{"id":13979,"date":"2019-03-11T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=13979"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:32:42","slug":"tanja-petrovic-a-school-of-life-what-the-service-in-the-yugoslav-peoples-army-taught-yugoslavs-and-what-can-we-learn-from-its-scattered-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=13979","title":{"rendered":"Tanja Petrovic \u2013 A School of Life? What the service in the Yugoslav People’s Army taught Yugoslavs and what can we learn from its scattered archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

U Centru za jugoisto\u010dnoeuropske studije (CSEES) Sveu\u010dili\u0161ta u Grazu u utorak, 13. o\u017eujka 2019. Tanja Petrovi\u0107 (Sveu\u010dili\u0161te u Ljubljani) odr\u017eat \u0107e predavanje o kolektivnom iskustvu slu\u017eenja vojnog roka u JNA i na\u010dinima na koje se ono danas pamti te u kakvom je odnosu prema dominantnim narativima o Jugoslaviji.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the socialist Yugoslavia, all young men would spend one to three years serving in the Yugoslav People\u2019s Army (JNA), far away from their homes, in an ethnically and culturally diverse setting and in circumstances that made their everyday, their experience of the army and their memories of it very much alike, despite their different ethnic, social and educational backgrounds. Several generations of men across the former Yugoslavia still share this experience and memory of it, and insist on their meaningfulness. These are largely the same man who fought against other during Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

The lecture discusses the meanings this gendered, collective national experience and the ways it is remembered today. It aims to complicate the ways in which we usually understand the work of a total, all-male institution based on universal conscription. Moreover, the lecture discusses the aspects that make the military service in the JNA a part of Yugoslav modernizing project. It also asks how this collective experience of serving in the Yugoslav military challenges dominant narratives through which Yugoslavia and its dissolution are historicized.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lecture by Tanja Petrovic, University of Ljubljana<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

13.03.2019<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

13:00 – 15:00<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

https:\/\/suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at\/de\/veranstaltungen\/detail\/article\/a-school-of-life-what-the-service-in-the-yugoslav-peoples-army-taught-yugoslavs-and-what-can-we-l\/<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/csm.jpg?fit=800%2C553&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39844,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39844","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":0},"title":"Tanja Petrovi\u0107, \u201cUtopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People’s Army\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"27. velja\u010de 2024.","format":false,"excerpt":"The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People\u2019s Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persisted even after the horrific violence of the 1990s, in which many of these men found themselves on opposite sides of the front lines. In Utopia of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Knjige"","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/petrovic-tanja-utopia-of-the-uniform.jpg?fit=450%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":54425,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54425","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":1},"title":"Tanja Petrovi\u0107, “Utopija uniforme”","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"2. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Knjiga \u201eUtopija uniforme\u201c autorice Tanje Petrovi\u0107 objavljena je u izdanju Akademske knjige iz Novog Sada, a s engleskoga ju je prevela Katarina Jovanovi\u0107.\u00a0 O knjizi Obavezni vojni rok u Jugoslovenskoj narodnoj armiji (JNA) stvarao je me\u0111u mladim mu\u0161karcima veze koje su nadilazile etni\u010dke, verske i dru\u0161tvene podele. Ove veze opstale\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Knjige"","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Utopija-uniforme.jpg?fit=928%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Utopija-uniforme.jpg?fit=928%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Utopija-uniforme.jpg?fit=928%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Utopija-uniforme.jpg?fit=928%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54292,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54292","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":2},"title":"Eliot Short, “Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina”","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"U velja\u010di 2022. godine izdana je knjiga Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina autora Eliota Shorta u kojoj istra\u017euje razvoj multietni\u010dkih Oru\u017eanih snaga Bosne i Hercegovine nakon zavr\u0161etka rata te njihovu ulogu u osiguravanju stabilnosti dr\u017eave.\u00a0 O knjizi: On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Knjige"","block_context":{"text":"Knjige","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=8"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Building-a-Multiethnic-Military.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52580,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52580","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":3},"title":"Conference “Living in the aftermaths: Trauma, politics and survival in Yugoslavia and successor states, 1945 \u2013 present”","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"21. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The conference aims to explore how war-related psychological distress was experienced, narrated, debated and reframed in Yugoslavia in the second half of the twentieth century. It asks how the theme of wounded psyche and wartime suffering was addressed and acknowledged in political, psychiatric and broader cultural discourses of socialist Yugoslavia,\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Battle_of_Neretva_Picasso_poster-Conference-Living-in-the-aftermaths.webp?fit=564%2C954&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Battle_of_Neretva_Picasso_poster-Conference-Living-in-the-aftermaths.webp?fit=564%2C954&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Battle_of_Neretva_Picasso_poster-Conference-Living-in-the-aftermaths.webp?fit=564%2C954&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":53372,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=53372","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":4},"title":"Predstavljanje knjige Marije Vulesice \u201eFrom Zagreb to Palestine. Yugoslav Zionist Aid Networks for European Jews, 1933\u20131941\u201c u Grazu","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"15. svibnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"U ponedjeljak, 18. svibnja 2026. u 17 sati u Grazu bit \u0107e odr\u017eano predavanje Marije Vulesice i predstavljanje njezine knjige \u201eFrom Zagreb to Palestine. Yugoslav Zionist Aid Networks for European Jews, 1933\u20131941\u201c. Op\u0161irnije: https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/historija-u-javnosti\/dogadjaji\/Predstavljanje-knjige-From-Zagreb-to-Palestine https:\/\/juedischestudien.uni-graz.at\/de\/neuigkeiten\/from-zagreb-to-palestine-yugoslav-zionist-aid-networks-for-european-jews-1933-1941 Dodatne obavijesti: https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=49777","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Marija_Vulesica.jpg?fit=800%2C490&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Marija_Vulesica.jpg?fit=800%2C490&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Marija_Vulesica.jpg?fit=800%2C490&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Marija_Vulesica.jpg?fit=800%2C490&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54337,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54337","url_meta":{"origin":13979,"position":5},"title":"Online-Lecture by Sophie Momzikoff: The Yugoslav Crisis and the Russian Place in the New European Architecture","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"26. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"01.07.2026 16:00 Uhr The aim of this presentation is to show how the Yugoslav crisis served as a test for Russia\u2019s place in the post-Cold War European order. Indeed, the wars in the former Yugoslavia began just as the Russian Federation was establishing strong ties with the West. When Yugoslavia\u2026","rel":"","context":"U "Novosti"","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/photo_sophie_momzikoff.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}