Мир, сукоб и популарна култура

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The aim of this course is to familiarize students with major debates in peace and conflcit studies as well as key peace and conflict dynamics in major conflict-affected regions of the world through popular culture. The course is divided into an intro and 11 weeks of lectures/discussions accompanied by two reading weeks and an exam. While the first week is devoted to a theoretical introduction on the use of popular culture in researching peace and conflict, the rest of the course is covering different aspects of popular culture and its relevance for peace, conflict and peacebuilding. Each topic is accompanied by a reading list that covers both the theoretical and empirical issues which will be discussed during the week. Lectures, seminars and fieldwork constitute the primary forms of teaching this course. While the lectures introduce the students to overall topic, seminars and fieldwork are devoted to discussing (and practicing) these issues through everyday expiriences.

Исходи учења (стечена знања)

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with major debates in peace and conflcit studies as well as key peace and conflict dynamics in major conflict-affected regions of the world through popular culture. The course is divided into an intro and 11 weeks of lectures/discussions accompanied by two reading weeks and an exam. While the first week is devoted to a theoretical introduction on the use of popular culture in researching peace and conflict, the rest of the course is covering different aspects of popular culture and its relevance for peace, conflict and peacebuilding. Each topic is accompanied by a reading list that covers both the theoretical and empirical issues which will be discussed during the week. Lectures, seminars and fieldwork constitute the primary forms of teaching this course. While the lectures introduce the students to overall topic, seminars and fieldwork are devoted to discussing (and practicing) these issues through everyday expiriences.

Садржај теоријске наставе

1. Peace, Conflict and Popular Culture: A Conceptual Framework
2. Peace and Movie: The Oslo
3. Conflict and Movie: The Tangerines
4. Peace and Urban Landscapes: Walls and (In)visible Borders
5. Conflict and Urban Landscapes: Belgrade tour
6. Everyday Peace Fieldwork: Public Spaces
7. Peacebuilding and Street Art
8. Peace and Museums: Visit to the Museum of Yugoslavia
9. Hybrid Peace and LEGO
10. Internet, Social Networks and Reconciliation
11. Conflict and Board Games: Brotherhood and Unity
12. Peace and Video Games: Video Game: Papers, Please
13. Conflict and Anime: Attack on Titan
14. Reading week
15. Exam

1. Richmond, Oliver, Sandra Poggoda and Jasmin Ramović (eds). 2016. The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace;

2. Nexon, Daniel and Iver B. Neumann (eds). 2006. Harry Potter and World Politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers;

3. McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan. 2018. Peace and resistance in youth cultures. Reading the Politics of Peacebuilding from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. London: Palgrave Macmillan;

4. Collier, Paul and Nicholas Sambanis (eds). 2005. Understanding civil war. Volume 2: Europe, Central Asia and other regions. Washington, DC: The World Bank (Chapter 9: Civil Wars in Caucasus);

5. Alon Gelbman, Alon. 2008. Border Tourism in Israel: Conflict, Peace, Fear and Hope, Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment, 10:2, 193-213;

6. Shapira, Harel. 2013. The Border: Infrastructure of the Global. Public Culture 25 (2 70): 249–260;

7. Ejdus, Filip. 2017. ‘Not a Heap of Stones’: Material Environments and Ontological Security in International Relations’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30 (1): 23–43;

8. Mac Ginty, Roger. 2014. Everyday Peace: Bottom-up and Local Agency in Conflict-Affected Societies. Security Dialogue 45(6): 548-564;

9. Vogel, Birte, Catherine Arthur, Eric Lepp, Dylan O’Driscoll, and Billy Tusker Haworth. 2020. Reading Socio-Political and Spatial Dynamics through Graffiti in Conflict-Affected Societies.” Third World Quarterly 41 (12): 2148–68;

10. Fridman, Orli. 2022. Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press;

11. Ejdus, FIlip, Đorđe Krivokapić, Rastko Popović, Milan Varda, Marko Kovačević i Aleksandra Ilić-Rajković. 2025. Assessing 'Hedgemony: A Game of Strategic Choices' as a Pedagogical Tool in International Relations. Journal of Political Science Education;

12. Power, Marcus. 2007. “Digitized Virtuosity: Video War Games and Post-9/11 Cyber-Deterrence”. Security Dialogue, 38 (2): 271-288

13. Livingstone Smith, David. 2016. “Paradoxes of Dehumanization”. Social Theory and Practice, 42 (2): 416-443

Lectures and seminars, ethnographic fieldwork, discussion, participation with observation, board games, guided tours