of the Serbian Society at the Turn of the Century: Anthropological Analysis
Multiple processes in modern Serbia occurred at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century. Almost all of them regard political, economic, and social changes. Influences caused by these changes can be seen in the social template across the spectrum of plans, encompassing various spheres of life of individuals from business to private, all the way to the point where this division, for many, is gradually disappearing. In…
At Her Age: "An Anthropological Analysis of the Construct of Age in the TV Series "Muddy Tires
This anthropological analysis of the Serbian TV series Muddy Tires (Kaljave Gume), which aired in the spring of 2021 on the Radio Television of Serbia, aims to point out the principal meanings which can be subsumed under the three dominant problems faced by the protagonist Vesna when she finds herself in situations that demand a reexamination of previously accepted norms regarding older members of contemporary Serbian society. The analytical proc…
Music festivals as a space for construction of local identities on the example of the manifestation jazz in the garden
Based on the several decades-old tradition of presenting jazz through festivals firstly in Yugoslavia, and consequently in Serbia, the Jazz in the Garden manifestation was founded in Belgrade in 2021. The name of the new festival apostrophises the location of the event - ?Jevremovac? Botanical Garden. With the anthropological analysis of this manifestation, we will strive to demonstrate how the manifestation in development like this one influence…
Jazz Press in Serbia from 1953 to 1965
The aim of the paper was to introduce the specialized press oriented towards jazz music and its practitioners that was published from 1953 to 1965 on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The marked period was chosen for consideration since it represents the most fruitful stage in the development of the press of a specific thematic profile, but also because of the significant changes in the entire Yugoslav society. These changes, as it was pos…
(Post)Yugoslavian Music Press in Transition
The development of the Internet and digital technologies has influenced the ever- greater migrations of printed content to the digital sphere (blogs, online media, Internet portals, social networks), which has also brought with itself changes in readers’ habits and in the concept and format of texts as wells. Music press is no exception in that respect. In the context of South European states, these processes coincide with the period of political…
Inside and Outside the Film Genre: Old Age on the Way
This paper analyses Croatian film Night boats (2012), directed by Igor Mirković, from the anthropology of film and anthropology of age point of view. The film story is analyzed as the so-called diegetic universe, i.e. as an ethnography of the film, and is connected to the real experiences of the elderly. The plot of the film follows the meeting and emotional bonding of Helena and Jakov in one of Zagreb's nursing homes. Shortly after their brief a…
Funny” Edge of Ageism – Representations of Old People in Domestic Humour
The central topic of the paper is the humoristic production during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chief focus is on the main representations of the eldest members of the society during this dramatic period, when they were declared to be the most endangered, but also the ones who endanger others by their vulnerability. The research was limited to the first year of the critical period, when the state of emergency was declared, from March 15th to May 6t…
Anthropological Analysis of the Depiction of Deprivation in Old Age In the Case of the Movie Night Boats
This anthropological analysis focuses on the Croatian feature film Night Boats (2012), directed by Igor Mirković. The subject of the movie is a partnership that develops between two residents of a nursing home in Zagreb, highlighting, among other things, numerous problems and difficulties that the elderly face while trying to pursue a new romantic relationship at the very end of their lives, in specific nursing home conditions. The couple’s escap…
From an End to the End: The Fourth Age in the Movie Amour
The paper aims to relate the movie narrative of a highly acclaimed film Amour (2012) by Michael Haneke and the concept of the fourth age which is constructed in relation to the third age concept, understood as its antithesis in the 20th century. The film illustrates a rapid and irreversible transformation of a retired piano teacher, who shifts from being an active and successful elderly person in control of her life plans to facing a sudden healt…
Old Age in a Music Video: An Anthropological Perspective
The anthropological analysis is focused on the five music videos that use old age and old people in different ways. Music videos are treated as commercial messages of their own kind whose primary task is to draw attention to the performer and the song, whereas old age – no matter whether it is only introduced by the text or the video itself – is considered as both the way to speak about the given social phenomenon and the indicator of an extremel…
Constructing the Local Identity of the Belgrade Jazz Festival during the 1970s era of the 20th Century
The aim of this paper was to examine the process of constructing the local identity of the Belgrade Jazz Festival during the 1970s era of the twentieth century. Based on the example of the Newport Jazz Festival, organized in Belgrade as a partial revival of the original event from 1971 to 1973, and drawing on a variety of printed sources, the paper traces the subsequent development of the Belgrade Jazz Festival from 1974 onwards. The theoretical …
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