Biography
Jelena Beo膷anin is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, 美女福利电影院午夜. 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鈥檚 degree in anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, and a joint master鈥檚 degree awarded by the University of Glasgow, University of Barcelona, and 美女福利电影院午夜. Jelena is also a lecturer at EUR鈥檚 Department of History, teaching bachelor courses and supervising bachelor thesis.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- beocanin@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Jelena Beocanin (2025) - - DIY, Alternatives Cultures, & Society, 3 (1), 115 - 117 - doi:
- Jelena Beocanin & Maarten van Dijck (2026) - Breaking Ground: The early days of Hip Hop in the 1980s Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin & J. Griffith Rollefson (2026) - Pluriversal Pedagogy in the Planet Rap Project (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2026) - Dancing epistemic refusal: Hip Hop and embodied ways of knowing among Rotterdam's dancers (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2025) - "Dancing resistance? Postcolonial narratives and emotional practices of Rotterdam鈥檚 Hip Hop dancers鈥 (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2025) - Roundtable 鈥淒ancing social justice: counter-spaces and hip hop's critical memories鈥 with Ana茂s Henneuse and Khoudia Tour茅 (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2025) - 鈥淓motions as postcolonial counternarratives? Sentiment analysis of Dutch Hip Hop Lyrics: methodological considerations,鈥 (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2024) - Postcolonial activism and protest in Rotterdam: hip-hop and narrating counter-histories? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Lise Zurn茅, Jelena Beocanin, Siri Driessen, Jasmin Seijbel & Anne Heslinga (2024) - The gender of historical research (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2023) - Lost in Transition? The Balkans and the study of hip hop in European context (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Jelena Beocanin (2020) - EHHSN 'Breaking Rules' Roundtable Discussion (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH1104
- Level
- BA-3
- Year Level
- BA-3
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH3078
- Year Level
- BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH3100
