The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other

ISBN-13: 9783319474816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 359 str.

Dijana Jela a.; Ma a. Kolanovi; Danijela Lugari

Opis

This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism in socialist and post-socialist times, in the geo-political context of the former Yugoslavia. It presents a variety of cutting edge work at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories, and critiques of neoliberalism in the context of post-socialism. This project is informed by a firm belief that social and cultural practices need to be examined with close attention to local contingencies, particularly in their socio-economic domain. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social, and economic order, this volume puts forth the idea that, in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. However, the collapse of socialism also illuminated the tensions between them. This volume collectively argues that culture although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism, or their relationship has an important role in defining, negotiating and resisting the social, political, and economic values of both systems."

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Cultural Capitalism the (Post)Yugoslav Way

PART I. CAPITAL(ISM) AND CLASS CULTURES

2. The Strange Absence of Capital(ism)

3. Fictions of Crime in a State of Exception

4. Rethinking Class in Socialist Yugoslavia: Labor, Body, and Moral Economy

5. The Restoration of Capitalism after Yugoslavia: Cultural Capital, Class and Power 

6. Class and Culture in Yugoslav Factory Newspapers

7. Post-Yugoslav Notes on Marx's Class Theory and Middle Class Classism 

PART II. TRAJECTORIES OF CAPITALISM: CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE

8. On Yugoslav Market Socialism through Živojin Pavlović’s When I Am Dead and Pale (1967)

9. Against Capitalism from the Stalinist Cellar: The Balkan Spy in the Post-Yugoslav Context

10. The Contested Place of the Detached Home in Yugoslavia’s Socialist Cities

11. Yugoslavia Looking Westward: Transnational Consumer Contact with Italy during the 1960s

12. Popular Hybrids the Yugoslav Way: What a Girl Would Buy for Her Pocket Money

PART III. CULTURAL STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

13. Protesting for Production: The Dita Factory Occupation and the Struggle for Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina

14. The Politics of (Post)Socialist Sexuality: American Foreign Policy in Bosnia and Kosovo

15. The Strange Case of Yugoslav Feminism: Feminism and Socialism in “the East”

16. Cultural Politics in (Post)Socialist Croatia: The Question of (Dis)Continuity

17. Neoliberal Discourse and Rhetoric in Croatian Higher Education

18. Yugoslavia after Yugoslavia: Graffiti about Yugoslavia in the Post-Yugoslav Urban Landscape

Afterword: And So They Historicized

O autorze

Dijana Jelača is Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, USA. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (2017).

Maša Kolanović is Associate Professor of Contemporary Croatian Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Udarnik! Buntovnik? Potrošač…Popularna kultura  i hrvatski roman od socijalizma do tranzicije (Worker! Rebel? Consumer… Popular Culture and Croatian Novel from Socialism till Transition, 2011) and edited volume Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva (Comparative Postsocialism: Slavic Experiences, 2013).

Danijela Lugarić is Associate Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature and the Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Ruski bardi: modusi popularnog u kantautorskoj poeziji Bulata Okudžave i Vladimira Vysockog (Russian Bards: Popular Aspects in the Author’s Song of Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky, 2011).

Blurb

This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories and situated critiques of neoliberalism, the volume rethinks the relationship between capitalism and socialism. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social and economic order, the volume puts forth the idea that in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. It argues that culture—although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism or their relationship—has an important role in defining, negotiating, and resisting the social, political and economic values of both systems.