Ivan Rajković
Ivan finished his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Manchester in 2015. Before coming to University of Vienna as a University Assistant Postdoc, he was a Mellon Fellow at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.
Ivan’s research combines economic, political and environmental anthropology to explore transformations of debt and obligation in South East European economies. His first project, The Gift of Labour, explored the making of an “indebted worker” in a post-Yugoslav car factory after deindustrialization. His new research, How to Inherit a Mountain, explores socio-economic effects of the energy transition, particularly from the point of view of environmentalist activists fighting hydropower and cattle herders in Serbia.
Research
How to inherit a mountain: equivalences of life in the Balkans’ environmental struggles
Recent Publications
Whose death, whose eco-revival?
Emerging varieties of work. In: A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (ed. James Carrier)
FIAT Automobiles Serbia: The Split Moral Economy of Public-Private Partnerships.
On the Side of Predictable. Visioning the Future in Serbia.
Introduction: Against the Green Screen.
Rivers to the people: Ecopopulist Universality in the Balkan Mountains.
Concern for the State: ‘Normality’, State Effect and Distributional Claims in Serbia
For an anthropology of the demoralized: state pay, mock-labour, and unfreedom in a Serbian firm
Contact
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Link: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/post-docs/ivan-rajkovic/