The problem of resolving the fate of missing persons still exists, even though almost three decades have passed since the end of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. According to official data, ...about 10,000 missing people remain to be found, but over time, hope is dwindling. We pointed out in the paper that this pace of finding would take who knows how many years and even decades, and many families will probably not wait for that moment to bury their missing relatives. Politics is still present, and this necessarily results in delays in resolving this problem. It was also pointed out that no one has been held criminally responsible for thousands and thousands of missing persons, nor are criminal proceedings initiated, but also for those who obstruct this issue.
The paper presents an overview of some major paradigmatic and thematic currents developing in ethnology (or ethnologies) in what used to be Yugoslavia and after the breakup of this country; these ...processes are discussed also by monitoring the evolution of institutions and through dynamics in numerously small disciplinary communities of ethnologists/anthropologists. After almost a hundred years of relatively slow paradigmatic, yet intensive institutional development, ethnological communities in this part of Europe accelerated their uplift in the last quarter of the 20th century with their theoretical modernization (sometimes also coined ?anthropologization?), which is in the most recent times followed by acceleration in overall scholarly production (bordering on proliferation), of research topics and outputs (which can also be dubbed as ?projectification?), much in line with trends enveloping in the global scientific markets. The paper calls upon a renewed collaboration between academic and museological anthropology as a potential impetus for increasing the discipline?s local relevance and for the creation of new research areas.
The topic of the paper is the role of the urban profession in the planning of the memorial complexes and monuments in Belgrade from 1969 to 1981, during which the professional journal Urbanizam ...Beograda was published. Using articles published in the journal Urbanizam Beograda as its main source the paper will address the stance of the expert public in the decision-making process in the planning of memorials. This includes a review of articles on individual monuments in public spaces, urban development policies, and the most important competitions related to the memorials and monuments written about by different authors in Urbanizam Beograda. Looking at the broader historical context of Yugoslavia and its cultural policies through the prism of memorial architecture, different processes and key topics that influenced the urban design of the memorial will be addressed, as well as the regard the expert public had for the decision-making process. The research is based on an analysis of expert articles published in Urbanizam Beograda, as well as an analysis of the broader socio-political context of Belgrade, in order to expand understanding of the decisions and stance of the professional public in the period 1969 to 1981. The paper aims to establish a relationship between politics and the profession, as well as to identify the implementation of different planning mechanisms for creating collective memory, recognized in the journal Urbanizam Beograda. The results of the research point to specific articles about public spaces and competitions published in Urbanizam Beograda, in which the professional public had the autonomy to make decisions based on an interdisciplinary approach to planning, which was not always in line with the socio-political situation.
With the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes after the First World War, the new state got the Kingdom of Romania as a neighbour. Disagreements that existed between the two ...countries regarding the demarcation in Banat were resolved by the marriage of the King Alexander I Karađorđević and the Romanian Princess Maria Hohenzollern. The royal marriage was the basis for further development of allied relations between the states in the period between the two world wars. The partnership was strengthened by military-political pacts within the framework of the Little Entente and the Balkan Pact. The peace treaties concluded during the Versailles Conference did not guarantee the security of minor European countries such as the Kingdom of SHS and Romania. The revisionist aspirations of the joint neighbours of Hungary and Bulgaria developed friendly relations that Belgrade and Bucharest needed to deter the enemy from taking any action. The Yugoslav public viewed Romania as a friendly country, so diplomatic activities within the two alliances were closely monitored by the press. In addition, many public workers were concerned with analysing perspectives that could benefit the two countries in the future. The fact that Romania was a significant ally was evidenced by the fact that in December 1938 the mission was promoted to the rank of embassy, which was the first embassy in the diplomatic history of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In this paper, we intend to present the development of allied relations between the two countries, based on the historical reach of the historiography, as well as the analysis of the writing of the Yugoslav press. Particular attention will be paid to the challenges that the alliances faced during the Third Reich's penetration into Southeast Europe. Although the allies of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Romania would find themselves on opposite sides in World War II, there was no mutual war between the two countries, which was a consequence of the built relations in the interwar period.
Under Communist rule in Yugoslavia a university professor could either raise his voice and pay a high price, join the Party or accept the ketman practice. Mihailo Konstantinović tried to find a ...fourth way: retain the office, not cross to the red side and avoid being perceived as a ketman. Konstantinović was absent at the meeting of the Faculty's Council in 1946 when Dragoljub Jovanović was expelled. When in 1947 Communist students required removal of professors Milan Vladisavljević and Đorđe Mirković, Konstantinović was one of the professors who defended them, exposed to attacks by his Communist colleagues. The Council eventually relinquished the decision to higher authorities and Vladisavljević and Mirković were consequently dismissed. The following year assistant professor Milivoje Marković was targeted but due to the Communist pressure fewer colleagues defended him. Konstantinović did not take a stand on that occasion. His most important goal was to preserve the Faculty.
Mihailo Konstantinović is well known to the Serbian and Yugoslav audience as one of the greatest civil law lawyers of his time. He was active in the state administration immediately before and after ...the Second World War: first, as a minister in the Cvetković-Maček Government, 1939-1941; then, as a chairman of the 1946 Constitution-Drafting Committee. Prior to the Second World War, he was also legal sciences teacher to Crown Prince Petar Karađorđević II. However, Mihailo Konstantinović was also a politician in the best meaning of that term, a true statesman, more specifically, the chief architect of the 1939 Cvetković-Maček Agreement, which represented an attempt to save the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from breaking up. This article aims to shed light on the role he played in the state redesigning of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and on the complexity of his personality, which was revealed through this role.
In this paper, author discusses and analyzes the normative regulation of the position of city officials and civil servants, their legal status and the payment system in the Osijek city administration ...in the period from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 to the promulgation of the 1934 Municipalities Act. In covering the topic, the author primarily used the relevant legislation and the archival material available at the State Archives in Osijek. Considering the position of city officials and civil servants in the city of Osijek between the two world wars in relation to their position during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the normative analysis shows that city officials and civil servants were part of the occupational classification system in the interwar period. The city employees were ranked according to types of occupations and the level of professional qualifications required to perform them. Until then, the salaries of city employees were regulated by Austro-Hungarian laws, according to which there were wage classes, and city municipalities had some kind of financial autonomy in determining the amount of salaries of city employees. A significant novelty in the inter-war period was the established system of dividing payments into basic and position wages, including bonuses. The salaries of city employees were made equal to those of state servants. It resulted in introducing an evaluation system which was directly related to the exercise of individual rights and determining the responsibilities of city employees. The Statutes related to the evaluation system included the possibility of promotion and demotion (to a higher or a lower payment class), termination of service, and loss of pension. Consequently, it may be concluded that the main purpose of the evaluation system was to institute the standards for rewards or penalties.
This article is the result of my research of Yugoslav pop music discography
in the second half of the 1980s, focused on the processes of implementation
of digital musical instruments and ...general-purpose computers into music
production - as original sound sources or replacements for acoustic
instruments, as well as poetic metaphors and elements of graphic design of
record covers. Based on the data available from recording staff listings,
interviews with musicians/producers and the listening experience, the paper
covers the most prominent examples of aforementioned practices.
As the first festival of contemporary music in socialist Yugoslavia, the
Music Biennale Zagreb (founded in 1961) attracted a lot of domestic and
foreign media attention. This study discusses the ...reception of the first
Music Biennale in the Belgradian daily newspapers, Politika Politics,
Borba Struggle and Vecernje Novosti Evening News, with reference to the
characteristics of the editorial policies of these three newspapers. The
timely and active reporting of the daily press in Belgrade indicates that
the first Music Biennale Zagreb was promptly recognised as an important
modernist musical festival for the then cultural life of the whole of
Yugoslavia.
