EKOLOŠKE TEME NA STRANICAMA ČASOPISA ARENA
ECOLOGICAL ISSUES IN »ARENA« MAGAZINE

Summary/Abstract: Paper deals with one aspect of emergance of ecological issues in the Yugoslav communist society, by analyzing texts which had ecological themes and were published in the *Arena* magazine. Mentioned magazine proved to be a great historical source, on the one side because it had been issued for many years on weekly basis and on the other – it was not the magazine in which the most of articles were regarding politics, ekonomija etc., so topics very important to the authorities, which has opened certain space for the criticism in the field of ecology. Analysis was made in the context of Yugoslav industrial growth and also in the context of the emergence and development of the ecological movement in the West as well as in Yugoslavia. Relations between ideologies of communism and ecology is one of the mentioned topics. The paper suggests that there were differences in the number of the texts regarding ecological topics, in the ways of talking about these problems and the nature of it (pollution of the rivers, air, the issue of nuclear weapons and energy, climate change, etc.) in various periods. First period begins in the sixties and goes on till the beginning of the seventies, next one is the middle and the last second of the seventies and the eighties can be divided in the first and second half. The most interesting period for this kind of research is the second half of the eighties, when some parts of Yugoslav society show some similarities with the West regarding utilization of nuclear energy.

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