Dr. Čarna Brković
charnabrkovic@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
July 2014
Education
2012
Social Anthropology, Ph.D.
University of Manchester
Dissertation: Navigating Rules and Wills: Healthcare and Social
Protection in a Bosnian Border Town
Doctoral Advisors: Stef Jansen and Sarah Green.
PhD Committee: Frances Pine and Jonathan Mair
2007
Graduate Degree in Ethnology and Anthropology
Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of
Belgrade, Serbia
Dissertation: Fixing Signifiers: Anthropological Interpretation of
the Concept of ‘Culture’ used in the 2006 Constitution of the
Republic of Serbia
Research Positions
2014
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Southeast European Studies,
University of Graz, Austria
2013-2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University Institute for
Advanced Study (CEU IAS), Budapest, Hungary
2012
CEELBAS Research Internship, ethnographic research on
Montenegrin-Albanian border, involving activist-anthropological
collaboration
2008-2011
Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Leverhulme funded project Transforming Borders: a Comparative
Anthropology of Post-Yugoslav Home
2010
Visiting Researcher, Summer Research University SrebrenicaPotočari, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007-2009
Junior Researcher, Free University of Berlin and University of
Graz, addressing the topic New and Ambiguous Nation-building
processes in South-Eastern Europe
2008
Visiting Researcher, Free University Berlin, funded by DAAD
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Books and Edited Issues
2015
Stef Jansen, Čarna Brković, Vanja Čelebičić, eds. Negotiating
Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. London: Ashgate.
(forthcoming)
2014
Brian Campbell, Ainhoa Montoya, Čarna Brković, eds. “RAI
Postgraduate Conference Special Issue”, Anthropology Matters
15(1), December. (forthcoming)
Peer-reviewed Articles
2014
Brković, Čarna. ‘Scaling Humanitarianism: Humanitarne Akcije
in a Bosnian Town,’ Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 1–26. DOI
10.1080/00141844.2014.912246.
2014
Brković, Čarna. ‘Surviving in a Moveopticon: Humanitarian
Actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina,’ Contemporary
Southeastern Europe. (forthcoming)
2012
Brković, Čarna. ‘What do the Others Think of me? The Public,
Menopause, and Allergy to Feminism in a Post-Socialist Context’ /
‘Šta drugi misle o meni?: Protivljenje feminizmu, menopauza i
javnost u postsocijalističkom kontekstu,’ Genero 14: 3–23.
2009
Brković, Čarna. ‘Floating Signifiers: Negotiations of the National
on the Internet forum ‘Café del Montenegro’,’ Südosteuropa 57 (1):
55–69.
Book Chapters
2015
Brković, Čarna and Stef Jansen. ‘Everyday Concerns with the
River Drina as Border,’ in Everyday Life in the Balkans,
Montgomery, W. David, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press. (forthcoming)
2014
Brković, Čarna. ‘Navigating to Survive: The Politics of Favours in a
Bosnian Town,’ in Exploring the Grey Zones, Harboe, Ida and
Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds. London: Anthem Press.
(forthcoming)
2014
Brković, Čarna. ‘The Quest for Legitimacy: Discussing Language
and Sexuality in Montenegro,’ in Mirroring Europe. Ideas of
Europe and Europeanization in Balkan Societies, pp. 161–185,
Tanja Petrović, ed. Leiden: Brill.
2013
Brković, Čarna. ‘Ambiguous Notions of “National Self” in
Montenegro,’ in The Ambiguous Nation. Case Studies from
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Southeastern Europe in the 20th Century, pp. 131–149, Grandits,
Hannes and Ulf Brunnbauer. eds. München: Oldenbourg Verlag.
Selected Essays and Reviews
2014 ‘Gordy, Eric. 2013. Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial’. Philadelphia:
Pennsylvania University Press.’ Social Anthropology 22(2): 235–
237.
2011 ‘What is the Link Between the Discussion of Sexuality and the Discussion
of Language in Montenegro?’ / ‘Kakva je veza izmedju diskusije o
jeziku i diskusije o seksualnosti?’ ARS 1/2. Cetinje: OKF.
2010 ‘Review of Literature on Travel Documents Before the 20th Century in
Europe’ / ‘Pregled literature o putnim dokumentima pre XX veka u
Evropi’. Sociološka luča 4(2): 144–152.
