The Documentary "Not in My Country" Denies Voice and Agency to Broad Grassroots Opposition to Lithium Mining in Serbia

The fall of the roof of the Novi Sad Railway Station and the student protests put many pressing issues in the country on the back burner, one of them being potential lithium mining? There is also the idea of Serbia joining the nuclear powers, for now insufficiently defined and unknown. Both of these ideas are not well received in the country due to the non-transparent approach of the authorities. How these topics are discussed in France, how the…

The Documentary "Not in My Country" Denies Voice and Agency to Broad Grassroots Opposition to Lithium Mining in Serbia

Still from the trailer of Not in My Country: Serbia’s Lithium Dilemma. Voiceover and subtitles: “To mine or not to mine? That is the question.” “The European Parliament is the same as the Serbian Parliament: they are not interested in dialogue,” said Zlatko Kokanović, activist from the environmental association Ne damo Jadar (We Will not Give up Jadar), after he was prevented from joining the debate that followed the screening of Peter Tom Jones…