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This book is a document of a practice-based research coming to grips with a constellation of struggles at the intersection of social, environmental, and climate justice. The narratives are embedded in my diasporic being in the period between 2020 and 2025, moving between North Europe and the Balkans—their cores and (semi-)peripheries.

mirko nikolić

Listening to Bor, Borska reka, Brezonik, Banjica, Kriveljska reka, Krivelj, Oštrelj, Zlotska reka, Majdanpek, Starica, Mali Pek, Veliki Pek, Veliki Zaton, Smederevo, Radinac, Ralja, Vranovo, Bistrica, Mlava, Jagnjilo, Potaj Čuka, Čoka Rakita, Crni Vrh, Lazarev kanjon, Crnica, Popovac, Korenita, Jadar, Gornje Nedeljice, Brezjak, Stolice, Zajača, Tršić, Drina, Sava, Danube, Baltic Sea

In conversation with
Aleksandar Kulić, Tamara Novaković,
Vladimir Božić, Nikola Krstić, Anika Živanović,
Ivan Milosavljević, Dragana Đorđević and others

With a critical response by Jesper Olsson

Translation
Khashayar Naderehvand,
Elin Pirttimaa Rosén

Editing and Proofreading
Bec Gallo, Ellakajsa Nordström,
Ivana Đorđević and Marija Radoš
(Remont – Independent Artistic Association)

Photography
mirko nikolić, Duško Jelen

Concept & Graphic Design
Johnny Chang / Living With    Images

Typefaces
KMR Waldenburg, EB Garamond

Thanks to Kimera type foundry
for supporting this work with a license
for KMR Waldenburg.

Paper
Munken Pure Rough 300g,
Holmen Book Cream 60g

Printed and bound by Greif, Tallinn.

Studies in language and culture No. 41

Department of Culture and Society:
Division of Language, Culture and Interaction (SKI)
Linköping University

Institutionen för kultur och samhälle:
Avdelningen för språk, kultur och interaktion
Linköpings universitet

The publication has been conceived and developed within the framework of an artistic research project “water is (non)life: de-extractivist poetics in the semi-periphery,” (VR 2019-02301) funded by Vetenskapsrådet/Swedish Research Council. The research project was hosted by the Institute for Culture and Society, Linköping University.

This work was conducted between
February 2020 and March 2025.

Publication acknowledgment
“Efter utvinningsimperierna” was initially published in Glänta Magazine, reproduced here with permission,
in edited and adapted format.

Copyright
mirko nikolić and others cited, 2025.

License
Creative Commons. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Published online by
Linköping University Electronic Press, 2025

ISBN 978-91-8075-753-9 (Print)
ISBN 978-91-8075-754-6 (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.3384/9789180757546
ISSN 1403-2570

Book release 2025 June 18, Hägerstensasens Medborgarhus

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