The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia

Dijana Jelača is Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, USA. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender (2017). Maša Kolanović is Associate Professor of Contemporary Croatian Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Udarnik! Buntovnik? Potrošač…Popularna kultura  i hrvatski roman od socijalizma do tranzicije (Worker! Rebel? Consumer… Popular Culture and Croatian Novel from Socialism till Transition, 2011) and edited volume Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva (Comparative Postsocialism: Slavic Experiences, 2013). Danijela Lugarić is Associate Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature and the Director of the Institute of Literary Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Ruski bardi: modusi popularnog u kantautorskoj poeziji Bulata Okudžave i Vladimira Vysockog (Russian Bards: Popular Aspects in the Author’s Song of Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky, 2011).

1. Introduction: Cultural Capitalism the (Post)Yugoslav Way.- 2. The Strange Absence of Capital(ism).- 3. Fictions of Crime in a State of Exception.- 4. Rethinking Class in Socialist Yugoslavia: Labor, Body, and Moral Economy.- 5. The Restoration of Capitalism after Yugoslavia: Cultural Capital, Class and Power.- 6. Class and Culture in Yugoslav Factory Newspapers.- 7. Post-Yugoslav Notes on Marx's Class Theory and Middle Class Classism.- 8. On Yugoslav Market Socialism through Zivojin Pavlovic's When I Am Dead and Pale (1967).- 9. Against Capitalism from the Stalinist Cellar: The Balkan Spy in the Post-Yugoslav Context.- 10. The Contested Place of the Detached Home in Yugoslavia's Socialist Cities.- 11. Yugoslavia Looking Westward: Transnational Consumer Contact with Italy during the 1960s.- 12. Popular Hybrids the Yugoslav Way: What a Girl Would Buy for Her Pocket Money.- 13. Protesting for Production: The Dita FactoryOccupation and the Struggle for Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 14. The Politics of (Post)Socialist Sexuality: American Foreign Policy in Bosnia and Kosovo.- 15. The Strange Case of Yugoslav Feminism: Feminism and Socialism in "the East".- 16. Cultural Politics in (Post)Socialist Croatia: The Question of (Dis)Continuity.- 17. Neoliberal Discourse and Rhetoric in Croatian Higher Education.- 18. Yugoslavia after Yugoslavia: Graffiti about Yugoslavia in the Post-Yugoslav Urban Landscape.