This is the full bibliography of the project Remembering Yugoslavia (mostly English sources).

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Memory, Nostalgia, and Other (Dis)Contents

(Post)Communism / (Post)Socialism

(Post)Yugoslavia

  • Abazović, Dino and Mitja Velikonja, eds. Post-Yugoslavia: New Cultural and Political Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 [Book notes]
  • Achleitner, A Flower for the Dead – the Memorials of Bogdan Bogdanovic. Zurich: Park Books, 2014
  • Adrić, Iris, Vladimir Arsenijević, and Djordje Matić. Leksikon YU mitologije. Beograd: Rende / Zabreb: Postscriptum, 2004
  • Akhavan, Payam and Robert Howse, eds. Yugoslavia, the Former and Future: Reflections by Scholars from the Region. Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development, 1995
  • Alexander, Stella. Church and State in Yugoslavia Since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • Ali, Rabiah and Lawrence Lifschulz, eds. Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War. Stony Creek, CT: Pamphleteers Press, 1994
  • Anzulović, B. Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide. London: Hurst and Company, 1999
  • Archer, Rory, Igor Duda, and Paul Stubbs, eds. Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism. London: Routledge, 2016
  • Baker, Catherine. “The Politics of Performance: Transnationalism and its Limits in Former Yugoslav Popular Music, 1999–2004.” Ethnopolitics: Formerly Global Review of Ethnopolitics Vol. 5, No. 3 (2006)
  • Baker, Catherine. Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991. Surrey: Ashgate, 2010
  • Bakić-Hayden, Milica. “Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia.” Slavic Review Vol. 54 No. 4 (1995): 917-931
  • Bakić-Hayden, Milica, and Hayden, Robert M. “Orientalist Variations on the Theme ‘Balkans’: Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics.” Slavic Review Vol. 51 No. 1 (1992): 1-15
  • Baković, Ivica. “(Jugo)Nostalgija kroz naočale popularne kulture.” Filološke studije No. 2, 2008
  • Balalovska, Kristina. “Between the »Balkans« and »Europe«: A Study of the Contemporary Transformation of Macedonian Identity.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies Vol. 12, No. 2 (2004): 193–214
  • Banac, Ivo. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
  • Banac, Ivo. Eastern Europe in Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992
  • Beard, Danijela B. and Ljerka V. Rasmussen, eds. Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music. New York: Routledge, 2020 [Book notes]
  • Belaj, Marijana. “‘I’m not religious, but Tito is a God’: Tito, Kumrovec, and the New Pilgrims.” In: Peter Jan Margry, ed. Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World: New Itineraries into the Sacred. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008
  • Beronja, Vlad & Varvaet Tein, eds. Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. [Book notes]
  • Bilić, Bojan, & Janković, V., eds. Resisting the Evil: [Post-]Yugoslav Anti-War Contention. Baden Baden: Nomos, 2012
  • Bilić, Bojan. We Were Gasping for Air: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and Its Legacy. Baden Baden: Nomos, 2012
  • Bilić, Bojan. Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia: Building Better Times. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
  • Bilić, Bojan, ed. LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space: On the Rainbow Way to Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  • Bilić, Bojan, & Kajinić, S., eds. Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics: Multiple Others in Serbia and Croatia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  • Bilić, Bojan, & Radoman, M. (Eds.). (2019). Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
  • Biserko, Sonja. Yugoslavia: Collapse, War, Crimes. Belgrade: Center for Antiwar Action, 1997
  • Bjelić, Dušan I. and Obrad Savić. Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002
  • Bošković, Aleksandar. “Yugonostalgia and Yugoslav Cultural Memory: Lexicon of YU Mythology.” Slavic Review Vol. 72, Nol 1(2013): 54-78 [Notes]
  • Botev, Nikolai. “Where East Meets West: Ethnic Intermarriage in the Former Yugoslavia, 1962-1989.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1994): 461-480
  • Bran, Zoe. After Yugoslavia. London/Oakland: Footscray/Lonely Planet Publications, 2001
  • Brankovic, Srbobran. Serbia at War with Itself: Political Choice in Serbia 1990–1994. Translated by Mary Thompson-Popovic and Mira Poznanovic. Beograd: Sociological Society of Serbia, 1995 / Medium, 2000
  • Brklajić, Maja. “A Case of a Very Difficult Transition: The Ritual of the Funeral of Josip Broz Tito.” Limen: Journal for Theory and Practice of Liminal Phenomena. Vol. 1 (2001)
  • Brkljajić, Maja i Sandra Prlenda (ur.) Kultura pamćenja i historija. Zagreb: Golden Marketing / Tehnička knjiga, 2006.
