Dr Stef Jansen

publications (chronologically until July 2022)

books

2020 Čežnja u medjuvremenu: 'normalan život' i država u jednom sarajevskom naselju (transl. A Bajazetov). Beograd: XX Vek.

2020 Razlog za dom [transl. IEF]. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.

2016 Negotiating social relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: semiperipheral entanglements. London: Routledge. (co-edited with Č Brković and V Čelebičić).

2015 HB / 2018 PB Yearnings in the Meantime: 'normal lives' and the state in a Sarajevo apartment complex. Oxford: Berghahn. See also focaalblog.

2008 HB / 2011 PB Struggles for home: violence, hope and the movement of people. Oxford: Berghahn. (co-edited with S Löfving)

2005 Antinacionalizam: etnografija otpora u Zagrebu i Beogradu (transl. A Bajazetov). Beograd: XX Vek. Sold out. Download PDF here.

 

articles and chapters

2021a 'The anthropology of hope' In: Aldenderfer M. et al. (eds) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford UP.

2021b 'Intervju s Stefom Jansenom' Etnološka tribina 44:51, 241-252.

2021c 'Invited Contribution to De facto states and the everyday paradoxes of non-recognition. Book Forum on "Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State" (R Bryant & M Hatay)' Anthropological Theory 32:3, 404-407.

2021d 'Invited Comment on Anick Vollebergh, Anouk de Koning, and Milena Marchesi's article "Intimate states: techniques and entanglements of governing through community in Europe"' Current Anthropology 62:6, 757-758.

2020a 'Efekat štafete: Pruga i njeni odjeci' Petrović T. & Matošević A. (eds) Duh pruge, zbornik radova o knjizi E.P. Thompsona; Pruga: Avantura izgradnje. Beograd: Fabrika knjiga. 269-282.

2020b 'The ethnography of home-making' In: Boccagni P., Belloni M. & Pérez Murcia L. (eds) Thinking home on the move: a conversation across disciplines. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. 86-90.

2019a 'Anthropological (in)fidelities to Alain Badiou' Anthropological Theory 19:2, 238-258.

2019b 'Yearnings: On keeping the present and the past at the heart of an anthropology of the future' American Ethnologist online Collection on 'Orientations to the Future', March 2019

2019c 'A lively border: Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia on the shifting banks of the Drina' In: Montgomery D. (ed) Everyday life in the Balkans. Bloomington: Indiana UP. 230-238. (with Č Brković)

2018a 'Materialising the border-as-line in Sarajevo' In: Demetriou O. & Dimova R. (eds) The political materialities of borders: new theoretical directions. Manchester: Manchester UP. 84-102.

2018b 'Reconfiguring "the people"? Notes on the 2014 Winter revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina' In: Kalb D. & Mollona M. (eds) Worldwide mobilizations: class struggles and urban commoning. Oxford: Berghahn. 52-72.

2018c '(Ne)događaji u Daytonskom Međuvremenu' In: Ćurak N., Brand J., Turčalo S. & Zagić S. (eds) Politike izgradnje mira u regiji: opterećenja prošlosti i vizije budućnosti. Sarajevo: Fakultet Političkih Nauka & forumZFD. 158-171.

2016a 'For a relational, historical ethnography of hope : indeterminacy and determination in the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Meantime' History and Anthropology 27:4, 447-464.

2016b 'Hope over time: crisis, immobility and future-making' History and Anthropology 27:4, 373-392. (with N Kleist)

2016c 'First as tragedy, then as teleology: the politics/people dichotomy in the ethnography of Post-Yugoslav nationalisation' Conflict & Society 2, 164-180.

2016d 'Ethnography and the choices posed by the "affective turn"' In: Povrzanović Frykman M. & Frykman J. (eds) Sensitive objects: affects and material culture. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. 55-78.

2016e 'New ethnographic perspectives on mature Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina' In: Jansen S., Brković Č. & Čelebičić V. (eds) Negotiating social relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: semiperipheral entanglements. London: Routledge. (with Č Brković and V Čelebičić)

2016f 'Afterword: materialising post-Yugoslav space' Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest (Numéro Spécial: Habiter l'espace post-Yougoslave) 47:1-2, 275-286.

2016g 'Ako je pomirenje odgovor, da li postavljamo prava pitanja?' [transl. Inicijativa REKOM] www.recom.link/bs [translation of 2013 'If reconciliation is the answer, are we asking the right questions?' Studies in Social Justice 7:2, 229-243]

2016h 'Raseljenost, rod i dobrostanje' [transl. S Porobić] In: Porobić S. (ed).Rodna studija prisilne migracije i psihosocijalnog dobrostanja u Bosni i Hercegovini. Sarajevo: Fondacija za osnaživanje žena. 17-30. (with S Porobić)

2015 'Anticipation, interpellation and confession on the road to the border' Journal of Borderlands Studies 30:2, 151-162.

