Books
Jovanović, Deana. 2025. Staging the promises: everyday future-making in an industrial town in Serbia. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles
Jovanović, Deana. 2025. “The family as a refuge? Ethnographic insights into gendered dimensions of a household debt in an industrial town in Serbia”, Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 101, 13–24. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2025.1010102
Jovanović, Deana and Dragan Stojmenovic. 2022. "The export of know-how at the (semi-)peripheries: the case of Yugoslav–Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991)." Labor History 64(4):443–459 https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2023.2173728
Jovanović, Deana. 2021. "Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia". Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale 29(3): 586-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13093
Jovanović, Deana, Tuvikene, Tauri, Sgibnev, Wladimir, Zupan, Daniela, Neugebauer, Carola. 2019. “Post-socialist infrastructuring“, Area: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12590
Jovanović, Deana. 2018. “Prosperous Pollutants: Bargaining with Risks and Forging Hopes in an Industrial Town in Serbia”, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 83(3): 489-504, https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2016.1169205
Jovanović, Deana. 2018. “The Politics of Simulation. Fake Repairs in a Serbian Industrial Town”, Südosteuropa. Journal of Politics and Society 66(1): 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2018-0003
Jovanović, Deana. 2018. “Engaging with precarity: the fatiguing job seeking journey of an early career anthropologist”, Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares 73(1), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2018.01.001.03
Jovanović, Deana. 2016 “Ambivalence and the study of contradictions”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(3): 1–6. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.14318/hau6.3.002
Book chapters
Jovanović, Deana. 2019. “The thermodynamics of the social contract: making infrastructures visible in the case of district heating in two towns in Serbia and Croatia”, in Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures, edited by T. Tuvikene, Sgibnev, W and Neugebauer, C. S, pp.38-53. London: Routledge. Open access link: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351190350/chapters/10.4324/9781351190350-3
Peer-reviewed essays
Jovanović, Deana. 2022. “Making the futures in the capitalist landscape of performative promises” Anthropology News website, July 7, 2022. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/making-futures-in-the-capitalist-landscape-of-performative-promises
Jovanović, Deana. 2016. “Heroic Endurance under the Smoke: Ethnographic Notes from an Industrial Town in Serbia”, Toxic News.
Publicaties
2023
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Jovanović, D., & Stojmenović, D. (2023). The export of know-how at the (semi)peripheries: The case of Yugoslav-Iranian industrial collaboration and labor mobility (1980–1991). Labour History. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2023.2173728
2022
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Jovanović, D. (2022). Guljenje infrastrukture i „reciklaža” skinutog bakra: proizvodnja države u industrijskom gradu u Srbiji. Beležnica: Journal of librarianship, literature and culture, 27-46.
Vakpublicaties
Jovanović, D. (Author). (2022). Making the futures in the capitalist landscape of performative promises. Web publication/site, Anthropology News. https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/making-futures-in-the-capitalist-landscape-of-performative-promises/#citation
2021
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Jovanović, D. (2021). How will we live together?”: Reflections on the role of anthropology in post-truth era and in the age of populism at toxic European peripheries. Manuscript in preparation. In PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Jovanović, D. (2021). Staging the Futures: Ethnography of Future-Making Practices in an Industrial Town In Serbia. Cornell University Press.
Jovanović, D. (2021). The family as a refuge? Ethnographic insights into gendered dimensions of a household debt in an industrial town in Serbia. Manuscript in preparation.
Jovanović, D. (2021). Urban infrastructure, urbanity and class mobility in an industrial town in Serbia. Manuscript in preparation.
Jovanović, D. (2021). Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 586-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13093
2020
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Tuvikene, T., W. Sgibnew, W. Zupan, D. Neugebauer, & Jovanović, D. (2020). Post-socialist infrastructuring. Area, 52(3), 575-582. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12590
2019
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Jovanović, D. (2019). The thermodynamics of the social contract: Making infrastructures visible in the case of district heating in two towns in Serbia and Croatia. In T. Tuvikene, W. Sgibnev, D. Jovanovic, & D. Neugebauer (Eds.), Post Socialist Urban Infrastructures (pp. 38-53). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351190350-3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391555/Thermodynamics_of_the_social_contract.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391555/Thermodynamics_of_the_social_contract.pdf?sequence=1
Serbian language book chapter
Jovanović, Deana. 2024. “O nekropolitikama i osvajanju vremena i prostora: etnografske crtice iz vlaškog sela koje će progutati kop“ [On necropolitics and the conquest of time and space: ethnographic sketches from a Wallachian village that will swallow the pit], in Stojmenović, D. (ed.) Krivelj: monografija sela. [Krivelj: Monography of a Village], 581-610.
Translation of peer-reviewed articles to Serbian language
Jovanović, Deana. 2022. Guljenje infrastrukture i „reciklaža” skinutog bakra: proizvodnja države u industrijskom gradu u Srbiji, Beležnica 43, pp.27-46. https://www.biblioteka-bor.org.rs/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BELEZNICA-43.pdf
Serbian language publications (peer-reviewed)
Jovanović, Deana. 2011. “On Gender, Subjectivities and Experiences: Facing the Past and Feminist Politics of Solidarity”, Philosophy and Society 22(1): 219–243.
Jovanović, Deana. 2011. “Social Welfare, Population Politics and Bioethics of Care – Analysis of Media Representation”, in Drezgic, R. Radinkovic Ž, and Krstic, P. (eds.) The Horizon of Bioethics: Morality in Times of Assisted Reproductive Technology. Beograd: Službeni glasnik, pp. 87-105.
Jovanović, Deana. 2008. “Identity for Sale – Construction of National Identity for the Needs of Tourism”, The Journal of the Institute of Ethnography of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 56(1): 101-115.
Other Serbian language publications
Jovanović, Deana. 2013. Bor Forward >> Zamišljanje Buducnosti [Bor Forward >> Imagining the Future]. Bor: Public Library of Bor.