  • Bujosević, Dragan and Radovanović, Ivan. The Fall of Milosevic: The October 5 Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
  • Calf, D.A. “Spectral Geologies: Listening to traces in contested territories.” Fusion Journal No. 19 (March 2021)
  • Cohen, Lenard and Paul Warwick. Political Cohesion in a Fragile Mosaic: The Yugoslav Experience. Boulder: Westview Press, 1983
  • Cohen, Lenard. Broken Bonds: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993
  • Cohen, Lenard. “Prelates and politicians in Bosnia: The role of religion in nationalist mobilisation.” Nationalist Papers Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997): 481-500
  • Collin, Matthew. This Is Serbia Calling: Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio and Belgrade’s Underground Resistance. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2001
  • Crnković, Gordana. Post-Yugoslav Literature and Film: Fires, Foundations, Flourishes. London: Continuum / Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
  • Crnobrnja, Mihailo. The Yugoslav Drama. 2nd Edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994. [Book notes]
  • Cvijić, Srdjan. “Swinging the Pendulum: World War II History, Politics, National Identity and Difficulties of Reconciliation in Croatia and Serbia.” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 36, No. 4 (2008):713-740
  • Čagorović, Nebojša. “Anti-fascism and Montenegrin Identity since 1990.” History Vol. 97, No. 398 (2012): 578-590
  • Čolović, Ivan. Bordel ratnika: Folklor, politika i rat. Beograd: Slovograf, 1993
  • Čolović, Ivan. The Politics of Symbol in Serbia: Essays in Political Anthropology. Translated by Celia Hawkesworth. London: Hurst & Company, 2002
  • Čvoro, Uroš. Turbo-folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia. London: Routledge, 2014
  • Debeljak, Aleš. Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 1995 [Book notes]
  • Dević, Ana. “Ethnonationalism, Politics, and the Intellectuals: The Case of Yugoslavia.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1998): 375-409
  • Djilas, Milovan. Tito: The Story from Inside. London: Phoenix Press, 2000
  • Djokić, Dejan, ed. Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea 1918-1992. London: Hurst & Company, 2003
  • Djokić, Dejan and James Ker-Lindsay, eds. New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies. New York: Routledge, 2010
  • Đureinović, Jelena. “World Wars Entwined: The Belgrade Liberation Day in Serbia’s Memory Politics.” Transformative Blog, Universitaet Wien, November 16, 2020
  • Đureinović, Jelena. The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution. London: Routledge, 2019
  • Donia, Robert, and John V.A. Fine. Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994
  • Dragićević Šešić, Milena. “Borders and Maps in Contemporary Yugoslav Art.” Redefining Cultural Identities (2001): 71-87
  • Dragićević Šešić, Milena. “Cultural policies, identities and monument building in Southeastern Europe.” In: Cultural Identity Politics in the (Post-)Transitional Societies. Aldo Milohnić and Nada Švob-Đokić, eds. Zagreb: Institute for International Relations, 2011
  • Dragićević Šešić, Milena and Ljiljana Rogač Mijatović. “Balkan Dissonant Heritage Narratives (and Their Attractiveness) for Tourism.” American Journal of Tourism Management, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2014): 10-19 [pdf]
  • Dragović-Soso, Jasna. Saviours of the Nation: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003
  • Drapac, Vesna. Constructing Yugoslavia: A Transnational History. New York: Red Globe Press/Palgrave MacMillan, 2010
  • Erdei, I. Čekajući Ikeu: Potrošačka kultura u postsocijalizmu i pre njega. Beograd: Srpski genealoški centar, 2012
  • Erjavec, K. and Zala Volčić. “The Kosova Battle: Media’s Recontextualization of the Serbian Nationalistic Discourses.” Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2007): 67-86.
