Alenka Bartulović
Biographic Data
| ID | 145262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alenka Bartulović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alenka |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartulović |
| SIGNATURE | BARTULOVIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ljubljana |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9179-5645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Albanian Hidden Heritage in Slovenia: Some Notes on Music-Making in Between the Centre and Periphery
Focusing on Albanian communities’ overlooked musical heritage in post-Yugoslav Slovenia, this paper analyses how and why the dominant framing of Albanians has reinforced the assumption of the absence of the Albanian heritage. By comparing central and peripheral settings in examining the ambivalence towards this heritage in Kočevje and the recent process of heritagisation in Ljubljana, we challenge the notion that minority cultural recognition occ…
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Make up Your Own Mind about Gavrilo: On Remembering, Silence and Doubts in Sarajevo
Drawing on recent scholarly critiques of dominant Balkanist understandings of memory work in post-war societies and focusing on individuals as active managers of transmitted memories, this article illustrates the dynamic nature of how the Sarajevo assassination and Gavrilo Princip are remembered in Sarajevo. It offers ethnographic insights into the everyday effects of power struggles between popular and official memories and responds to calls to …
Making Music as Home-Making: Bosnian Refugee Music and Collaboration in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia
This article explores some of the musical practices of Bosnian refugees in post-Yugoslav Slovenia in the mid-1990s and aims to improve understandings of music in transit and in precarious times. In particular, the article traces the effects of common Yugoslav history on the popularisation of Sevdalinka in Slovenia and the efforts of refugee and local musicians to make a new home together after the breakup of Yugoslavia
Representing Gavrilo Princip: Tourism, Politics and Alternative Engagements with the Memory of the Sarajevo Assassination in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article follows the transformation of memories on Sarajevo assassination, reflected during the Assassination Centennial in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author focuses mostly on touristic representations of Gavrilo Princip and new discourses framed in the Federation BH, in particular counter-discourses that challenge the simplified understanding of memorialisation practices in post-conflict societies as simple battles of antagonistic nationalised …
Gender and Music-Making in Exile: Female Bosnian Refugee Musicians in Slovenia
This article explores the role of Bosnian refugee women in the music-making and organisational activities of two refugee bands (Dertum and Vali) in Slovenia in the early 1990s. Endorsing the ideas about the transformative power of art and looking beyond the dominant identitarian doxa that views music-making in exile as simply the preservation of the ethnic/national identity in a new context, the article places particular emphasis on the active ro…
Postjugosłowiańskie interpretacje orientalizmu Ivo Andricia: Niejednoznaczność osmańskiego dziedzictwa w Bośni i Hercegowinie
Conflicting understandings of the Ottoman and Bosnian past, which has been pragmatically reinterpreted through the nationalising gaze in the 1990s in the former Yugoslav space, tend to encompass different reinterpretations of the most prominent Bosnian (historical) figures. The Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić stands out as one of the most politically (ab)used writers in Bosnian history. The dissolution of Yugoslavia deeply affected the reception of And…
Sevdah Celebrities Narrate Sevdalinka. Political (Self-)Contextualization of Sevdalinka Performers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The article explores sevdalinka as regional musical genre that represents contradictory ideological positions. The focus is on the various celebrities’ discourses with obvious political connotations that have been productive in the making of sevdalinka in past and present Bosnian-Herzegovinian contexts. *** V članku avtorja razkrivata nasprotujoče si ideološke pozicije, kakor se zrcalijo v regionalnem glasbenem žanru – sevdalinki. V središče zani…
O “bosanskom mentalitetu”: Od distanciranih opažanja do antinacionalističkih praksi
Tekst obrađuje revitalizaciju ideje o bosanskom identitetu u postdejtonskom Sarajevu. Karakteroloske se skice u poslijeratnom kontekstu u okviru antinacionalistickog diskursa (koji se u mnogim tockama približava idealiziranom modelu zamisljenog građanskog nacionalizma) koriste kao strategije otpora protiv nasilja pripisanih/nametnutih identifikacija, a ujedno funkcioniraju kao mehanizmi (re)konstrukcije te politicke promocije inkluzivne kategorij…
The Sevdalinka in Exile, Revisited: Young Bosnian Refugees’ Music-Making in Ljubljana in the 1990s (A Note on Applied Ethnomusicology)
