The Past With a Future: The Emancipatory Potential of Yugonostalgia
The Past With a Future: The Emancipatory Potential of Yugonostalgia
Author(s): Mitja Velikonja
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political history, Social history, Sociology of Politics, Philosophy of History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Yugoslavia; yugonostalgia; active nostalgia; passive nostalgia; counter-hegemony; collective memory; post-socialist transition;
Summary/Abstract: The article is focused on the active, emancipatory and counter-hegemonic potential of yugonostalgia and its creative inspiration. It is arguing that nostalgia is much more than an intimate, passive and bitter-sweet story invented by post-Yugoslavs to lament on their better past, but a new liberating discourse and an ideological platform with the potential to influence current political developments.
Book: Tito - Viđenja i tumačenja
- Page Range: 562-581
- Page Count: 20
- Publication Year: 2011
- Language: English
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