  • Gagnon, Valere Philip. The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004
  • Geoghegan, Peter. “Titostalgia.” Dublin Review No. 71 (Summer 2018)
  • Gilbert, Andrew. “The past in parenthesis: (Non)post-socialism in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Anthropology Today Vol. 22, No. 4 (2006): 14-18
  • Glenny, Misha. The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War. 3rd Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1996
  • Glenny, Misha. The Balkans, 1804-1999: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers. London: Granta Books, 2000
  • Godina, V.V. “The Outbreak of Nationalism on Former Yugoslav Territory: A Historical Perspective on the Problem of Supranational Identity.” Nations and Nationalism Vol. 4, No. 3 (1998): 409-422
  • Goldstein, Ivo and Slavko Goldstein. “Revisionism in Croatia: The Case of Franjo Tudjman.” East European Jewish Affairs Vol. 32, No. 1 (2002): 52-64
  • Goldsworthy, Vesna. Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
  • Gordon, Jan and Cora. Two Vagabonds in the Balkans. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925
  • Gordy, Eric. The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Deconstruction of Alternatives. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999
  • Gorup, Radmila, ed. After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013
  • Goulding, Daniel. Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945–2001. Bloomington—Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002
  • Grandits, H. and K. Taylor. Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s). New York: Central University Press, 2010
  • Grdešić, M. “Exceptionalism and Its Limits: The Legacy of Self Management in the Former Yugoslavia.” In: Teri Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook and Stephen Crowley, et al, eds. Working Through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015
  • Greenberg, Jessica. After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014
  • Grubacic, Andrej. Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia. Oakland: PM Press, 2010
  • Hall, Brian. The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia. Boston: David Godine, 1994
  • Halpern, Joel M., and David A. Kideckel, eds. Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture, and History. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000
  • Handke, Peter. A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia. Translated from the German by Scott Abbott. New York: Viking, 1997
  • Harrington, Selma, Branka Dimitrijević, Ashfad Salama. “Modernist Architecture, Conflict, Heritage and Resilience: The Case of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.”  Archnet-International Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 11, Issue 3 (November 2017): 178-192
  • Hayden, Robert. Blueprints for a House Divided: The Constitutional Logic of the Yugoslav Conflicts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999
  • Hofman, Ana. “Music of ‘working people’: Musical folklore and the creation of Yugoslav identity.” In: Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, ed. Musical folklore as a vehicle? Belgrade: Signature, Faculty of Music, 2008, pp. 59-67
  • Hofman, Ana. “Yugomania: Music and nostalgic practice on the internet.” In: Voices of the weak : Music and minorities. Zuzana Jurkova and Lee Bidgood, eds. Praha: NGO Slovo, Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, 2009, pp. 216-225
  • Hofman, Ana. “Tabu na sećanja: Bolest zvana jugonostalgija.” Nova srpska politička misao. Vol. 5. (2007) [Translation]
  • Hofman, Ana. “Lepa Brena: Repolitization of musical memories on Yugoslavia.” Glasnik Etnografskog instituta, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2012): 21-32 [pdf]
  • Hofman, Ana. “Music (as) Labour: Affective Labour, Professional Musicianship, and Gender in Socialist Yugoslavia. Ethnomusicology Forum Vol. 24, No. 1 (2015): 28-50
  • Hofman, Ana. Novi život partizanskih pesama. Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek, 2016 [Book notes]
  • Horvat, Srečko, and Igor Štiks, eds. Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia. London: Verso, 2015 [Book notes]
