Overview
- Examines the complex and transformative nature of cultural forms that perpetually challenge the capitalism vs. socialism binary in provocative ways that extend beyond the case of Yugoslavia
- Brings together leading scholars and emerging stars in the field across disciplines to offer a truly multidisciplinary approach to the experience and legacy of post-socialist issues and culture via a unified theoretical framework
- Provides insight to the intricacies of Yugoslavia’s arguably unorthodox form of socialism
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories and situated critiques of neoliberalism, the volume rethinks the relationship between capitalism and socialism. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social and economic order, the volume puts forth the idea that in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. It argues that culture—although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism or their relationship—has an important role in defining, negotiating, and resisting the social, political and economicvalues of both systems.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dijana Jelača is Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, USA. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (2017).
Maša Kolanović is Associate Professor of Contemporary Croatian Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Udarnik! Buntovnik? Potrošač…Popularna kultura i hrvatski roman od socijalizma do tranzicije (Worker! Rebel? Consumer… Popular Culture and Croatian Novel from Socialism till Transition, 2011) and edited volume Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva (Comparative Postsocialism: Slavic Experiences, 2013).
Danijela Lugarić is Associate Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature and the Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She isthe author of Ruski bardi: modusi popularnog u kantautorskoj poeziji Bulata Okudžave i Vladimira Vysockog (Russian Bards: Popular Aspects in the Author’s Song of Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky, 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia
Book Subtitle: (Post)Socialism and Its Other
Editors: Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović, Danijela Lugarić
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47482-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47481-6Published: 26 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83747-5Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47482-3Published: 11 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Culture, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History