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Enough! Student Protest '92: The Youth of Belgrade in Quest of "Another Serbia"

@article{ProiDvorni1993EnoughSP,
  title={Enough! Student Protest '92: The Youth of Belgrade in Quest of "Another Serbia"},
  author={Mirjana Pro{\vs}i{\'c}-Dvorni{\'c}},
  journal={The Anthropology of East Europe Review},
  year={1993},
  volume={11},
  pages={127-137}
}

• Mirjana Prošić-Dvornić
• Published 1993
• Political Science
• The Anthropology of East Europe Review

June 1992, was a culmination of tumultuous political times resulting from the crisis of the disintegration of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This involved Serbia's struggling for a civil society with peace, freedom, tolerance and justice. This is in place of a nationalistic revival, with "homogenization" and authoritarian rule. At the same time internal wars rage and sanctions threaten ghettoization. The Student Protest seeking a radical turn in this government policy burst out at the University of Belgrade. Its first phase, permanent protests of tens of thousands of students in schools and streets lasted for 26 days. During that time many new forms of civil disobedience and protesting were introduced giving these techniques an entirely new meaning. Although none of the students' demands were met, their movement may be considered successful because they allowed, at least for a while, another Serbia to come to life. They enabled themselves and the rest of the opposition of public-minded citizens to express their concerns, frustrations, hopes and ideas. This paper aims at presenting the ethnography of those wonderful days of freedom in an otherwise gloomy and pessimistic Belgrade. Data presented result from my own intensive fieldwork and continual participant observation and talks with students. In addition, daily newspapers and weekly magazines, and the student press were carefully studied, and visual media coverage was also noted.