  • Hrženjak, Juraj (ur.) Rušenje antifašističkih spomenika u Hrvatskoj 1990-2000. Zagreb: SABA RH, 2002
  • Hudson, Kate. Breaking the South Slav Dream: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia. London: Pluto Press, 2003
  • Hudson, Robert and Glenn Bowman, eds. After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics Within the Successor States. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011
  • Husanović, Jasmina. Izmedju traume, imaginacije in nade: kritički ogledi o kulturnoj produkciji i emancipativnoj politici. Beograd: Fabrika Knjiga, 2000
  • Jakiša, Miranda and Nikica Gilić. Partisans in Yugoslavia: Literature, Film and Visual Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2015
  • Jakovljević, Branislav. Alienation Effects: Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016
  • Jambrešić-Kirin, Renata. “The Politics of Memory in Croatian Socialist Culture: Some Remarks.” Narodna umjetnost Vol. 41, No. 1 (2004): 125-143
  • Janjatović, Petar. Ilustrovana Yu rock enciklopedija 1960–1997. [Illustrated Yu-Rock Encyclopedia 1960—1997.] Second edition. Beograd: Geopolitika, 1998
  • Janjatović, Petar. “A Retrospect: Yugoslav Pop and Rock,” New Sound: International Magazine for Music, Vol. 13 (1999): 30-35. Belgrade, Union of Yugoslav Composers‘ Organizations
  • Jansen, Stef. “Homeless at Home: Narrations of Post-Yugoslav Identities.” In: N. Rapport and A. Dawson, eds. Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of “Home” in a World of Movement. Oxford: Berg, 1998
  • Jansen, Stef. Antinacionalizam: Etnografija otpora u Beogradu i Zagrebu. Beograd: Biblioteka XX. vek, 2005
  • Jansen, Stef. “On Not Moving Well Enough: Temporal Reasoning in Sarajevo Yearnings for ‘Normal Live.'” Current Anthropology, Vol. 55 (2014): 74-84
  • Jelača, Dijana, Maša Kolanović, and Danijela Lugarić, eds. The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017 [Book notes]
  • Jelača, Dijana. Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015
  • Jelača, Dijana, Maša Kolanović, and Danijela Lugarić, eds. The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 [Book notes]
  • Jezernik, Božidar. Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers. London: Saqi Books, 2004
  • Jimenez, Jonathan “Jonk.” Spomeniks London: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2018
  • Jovanović, Zlatko. All Yugoslavia Is Dancing Rock and Roll: Yugoslavness and the Sense of Community in the 1980s Yu-Rock. PhD thesis. University of Copenhagen, 2014. [pdf]
  • Jovanović, Zlatko. “This Is a Country for You”: Yugonostalgia and Antinationalism in the Rock-Music Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In: Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe: Political and Cultural Representations of the Past. Catharina Raudvere, ed. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018
  • Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000
  • Judah, Tim. “Yugoslavia is Dead: Long Live the Yugosphere.” London: LSE – Research on South Eastern Europe, 2009
  • Kaplan, Robert D. Balkan Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 2004 (1993)
  • Karačić, Darko et al. (ur.) Re:Vizija prošlosti. Politike sećanja u BiH, Hrvatskoj in Srbiji on 1990. godine. Sarajevo: ACIPS, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2012
  • Karamanić, Slobodan, and Daniel Šuber, eds. Retracing Images: Visual Culture after Yugoslavia. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2012
  • Katz, Vera (ur.). Revizija prošlosti na prostorima bivše Jugoslavije. Sarajevo: Institut za istoriju, 2007
  • Kempenaers, Jan. Spomenik. Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2015
  • Kolanović, Maša. Komparativni postsocializam: slavenska iskustva. Zagreb: Zagrebačka slavistička škola, 2013
  • Kolsto, Pal, ed. Myths and Boundaries in South-Eastern Europe. London: Hurst, 2005
  • Konda, Helena. Grafiti v Ljubljani: zgodovina, grafitarji, mesto. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, 2017
  • Kozorog, Miha, ed. Tito – stara ikona v novih kontekstih. Prispevki s seminarja Roaming Anthropology IV, Nova Gorica, 27. april–1. maj 2006. Kula 3 (posebna številka). [pdf] Retrieved from https://transyuformator.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/kula_tito.pdf
