Utopija uniforme. Afektivna življenja Jugoslovanske ljudske armade

Utopija uniforme ('Utopia of the Uniform') draws on memories and archives of dozens of former Yugoslav People's Army soldiers to show how their experiences of military service point to futures, forms of collectivity, and relations between the state and the individual different from those that prevailed in the neoliberal present. The author argues that the power of repetitive, ritualized, and performative practices that constituted military service provided a framework in which drastically different men could live together and create interpersonal relationships and affective bonds that brought the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, egalitarianism, education, and comradeship into being. The book makes an important intervention in the study of socialism, masculinity, and total institutions, while situating the study of Yugoslav socialism within the current debates about the possibility of collective political imagination and action.