Dienstag, 21. Januar 2025, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal
Tanja Petrović
Of Men, Feelings, and Forms: The Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army
Im Rahmen der Ring-VO Current Gender Research in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Postsocialism, Semiperiphery, Coloniality
Universität Wien, Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner-Hörsaal
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
Abstract
The lecture explores the meanings of the mandatory service in the Yugoslav People’s Army and seeks to offer insights into this collective experience that escape the “large” categories of (militarised) masculinity, violence, patriarchy, and complicate the understanding of the socialist military service as the hegemonic work of the autocratic state to which oppressed individuals are subjected. It focuses in particular on the power of repetitive, ritualised, and performative forms that constituted the reality of military service, provided a framework for radically different men to live together on military bases, and were capable of generating feelings of solidarity, care, love, and friendship among these men. In their afterlife, these feelings disrupt the givenness of the present and its relation towards the past and the future, prompting us to ask important questions about the ways in which we understand, remember and historicise the Yugoslav socialist project and the violence in which Yugoslavia disintegrated.
About the speaker
Tanja Petrović is a principal research associate at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana. She is interested in the uses and meanings of socialist and Yugoslav legacies in post-Yugoslav societies, as well as in cultural, linguistic, political, and social processes that shape the reality of these societies. She is the author and editor of several books and a number of articles and essays in the fields of anthropology of post-socialism, memory studies, masculinity, gender history, heritage studies, linguistic anthropology, and labour history. Among them are Yuropa: Jugoslovensko nasleđe i politike budućnosti u postjugoslovenskim društvima (Yuropa: Yugoslav Legacy and Politics of Future in Post-Yugoslav Societies, Fabrika knjiga 2012; German translation published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2015), an edited volume Mirroring Europe: Ideas of Europe in Europeanization in Balkan Societies (Brill Publishing 2014), Srbija i njen jug: Južnjački dijalekti između jezika, kulture i politike (Serbia and its South: Southern Dialects between Language, Culture and Politics, Fabrika knjiga 2015), as well as Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army (Duke University Press 2024).
The whole book available here: Utopia of the UniformAffective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army | Books Gateway | Duke University Press (dukeupress.edu)
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Veranstalter
Referat Genderforschung der Universität Wien
Kontakt
Dorith Weber
Referat Genderforschung
01/4277/18452
dorith.weber@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 26. November 2024, 13:20
Letzte Änderung am Dienstag, 26. November 2024, 13:20