Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Imaginaries. Edited by Paul Stubbs
How the Non-Aligned Movement proposed transnational decolonial alternatives to Cold War divisions and global inequalities.
After a summit in Belgrade in September 1961, socialist Yugoslavia, led by President Josip Broz Tito until his death in 1980, initiated a movement with states in the Global South. The Non-Aligned Movement not only offered an alternative to the Cold War polarization between NATO and the Warsaw Pact but also expressed the hopes of a world emerging from colonial domination.
Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement investigates the Non-Aligned Movement both as a top-down, interstate initiative and as a site for transnational exchange in science, art and culture, architecture, education, and industry. Re-invigorating older debates by consulting newly available sources, the volume challenges studies that marginalize the role of socialist Yugoslavia in the Non-Aligned Movement. Contributors address topics such as women’s involvement, antifascism and anti-imperialism, cultural and educational exchange, tensions in Yugoslav diplomacy, competing understandings of economic development, the role of the Yugoslav construction company Energoprojekt, Yugoslav relations with Latin America and Africa, and contemporary support for refugees and asylum seekers as a kind of practical and affective afterlife of Yugoslavia’s non-aligned commitments.
Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement offers an innovative approach to one of the twentieth century’s most important international movements and confronts issues of economic, social, and cultural rights that remain relevant today.
Reviews
“This astute volume brings together the latest research by established Non-Aligned Movement specialists – most of which is being published in English for the first time. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book deals with important questions raised by prior works and presents unused material, leading to new interpretations.” Nataša Mišković, co-editor of The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War: Delhi-Bandung-Belgrade
Author Bio
Paul Stubbs is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia, and a co-author of Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Assemblage and Translation.
Table of Contents
Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments xi
Acronyms xiii
Introduction: Socialist Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement: Contradictions and Contestations 3
Paul Stubbs
Part One: Agency and Structure
1 Representing Women’s Non-Aligned Encounters: A View from Yugoslavia 37
Chiara Bonfiglioli
2 The Foundations of the Non-Aligned Movement: The Trouble with History Is That It Is All in the Past 59
Peter Willetts
3 The Ruptures of Non-Alignment and Socialist Yugoslavia: Ten Theses on Alternative Pasts and Futures 84
Gal Kirn
4 “Not Like a Modern Day Jesus Christ”: Pragmatism and Idealism in Yugoslav Non-Alignment 108
Tvrtko Jakovina
Part Two: Cultural Politics
5 The Long Durée of Yugoslav Socially Engaged Art and Its Continued Life in the Non-Aligned World 133
Bojana Videkanić
6 Non-Aligned Cross-Cultural Pollination: A Short Graphic Novel 156
Bojana Piškur and Đorđe Balmazović
7 Practices of Yugoslav Cultural Exchange with Non-Aligned Countries 176
Ljiljana Kolešnik
8 Film as the Memory Site of the 1961 Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned States 203
Mila Turajlić
Part Three: Economic Restructurings
9 Shades of North-South Economic Détente: Non-Aligned Yugoslavia and Neutral Austria Compared 235
Jure Ramšak
10 “The Sun Never Sets on Energoprojekt … until It Does”: The Yugoslav Construction Industry in the Non-Aligned World 257
Dubravka Sekulić
Part Four: New Multilateralisms
11 From Santiago to Mexico: The Yugoslav Mission in Latin America during the Cold War and the Limits of Non-Alignment 283
Agustin Cosovschi
12 A Non-Aligned Continent: Africa in the Global Imaginary of Socialist Yugoslavia 302
Nemanja Radonjić
Part Five: Mobilities and Migrations
13 Transnational Educational Strategies during the Cold War: Students from the Global South in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1961-91 331
Leonora Dugonjic-Rodwin and Ivica Mladenović
14 New Borders, Old Solidarities: (Post-)Cold War Genealogies of Mobility along the “Balkan Route” 360
David Henig and Maple Razsa
Contributors 383
Index 389
408 Pages, 6 x 9
50 figures, 4 tables
January 2023
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