2009 Wiki entry on ‘Travel Documents’ for the EastBordNet Wikipedia, Work
Group 4: Documents, Techniques and Technologies.
http://wiki.manchester.ac.uk/eastbordnet/index.php/Travel_Docum
ents
2007 ‘Anthropology in High-School – the Programme of Socio-Cultural
Anthropology in Petnica Science Centre’ / ‘Antropologija u srednjoj
školi – seminar socio-kulturne antropologije u Istraživačkoj stanici
Petnica’. Etnoantropološki problemi 2(2):255–256.
Administrative and Teaching Experience
2013-2015
Co-editor of Anthropology Matters, peer-reviewed, open-access
journal in social anthropology for early career scholars and PhD
students, supported by the ASA:
http://www.anthropologymatters.com/
2012
Editorial Intern at HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory,
February-July: http://www.haujournal.org/
2010-2012
Teaching Assistant, University of Manchester. Courses: Cultural
Diversity in Global Perspective and Culture and Society.
2011
Initiator and co-organiser of the conference Anthropology
Otherwise: Rethinking Approaches to Fieldwork in Different
Anthropological Traditions, Serbia. Funded by Wenner Gren.
2011
Research Assistant at COST Actions EastBordNet meetings of
Work Group 1 and Work Group 2, Skopje, Macedonia.
2007-2008
Head of the Program for Socio-Cultural Anthropology, at the
Petnica Science Centre.
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Seminars
2014
“‘Fixing Relations': Rethinking Favours (veze/štele) as Political
Practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” CEU Institute for Advanced
Study, Hungary.
2012
“Biological citizenship in a border town in Bosnia and
Herzegovina”, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
UK.
2011
“Borders and Hybridity,” for the course Borders, University of
Manchester, UK.
2010
“Women Solidarity and Negotiations with the State: Social Care on
the Bosnian-Serbian Border,” Belgrade Centre for Women and
Gender Studies, Serbia.
2010
“Where is the Border?” Petnica International Summer School,
Petnica Science Centre.
Conferences
Co-organised
2011
Anthropology Otherwise: Rethinking Approaches to Fieldwork in
Different Anthropological Traditions, Petnica Science Centre,
Serbia, funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation.
Presented Papers and Chaired Panels
2014
“Ignoring changes and pursuing favours as forms of political
struggle for better social security in Bijeljina.” Fringe Politics in
Southeastern Europe: Drivers of Change?, Queen Mary
University of London and University of Zagreb, Croatia.
2014
Discussing Jessica Greenberg’s 2014 book After the Revolution, at
the conference Nationalist Responses to Economic and Political
Crises, Central European University and Association for the Study
of Nationalities, Hungary.
2014
“Ignorance and Stubbornness: Struggles for social security in a
Bosnian town.” Voluntary Associations in the Yugoslav Space Since
the 19th Century, Central European University, Hungary.
2013
“Surviving Through Continuous Movement: Humanitarian Actions
in a Bosnian Town.” Balkan Precariat. Mediating the Global
Economic Crisis in SEE, Centre for Southeast European Studies,
University of Graz and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Croatia.
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2013
“Navigating to Survive: ‘Veze’ in the Governance of Life in a
Bosnian Town.” Exploring the ‘Grey Zones’: Governance, Conflict
and (In)Security in Eastern Europe, Aarhus University, Denmark.
2013
“(In)formal Governance of Life: Veze in a Bosnian Border Town.”
Informal Practices and Structures in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
2013
“Politics of Life in a Partially Present State.” 3rd Health in
Transition Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland.
2011
“Creating the Public Through Charity.” The Anthropology
Showcase, University of Manchester, UK.
2010
Feminist Critical Analysis: (Re)Mapping the Everyday through
Visual, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia
2010
Global Supplementary Grant Program Spring Conference,
University of Cambridge, UK.
2009
“Ambiguous Notions of National Self in Montenegro.” New and
Ambiguous Nation-building Processes in South-eastern Europe,
Chisinau, Moldova.
2009
“Travel Documents.” Passports and Passing: Everyday Encounters
with Borders, University of Manchester, UK.
2009
“Floating Signifiers.” Global Supplementary Grant Program Spring
Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
2006
Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and
Comparative Folklore of Balkans, Greece.
Professional Membership
ASA – Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth
EASA – European Association of Social Anthropologists
InASEA – The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology
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