Every year on 11 July, the public sphere across the former Yugoslavia becomes, almost without fail, the arena for the same long-predictable…
In Podgorica, a new edition of Å piro KuliÅ”iÄās booklet On the Ethnogenesis of the Montenegrins has been published by the Dukljan Academy…
In 2017, I visited theĀ House of FlowersĀ in Belgrade, Serbia, the mausoleum that holds the remains of Yugoslaviaās once-indomitable leader,Ā Josip Broz Tito,Ā and his…
On 28 April 1999, prime minister Tony Blairās adviser John Sawers wrote a memo to his boss proposing a change in UK…
Maja BajeviÄ (b. 1967 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; lives and works in Paris, France) is an artist whose work incisively and wittily exposes…
Sonja Lokar is a Slovenian feminist, sociologist and politician who has over fifty years of extremely active political and feminist work behind…
As we approach a major anniversary, 80 years since the defeat of fascism, a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and…
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been well known for its socialist feminism ā the politics that helped to create a…
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