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Byford, Jovan (2020). Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans. War, Culture and Society. Bloomsbury Academic.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Staro sajmište: Mesto sećanja, zaborava i sporenja [Staro Sajmište: A site remembered, forgotten, contested]. Belgrade: Beogradski centar za ljudska prava.

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Byford, Jovan (2011). Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Byford, Jovan (2008). Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press.

Byford, Jovan (2006). Teorija zavere: Srbija protiv 'novog svetskog poretka' [Conspiracy theory: Serbia vs. the New World Order]. Belgrade, Serbia: Beogradski centar za ljudska prava.

Byford, Jovan (2005). Potiskivanje i poricanje antisemitizma: Secanje na vladiku Nikolaja Velimirovica u savremenoj srpskoj pravoslavnoj kulturi [Repression and denial of antisemitism: memory of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic in contemporary Serbian Orthodox culture]. Ogledi, 6. Belgrade, Serbia: HCHRS.

Tileagă, Cristian and Byford, Jovan eds. (2014). Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Byford, Jovan (2021). Conspiracy Theories. In: Goldberg, Sol; Ury, Scott and Weiser, Kalman eds. Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism. Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 79–92.

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Byford, Jovan (2021). The Political Instrumentalization of a Site of the Holocaust: Contested Memories of the Semlin Camp in Belgrade. In: Ognjenovic, Gorana and Jozelic, Jasna eds. Nationalization and Politicization of History in Former Yugoslavia. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 95–120.

Byford, Jovan (2019). The Emotional and Political Power of Images of Suffering: Discursive Psychology and the Study of Visual Rhetoric. In: Gibson, Stephen ed. Discourse, Peace and Conflict: Discursive Psychology Perspectives. Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer, pp. 285–302.

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Byford, Jovan (2018). Put do “srpskog Yad Vashema”: Manipulacije povijesti logora Sajmište i Jasenovac [The Road to a ‘Serbian Yad Vashem’: Manipulation of the history of Sajmište and Jasenovac]. In: Benčić, Andriana; Odak, Stipe and Lucić, Danijela eds. Jasenovac: manipulacije, kontroverze i povijesni revizionizam [Jasenovac: Manipulations, Controversies and Historical Revisionism]. Jasenovac: Javna ustanova Spomen područje Jasenovac, pp. 87–110.

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Byford, Jovan (2018). Picturing Jasenovac: Atrocity Photography Between Evidence and Propaganda. In: Frubis, Hildegard; Oberle, Clara and Pufelska, Agnieszka eds. Fotografien aus den Lagern des NS-Regimes: Beweissicherung und ästhetische Praxis. Schriften des Centrums für jüdische Studien. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, pp. 227–248.

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Byford, Jovan (2014). Beyond belief: the social psychology of conspiracy theories and the study of ideology. In: Antaki, Charles and Condor, Susan eds. Rhetoric, Ideology and Social Psychology: Essays in Honour of Michael Billig. Explorations in Social Psychology. London: Routledge, pp. 83–94.

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Byford, Jovan (2013). Between marginalisation and instrumentalization: Holocaust memory in Serbia since the late 1980s. In: Himka, John-Paul and Michlic, Joanna Beata eds. Bringing the Dark Past to Light: the Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 516–548.

Byford, Jovan (2013). Testimony. In: Keightley, Emily and Pickering, Michael eds. Research Methods for Memory Studies. Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 200–214.

Byford, Jovan (2012). Négocier un lieu dans la mémoire collective pour la destruction des Juifs de Serbie : le cas du Judenlager Semlin [Negotiating a place for the destruction of Jews in Serbian public memory: the case of the Semlin Judenlager]. In: Bertinchamps, Philippe ed. Staro Sajmište, un camp de concentration. Paris: Non Lieu, pp. 169–201.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović: 'Lackey of the Germans' or a 'Victim of Fascism'? In: Ramet, Sabrina P. and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 128–154.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The collaborationist administration and the treatment of the Jews in Nazi-occupied Serbia. In: Ramet, Sabrina P. and Listhaug, Ola eds. Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109–127.

Byford, Jovan (2011). The willing bystanders: Dimitrije Ljotic, ‘Shield Collaboration’ and the destruction of Serbia’s Jews. In: Haynes, Rebecca and Rady, Martyn eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris.

Byford, Jovan (2011). Η «ημιαναγνώριση» του Ολοκαυτώματος: Αναζητώντας μια θέση στη δημόσια μνήμη της Σερβίας για την εξόντωση των Εβραίων [‘Half-Recognizing’ the Holocaust: Remembrance of the Semlin camp in Belgrade since the 1980s]. In: Αντωνίου, Γιώργος; Δορδανάς, Στράτος; Ζάϊκος, Νίκος and Μαραντζίδης, Νίκος eds. Το ολοκαύτωμα στα Βαλκάνια [Holocaust in the Balkans]. Thessalonika: Epikentro, pp. 155–206.

Byford, Jovan (2023). Rescuing the ‘Sava victims’ from oblivion and denial: History and memory of the last Ustasha crime in Sisak (Spasavanje savskih žrtava od zaborava i negiranja: istorija i sećanje na poslednje ustaške zločine u Sisku). Tragovi : časopis za srpske i hrvatske teme, 6(2) pp. 7–53.

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Byford, Jovan (2021). [Book review] Jelena Đureinović: The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia. Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution. Comparative Southeast European Studies, 69(1) pp. 167–169.

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Byford, J and Tileagă, C (2017). Accounts of a troubled past: Psychology, history, and texts of experience. Qualitative Psychology, 4(1) pp. 101–117.

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Tileagă, C. and Byford, J. (2017). Qualitative psychology and the archive: Introduction to the special section. Qualitative Psychology, 4(1) pp. 55–57.

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Byford, Jovan and Tileagă, Cristian (2014). Social psychology, history, and the study of the Holocaust: the perils of interdisciplinary “borrowing”. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20(4) pp. 349–364.

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Byford, Jovan (2014). Remembering Jasenovac: survivor testimonies and the cultural dimension of bearing witness. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 28(1) pp. 58–84.

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Byford, Jovan (2010). “Shortly afterwards, we heard the sound of the gas van”: survivor testimony and the writing of history in socialist Yugoslavia. History and Memory, 22(1) pp. 5–47.

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Byford, Jovan (2007). When I say 'the Holocaust', I mean 'Jasenovac': Remembrace of the Holocaust in contemporary Serbia. East European Jewish Affairs, 37(1) pp. 51–74.

Byford, Jovan (2006). Distinguishing ‘Anti-Judaism’ from ‘Antisemitism’: Recent Championing of Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović. Religion, State and Society, 34(1) pp. 7–31.

Byford, Jovan (2006). 'Serbs never hated the Jews': the denial of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox Christian culture. Patterns of Prejudice, 40(2) pp. 159–180.

Byford, Jovan (2004). From "Traitor" to "Saint": Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in Serbian Public Memory. Analysis of Current Trends In Antisemitism, 22 pp. 1–41.

Byford, J. (2002). Christian Right-Wing Organizations and the Spreading of Anti-Semitic Prejudice in Post-Milosevic Serbia: The Case of the Dignity Patriotic Movement. East European Jewish Affairs, 32(2) pp. 43–60.

Byford, Jovan (2002). Anchoring and objectifying 'neocortical warfare': re-presentation of a biological metaphor in Serbian conspiracy literature. Papers on Social Representations, 11(3) 3.1-3.14.

Byford, J. and Billig, M. (2001). The emergence of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Yugoslavia during the war with NATO. Patterns of Prejudice, 35(4) pp. 50–63.