  • Krivokapić, Marija. “The Balkans in Contemporary Anglo-American Travel Writing.” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 5, No. 13 (June 2014)
  • Krivokapić, Marija, ed. The Balkans in Travel Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
  • Krivokapić, Marija and Neil Diamond. “Towards Montenegro: A Land of Giants and Panthers.” Faculta Universitatis Vol. 13, No. 1 (2015): 29-41
  • Krivokapić, Marija and Armela Panajoti. “On Postcolonial Influence in Balkan Travel Writing.” Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Vol. 20 No. 2 (2018)
  • Kuljić Todor Đ. “Tito u novom srpskom poretku sećanja,” Sociologija, vol. 45, br. 2 (2003): 97-116
  • Kuljić, Todor. Kultura sećanja. Beograd: Čigoja štampa, 2006
  • Kurtović, Larisa. “Yugonostalgia on Wheels: Commemorating Marshal Tito Across Post-Yugoslav Borders.” ISEEES Newsletter Vol. 28, No. 1 (2011): 2-13
  • Labon, Joanna, ed. Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1998
  • Labov, Jesse. “Leksikon YU mitologije: Reading Yugoslavia from Abramovic to Žmurke.” In: Tatjana Aleksić (ed.) Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 [Notes]
  • Lane, Ann. Yugoslavia: When Ideals Collide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
  • Lazić, M. ed. Protest in Belgrade. Budapest: CEU Press, 1997
  • Le Normand, Brigitte. Designing Tito’s Capital: Urban Planning, Modernism, and Socialism. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014
  • Leposavić, Radonja, ed. VlasTito Iskustvo: Past and Present. Beograd: Samizdat B92, 2001
  • Levi, Pavle. Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Stanford: Standford University Press, 2007
  • Lilly, Carol. Power & Persuasion Ideology & Rhetoric in Communist Yugoslavia 1944-1953. New York: Westview Press, 2001
  • Lindstrom, Nicole. “Yugonostalgia: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia in Former Yugoslavia.” East Central Europe Vol. 32, No. 1–2 (2005): 227–238
  • Ljubisic, Davorka. A Politics of Sorrow: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2004. [Book notes]
  • Lozic, Vanja. “(Re)Shaping History in Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museums.” Culture Unbound Volume 7, 2015: 307-329
  • Luthar, Breda, and Maruša Pušnik. Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2010 [Book notes]
  • Luthar, Breda, and A. Trdina. “Nation, Gender, Class: Celebrity Culture and the Performance of Identity in the Balkans.” Slavic Review Vol. 74 (2015): 265-287
  • Luthar, Oto. “Forgetting Does (Not) Hurt: Historical Revisionism in Post-Socialist Slovenia.” Nationalities Papers Vol. 41, No. 6 (2013): 882-92
  • Lynch, Paul and Senija Causevic. “Phoenix Tourism: Post-Conflict Tourism Role.” Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 38, Issue 3 (July 2011): 780-800. [pdf]
  • MacDonald, Bruce. Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim-Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002
  • Maksimović, Maja. “Unattainable past, unsatisfying present – Yugonostalgia: an omen of a better future?”  Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 45, No. 6 (2017): 1066-1081 [pdf]
  • Malcolm, Noel. Bosnia: A Short History. London: Macmillan, 1994
  • Matošević, Andrea and Lada Duraković. Socializam na klupi. Jugoslavensko društvo očima nove postjugoslavenske humanistike. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2013
  • Mijatović, Brana. Music and Politics in Serbia (1989-2000). PhD dissertation. Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, 2003
  • Mijatovic, Brana. “(Com)Passionately Political: Music of Djordje Balasevic in 1990s Serbia.” Anthropology of East Europe Review Vol 22, No. 1 (2004): 93-102
  • Mijatović, Brana. “Throwing Stones at the System”: Rock Music in Serbia during the 1990s.” Music & Politics, Volume II, Issue 2 (Summer 2008)
  • Mills, Richard. The Politics of Football in Yugoslavia: Sport, Nationalism and the State. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018
