Jelena Dureinovic

Dr. Jelena Dureinovic is a postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of the Research Platform for the Study of Eastern Europe and Transformations at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in history from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where she taught Eastern European history. Dureinovic is particularly interested in memory cultures and politics in post-conflict and post-socialist contexts as well as the politics of memory in contemporary authoritarianism and populism. Most of her work revolves around the role, actors and practices of memory in the post-Yugoslav space with wider implications for other regions.

Memory Politics: Serbia’s Genocide Denial

May 24, 2021

In January this year, the public attention was drawn to a Serbian souvenir shop selling shirts with the inscription “Noz, Zica” (“Knife, Wire”), the slogan celebrating the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica where the Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. The Belgrade-based shop specializes in streetwear...

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Jelena Dureinovic

Memory Politics: Serbia’s Genocide Denial