Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present

The paper is a result of research on consumption processes and nostalgic narratives connected to former Yugoslavia. It deals with the relations between consumption yustalgia and yustalgic consumption, two processes interrogated in nostalgic narratives. The goal of the research was to explain how...

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Main Author: Emilija Mijić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Belgrade 2011-09-01
Series:Etnoantropološki Problemi
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Online Access:http://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/750
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description The paper is a result of research on consumption processes and nostalgic narratives connected to former Yugoslavia. It deals with the relations between consumption yustalgia and yustalgic consumption, two processes interrogated in nostalgic narratives. The goal of the research was to explain how people use active memories and nostalgic narratives as a tool of critique for the present socio-political and economical position. In this transitional moment, socialist material culture is a one kind of critique process in post-socialistic discourse.
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spelling doaj.art-4510ced64b02457ca280e7efd79439e92022-12-21T20:08:28ZengUniversity of BelgradeEtnoantropološki Problemi0353-15892334-88012011-09-016310.21301/eap.v6i3.13Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the PresentEmilija Mijić0Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, SerbiaThe paper is a result of research on consumption processes and nostalgic narratives connected to former Yugoslavia. It deals with the relations between consumption yustalgia and yustalgic consumption, two processes interrogated in nostalgic narratives. The goal of the research was to explain how people use active memories and nostalgic narratives as a tool of critique for the present socio-political and economical position. In this transitional moment, socialist material culture is a one kind of critique process in post-socialistic discourse.http://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/750yustalgiaconsumptionmaterial culturesocialism
spellingShingle Emilija Mijić
Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
Etnoantropološki Problemi
yustalgia
consumption
material culture
socialism
title Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
title_full Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
title_fullStr Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
title_full_unstemmed Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
title_short Yustalgie: Remembrance and Material Culture of Socialism as a Frame of Reference for the Consumption of the Present
title_sort yustalgie remembrance and material culture of socialism as a frame of reference for the consumption of the present
topic yustalgia
consumption
material culture
socialism
url http://eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/750
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