Ana Dević, Ph.D.

Senior Visiting Fellow - Winter Semester 2021/2022

Ana Dević is a senior visiting research fellow in the field of excellence, spending winter semester 2021/22 in Graz.

She currently conducts research on the question of “The Exemplary Ikebana of Serbian (Multi-) Culture, or a Regular European Region? The (Disappearing) State of Autonomy and Regionalism in Vojvodina since 2000.”

The general aim of her research is to analyse the validity of the thesis about the correlation between the political autonomy of Vojvodina and the democratizing processes in Serbia. A thesis that has been put forward by a number of Vojvodinian and Serbian intellectuals since the end of the 1980s: The condition of the autonomy of Vojvodina (or a lack of it) is supposed to be mirroring the (problems of) democratization of Serbia. The question is to be scrutinized through time periods, starting from the 1990s, the fall of Slobodan Milošević’s regime in 2000, the changes in the legislation/ decentralization (concessions and horse-trading with the parties in Serbia proper) that took place in the mid-to -late 2000s, and the period since the accession process of Serbia to the European Union.

"In my research I will ask whether these problems can be counteracted with a wider involvement of select oppositional political parties and the civil sector in the EU negotiations process."

Ana Dević is Associate Professor of sociology at the Faculty of European Legal and Political Studies at the University Business Academy Novi Sad, Serbia. Between 2018 and 2021 she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Fellow with the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) LINES institute, Belgium. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego, MA from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and a BA in Economics from the University of Novi Sad. Dević specializes in nationalism, knowledge and memory, right-wing mobilization, social movements, gender, cinema and theatre. She has an extensive field experience in the post-Yugoslav space. Further details on publications and other research on: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-9549-9526