is an anthropologist. Her PhD thesis explored the official memory of the 1990s wars in Serbia and its affective dimensions, conveyed through various performative practices such as exhibitions, monuments, commemorations, theatre and reenactments. She was a Central European University (CEU) and Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) fellow in 2024-5.
When NATO intervened in the Yugoslav wars on 24 March 1999, depleted uranium weaponry punctured Serbian targets across the region, leaving permanent contamination behind. Populists, whose victim narrative gained ground, now position nuclear as the solution to energy dependency. But how can public fear and security be one and the same?