04 – Croatian veterans’ serious war games. A conversation with Sven Milekić

In this episode, Iva Jelušić and Sven Milekić talk about the activities of Croatian veterans of the 1990s conflict active in veterans’ associations. The conversation focuses on the veterans' strategies of self-presentation to the public and instances where the observer can glimpse pleasure despite their emphasis on severity and sacrifice. Sven Milekić is a Doctoral candidate enrolled in the PhD programme at the Department of History at Maynooth University as recipient of the Irish Research Council’s Andrew Grene Post-Conflict Reconciliation Scholarship. Iva Jelušić is a Post-Doctoral Researcher for the “War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience” project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.