Ivan Rajković

Ivan finished his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Manchester in 2015. After that, he was a Mellon Fellow at SSEES, University College London between 2015 and 2017, and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology between 2017 and 2019. Ivan’s first research dealt with the transformations of labour, welfare and patronage relations in the aftermath of a Yugoslav car plant ‘Zastava’. In 2019, he started a new postdoctoral project at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna, focusing on water grabbing, eco-populism and intergenerational relations in the Balkan Mountains.
Research
Rivers to the people: water grabs, population ageing and eco-populist unrest in the Balkan mountains
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/