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 article discusses the contemporary reconstruction of the Kranjska sausage as a national dish by exploring different actors in this process. This representative culinary object played a ...significant role in the formation and development of Slovene national consciousness from the Spring of Nations onward, faced devaluation in socialist era and experienced a renaissance in the new millennium, when it was also given a role in the project of the construction of the nation‐state. The modern rebirth of the Kranjska sausage is presented as an interrelated and complex process due to many factors: the efforts of an influential ethnologist, the role of an institution dedicated to the Kranjska sausage, and other persons, groups, and institutions with different objectives, ideas, and understandings. The article conceptualizes nationalizing as an everyday practice, as a network, or collection of people, practices, places, institutions, ideologies, objects, technologies, and ideas that define people's subjectivity and shape their actions and imaginations.
The article is based on the argument that the Carniolan sausage (kranjska klobasa) played an important role in the formation and development of Slovenian national awareness in the period between the ...Spring of Nations and the end of World War I. The Carniolan sausage was an integral part of a unified field of exchanges which enabled the collective recognition of the members of the nation. The article then discusses its place in 'banal nationalism' - the daily nationalism that slips from our attention and daily reminds people of their nationality. As a banal national symbol, highlighting national differences and significance, the Carniolan sausage was a constant reminder of the nation. In the last part, the article analyses its role in 'nationalism from below', or everyday nationhood - the reproduction of nationhood by ordinary people in everyday life. The Carniolan sausage demonstrates that nationalism is not merely the result of a political programme or ideology, but primarily a network or collection of people, objects, practices, places, institutions, ideologies, technologies, ideas, symbols etc. which define the subjectivity of the people, and form their actions and imagination.
Upadljivim uživanjem masnog bureka, neke se skupine učenika protive dominantnom diskursu zdravoga života, kojim su bombardirani u medijima, oglašavanju, u formalnom i neformalnom obrazovanju itd. No, ...to protivljenje ne smijemo shvatiti prvenstveno kao eksplicitni bunt protiv hegemonskih ideja diskursa zdravoga života, kome je burek, zbog njegove poslovične masnoće, česta i omiljena meta. To generacijsko suprotstavljanje vjerojatno treba shvatiti više kao bunt s burekom i za burek, a ne kao jasan i planski bunt spram dominantnog diskursa zdravoga života. Diskurs zdravoga života pojavljuje se u ulozi svojevrsnog privjeska, parazita na omiljenom i jedinom, gotovo uvijek i posvuda pristupačnom i
zasitnom bureku, što dodatno osmišljava i daje ton tom buntu s burekom i za burek.
A Medley of National Favourites. Things That Make Slovenes ShineSalted with the words of Benedict Anderson: to the Slovene nation, a love of Carniolan sausages, the Vače Situla, accordions and ...gibanica cakes “have an aura of fatality”,Peppered with Raymond Williams: that Carniolan sausages, the Vače Situla, accordions and gibanica reproduce a “structure of national feeling”, andServed with Karl Marx: these grandes dames of the Slovene nation weighas they must on the brains of living Slovenes.
What makes chatty objects chatty? There are probably many reasons. But in this book ('Chatty Objects. When Objects Talk About Us and Others') you will hear only one answer to this question: changed ...context! When objects find themselves in new, different, foreign contexts, they often, but not always, start chatting. Thus in this book we hear the chatting of the scarves of Muslim immigrant women and their descendants in Slovenia~bureks and pies baked in the kitchens of immigrants and given as gifts to Slovenes, the Tuareg 'veil' called a taglmust in the towns of north Africa~“white” dishes at Muslim wedding festivals in urban Burkina Faso~the bronze ritual vessel called a ding in China’s long history, and consumer goods purchased on holidays in a Tokyo shopping street.
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