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.
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.
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.
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.
This paper focuses on the transnational aspects of the exchanges of experiences (in nationality policies, economy, and federalization) between the Yugoslav and Czechoslovak intellectual elites. By ...drawing parallels between the two cases, a striking resemblance can be seen. While Slovak intellectual elites used Yugoslavia as a role model to solve the Czechoslovak national question, the latter also served as one of the models for the economic reform of Ota Šik and for the federal transformation of the Czechoslovak state under Zdeněk Mlynář's watch.
In the Western Balkans, one can still find many city enlargements produced in the era of socialist Yugoslavia. There is a renewed interest by architectural historians and critics in Yugoslavia's ...architectural production between 1948 and 1980. However, and more remarkably, we find the images of the former socialist urban utopias back in recent music videos, especially rap videos, where it serves as the backdrop to an unusual mix of violence, drugs, sex, religion, and dance. Somehow the raw beauty of the Brutalism in Novi Beograd and the Modernism of Split 3 crosses over from its socialist ideological origins to contemporary youth culture in unexpected ways. The built environment from the time of Tito gets a different meaning altogether. We do not try to explain HOW or WHY this has happened. This article aims to raise the awareness THAT this happens, and we do so with pictorial means.
The paper discusses the confrotation between Serbian and Slovenian intellectuals (literary historians and writers, philosophers, sociologists, political theorists) in the years before the breakup of ...Yugoslavia. They were the leaders of “a new wave” which had fundamentally shaken communist Yugoslavia and in the end led to its breakdown. The Serbian and Slovenian intellectual scenes positioned themselves as an alternative to the political system in their republics. Writers had a special places in that process by reviving the old romantic narrative about “the defence of the nation”.
Author(s): Gal Kirn | Гал Кирн Title (English): How to Return to Partisan Memory? Title (Macedonian): Kако да се вратиме на партизанското сеќавање? Translated by (English to Macedonian): Jordan ...Šišovski | Јордан Шишовски Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1-2 (Winter 2016 - Summer 2017) Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje Page Range: 64-84 Page Count: 20 Citation (English): Gal Kirn, “How to Return to Partisan Memory?,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1-2 (Winter 2016 - Summer 2017): 64-82. Citation (Macedonian): Гал Кирн, „Kако да се вратиме на партизанското сеќавање?“, превод од англиски Јордан Шишовски, Идентитети: списание за политика, род и култура, т. 13, бр. 1-2 (зима 2016 - лето 2017): 64-84.
By analyzing selected Slovene newspapers, the article discusses the role of slivovitz in the reproduction of everyday nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia. The article is based on an analysis of texts ...containing the word slivovka (the Slovene word for slivovitz or plum spirit) that appeared in three major Slovene newspapers and three minor Slovene pro-Yugoslav newspapers in the period 1919–1945. In the period in question, slivovitz did not (yet) have the role of a signifier of the Yugoslav state, the Yugoslav nation and other elements associated with Yugoslav identity, but it was becoming part of the “structure of national feeling” – the specific experience of life in a given time and place that was common to the Yugoslav nation. Slivovitz, frequently included in repetitive and everyday habits, practices and assumptions, began to define the Yugoslav nation through a specific culture of drinking and drinks and became a component of this everyday, largely unnoticed reproduction of the Yugoslav nation.
The purpose of this paper is to study how changes in unrelated variety influence individuals' poverty alleviation. Drawing on the LiTS III database, we employed the Oprobit model to test 5007 ...individual-level observations from 23 regions in four former Yugoslavian countries. All results imply that the changes in unrelated variety have a U-shaped relationship with individuals' poverty alleviation. Our findings enrich the unrelated variety research by providing micro-level evidence and offer practical insights for governments, organizations and individuals aiming to reduce poverty.
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