Other Publications

Special editing projects

2021. After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World. Co-edited with Nelli Sargsyan. London: Routledge (reprint of special issue of History and Anthropology 30:1).

2018. Lessons for Liberalism from the “Illiberal East” —Hot Spots Series on the blog of Cultural Anthropology, co-edited with Dace Dzenovska, Oxford University. Available at: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/lessons-for-liberalism-from-the-illiberal-east

2018. Somatosphere Book forum: On Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt (by Larisa Jašarević), editor and convenor, Somatosphere: Collaborative Website on Science, Medicine and Anthropology, Available at: http://somatosphere.net/2018/book-forum-larisa-jasarevic.html/

Magazine and Online Articles

2022. “Riverine Struggles Against Plunder and Dispossession: Water Defenders in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” in a Special Feature, “The Frontlines of Environmental Politics in Europe,” Europe Now, May 2022, Issue 48. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2022/05/17/riverine-struggles-against-plunder-and-dispossession-water-defenders-in-postwar-bosnia-herzegovina/

2021. “Reclaiming Dita: a collaborative graphic ethnography of a Bosnian workers’ movement” with Andrew Gilbert, and Boris Stapić, Anthropology News, July/August, Volume 62: 4.    https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/reclaiming-dita/

2020. “PoLAR Emergent Conversations 11: Political Action and Generations.” with Nataša Garić-Humphrey, Andrew Gilbert and Azra Hromadžić. December 29. (Part I): https://polarjournal.org/2020/12/29/political-action-and-generations-part-i-emergent-conversation-11/ (Part II): https://polarjournal.org/2021/01/10/political-action-and-generations-part-ii-emergent-conversation-11/ (Part III): https://polarjournal.org/2021/01/17/political-action-and-generations-part-iii-emergent-conversation-11/

2020. “The geopolitical unmoored: from exemplarity to deprovincialization” with Srdjan Vučetić (uOttawa) in the series “Yugosplaining the World,” edited by Aida Hozić, Jelena Subotić and Srdjan Vučetić, The Disorder of Things, June 21.  https://thedisorderofthings.com/2020/07/21/the-geopolitical-unmoored-from-exemplarity-to-deprovincialization/

2020. “Socialist Greens: Toward a History of Vernacular Environmentalism” with Azra Hromadžić (Syracuse), in the series “Green Capitalism and its Others” edited by Ivan Rajković and published as a part of “Theorizing the Contemporary” forum on the website of the Society for Cultural Anthropology:  https://culanth.org/fieldsights/socialist-greens-on-vernacular-environmentalisms

2018. “The Art of the Bait.” Hot Spots Series on the blog of Cultural Anthropology: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1417-the-art-of-the-bait

2018. “Between expert and witness:  insider anthropology and public engagement” Anthrodendum (Formerly known as Savage Minds) February 5. https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/05/between-expert-and-witness-insider-anthropology-and-public-engagement/

2017. “A Socialist Peace? Thinking African Postsocialisms: An Interview with Mike McGovern (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Soyuz Column in Anthropology News, August 21, http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/08/21/book-conversation-with-mike-mcgovern/

2014. The Spectre of a Lost Future (translated by Eric Gordy). Bosnia Herzegovina Protest Files. February 11. http://bhprotestfiles.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/larisa-kurtovicthe-spectre-of-a-lost-future/

2012. Activism in the Times of Impasse. APLA Section News. Anthropology News 53: 5. p. 28.

2011.  Yugonostalgia on Wheels: Commemorating Marshal Tito across Post-Yugoslav Borders, Two Ethnographic Tales from Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Newsletter of the Institute for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, University of California Berkeley 28:1.  p. 2-13, 21-23.

Policy Publications

2015. After the Uprising: Protests, Plenums and the Future of Civic Contention in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. IREX Scholar Research Brief.

2013. Nationalist Order and Party Patronage in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina.  IREX Scholar Research Brief. http://irex.org/sites/default/files/Kurtovic%20IREX%20Short%20Term%20Research%20Brief% 202013.pdf

2009. Challenges to Democracy in Bosnia-Herzegovina.  Evolving Work of Democracy. Invited blog commentary at America.gov, the portal of the US Department of State. http://blogs.america.gov/democracy/2009/11/06/challenges-to-democracy-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/

2008. “Think” Future: Constructing Hope and Anti-Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. IREX-IARO Research Report. http://www.irex.org/programs/iaro/research/08-09/Kurtovic.pdf