2014a 'Hope for/against the state: gridding in a besieged Sarajevo suburb' Ethnos 79:2, 238-260.

2014b 'On not moving well enough: temporal reasoning in Sarajevo yearnings for "normal lives"' Current Anthropology 55:S9, S74-S84.

2014c 'Rebooting politics? Or, towards a <Ctrl-Alt-Del> for the Dayton Meantime' In: Arsenijević D. (ed) Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina: the fight for the commons. Baden-Baden/Zagreb: Nomos. 89-96.

2013a 'People and things in the ethnography of borders: materialising the division of Sarajevo' Social Anthropology 21:1, 23-37.

2013b 'If reconciliation is the answer, are we asking the right questions?' Studies in Social Justice 7:2, 229-243.

2012 'Predgovor / Foreword' (transl. S Madacki & M Karamehić) U: Madacki S. & Karamehić M. (eds) Dvije škole pod jednim krovom: studija o segregaciji u obrazovanju. Sarajevo: Centar za ljudska prava / ACIPS. ix-xviii, xix-xxviii.

2011a 'Refuchess: locating Bosniac repatriates after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina' Population, Space and Place 17:2, 140-152.

2011b 'Anticipirajući "hej ti tamo!": interpelacija na putu do granice' [transl. M Simić] Političke perspektive 3:1, 7-28.

2010a 'Of wolves and men: postwar reconciliation and the gender of inter-national encounters' Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 57, 33-49.

2010b 'Pet teških pitanja o pomirenju' [transl. A Semić & M Ostojić] In: Kruh Sv. Ante (eds) Trauma i pomirenje 2. Sarajevo: Trauma centar.

2010c 'Tko se boji bijelih čarapa' [ transl. A Rudić] Zarez: dvotjednik za kulturna i društvena zbivanja Siječanj 2010, 276, 12-13.

2009a 'After the red passport: towards an anthropology of the everyday geopolitics of entrapment in the EU's immediate outside' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15:4, 815-832.

2009b 'The white plague: national-demographic rhetoric and its gendered resonance after the post-Yugoslav wars' In: Eifler C. & Seifert R. (eds) Gender Dynamics and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Frankfurt: Lang. 219-243. (with E Helms)

2009c 'Hope and the state in the anthropology of home: preliminary notes' Ethnologia Europaea 39:1, 54-60.

2009d 'In memoriam: crveni pasoš. O svakodnevnoj geopolitici zatočenosti' [transl. A Bajazetov] In: Ðerić G. (ed.) Pamćenje i nostalgija: neki prostori, oblici, lica i naličja. Beograd: Filip Višnjić. 11-42.

2008a 'Misplaced masculinities: status loss and the location of gendered subjectivities amongst "non-transnational" Bosnian refugees' Anthropological Theory 8:2, 181-200.

2008b 'Cosmopolitan openings and closures in post-Yugoslav antinationalism' In: Nowicka M. & Rovisco M. (eds) Cosmopolitanism in practice. Aldershot: Ashgate. 75-92.

2008c ' "Home" and return in the foreign intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina: an anthropological critique' In: Haynes D.F. (ed) Deconstructing the reconstruction: human rights and rule of law in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. Aldershot: Ashgate. 31-53.

2008d 'Frajer i otac: međunacionalna prepoznavanja muškosti poslije rata u Bosni i Hercegovini' [transl. S Kalapoš Gasparač] In: Jambrešić-Kirin R. & Prlenda S. (eds) Promišljanje sjevera i juga u postkolonijalnosti. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku / Centar za ženske studije. 42-62.

2008e 'Reconsidering postsocialism from the margins of Europe: hope, time and normalcy in post-Yugoslav societies' Anthropology News 49:8, 10-11 (with A Gilbert, J Greenberg & E Helms).

2007a 'Remembering with a difference: clashing memories of Bosnian conflict in everyday life' In: Bougarel X., Duijzings G. & Helms E. (eds) The new Bosnian mosaic: social identities, collective memories and moral claims in a post-war society. Aldershot: Ashgate. 193-208.

2007b 'Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of "home" in Bosnia-Herzegovina' Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 49, 15-30.

2007c 'Violence, movement and the making of home' Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology 49, 3-14 (with S Löfving).

