Scenes From the Last Yugoslav Generation
The Long March from Yugo-Utopia to Nationalisms
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zala Volčič (0000-0002-2154-4520, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-89 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374007077270 |
| OpenAlex | W2052207922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article explores various aspects of how young Slovenian and Macedonian intellectuals, belonging to the last Yugoslav generation, articulate their (new) spaces of belonging and identity. I look at their Yugoslav memories and address a relatively straightforward question: how was the former Yugoslav community imagined, interpreted, represented, rejected, accepted and in what ways has this image of community been reappropriated and reimagined by the informants? From the narratives, my informants appear to identify with the former Yugoslavia as a multicultural space, a civic space that was based on a common socialist and pluralist culture, with its collective myths and rituals. However, as I suggest, Yugoslav identity starts to appear as a strange feeling of belonging, whereby that which has been familiar becomes suddenly and inexplicably alien. Furthermore, the concept of national identity seems to replicate and recycle the very supranational Yugoslav logics it wants to oppose
Aesthetics · Alien · Art · Citizenship · Collective identity · Literature · Macedonian · Multiculturalism · Mythology · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
Complicating the Relationship Between Sport and National Identity
Textual Representation, Class Exploitation and the Postcolonial
Things were good during Tito’s times, my parents say’
Hybridity, ethnicity and nationhood
Spaces of the Past
The Blue (White and Red) Orchestra
(What's so funny 'bout) peace, love & understanding
The Past is a Foreign Country
Ethnic Nationalism
The Ethics of Memory
Discourse and social change
A Journey Through Memory
Spaces of Capital
Analysing Discourse
Socialist Serbia's Narratives
Broken Bonds
Myths and Memories of the N1ation
Imagined communities
The origin of negative dialectics
The Outbreak of Nationalism on Former Yugoslav Territory
The Creation and Dissolution of the Multinational State
Mythscapes
Constitutional Nationalism in the Formerly Yugoslav Republics
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Dismembering Yugoslavia
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2019 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |