“Nisi nadležan”: How a Student Movement Dictates Political Change in Serbia (2024/2025)
In November 2024 a largest student movement in Europe, since 1968, erupted in Serbia instigated by government corruption and violence. Since then, the students have occupied the buildings of the higher educational institutions across the country, organized and inspired massive protests in more than 250 cities, towns and villages and performed different actions with the goal to draw attention to their struggle for the establishment of the rule of law, the proper functioning of the state institutions and the democratization of the Serbian society. By comparing the student movement of 2024/2025 to the ones from 1968 and 1996/1997, this paper explores how student movements, in particular the ongoing one, can dictate political changes in Serbia.
Katarina Beširević
Katarina Beširević is a research assistant and PhD candite at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Philosophy, at the History Department. She completed her MA studies at the History Department at the Central European University. Her research interests include postsocialism, the 1990s in the post-Yugoslav republics, memory studies, imagology, history from below and oral history.