Scholars perceived the sevdalinka in exile as an evident expression of refugees’ Bosnian identity. Although this aspect might be important, we think that the identity dimension of the sevdalinka was overemphasised. That is why we point to the appearance of the sevdalinka in Slovenia as a complex process of experiencing uncertainty and trauma of forced migration on the one hand, and youth creativity or a search for expressive freedom on the other.…
L'exposition des restes humains dans les musées slovènes: Un Problème Éthique
L'article interroge la façon dont le corps humain est exposé dans les musées. Il présente deux cas de restes mortels qui sont devenus en Slovénie des objets muséographiques : une lanière en peau et une tête réduite. Ce type d'objets est une attraction que le public recherche, si bien que les musées n'ont pas encore pris la décision de les retirer complètement des vitrines. En raison de leur authenticité, le corps humain et les parties corporelles…
Nationalism in the Classroom: Narratives of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) in the History Textbooks of the Republic of Srpska
The article considers the problem of the representation of the last war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995) in the history textbooks of the Republic of Srpska (Serb Republic)-one of the entities in the country.* The analysed textbooks are deliberately used as one of the most important instruments for the formation of national identity. Scholars generally agree that history lessons are in fact lessons in patriotism and that nation-states use history…
Nationalism in the Classroom: Narratives of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) in the History Textbooks of the Republic of Srpska
The article considers the problem of the representation of the last war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995) in the history textbooks of the Republic of Srpska (Serb Republic)-one of the entities in the country.* The analysed textbooks are deliberately used as one of the most important instruments for the formation of national identity. Scholars generally agree that history lessons are in fact lessons in patriotism and that nation-states use history…
The Sevdalinka in Exile, Revisited: Young Bosnian Refugees’ Music-Making in Ljubljana in the 1990s (A Note on Applied Ethnomusicology)
Scholars perceived the sevdalinka in exile as an evident expression of refugees’ Bosnian identity. Although this aspect might be important, we think that the identity dimension of the sevdalinka was overemphasised. That is why we point to the appearance of the sevdalinka in Slovenia as a complex process of experiencing uncertainty and trauma of forced migration on the one hand, and youth creativity or a search for expressive freedom on the other.…
Make up Your Own Mind about Gavrilo: On Remembering, Silence and Doubts in Sarajevo
Drawing on recent scholarly critiques of dominant Balkanist understandings of memory work in post-war societies and focusing on individuals as active managers of transmitted memories, this article illustrates the dynamic nature of how the Sarajevo assassination and Gavrilo Princip are remembered in Sarajevo. It offers ethnographic insights into the everyday effects of power struggles between popular and official memories and responds to calls to …
L'exposition des restes humains dans les musées slovènes: Un Problème Éthique
L'article interroge la façon dont le corps humain est exposé dans les musées. Il présente deux cas de restes mortels qui sont devenus en Slovénie des objets muséographiques : une lanière en peau et une tête réduite. Ce type d'objets est une attraction que le public recherche, si bien que les musées n'ont pas encore pris la décision de les retirer complètement des vitrines. En raison de leur authenticité, le corps humain et les parties corporelles…
Nationalism in the Classroom: Narratives of the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) in the History Textbooks of the Republic of Srpska
The article considers the problem of the representation of the last war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1995) in the history textbooks of the Republic of Srpska (Serb Republic)-one of the entities in the country.* The analysed textbooks are deliberately used as one of the most important instruments for the formation of national identity. Scholars generally agree that history lessons are in fact lessons in patriotism and that nation-states use history…
L'exposition des restes humains dans les musées slovènes: Un Problème Éthique
L'article interroge la façon dont le corps humain est exposé dans les musées. Il présente deux cas de restes mortels qui sont devenus en Slovénie des objets muséographiques : une lanière en peau et une tête réduite. Ce type d'objets est une attraction que le public recherche, si bien que les musées n'ont pas encore pris la décision de les retirer complètement des vitrines. En raison de leur authenticité, le corps humain et les parties corporelles…
O “bosanskom mentalitetu”: Od distanciranih opažanja do antinacionalističkih praksi
Tekst obrađuje revitalizaciju ideje o bosanskom identitetu u postdejtonskom Sarajevu. Karakteroloske se skice u poslijeratnom kontekstu u okviru antinacionalistickog diskursa (koji se u mnogim tockama približava idealiziranom modelu zamisljenog građanskog nacionalizma) koriste kao strategije otpora protiv nasilja pripisanih/nametnutih identifikacija, a ujedno funkcioniraju kao mehanizmi (re)konstrukcije te politicke promocije inkluzivne kategorij…
The Sevdalinka in Exile, Revisited: Young Bosnian Refugees’ Music-Making in Ljubljana in the 1990s (A Note on Applied Ethnomusicology)
Scholars perceived the sevdalinka in exile as an evident expression of refugees’ Bosnian identity. Although this aspect might be important, we think that the identity dimension of the sevdalinka was overemphasised. That is why we point to the appearance of the sevdalinka in Slovenia as a complex process of experiencing uncertainty and trauma of forced migration on the one hand, and youth creativity or a search for expressive freedom on the other.…
Sevdah Celebrities Narrate Sevdalinka. Political (Self-)Contextualization of Sevdalinka Performers in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The article explores sevdalinka as regional musical genre that represents contradictory ideological positions. The focus is on the various celebrities’ discourses with obvious political connotations that have been productive in the making of sevdalinka in past and present Bosnian-Herzegovinian contexts. *** V članku avtorja razkrivata nasprotujoče si ideološke pozicije, kakor se zrcalijo v regionalnem glasbenem žanru – sevdalinki. V središče zani…
Gender and Music-Making in Exile: Female Bosnian Refugee Musicians in Slovenia
This article explores the role of Bosnian refugee women in the music-making and organisational activities of two refugee bands (Dertum and Vali) in Slovenia in the early 1990s. Endorsing the ideas about the transformative power of art and looking beyond the dominant identitarian doxa that views music-making in exile as simply the preservation of the ethnic/national identity in a new context, the article places particular emphasis on the active ro…
Postjugosłowiańskie interpretacje orientalizmu Ivo Andricia: Niejednoznaczność osmańskiego dziedzictwa w Bośni i Hercegowinie
Conflicting understandings of the Ottoman and Bosnian past, which has been pragmatically reinterpreted through the nationalising gaze in the 1990s in the former Yugoslav space, tend to encompass different reinterpretations of the most prominent Bosnian (historical) figures. The Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić stands out as one of the most politically (ab)used writers in Bosnian history. The dissolution of Yugoslavia deeply affected the reception of And…
Representing Gavrilo Princip: Tourism, Politics and Alternative Engagements with the Memory of the Sarajevo Assassination in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article follows the transformation of memories on Sarajevo assassination, reflected during the Assassination Centennial in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The author focuses mostly on touristic representations of Gavrilo Princip and new discourses framed in the Federation BH, in particular counter-discourses that challenge the simplified understanding of memorialisation practices in post-conflict societies as simple battles of antagonistic nationalised …
Making Music as Home-Making: Bosnian Refugee Music and Collaboration in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia
This article explores some of the musical practices of Bosnian refugees in post-Yugoslav Slovenia in the mid-1990s and aims to improve understandings of music in transit and in precarious times. In particular, the article traces the effects of common Yugoslav history on the popularisation of Sevdalinka in Slovenia and the efforts of refugee and local musicians to make a new home together after the breakup of Yugoslavia
Make up Your Own Mind about Gavrilo: On Remembering, Silence and Doubts in Sarajevo
Drawing on recent scholarly critiques of dominant Balkanist understandings of memory work in post-war societies and focusing on individuals as active managers of transmitted memories, this article illustrates the dynamic nature of how the Sarajevo assassination and Gavrilo Princip are remembered in Sarajevo. It offers ethnographic insights into the everyday effects of power struggles between popular and official memories and responds to calls to …
Affect's Social Lives
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conce…
Albanian Hidden Heritage in Slovenia: Some Notes on Music-Making in Between the Centre and Periphery
Focusing on Albanian communities’ overlooked musical heritage in post-Yugoslav Slovenia, this paper analyses how and why the dominant framing of Albanians has reinforced the assumption of the absence of the Albanian heritage. By comparing central and peripheral settings in examining the ambivalence towards this heritage in Kočevje and the recent process of heritagisation in Ljubljana, we challenge the notion that minority cultural recognition occ…
Balkans: History, Politics, Society (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Bosnian (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works)