Mediating Spaces
The Scales of Yugoslav Socialist Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12740733 |
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| Authors | James M Robertson (University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 728-751 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-2443 • E-ISSN: 1479-2451 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479244324000167 |
| OpenAlex | W4396965885 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Beginning with its emergence in the 1870s and carrying through to the wars of the 1990s, Yugoslav socialism was animated by various visions of supranational affiliation: from Balkan federalism to communist Slavism to the nonaligned movement and European unification. These projects were examples of what this article terms mediating spaces: strategies of spatial consolidation designed to mediate their constituent nations’ integration into global capitalist modernity. Throughout the long twentieth century intellectuals on the world periphery set out to secure political sovereignty and economic development at a scale between the national and the global. These spatial projects were particularly pronounced in Yugoslavia, where the fragmentation of multiethnic empires made questions of supranational unity especially urgent. Developing the concept of mediating spaces, this article proposes a mode of intellectual history that approaches the global not as the scope of intellectual mobility or the horizon of historical inquiry, but rather as a generative scale of human experience that conditioned the formation of modern radical thought
Consolidation (business · Economic system · Economics · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Unification · Vision · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Central European national history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law
Uneven Development
Climate in Motion
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
The Historical Experience of Federalism in East Central Europe
Rethinking scale as a geographical category
The social construction of scale
Anti-imperial metropolis
The Political Economy of Scale and European Governance1
The Strange Politics of Federative Ideas in East-Central Europe
Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Scaling Caribbean (in)dependence
Worldmaking after Empire
The dramaturgy of horizons
Reconstructing scale
The limits to scale? Methodological reflections on scalar structuration
Contours of a Spatialized Politics
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