Nostalgia in Flux
Some ex-Yugoslavs switch between different kinds of nostalgia, depending on context. The fluctuations of yugonostalgia highlight Yugoslavia as an enduring social and moral category.
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[Redux] Collective Nostalgia
Yugonostalgia as a collective emotion is a sentimental longing for a positively remembered past of the former country and life in it. Why and how does it arise? What are its positive and negative effects? And what are its implications?
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[Redux] The Future of Yugonostalgia
What is Yugonostalgia and why does it exist? How does it manifest and how do different people experience it? And where is it headed?
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Yugonostalgia: Past, Present, and Future*
Yugonostalgia is like a vessel that everyone fills with their own ideas and meanings. What is it and why does it exist? How do different people experience it? And where is it headed?
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Dream of the Yugoslav ’80s
For some two decades now the 1980s have been a rich referential resource for culture-makers across ex-Yugoslavia (and globally, of course). It’s clear the “cultural virus of the 1980s” continues to afflict the region of former Yugoslavia. Why? What is it about the Yugoslav ’80s culture that is so worth reviving and that is so inspiring decades later?
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Mitja from the Russian Blocks and the Deficit of Yugoslavia
The top scholar of yugonostalgia, professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, and ex-Yugoslav National Army cook, Mitja Velikonja, discusses his military service, the good and the bad of Yugoslavia, the evolution of Titostalgia, political graffiti in Central/Eastern Europe…and a lot more.
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Diaspora Voices 2: Home and Country
Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.
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Yugoslavia as an Alternative Political Project – Tanja Petrović (Podcast Episode 12)
Director of Ljubljana-based Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Tanja Petrović, discusses the new lives of Yugoslav objects, Yugonostalgia, and the political potential of socialist Yugoslavia today.
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