  • Mišina, D. “Spit and Sing, My Yugoslavia: New Partisans, Social Critique, and Bosnian Poetic of the Patriotic.” Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2010): 265-289
  • Mišina, Dalibor. Shake, Rattle and Roll: Yugoslav Rock Music and the Poetics of Social Critique. London: Routledge, 2013 [Book notes]
  • Moll, Nicholas, “Fragmented memories in a fragmented country: memory competition and political identity-building in today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 41, No. 6 (2013): 910-935
  • Moorthy, F. Krishna. After Tito What? Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980
  • Mujanović, Jasmin. Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
  • Mujkić, Asim. We, the Citizens of Ethnopolis. Sarajevo: University of Sarajevo, 2008
  • Murphy, Dervla. Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys. London: John Murray, 2002
  • Myers, Arielle. Performing Identity After Yugoslavia: Contemporary Art Beyond and Through the Ethno-National. MA Thesis, University of Colorado, 2016
  • Naef, Patrick. “Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia.” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2016): 181-188 [pdf]
  • Norris, David. In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
  • Novačić, Dejan. SFRJ za ponavljače. Beograd: Moc knjige, 2005
  • Ognjenović, Gorana, and Jasna Jozelić, eds. Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition: Volume One, Tito’s Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  • Ognjenović, Gorana, and Jasna Jozelić, eds. Titoism, Self-Determination, Nationalism, Cultural Memory: Volume Two, Tito’s Yugoslavia, Stories Untold. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
  • Oppen, Karoline von. “Nostalgia for Orient[ation]: Travelling through the Former Yugoslavia with Juli Zeh, Peter Schneider, and Peter Handke.” Seminar 41:3 (2005): 246-260 [pdf]
  • Palmberger, Monika. “Nostalgia Matters: Nostalgia for Yugoslavia as a Potential Vision for a Better Future.” Sociologija Vol. 50, No. 4 (2008): 355-370
  • Patterson, Patrick Hyder. Bought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011
  • Pavasović Trošt, Tamara. “A Personality Cult Transformed: The Evolution of Tito’s Image in Serbian and Croatian Textbooks, 1974-2010.” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2014): 146-170
  • Pavković, Aleksandar. Fragmentation Of Yugoslavia: Nationalism in a Multinational State. London: St. Martins Press, 1997
  • Pavković, Aleksandar and Christopher Kelen. Anthems and the Making of Nation States: Identity and Nationalism in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016
  • Pavlaković, Vjeran. “Symbols and the Culture of Memory in Republika Srpska Krajina.” Nationalities Papers Vol. 41, No. 6, (2013): 893-909
  • Pavlović, Srdja i Marko Živković (eds.) Transcending Fratricide: Political Mythologies, Reconciliations, and the Uncertain Future in the Former Yugoslavia. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013
  • Pavlowitch, Stevan. Tito, Yugoslavia’s Great Dictator: A Reassessment. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992
  • Perica, Vjekoslav. Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 [Book notes]
  • Perica, Vjekoslav and Mitja Velikonja. Nebeska Jugoslavija: interakcija političkih mitologija i pop kulture. Beograd: Biblioteka XX vek, 2012
  • Perica, Vjekoslav and Darko Gavrilović, eds. Political Myths in the Former Yugoslavia and Successor States: A Shared Narrative. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters Publishing, 2011
  • Perković, Ante. Sedma republika – pop kultura u Yu raspadu. Zagreb; Beograd: Novi Liber and Službeni glasnik, 2011
  • Perović, Latinka et al. eds. Yugoslavia from a Historical Perspective. Belgrade: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, 2017
  • Petritsch, Wolfgang and Vedran Džihić, eds. Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in (South East) Europe. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010
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Films and Videos

Betonski spavači [Concrete Sleepers], Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. HRT, 2016.

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