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 and the Ministry of Possibilities
Ugrešić embodied anti- and non-nationalist people who, since the disintegration of their country, Yugoslavia, found themselves in a kind of an existential vacuum.
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K67: The King of Kiosks
The K67 Kiosk is a symbol of Yugoslavia. Once ubiquitous in its thousands, only a few hundred units remain around the former country, many in various state of disrepair, and a handful of others around the world. Particularly over the past decade, the Kiosk has been experiencing a revival of sorts.
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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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Remembering 25 May, Dan Mladosti (Youth Day)
Dan mladosti (Youth Day or Day of Youth) was one of the biggest holidays in socialist Yugoslavia. It continues to be commemorated today.
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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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Fićo Goes Back to the Future
There’s a Yugoslav car that was even more important than the Yugo for the country and for the country’s memory. Better known by its nickname, Fića / Fićo / Fićko, Zastava 750 was the first Yugoslav car. It was and continues to be a Yugoslav icon, a symbol of that disappeared country and an object of nostalgia. In metaphorical terms, Fićo is Yugoslavia…and probably always will be. This is Fića’s story.
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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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Pictures of YU (Podcast Episode 21)
Two photographers born in former Yugoslavia and living abroad, Olja Triaška Stefanović (Novi Sad, Serbia / Bratislava, Slovakia) and Dragana Jurišić (Slavonski Brod, Croatia / Dublin, Ireland) have (re)claimed the memory of their disappeared homeland through their art.
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Rock’n’Retro (Podcast Episode 20)
…or New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Popular Music in Former Yugoslavia Parallel to Yugonostalgic enjoyment of Yugoslav-era music across the region, another related musical phenomenon emerged in the 1990s: original music glorifying Yugoslavia.
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Remembering 29 November, Dan Republike (Republic Day)
Every last Saturday in November, several thousand people from all across former Yugoslavia gather in Jajce for Days of AVNOJ, an official celebration of Yugoslavia’s founding, and the former holiday Day of the Republic.
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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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Mini Yugoslavia: A Field Report
A walking tour of Mini Yugoslavia with Honorary President Goran Gabrić.
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Yugofuturist Rock’n’Roll: Petar Janjatović
Petar Janjatović, author of Ex-YU Rock Encyclopedia 1960-2015, discusses the endurance of Yugoslav rock and the political power of music.
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Made in Yugodom
Mario Milaković, the founder of Yugodom, a stay over museum of mid-century modern Yugoslav design, discusses his creation, tourism, and Yugonostalgia.
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You Go, You Go, Yugo
The inaugural episode of Remembering Yugoslavia is all about the Yugo car.