Communicating Yugoslavia – cultural politics, media memory and broadcasting of the Yugoslav past in Macedonia
Communicating Yugoslavia – cultural politics, media memory and broadcasting of the Yugoslav past in Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze how the shared Yugoslav past and history is communicated in Macedonia, 22 years after the dissolution. For that matter, the emphasis of the research will be on analysis of the media production of the state-owned, public service broadcaster in Macedonia, the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT). By analyzing a core of recently produced documentaries, the article aims to show how the recent change in cultural policy and the process of “nation-(re)building” is readable through new broadcasts and how the media memory of the Yugoslav past of Macedonia is present or absent from the media scene. Finally, this text aims to give answer to the question how, and to what extent, the recently produced media content contributes to the politics of remembrance / forgetting of the Yugoslav past.

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