Danijela Velimirović
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danijela Velimirović |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danijela |
| FAMILY NAME | Velimirović |
| SIGNATURE | VELIMIROVIĆ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6665-2998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Silk, Velvet and Mother-of-Pearl from Istanbul
Fashion and clothing constitute effective technical instruments for shaping and performing public personas. In Zona Zamfirova, Stevan Sremac exploits this potential to deepen the relationship between literary characters and the cultural milieu of Oriental Niš, a world that irreversibly ceased to exist after 1878. In this author’s literary vision, garments materialize economic privilege, social mobility, attachment to (Ottoman) tradition, national…
From Collective Creativity to Authorship
Socialist creativity, understood as a form of collective creativity, was based on the engagement of shared human capacities in order to achieve an envisioned project of modernity and a bright future. In its attempt to erase the distinction between manual and intellectual labor, official ideology promoted the direct implementation of imaginative and creative ideas into production. Within such a cultural context, there was little room for the fashi…
Is the Consumer's Voice Heard at All
The introduction of socialism entailed a fundamental reconstruction of bourgeois trade, which was labelled as "profiteering", "speculative" and "black marketeering". Alternative new trade, based on "sound and nationwide" foundations, was supposed to successfully link production and consumption through the planned distribution of goods, thus contributing to general prosperity and a happier future. However, the introduction of self-management in 19…
From nature to culture
In this paper, we aspire to uncover the power relations and the ways of conceptualizing gender in rural Sumadija in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century by researching practices and discourses that concern production, consumption, preparation, the acts of serving, and the ingestion of food. The historically and culturally constructed binary oppositions between nature and culture, the open and the closed, and male and female, will fur…
Shortage Economy
Starting from the concept of the “social life of things” proposed by Arjun Appadurai, the paper considers the “journey” of clothing items from production, through distribution to consumption in post-war Yugoslavia. Even though the rationing of clothing and footwear was caused by the destruction of war and subsequent insufficient production of these items due to the official favoring of heavy industry, the major part of consumers’ frustration was …
They Were Everywhere – They Got Everything Done
The post war period posed a demand for the reshaping of society, people and their habits, and thus also necessitating a plan of transformation for the female spirit. The old codes of femininity had to be forgotten. This paper is concerned with the construction of the “new woman” shaped according to the model of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch. The socialist heroine was a fierce warrioress, a devoted worker, an unparalleled shock-worker, a selfless volunte…
A New Look for “The New Woman”
The post-war “new woman” was supposed to reject fashion as a cultural practice of the decadent bourgeois world. The paper analyzes the attempt made by the Yugoslav communist regime to establish original socialist clothing outside the influence of western systems of fashion. I will explore the characteristics of “utopian clothing” and the bases of a new aesthetic. Simple, practical, unobtrusive and appropriate clothing displayed the role of women …
Cultural Biography of Haute Couture
The term »grandiose pseudo-clasicism«, introduced to the study of fashion in socialism by Djurdja Bartlett, does not hold ground in the case of Yugoslav/Serbian offical fashion industry. Instead, I claim that a more appropriate term would be »grandiose exotism«, since Yugoslav/Serbian fashion did not build its identity on the pseudo-classical esthetical models, but on the incorporation of exotic motives and patterns form the national thesaurus. »…
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Cultural Biography of Haute Couture
The term »grandiose pseudo-clasicism«, introduced to the study of fashion in socialism by Djurdja Bartlett, does not hold ground in the case of Yugoslav/Serbian offical fashion industry. Instead, I claim that a more appropriate term would be »grandiose exotism«, since Yugoslav/Serbian fashion did not build its identity on the pseudo-classical esthetical models, but on the incorporation of exotic motives and patterns form the national thesaurus. »…
They Were Everywhere – They Got Everything Done
The post war period posed a demand for the reshaping of society, people and their habits, and thus also necessitating a plan of transformation for the female spirit. The old codes of femininity had to be forgotten. This paper is concerned with the construction of the “new woman” shaped according to the model of Nietzsche’s Ubermensch. The socialist heroine was a fierce warrioress, a devoted worker, an unparalleled shock-worker, a selfless volunte…
A New Look for “The New Woman”
The post-war “new woman” was supposed to reject fashion as a cultural practice of the decadent bourgeois world. The paper analyzes the attempt made by the Yugoslav communist regime to establish original socialist clothing outside the influence of western systems of fashion. I will explore the characteristics of “utopian clothing” and the bases of a new aesthetic. Simple, practical, unobtrusive and appropriate clothing displayed the role of women …
Shortage Economy
Starting from the concept of the “social life of things” proposed by Arjun Appadurai, the paper considers the “journey” of clothing items from production, through distribution to consumption in post-war Yugoslavia. Even though the rationing of clothing and footwear was caused by the destruction of war and subsequent insufficient production of these items due to the official favoring of heavy industry, the major part of consumers’ frustration was …
Is the Consumer's Voice Heard at All
The introduction of socialism entailed a fundamental reconstruction of bourgeois trade, which was labelled as "profiteering", "speculative" and "black marketeering". Alternative new trade, based on "sound and nationwide" foundations, was supposed to successfully link production and consumption through the planned distribution of goods, thus contributing to general prosperity and a happier future. However, the introduction of self-management in 19…
From nature to culture
In this paper, we aspire to uncover the power relations and the ways of conceptualizing gender in rural Sumadija in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century by researching practices and discourses that concern production, consumption, preparation, the acts of serving, and the ingestion of food. The historically and culturally constructed binary oppositions between nature and culture, the open and the closed, and male and female, will fur…
Silk, Velvet and Mother-of-Pearl from Istanbul
Fashion and clothing constitute effective technical instruments for shaping and performing public personas. In Zona Zamfirova, Stevan Sremac exploits this potential to deepen the relationship between literary characters and the cultural milieu of Oriental Niš, a world that irreversibly ceased to exist after 1878. In this author’s literary vision, garments materialize economic privilege, social mobility, attachment to (Ottoman) tradition, national…
From Collective Creativity to Authorship
Socialist creativity, understood as a form of collective creativity, was based on the engagement of shared human capacities in order to achieve an envisioned project of modernity and a bright future. In its attempt to erase the distinction between manual and intellectual labor, official ideology promoted the direct implementation of imaginative and creative ideas into production. Within such a cultural context, there was little room for the fashi…
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