Originally published in The Helsinki Notebooks: Global Dispatches against Fascism and the Far Right The People’s Liberation War (Narodnooslobodilački rat, NOR), as the Yugoslav Partisans’ antifascist struggle and parallel socialist revolution during World War II were officially termed, was the birthplace of Yugoslav state socialism. The communist-led and country-wide uprising of 1941 rapidly grew intoContinue reading “Erasing the Yugoslav Revolution: (Mis-)Remembering Antifascism in Serbia and the Post-Yugoslav Space”
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RECET Podcast: Sea, Sex and Tourism in Socialist Yugoslavia
Who were the Yugoslav Casanovas of mass tourism? What are the practices of othering and meanings behind romantic and sexual encounters of local young men and foreign female tourists in the Yugoslav Adriatic? In this episode, I talked to Anita Buhin about so-called galebovi (seagulls) in socialist Yugoslavia and various economic, cultural and social aspects of thisContinue reading “RECET Podcast: Sea, Sex and Tourism in Socialist Yugoslavia”
New publication on war veterans and transnational cultures of memory and solidarity between Yugoslavia and Algeria
The article examines the role of memory in Yugoslav exchanges with the postcolonial world, focusing on the agency of Yugoslav war veterans and their involvement with Algeria. During decolonization, Yugoslav institutions and associations stood in solidarity with anti-colonial liberation movements. Former Partisans were critical agents of Yugoslav internationalism, and the memory of the People’s LiberationContinue reading “New publication on war veterans and transnational cultures of memory and solidarity between Yugoslavia and Algeria”
Jelena Đureinović 