Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present Cover Image

Yustalgija : Sećanje i materijalna kultura socijalizma kao okvir za konzumiranje sadašnjosti
Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present

Author(s): Emilija Mijić
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Београду
Keywords: yustalgia; consumption; material culture; socialism;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a result of research on consumption processes and nostalgic narratives connected to former Yugoslavia. It deals with the relations between consumption yustalgia and yustalgic consumption, two processes interrogated in nostalgic narratives. The goal of the research was to explain how people use active memories and nostalgic narratives as a tool of critique for the present socio-political and economical position. In this transitional moment, socialist material culture is a one kind of critique process in post-socialistic discourse.

  • Issue Year: 6/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 763-782
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian