The book
Where Them Stray Dogs At (2024) introduces a collective of authors who approach Belgradeas a conceptual starting point. While grounded in one location, the book explores the broadermeanings and identities projected onto the so-called Balkans as a region. Through differentapproaches, the authors create a series of fragmented yet inevitably related commentaries onthemes such as authenticity, migration, urban transformation, and Balkanism. The subtitle of thebook hints at its transitory character, emphasizing the unaligned—almost stray—perspectives ofthe contributors. Reflecting on their own positionalities and the tensions between personal andcollective narratives, the book connects the authors’ approaches into a layered exploration ofthe liminal spaces between development and decline, past and present, belonging andalienation.
The book was published in 2024 in co-edition of FFA BUT and ArtMap.
