Senior Research Fellow

jelena.vasiljevic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

CURRICULUM VITAE

Vasiljević Jelena

Jelena Vasiljević is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her background is in political anthropology and citizenship studies. Her expertise and research interests include theories of citizenship, citizenship transformations in the post-Yugoslav states, memory politics, civic engagement, and social movements in South-East Europe. Presently, she is primarily interested in theories and practices of solidarity. She was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on an ERC project on citizenship transformations in the former Yugoslav states (CITSEE), and a Research Fellow at the Centre for South East European Studies, University of Graz. She is currently involved, as a national coordinator, in a Horizon 2020 (European Commission) project EnTrust. Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions, effects and remedies. She is the author of the awarded book The Anthropology of Citizenship (in Serbian, 2016). Her articles appeared in Nations and Nationalism, Citizenship Studies, and East European Politics and Societies, among other journals. She was an expert member of The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).

Latest publications

Peer-reviewed articles

  • (2023) A Crisis of Political Solidarity in the European Union and the Western Balkans: Reactive vs. Institutional Solidarity, Southeastern Europe. L’Europe du Sud-Est (46)3: 225-247.
  • (2022) with Ana Đorđević, The effects of deliberation on citizen knowledge, attitudes and preferences: a case study of a Belgrade deliberative mini public, Philosophy and Society [Filozofija i društvo] 33(1): 72-97.
  • (2021) Solidarity reasoning and citizenship agendas: from socialist Yugoslavia to neoliberal Serbia, East European Politics & Societies and Cultures 35(2): 271-292.
  • (2021) Memorialization of the Past through Artistic Forms: Rememberance of the Partisan Movement During and After Yugoslavia, Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 16 (3): 899–915.

Books

  • (2022) with Bojana Radovanović, Lokalne fondacije u Srbiji: Osnaživanje odozdo – uloga, izazovi i perspektive za razvoj lokalnih fondacija. Beograd: Trag fondacija i Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju.

Book chapters

  • (2022) Local Activism as a Challenge to the Ethnocentric Model of Citizenship in the Western Balkans?, In: Filip Balunović, Belgzim Kamberi, Aleksandar Pavlović & Visar Ymeri (eds.), Kosovo – Serbia: A Different Approach, Pristina and Belgrade: Institute for Social Policy Musine Kokalari & Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, pp. 123-134.

Policy briefs, Working Papers and non-peer reviewed articles