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Jelena Beočanin is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She studies the postcolonial history of port cities, and intersection of politics and popular culture.

Her doctoral research explores how hip-hop culture and music can establish emotional practices and styles of enacting resistance and activism in postcolonial port cities, such as Rotterdam. She is particularly interested in understanding meanings and expressions of resistance, beyond the romanticized overemphasis on subcultural and youth resistance.

Jelena holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and a joint master’s degree awarded by the University of Glasgow, University of Barcelona, and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jelena is also a lecturer at EUR’s Department of History, teaching bachelor courses and supervising bachelor thesis.

ERMeCHS research clusters

  • MICS - Music, Industry, Culture, Society
  • GFCP - Global futures, Colonial Pasts

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