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iASK Snapshot: Student Protests in Serbia

Student Protests Serbia

Summary

The Serbian student uprising is more than a protest. It is a process of political reconfiguration in which citizens refuse to be represented and instead enact a politics of presence, horizontality, and solidarity.

Aleksandra Bulatović, Associate Research Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia, has written a short paper on the recent Serbian student protests. The paper explores the recent Serbian student protests as more than a reaction to authoritarian politics. It shows how students transformed universities into spaces of solidarity, care, and imagination, refusing traditional representation and instead enacting a politics of presence and horizontality. By building networks of support, sustaining assemblies, and combining digital and physical spaces of action, they created new democratic practices and alternative civic horizons. The paper argues that activism is not only resistance to power but also the creation of new forms of political life.

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Sculpture “Span in Tension” by Olga Jevric
Sculpture “Span in Tension” by Olga Jevric