Outputs (17)

Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe (2024)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V., & Pupavac, M. (2025). Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 19(1), 108-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2024.2408930

This article examines the technopopulist strains of statebuilding in Croatia, drawing on the history, language, and culture approaches in Slavonic studies. Through its exploration of EU migration governance in Croatia, the article discusses the dual... Read More about Dual Migrations in Croatia: The Technopopulist Strains of Statebuilding in the New Borderlands of Europe.

Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism (2020)
Book
Pupavac, V., & Pupavac, M. (2020). Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism. Rowman & Littlefield

Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European h... Read More about Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism.

Punishing Childhoods: Contradictions in Children's Rights and Global Governance (2011)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2011). Punishing Childhoods: Contradictions in Children's Rights and Global Governance. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 5(3), 285-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2011.566486

The article considers efforts to eradicate corporal punishment as an aspect of the global governance of childhood and raises problems relevant to global governance more broadly. The article analyses contradictions in children’s rights advocacy betwee... Read More about Punishing Childhoods: Contradictions in Children's Rights and Global Governance.

Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities (2010)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2010). Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities. In D. Fassin, & M. Pandolfi (Eds.), Contemporary states of emergency: the politics of military and humanitarian interventions. Zone Books

Abstract: The chapter explores continuities in modern British humanitarianism at its birth two hundred years ago and today. Modern British humanitarianism arose out of the contradictions between humanist ideals, expanding social sympathies, and fears... Read More about Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities.

Changing international health policy and changing international development goals (2008)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2008). Changing international health policy and changing international development goals. In D. Wainwright (Ed.), A sociology of health. Sage

The World Health Organisation (WHO) was founded in 1948 with a remit to promote public health around the world. The WHO’s constitution sets out its objective as ‘the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health’ (WHO, 1948). The... Read More about Changing international health policy and changing international development goals.

Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror (2008)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2008). Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror. Mental Health Review Journal, 13(1),

Drawing on Shakespeare, and in particular Hamlet's psychological crisis, this paper examines the relationship between emotions and meaning, a key theme in artistic work, but, it is argued, neglected in social psychology. Hamlet's psychological crisis... Read More about Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror.

Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states (2006)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2006). Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states. Patterns of Prejudice, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/00313220600634261

Pupavac examines the rise of linguistic human rights advocacy and its approach in a case study of language politics in the post-Yugolav states. A core concern of contemporary linguistic rights advocacy has been to tackle ethnically based discriminati... Read More about Discriminating language rights and politics in the post-Yugoslav states.

Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia (2006)
Book Chapter
Pupavac, V. (2006). Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia. In Post-conflict cultures: rituals of representation. Zoilus Press

Over the last decade tremendous interest has been expressed by international organisations such as UNESCO in the “deep cultural roots” of war. Cultural reform programmes are regarded today as a crucial component of international peace efforts. This c... Read More about Reconstructing post-conflict cultures: a case study of Bosnia.

The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy (2006)
Journal Article
Pupavac, V. (2006). The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy. Development in Practice, 16(3),

This article discusses the dilemmas of humanitarian advocacy in the contemporary world. First the article considers the crisis of humanitarianism within the wider crisis of meaning in international politics which encouraged humanitarian advocacy. Hum... Read More about The politics of emergency and the demise of the developing state: problems for humanitarian advocacy.

Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states (2005)
Journal Article
Hughes, C., & Pupavac, V. (2005). Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states. Third World Quarterly, 26(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500089232

The article examines the pathologisation of post-conflict societies through a comparison of the framing of the Cambodian and post-Yugoslav states. The notion of failed states fixes culpability for war on societies in question, rendering the domestic... Read More about Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states.