Slivovitz and Everyday Nationalism
The Analysis of Slovene Newspapers in Interwar Yugoslavia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11048902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jernej Mlekuž (0000-0001-6918-1194, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 685-700 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2023.20 |
| OpenAlex | W4367181941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 38 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Everyday life · Feeling · Interwar period · Literature · Media studies · National identity · Nationalism · Newspaper · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · World War II · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · European Cultural and National Identity · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Psychology
Objectification
Food, National Identity and Nationalism
National Belonging and Everyday Life
Studies in ethnomethodology
Ethnonationalism
Elusive Compromise
The National Question in Yugoslavia
Nationhood from Below
Making Yugoslavs
Practical Reason
A Spirit in the Service of the Nation
From the English Cottage Garden to the Swedish Allotment
Nations and nationalism since 1789
A Social History of the Media
Everyday Nationhood
The edges of the nation
How to gauge banal nationalism and national indifference in the past
There are times when I feel like a bit of an alien
Banal Nationalism in everyday life
Indifference towards national identity
Introduction
Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of banal and everyday nationalism
Who's afraid of Banal Nationalism
The limits of everyday nationhood
Everyday nationhood
Designing the nation. Banknotes, banal nationalism and alternative conceptions of the state
The 'everyday' of banal nationalism - Ordinary people's views on Italy and Italian
Who Were the Yugoslavs? Failed Sources of a Common Identity in the Former Yugoslavia
Envisaging the Nation
Imagined Noncommunities
Sensuous Multiculturalism
The Nationalization of Culture
The Commercial Construction of 'New Nations
Automobility and National Identity
Techniques of the body∗
Ethnic complexity
Understanding national identity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |