TEACHING POSTSOCIALISM IN A POSTSOCIALIST COUNTRY: EVERYDAY AS A SOURCE OF THE POLITICAL
TEACHING POSTSOCIALISM IN A POSTSOCIALIST COUNTRY: EVERYDAY AS A SOURCE OF THE POLITICAL

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I would like to draw attention to the challenges of theorizing and teaching about everyday practices of postsocialist transformation in the former Yugoslavia. I focus on the master course entitled “Cultural and Social Practices of Postsocialism: A Case Study of the Former Yugoslavia” (later renamed “Culture of Socialism and Postsocialism”) taught as an elective course at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade. It is designed to ofer understanding of diferent and ofen contradictory ways in which dramatic changes in Eastern Europe from 1989 onwards have been played out in everyday life of people who live in these regions. Te main challenge of teaching this course was to encourage students to critically think about politics in its various guises and connect their everyday experiences with political and cultural theory. Not only does it show that teaching is always political, but that the actual challenge lies in teaching (and learning) the political from the sources and practices of everyday life.

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