Ivana SpasicUniversity of Belgrade · Department of Sociology
Ivana Spasic
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The chapter follows the first steps in the institutionalization of sociology in Serbia during the interwar period, from the first journal in 1920, first courses at Belgrade University’s Law School, flourishing public culture of popular lectures and discussion of social issues, to the founding of the first association and the publication of the only...
In this chapter, we consider how sociology in Serbia evolved during the postsocialist period. Following its development through three phases—blocked postsocialist transformation (1991–2000), the period of accelerated reforms (2001–2011), and the phase of consolidation of capitalism through a combination of neoliberal economic reforms and escalating...
After a complete break with the pre-war traditions, Serbian sociology, as part of the Yugoslav one, was established in the late 1950s as a new science and a privileged source of scientific insight that the Yugoslav communist government needed for developing its original political model. The chapter follows the evolution of sociology in Serbia throu...
In this final chapter, we summarize our findings on the historical development of sociology in Serbia through the lenses of the theoretical concepts selected at the outset. Looking back at the century-long evolution of sociology in Serbia, we point to critical events that prevented or slowed down the development of an autonomous sociological field,...
U ovom radu ispitujemo značenjska i vrednosna pomeranja koja se događaju
ispod površinskog kontinuiteta nostalgije prema Jugoslaviji u današnjoj Srbiji. Najpre se na nivou zvaničnog diskursa identifikuje tendencija, od sredine 2010-ih, da se SFRJ rehabilituje kao pozitivna politička referenca, ali uz razvodnjavanje njenih suštinskih obeležja – soci...
U radu se daje kritički pregled novijih pristupa koji preispituju epistemološke osnove društvene teorije u svetlu nejednakosti u resursima i moći, a kojima je zajednička pretpostavka o prirodi znanja kao lociranog i datiranog proizvoda konkretnih ljudskih aktera. Obuhvaćeni su postkolonijalna i dekolonijalna kritika, studije globalnih akademskih hi...
У раду се анализирају стратегије којима се у јавном дискурсу, у
контексту пандемије ковида 19, председник Републике Србије представља
као инстанца која управља целокупним друштвеним одговором на кризу
и о свему брине, чиме се поткопава подела власти и аутономија институ-
ционалних сфера.
The aim of the edited volume “Experiencing Postsocialist Capitalism – Urban Changes and Challenges in Serbia” is to explore current urban developments in Serbia, a former Yugoslav country, three decades after socialism.
Contributions in this book deal with challenges stemming from the socio-spatial transformation of Serbian cities under the influe...
U radu se preispituje metod polustrukturisanih intervjua kroz primer istraživanja gradova srednje veličine u Srbiji. Analizom transkripata pokazuje se da je saznajni kvalitet dobijenih podataka varirao u zavisnosti od položaja ispitanika u lokalnoj institucionalnoj strukturi, te su intervjui sa predstavnicima političkih i društvenih ustanova poprim...
The paper reexamines the semi-structured interview method on the basis of data collected in a study of medium-sized Serbian towns. The analysis of transcripts shows that the analytic quality of data varied depending on the interviewee?s position in the local institutional structure, so that in interviews with representatives of political and social...
Using a typology of urban symbolism, the identity of Belgrade is reconstructed on the basis of accounts by a sample of city residents, foreigners and locals, who work in international companies and organizations. The component of behavioral symbolism is found to prevail, referring to the place?s atmosphere, mood, spirit, or energy. Next comes mater...
Monografija Gradovi u potrazi za identitetom Ivane Spasić i Vere Backović bavi se identitetom grada polazeći od jednog nerestriktivnog shvatanja centralnog pojma, kao manje ili više koherentne skupine obeležja koja jedan grad čine posebnim, prepoznatljivim i različitim od drugih. Simboli i drugi markeri prepoznatljivosti grada obuhvataju uobičajeno...
Рад је посвећен интерпретативним споровима око наслеђа Друштвене конструкције стварности. С једне стране, књига се уобичајено сматра једним од главних исходишта конструкционизма. С друге, сами Бергер и Лукман су се томе жестоко противили, тврдећи да конструкционизам, као интелектуални покрет, има другачије теоријске изворе и интенције, те да је неп...
Uzimajući kao polazište postupak Andrije Krešića kada je, ranih
sedamdesetih godina prošlog veka, podržao reizbor dvojice politički
nepodobnih asistenata na Filozofskom fakultetu i zbog toga
snosio posledice, u ovom radu se razmatra odnos između akademske
ustanove i njenog društvenog okruženja u Srbiji tokom
proteklih decenija, u svetlu teorija dru...
Ivana Spasić in her chapter examines the concept of banal nationalism from a perspective embedded in the contemporary Serbian society as an instance of global semi-periphery. Such a vantage point helps detect three different, and sometimes divergent, meanings of the “banality” of banal nationalism: the geographical, the substantive, and the cogniti...
In this piece, we develop a more complex picture of the East-West divisions that have characterized much analysis of the region since the crisis began. By examining how differently positioned actors have responded, the migration flows become a heuristic for other important but less visible processes in post-socialist state formation and Euro-integr...
Starting from the concept of urban identity, defined as a set of unique features characterizing a city/town that set it apart from others and ensure its continuous recognizability, the paper takes the example of six urban centers in Serbia (Kragujevac, Šabac, Užice, Novi Pazar, Sombor and Zrenjanin) to examine the degree of consensus or divergence...
Apstrakt: Pojam identiteta grada, shvaćenog kao skup jedinstvenih osobina i obeležja koji obezbeđuje trajnu prepoznatljivost jednom gradu, po kojima se on razlikuje od drugih i priznaje kao poseban, a koja obuhvataju i pozitivne i negativne elemente prošlosti i sadašnjosti grada i zajedničkog iskustva njegovih stanovnika, primenjuje se na slučajeve...
Η εργασία αυτή αναψηλαφεί τις διαφορετικές σερβικές ερμηνείες ίου Τραύματος του Κοσσυφοπεδίου από την περίοδο της σέρβικης ανεξαρτησίας μέχρι σήμερα. Επικεντρώνεται στις διαφορετικές ερμηνείες οι οποίες χρησιμοποιούν τον θρύλο ως σημείο αναφοράς για να προσδώσουν σε αυτόν πολιτικές και πολιτισμικές διαστάσεις που συμβαδίζουν με τις ανάγκες κάθε επο...
The aim of this article is to bring together quantitative and qualitative methodologies in order to examine, within a broadly Bourdieusian theoretical framework, connections between positions in social space and strategies agents deploy in their everyday life. The data are derived from a study of social structure in today’s Serbia, combining survey...
U radu se analiziraju identiteti četiri grada u Srbiji – Kragujevca, Novog Pazara, Šapca i Užica – onako kako ih vide njihovi stanovnici i pripadnici lokalne elite. Identitet jednog grada može se definisati kao skup jedinstvenih osobina i obeležja koji obezbeđuje njegovu trajnu prepoznatljivost u poređenju s drugim gradovima, po kojima se on od nji...
Rather than being just abstract notions scholars write about, patriotism and cosmopolitanism are used by social actors in ongoing social life. Whether employed to name “us” and exalt the values of one’s own group, or to name “them” and stigmatize what the opponents stand for, the two terms have long served as potent discursive weapons in the strugg...
У раду се анализирају развијеност идентитета одабраних градова – Крагу-
јевца, Новог Пазара, Шапца и Ужица – и однос њихових становника према њима
(везаност), како кроз осећање припадања, тако и кроз перцепцију степена задово-
љавања потреба. У погледу везаности за место, испитујемо, прво, колико су стано-
вници везани за свој град у склопу једне о...
U ovom tekstu se rekonstruiše slika života u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji kakvu opisuju obični ljudi u Srbiji danas, a na osnovu empirijskih podataka prikupljenih fokusgrupnim intervjuima. Pokazuje se da je ta slika saglasna s nalazima brojnih drugih studija jugonostalgije: žali se za materijalnim blagostanjem, socijalnom sigurnošću, prilikama za za...
Our study “Social and Cultural Capital in Serbia” focuses on the investigation of
the structure of the distribution of various types and sub-types of capital - which represent
the immanent structure of society in Serbia - and of the strategies of individuals
and social groups based on different combinations of these resources. In this study
we were...
