@article{Vilenica_2019, title={Contradictions and Antagonisms in (Anti-) Social(ist) Housing in Serbia}, volume={18}, url={https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1731}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">This article tackles contradictions of social housing in contemporary Serbia. It shows how residualised social housing does not bring justice to marginalised groups affected by capitalist expropriation. In this article, the term (anti-)social(ist) housing will be introduced to describe the historically grounded, incomplete, and contradictory solutions that social housing is currently offering in Serbia, as well as its anti-social nature. By focusing on a particular case study, the Kamendin project situated in Zemun Polje, one of the very few social housing projects in Belgrade, the article explores debt crises produced by mechanisms of social housing; the production of racism, segregation, and responsibilisation; and mechanisms of passing responsibility on all levels in an attempt of the state to spend as little money as possible. (Anti-)social(ist) housing is further assessed as a space of struggle that includes different survival and resistance tactics that are used in order to oppose social housing violence. Following that, the article will focus on the possibilities of the activist art project Kamendynamics and the theatre peace <em>How does fascism not disappear? Zlatija Kostić: I sued myself</em> to confront the racialisation and culturalisation of problems by introducing collaborative visual, class-based, and historical-materialist analyses. By documenting and conceptualising mechanisms of social housing and reflecting on the role of activist art within housing struggles, I aim to contribute to anti-segregation and anti-racist housing struggles in Eastern European cities and beyond.</p>}, number={6}, journal={ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies}, author={Vilenica, Ana}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={1261–1282} }