Ljubica Spaskovska, ‘The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism’

Godine 2017. Manchester University Press objavio je knjigu Ljubice Spaskovske o omladinskoj politici i kulturi jugoslavenskog kasnog socijalizma.

 

 

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Ljubica Spaskovska

 

The Last Yugoslav Generation: The Rethinking of Youth Politics and Cultures in Late Socialism

 

Manchester University Press, 2017

 

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526106315/

 

 

Description

This promising addition to the growing literature on the history of late socialism charts the development of youth culture and politics in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the 1980s. Rather than examining the 1980s as a mere prelude to the violent collapse of the country in the 1990s, the book recovers the multiplicity of political visions and cultural developments that evolved at the time and that have been largely forgotten in subsequent discussion. The youth of this generation, the author convincingly argues, sought to rearticulate the Yugoslav socialist framework in order to reinvigorate it and ‘democratise’ it, rather than destroy it altogether.

 

Author

Ljubica Spaskovska is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter

 

 

Contents

Introduction:Revisiting the 1980s through a generation lens

1. ‘Pockets of freedom’ – the youth sphere and its spaces of negotiation and dissent

2. Comrades, I don’t believe you! – youth culture and the rethinking of historical legacies

3. The ‘phantom of liberty’ – new youth activism

4.The eighty-eighters – the arena of youth politics and the break-up of Yugoslavia

Conclusion: Rethinking youth politics and cultures in late socialist Yugoslavia

Select bibliography

Index

 

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University of Exeter

 

Dr Ljubica Spaskovska

 

Associate Research Fellow in History

 

http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/spaskovska/

 

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Portal Novosti

 

Intervju

 

21. lipnja 2017.

 

Ljubica Spaskovska: Kraj osamdesetih bio je moment propuštenih prilika

 

http://www.portalnovosti.com/ljubica-spaskovska-kraj-osamdesetih-bio-je-moment-propustenih-prilika