: Za razliku od uobičajenog mišljenja da Kliford Gerc i Pjer Burdije oličavaju suprotstavljene paradigme u društvenoj nauci, ovde se pokušava pokazati da njih povezuje niz sličnosti na planu teorije, istraživačke prakse i etike naučnog rada. Posle kratkog prikaza stvarnog susreta ove dvojice naučnika ranih 1970ih godina, u tekstu se identifikuju sl...
The concept of „Third Serbia“ has recently been offered within the public arena in Serbia as the alternative to the former division into „First“ and „Other“ Serbia. Yet a whole array of ways „Third Serbia“ is discursively constructed hides behind this single name. What they all share is an explicit call to overcome divisions and cleavages, which ar...
Unutar širokog polja koje pokriva odnos između prevođenja i društvenog, ovaj rad se usredsređuje na sociologiju prevođenja u užem smislu reči, a naročito na paradigmu koja je utemeljena sociološkim pristupom Pjera Burdijea i njegovih saradnika. Najpre se kratko ocrtava evolucija kojom se poimanje prevođenja od formalnih jezičkih i književnih analiz...
Циљ овога рада јесте да идентификује, кратко представи и прокоментарише неколико питања око којих се, према мишљењу ауторке, воде најживље и најплодоносније дебате у социолошкој теорији данас. Издвојене су четири теме: појам друштва, појам критике, јавни ангажман социолога и епистемолошко-методолошки комплекс (опис-разумевање-објашњење). У раду се...
The paper offers a critical reading of recent literature on cosmopolitanism, from a perspective theoretically informed by Bourdieu and shaped by the experiential and intellectual context of southeast Europe as the semiperiphery. Several blind spots are identified, the most important one being insufficient self-reflection on the part of major contri...
Politika i značenje: dometi jednog kulturalističkog pogleda na političku sferu (povodom knjige: Jeffrey C. Alexander 2010. The Performance of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press) Krajem 2010. godine izašla je nova knjiga istaknutog američkog sociologa Džefrija Aleksandera pod naslovom The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Dem...
The aim of this paper is to indicate some trends in the changing political culture in Serbia from the point of view of ordinary citizens. Discussions of political and economic transitions in Eastern Europe have tended to privilege the top-down approach, presenting general outlines and macro-processes. This paper on the contrary starts from the assu...
The paper contains a retrospective of the thesis that 'social learning' may be deployed as analytical framework to understand political change in Serbia, first proposed in 2001. The thesis contends that the events immediately before and after the toppling of Milošević's regime in 2000 may be interpreted as outcomes of a process of co...
The paper analyzes the theoretical opus of Bruno Latour and his treatment of the concept of critique. In the first section "actor-network theory" is presented through its key notions (actant, network, translation, associations) together with Latour’s theory of modernity. In the second section various aspects of the relation between Latour and criti...
The paper offers an analysis of the interview data collected in the project "Politics and everyday life: Three years later" in terms of three main topics: attitudes to the political sphere, change of social system, and the democratic public sphere. The analysis focuses on ambivalences expressed in the responses which, under the surface of overall d...
Three years afterwards, the political significance of the events of October 5, 2000 in Serbia, when massive protests forced S. Milosevic to step down, is examined. Was this date historical in that it shows evidence of, and is a factor in, more democracy and tolerance in Serbian politics? To answer this crucial question, empirical data about how the...
Starting from an understanding of civil society that combines the descriptive aspect of the concept with an analysis of the normative connotations it carries in public discourse, this paper discusses the current condition of civil society in Serbia against the backdrop of its tumultuous recent history. This backdrop is presented in the form of a br...
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Projekat Izazovi nove društvene integracije u Srbiji: koncepti i akteri, finansiran od Ministarstva prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja (evidencioni broj 179035), pod rukovodstvom prof. dr Mladena Lazića okuplja ukupno 40 istraživača. Projekat se sastoji iz 3 potprojekta: 1) Promene osnovnih struktura srpskog društva (makro-strukturni aspekt); 2) Karakteristike teritorijalnog kapitala u Srbiji – strukturni i delatni potencijal lokalnog razvoja (mezo-strukturni aspekt); 3) Strukturalne i promene delatnog potencijala na porodičnom i individualnom nivou – generacijska i rodna perspektiva (mikro-strukturni aspekt), u okviru kojeg se obrađuju dve opšte teme: Mladi kao akteri društvene integracije i Politike roditeljstva.