2007d Invited Comment on Robert Hayden's article "Moral vision and impaired insight: the imagining of other peoples' communities in Bosnia" Current Anthropology 48:1, 120-121.

2006a 'The privatisation of home and hope: return, reforms and the foreign intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina' Dialectical Anthropology 30:3-4, 177-199.

2006b 'The (dis)comfort of conformism: post-war nationalism and coping with powerlessness in Croatian villages' In: Otto T., Thrane H. & Vandkilde H. (eds) Warfare and society: archaeological and social anthropological perspectives. Aarhus: Aarhus UP. 433-446.

2005a 'National numbers in context: maps and stats in representations of the post-Yugoslav wars' Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 12:1, 45-68.

2005b 'Who's afraid of white socks? Towards a critical understanding of post-Yugoslav urban self-perceptions' Ethnologia Balkanica 9, 151-167.

2003 'Why do they hate us? Everyday Serbian nationalist knowledge of Muslim hatred' Journal of Mediterranean Studies 13:2, 215-237.

2002a 'The violence of memories: local narratives of the past after ethnic cleansing in Croatia' Rethinking History 6:1, 77-93.

2002b 'Svakodnevni orijentalizam: doživljaj 'Balkana'/'Evrope' u Beogradu i Zagrebu' [transl. I Spasić] Filozofija i društvo: Journal of the Belgrade Institute for Social Research and Philosophy 18: 33-72.

2002c 'Notes on ethnography, everyday lives and the post-Yugoslav wars' Living Beyond Conflict Newsletter 1:2.

2001 'The Streets of Beograd: Urban Space and Protest Identities in Serbia' Political Geography 20:1, 35-556.

2000a 'Victims, Underdogs and Rebels: Discursive Practices of Resistance in Serbian Protest' Critique of Anthropology 20:4, 393-420.

2000b 'Up-routings: a critical engagement with identity and/in movement' Anthropology in Action 7:1-2, 2-10. (with D Heller and C Oliver)

1999a 'Identities, memories and ideologies [Review essay of four books]' Social Anthropology 7:3, 327-332.

1999b 'Against cultural anaesthesia: identity, nationalism and modernity in former Yugoslavia' In: Sfikas T. & Williams C. (eds) Nationalism and ethnicity in E-C Europe and the Balkans. London: Ashgate. 271-293.

1998a 'Homeless at home: narrations of post-Yugoslav identities' In: Rapport N. & Dawson A. (eds) Migrants of Identity: perceptions of "home" in a world of movement. Oxford: Berg. 85-109.

1998b 'Een Ander Kroatie: de nationalistische konsensus en stemmen in de marge' [An Other Croatia: the nationalist consensus and voices from the margins, written in Dutch] Oosteuropa Verkenningen 152, 69-82.

 

working papers

2011 'Anticipating Hey You There. Interpellation on the road to the border' Working Paper 97 (WS1) for the COST Action IS0803 Network on Remaking Eastern Borders [www.eastbordnet.org]
2010 'Sovereignty and practical geography on a very material immaterial border' Working Paper 71 (WG1) for the COST Action IS0803 Network on Remaking Eastern Borders [www.eastbordnet.org]
2009a 'Borders and Horizons of Possibility' Working Paper 59 (WS4) for the COST Action IS0803 Network on Remaking Eastern Borders [www.eastbordnet.org]
2009b 'After the red passport' Working Paper 30 (WG4) for the COST Action IS0803 Network on Remaking Eastern Borders [www.eastbordnet.org]

 

book reviews

2015 Review of After the revolution: youth, democracy and the politics of disappointment in Serbia (J Greenberg, Stanford UP) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21:3, 688-689.
2011a Review of Peines de guerre: La justice pénale internationale et l'ex-Yougoslavie (Eds. I Delpla & M Bessone, EHESS) [transl. R Bouyssou] Critique Internationale 51, 181-185.
2011b Review of Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope (F Markowitz, Illinois UP) Slavonica 17:1, 71-72.
2003 Review of The Spirit of Terrorism (Jean Baudrillard, Verso) Living beyond Conflict Newsletter 4-6.
2001 Review of Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. (T Bringa, Princeton UP) Social Anthropology 9:2, 227-228.
1999 'Imaginary migrations [Review essay of Cross-cultural Consumption (Howes) and International migration, Immobility and Development (Hamar et al.)]' Anthropology in Action 6:2.
1998 Review of Neighbours at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. (J Halpern & D Kideckel, eds, Penn State UP) Social Anthropology 6:1, 150-151.

 

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