Ljudmila-Mila Popović

Popović, Ljudmila

Popović, Ljudmila

Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar; Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science 

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Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar; Associate Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science 

Ljudmila Popovich is a Comparative Literature and Humanities scholar associated with the University of Colorado at Boulder, whose doctoral work focuses on the issues of women’s migrations and migrant women's subjectivity in relation to globalization processes. An Associate Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, she serves as the Chair of the Academy’s Membership Communications Committee. She is an Associate Expert on Gender Issues and Humanities within the Seventh Research Framework Programme at the European Commission. Additionally, Popovich is an Associate Scholar of The Mediterranean Seminar, Interdisciplinary and Interuniversity Forum for the Study of Mediterranean Societies and Cultures, University of California, Santa Cruz and University of Colorado at Boulder. She has published on a range of interdisciplinary topics such as international cinema, nationalism and women’s issues, new economic paradigm and global crisis. Equally interested in creative work, she has been publishing poetry both in her native Montenegro and in the U.S., as well as performing as an international dance artist. As an activist, Popovich is engaged in the environmental and women’s issues in her resident community of Denver, Colorado.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Being in Superposition: Migrant Women, Modern Subjectivity, and the New Collectivity
Get Full Text in PDF As soon as there is the One, there is murder, wounding, traumatism. (. . .) Self-determination as violence. – Derrida1 In fact, it might be that what is happening to us is just another sort of “Copernican revolution” (. . .) of “social Being” (. . .). – Jean-Luc Nancy2 Abstract Granted that one of the key features of our times is global migratory movement, this paper examines how these contemporary trends and developments affect, inform, and reconfigure modern subjectivity...
Panem et Informationem: Toward Inspired Responsibility
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Starting by addressing the present global crisis and the issue of how we think, this paper proposes an approach that attends to the vital interests of humanity. International institutional powers and the media aligned with them are steering public discourse about the global crisis predominantly between threat-creating means on the one hand, and distraction, on the other, along the lines of narrowly defined and biased interests. Both tugs, however, vie for public...
Break Downs and Break Throughs: Empires through Crises and Transformations
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract As we attempt to assess the scope and the short and long-term consequences of today’s multifaceted crisis, a necessary point of entry into its problematics and convoluted paradoxes is by taking a look into the historical rear-view mirror. Examining formative forces of history, albeit sketchingly, this paper refers to the decline of Rome and the two World Wars in order to observe a set of critical issues, tensions, and tendencies that have culminated in socio-...
Economics of Dignity: Growing People from Consumers to Members
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract According to Richard Easterlin’s paradox, laid out in “The Economics of Happiness,” material wealth does not necessarily guarantee and equate with a sense of personal happiness.1, 2 This intriguing conclusion challenges researchers to explore a fascinating intersection among Economics, Psychology, and Humanities.† It is bringing postmodern economic thought to a post mortem of classical economy, whose core measure of economic growth – gross domestic product – will...