Peer-reviewed articles

Jovanovic, 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, https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2023.2173728 

Jovanovic, Deana. 2021. "Infrastructural stripping and ‘recycling’ of copper: producing the state in an industrial town in Serbia". Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13093 

Jovanovic, Deana, Tuvikene, Tauri, Sgibnev, Wladimir, Zupan, Daniela, Neugebauer, Carola. 2019. “Post-socialist infrastructuring“, Area: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12590

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, Deana. 2016. “Heroic Endurance under the Smoke: Ethnographic Notes from an Industrial Town in Serbia”, Toxic News. 

In preparation (peer-reviewed journal articles)

Book manuscript. Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making Practices In an Industrial Town In Serbia. 

Special issue: Makeshift infrastructures (with Dr. Maria Salaru)

"The family as a refuge? Ethnographic insights into gendered dimensions of a household debt in an industrial town in Serbia", Focaal. 

"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".

In preparation. "Urban infrastructure, urbanity and class mobility in an industrial town in Serbia".

Translation of peer-reviewed articles to Serbian language 

Jovanovic, 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)

Jovanovic, Deana. 2011. “On Gender, Subjectivities and Experiences: Facing the Past and Feminist Politics of Solidarity”, Philosophy and Society 22(1): 219–243.

Jovanovic, 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.

Jovanovic, 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

Jovanovic, Deana. 2013. Bor Forward >> Zamišljanje Buducnosti [Bor Forward >> Imagining the Future]. Bor: Public Library of Bor.