Affect’s Social Lives. Post-Yugoslav Reflections
Why is the talk about Yugoslavia still emotionally charged and situated in the registers of passion, pain, sentimental recollections, or nostalgia even 30 years after its violent dissolution? How is the sphere of the affective, sensory, and embodied fundamental to understanding the historical project of Yugoslavia and its afterlives? Social Lives of Affect: Post-Yugoslav Reflections addresses these questions and explores how the attempts to conceptually capture our social realities in their messy, fluid, and indeterminate natures contribute to a nuanced understanding of the complex sociopolitical processes in the region. Moreover, the book shows how using affect to understand social realities in their constant transformation often challenges not only the expected politics of belonging, identification, and solidarity but also how we (as scholars) give them sociopolitical meaning. It allows observing the social dynamics beyond an exclusive focus on the ethno-national (and increasingly racial) differences emphasized in the scholarly examinations of Yugoslavia.
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Front / Back
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Introduction
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United in Sevdalinka? Affective Aspirations for the Yugoslav Space
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E/Affect Agropop: How Pop and Joke Made People Resonate in the 1980s
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Slovenian Trubači: The Economies of Affect within and beyond Ethno-Racialized Difference
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Labor Pains: The Affective Lives and Times of the Roma in (Post-)Yugoslav Film
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Alternative Cinematic and Literary Histories of Yugoslavia and the “Power to Be Affected”
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The Noise Dissolves at the Border: Affect and Mobilities in Gastarbajteri Buses
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Popular Music in the Everyday Life of Working-Class People during and after Socialist Yugoslavia: The Endurance of Čaga
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The “Secret Knowledge” of Carousing: From Orientalizing Other to (Not) Becoming-Other
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The Affects of Wars and Gypsy Bars: Notes on Re-reading an Old Book
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