{"id":39844,"date":"2024-02-27T22:20:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39844"},"modified":"2024-02-27T22:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:20:19","slug":"tanja-petrovic-utopia-of-the-uniform-affective-afterlives-of-the-yugoslav-peoples-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39844","title":{"rendered":"Tanja Petrovi\u0107, \u201cUtopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People&#8217;s Army\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 <em>Utopia of the Uniform<\/em>, Tanja Petrovi\u0107 draws on memories and material effects of dozens of JNA conscripts to show how their experience of military service points to futures, forms of collectivity, and relations between the state and the individual different from those that prevailed in the post-Yugoslav reality. Petrovi\u0107 argues that the power of repetitive, ritualized, and performative practices that constituted military service in the JNA provided a framework for drastically different men to live together and befriend each other. While Petrovi\u0107 and her interlocutors do not idealize the JNA, they acknowledge its capacity to create interpersonal relationships and affective bonds that brought the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, egalitarianism, education, and comradeship into being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanja Petrovi\u0107 is Head of the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of numerous books, including <em>A Long Way Home: Representations of the Western Balkans in Political and Media Discourses<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgments&nbsp; ix<br>Introduction. A Silent Force That Unsettles Ruins&nbsp; 1<br>1. History, Stories, and Selves&nbsp; 22<br>2. A Barbed-Wire Utopia&nbsp; 37<br>3. The Routine&nbsp; 61<br>4. The Uniform&nbsp; 76<br>5. The Ritual&nbsp; 96<br>6. Dissolution of Form&nbsp; 118<br>Interlude. The Catastrophe&nbsp; 128<br>7. The Aftermath&nbsp; 134<br>8. Form and Life&nbsp; 153<br>9. Afterlives&nbsp; 173<br>Epilogue. An Infrastructure for Feelings&nbsp; 185<br>Notes&nbsp; 195<br>Bibliography&nbsp; 217<br>Index&nbsp; 231<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Praise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn <em>Utopia of the Uniform,<\/em> Tanja Petrovic offers a powerful and compelling narrative that provides a very much needed alternative reading of the end of socialist Yugoslavia. I particularly like the way the author mines the Yugoslav past for the possibilities of a utopian future. This book will shift the debate in a variety of fields.\u201d \u2014 Kristen R. Ghodsee, author of <em>Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us about the Good Life<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTanja Petrovic\u2019s <em>Utopia of the Uniform<\/em> is a tender, provocative account of how men lived, thought, and felt in the Yugoslav armed forces. It is also about what happened to their friendships and solidarities when their country came apart at the seams. Petrovic writes about masculinity from a place outside it. In so doing, she captures something that those who live it can\u2019t see.\u201d \u2014 Samuel Fury Childs Daly, author of <em>A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/utopia-of-the-uniform\">https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/utopia-of-the-uniform<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Obavijest o knjizi objavljena je i na portalu <strong>Historiografija.ba<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=2351\">https:\/\/historiografija.ba\/article.php?id=2351<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39845,"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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/petrovic-tanja-utopia-of-the-uniform.jpg?fit=450%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54425,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54425","url_meta":{"origin":39844,"position":0},"title":"Tanja Petrovi\u0107, &#8220;Utopija uniforme&#8221;","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. 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