Mitja Velikonja
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784023
- eISBN:
- 9780804787345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784023.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses ambivalent attitudes about socialist Yugoslavia in different narratives and social practices in contemporary Slovenia, twenty years after independence. In the face of critical ...
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This chapter discusses ambivalent attitudes about socialist Yugoslavia in different narratives and social practices in contemporary Slovenia, twenty years after independence. In the face of critical approaches to discursive constructions of different “Easts” – orientalist and Balkanist – it is time to approach the former Yugoslavia in the same way. Slovenia is in a very specific position: having once been a republic of federal Yugoslavia, it was the first to join the EU and is expected to take initiative in the process of European integration of Western Balkan countries. The process of “othering” of socialist Yugoslavia in Slovenia today ranges from its condemnation or ignorance in most dominant discourses, to increasingly positive opinions or even new retro/nostalgic production in popular consumer culture, art, alternative cultures, and subpolitical groups. Internal contradictions and controversies that construct and fuel ambivalent “Yugoslavist” discourses are analyzed in the last part of the text.Less
This chapter discusses ambivalent attitudes about socialist Yugoslavia in different narratives and social practices in contemporary Slovenia, twenty years after independence. In the face of critical approaches to discursive constructions of different “Easts” – orientalist and Balkanist – it is time to approach the former Yugoslavia in the same way. Slovenia is in a very specific position: having once been a republic of federal Yugoslavia, it was the first to join the EU and is expected to take initiative in the process of European integration of Western Balkan countries. The process of “othering” of socialist Yugoslavia in Slovenia today ranges from its condemnation or ignorance in most dominant discourses, to increasingly positive opinions or even new retro/nostalgic production in popular consumer culture, art, alternative cultures, and subpolitical groups. Internal contradictions and controversies that construct and fuel ambivalent “Yugoslavist” discourses are analyzed in the last part of the text.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804760324
- eISBN:
- 9780804772877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804760324.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This introductory chapter begins by considering debates over the origins and the meaning of the word “alchemy,” and then discusses the history of alchemy; uses and abuses of “alchemy”; alchemy as a ...
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This introductory chapter begins by considering debates over the origins and the meaning of the word “alchemy,” and then discusses the history of alchemy; uses and abuses of “alchemy”; alchemy as a dual or ambivalent discourse; and alchemy, anomie, and potentiality.Less
This introductory chapter begins by considering debates over the origins and the meaning of the word “alchemy,” and then discusses the history of alchemy; uses and abuses of “alchemy”; alchemy as a dual or ambivalent discourse; and alchemy, anomie, and potentiality.
