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Milica POPOVIC


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Académie autrichienne des sciences


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The Silence of Saying No: (Un)Remembering Deserters from the Yugoslav Wars

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia crumbled in violent wars in the 1990s that led to the loss of over 140,000 lives, and unfathomable consequences for the (post-)Yugoslav societies. The political elites, needing to legitimize the wars and demands for independence, resorted to different forms of nationalist mobilization and imposed ethnocentric narratives. However, media and nongovernmental reports have noted thousands of cases of desertion and draft evasion. Men sought refuge in neighboring countries or avoided participation in the wars in numerous other ways. Conscientious objection was not recognized by law at the time and/or not implemented, and the wartime regimes responded with (show) trials, threats, torture, and forced mobilizations. Many European countries, however, did not accept requests for asylum from deserters and war resisters from the (post-)Yugoslav space, despite their continuous calls for the wars to end. Today, acts of antiwar, but also anti-ethnonational, resistance during and after the Yugoslav wars are included in, or excluded from, official memory politics of the (post‑)Yugoslav states in accordance with the ideological aims of contemporary political struggles: through its epitomizing as an ultimate ethical act, or by purposefully forcing it into oblivion.




Popović, M. and N. Jagdhuhn. 2024. “From Revolution to Nation: Transformation of historical museums in (post-)Yugoslav Croatia and Serbia”. Special issue Remembering communism in South and Central-Eastern Europe: Politics and Cultures of Memory after 1989. Qualestoria. 52 (2), pp.21-45

Popovic, M. 2023. Yugoslavism in the 21st century. (Memory of) an Identity. Kuckuck. Notizen zur alltagskultur. 2/23: 16-23.

Dang, Q.A.; Matei, L. and Milica Popovic. 2023. Reimagining Academic Freedom: An Introduction. Special Issue on Academic Freedom. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education. 5 (2): 209-222. https://doi.org/10.3726/PTIHE.022023.0209

Popović, M. 2022. Bojana Videkanić, Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985. Balkanologie [En ligne]. Vol. 17 n° 1. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/balkanologie.4100

Popović, M. 2022. Goran Musić - Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class. The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories. Politička misao. 59 (2), 176-178. https://hrcak.srce.hr/281707

Popović, Milica, Matei, Liviu and Joly, Daniele. 2022. Changing Understandings of Academic Freedom in the World at the Time of Pandemic. Vienna: GOAF.

Popović, M. 2021. Anne Madelain, l’Expérience française des Balkans (1989-1999). Revue des études slaves, XCII-2 | 2021, 370-371. https://doi.org/10.4000/res.4588

Popović, M. and Natalija Majsova. (eds.) 2020. Memory landscapes in (post)Yugoslavia. The Historical Expertise. 4 (25): 61-209.