Publishing is becoming a new part of MONOMIT’s work. Our first edition in preparation begins close to home — with language, local memory and the cultural heritage of Mačva.
MONOMIT is expanding its work into a new field: publishing.
For us, this is not a separate activity disconnected from education, culture or community work. Publishing grows naturally from the same questions that shape the rest of MONOMIT: what knowledge is worth preserving, whose stories should remain visible, and how can experience and research be transferred to others?
Our first edition in preparation is Onomastika mačvanskog sela Petlovače – Imenoslov, by Dr Anđelka Lazić.
The book is an onomastic study devoted to the names preserved in the linguistic and cultural memory of Petlovača, a village in the Mačva region of western Serbia.
Through personal names, family names, nicknames and other forms of naming, the work records fragments of local history and everyday life that can easily disappear when they remain only in oral memory.
This makes the book more than a linguistic study. It also becomes a record of community memory — of families, relationships, language, local identity and continuity across generations.
The first MONOMIT edition therefore begins very close to the organisation’s own local context.
That is intentional.
We see publishing as another way to connect research, culture, heritage, professional knowledge and creative work. Some future publications may emerge from local history and memory; others may grow from research, professional practice, educational work or creative projects.
What they should share is a reason to exist beyond simply becoming another publication.
We want MONOMIT Publishing to create space for works that preserve knowledge, open conversations and make meaningful content available to wider communities.
Onomastika mačvanskog sela Petlovače – Imenoslov is currently in preparation. Further information about the edition, availability and future MONOMIT publications will be published on our website.