The chapter focuses on individuals and groups who take an active and reflective stance towards the Yugoslav past and who point out to universal values that distinctly marked that past – solidarity, communality, equal opportunities, social security, resistance to any kind of oppression. Thus they resist the present state of affairs in the post-Yugoslav societies largely characterized by neoliberal relations and values. At the same time they oppose dominant discourses in which the socialist past is condemned as inappropriate, shameful, and illusory, while the values and traditions once central to that past – such as anti-fascism, resistance and solidarity – are largely relativized and subject to revisionist renarrativisations. While these practices and their actors are usually not nostalgic, neither they describe themselves as such, the phenomenon of Yugo-nostalgia received significant attention in this chapter, because no social practice that refers to the socialist past in Yugoslavia can escape being related to Yugo-nostalgia. The first part of the chapter outlines basic characteristics of Yugo-nostalgia and its corresponding discourses. The second part links prevailing interpretations of Yugo-nostalgia with practices situated in the public domain which highlight the positive aspects of the socialist Yugoslav past while simultaneously trying to keep a reflexive and critical attitude to it.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35815981
In the article the author discusses from a post-socialist Slovenian perspective different several ways and approaches in which Slovenian history is re-presented, remediated, re-narrated, re-contextualised in digitally mediated environments. He focuses on a selection of vernacular interventions on YouTube and blogs and interrogates the ways the past is re-purposed and how re-interpreted in the processes and practices of revision of the 20th century seminal events and periods. The article primarily deals with the World War II, anti-fascism and resistance, perceptions of communist period/regime and the post-socialist transition, which feature as a recurring topic in many online interventions.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35973421
The book comprises more than 2500 years of history and development of historiography. Almost 700 pages of commentaries and new translations of fundamental writings of western historical thought gives a detailed description of the development of historiography in ancient Greece and Rome, a comprehensive overview of Middle Ages authors, particularly focusing on Byzantine and Renaissance historiography. It features a selection of early modern authors and excerpts from the fundamental thinking on the implications of historiography, a definition of historiography in the Enlightenment period, confrontation with national and positivistic interpretations of the past, the introduction of origin of the so called new historiography, an assessment of the influence of postmodernism on the development of historiography in the latter part of the 20th century and the formation of new cultural history at the turn of the centuries. Selected texts are accompanied by introductory discussions. The selection of authors transcends the limits of literary history of “historiographers” and includes a number of texts that would feature in other literary genres.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36171821
The emergence of the public intellectual must be considered within the usual perspective of time and space, much like other phenomena and practices. Thus we can realise that this is a relatively recent, geographically contained and inconsistent phenomenon. It can be argued that the so-called public intellectuals stopped being encyclopaedists by the end of the last century. Is this phenomenon that emerged at the end of the 18th century waning almost 200 years later? Or is it rather the performance of the role of public intellectual that has changed to an extent that any attempt to give a holistic interpretation of the world appears at somewhat archaic? Are we to blame the technological development or the atomisation of knowledge? Through addressing these questions the author discusses the role of the public intellectual in historiography. Taking into account the changes brought by deobjectivation of historical interpretation to the domain of professional interpretation of the past, the author investigates when and why historians assume the role of public intellectuals and leave the field of historiography, taking the chance to enter the field of politics of history, i.e. the politics of the past.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36544813
The article is about the emergence and the disappearance of the multicultural lifeworld in Prekmurje. The most North-eastern part of Slovenia is the only region in Europe where the Hungarian, German and South Slavic cultures were melted into an intercultural landscape of inter-ethnic and inter-cultural relations and practices. Before the World War II, Prekmurje was also the region with the largest Romani and Jewish communities on the territory of nowadays Slovenia. In their article the authors are particularly interested to present the Jewish influence on this multicultural habitat. The Jews not only set the economic pace of the province, but also left a definitive mark on its cultural and social life. Among the most notable agents of economic and cultural development were printers, publishers, medical doctors, lawyers, factory owners and owners of the local Savings Bank. Anti-Semitism and Nazi deportation in 1944 therefore not only destroyed 80 % of Jewish population of the region but also stopped the modernisation process of the region.
COBISS.SI-ID: 35937581