The Scent of Ajvar and the Scent of Lavender is a cultural-psychological study that looks at how young people in Serbia, born in the 1990s, understand, perceive, and envision their ethnic belonging, as well as the practices of their ethnic socialization. The particularity of this generation is that it has no personal memories of the period before the Yugoslav wars and dissolution of the country, events which, driven by nationalist ideology, shaped their early childhood and understanding of ethnicity and nationality. The book is critical in nature, basing its criticism of ethnonationalist identifications not only on socio-theoretical and political ground, but reveals it in quotidian experiences of autonomy and resistance among young people.

Učesnici:

• dr Biljana Stanković, Psychology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade
• dr Jelena Vasiljević, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
• dr Igor Cvejić, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
• Tijana Nikitović, Institute for Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade

Moderator: dr Milan Urošević, IFDT

Ana Đorđević (1991) is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory. She obtained her PhD in Psychology at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy. She does research in sociocultural and critical psychology, qualitative methodologies, on the issues of social engagement, identity, and subjectivity. She published several articles in national and international journals, as well as one monography.

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