Dr Vesna Popovski

Vesna Popovski is LSE Fellow in Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies at the European Institute.

She is the author of National Minorities and Citizenship Rights in Lithuania, 1988 - 1993.(Palgrave, 2000) She further authored 3 monographs in Croatian, analysing development of urban agglomerations in Croatia.

Vesna holds BA (Honours) and MA from the University of Zagreb and MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research has evolved from interest in the Chicago school of urban sociology to analysing social rights of citizens of urban settlements in socialist Yugoslavia andfrom development studies, particularly post-colonial legacy on state and nation building to the rise of nationalism in the late 1980 in Eastern Europe and Russia concentrating on its effect on rights of national minorities.More recently, Vesna developed interest in food and nationalism, that is how food feeds our identity, in parallel with concentrating on issues relating to transitional justice in post-conflict societies.

Vesna is a member of a team, led by Professor Denisa Kostovicova, working on a 5 year project funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant entitled ‘Justice Interactions and Peacebuilding: From Static to Dynamic Discourses across National, Ethnic, Gender and Age Groups (JUSTINT)’. She is collaborating on two papers discussing how women, MPs, shape transitional justice policies in Croatian Parliament. As a result she has attended and presented a paper written in collaboration with Dr Denisa Kostovicova at the two conferences in June 2022 (NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam and BISA, Newcastle).

Expertise

• Transitional Justice
• Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
• Citizenship rights and national minorities

• Urban development in Eastern Europe
• Theories of Nationalism
• Rights of national minorities
• Food and nationalism
• Transitional justice in post-conflict societies