Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs

The History of a National Idea

Božidar Jezernik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-043-5 (ISBN)

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The term “Yugoslavia” first appeared in an article in the newspaper Slovenija in Ljubljana on Friday, October 19, 1849. The author of the article declared that he was not interested in politics, but only in the literary unification of Yugoslavs within the Austro-Hungary Empire. With ongoing conflicts and disparate forms of nationalism in and around historical Yugoslavia as its backdrop, Yugoslavia without Yugoslavs for the first time addresses the history and idea of a united Yugoslavia in and during which a true “Yugoslav” identity never really came into being . Following a series of wars and uprisings from 1875 onwards, the first nation-state of Southern Slavs, established after World War I, became the “Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” — a competing nationalistic blender that would go through failure, revival and transformation of the concept of “Yugoslavia”.

Božidar Jezernik is full professor at the University of Ljubljana. He teaches Ethnology of the Balkans, Anthropology of Globalisation and Social Memory and Cultural Heritage. He was head of Department, from 1988–1992 and 1998–2003, and dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, from 2003–7. He has been the leader of a program research group called Slovenian Identities in European and Global Contextsince 2004.

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: The Naming and Origins of the Yugoslav Idea

Celebrating a Glorious Past

Emancipatory Power of Yugoslav Nationalism

Mobilisation for the Yugoslav Idea

Austria-Hungary Thwarts the Yugoslav Idea

A Volunteer in the Service of the World Revolution

From Villain to National Hero

Chapter 1. In Search of a Path to Yugoslav Unification

Balkan Powder Keg

Divide and Rule

War or Peace?

Chapter 2. Marko Kraljević in the Age of Capitalism

Honouring the Kosovo Pledge

The Balkan Wars and the Dual Monarchy

Slovene Rivers Flow Towards Belgrade

The Quandaries of the Bloody Yugoslav Tragedy

Russian Soldiers Washing Their Feet in the Adriatic Sea

Chapter 3. Turning the Austro-Hungarian Yugoslavs against the Serbs

Vidovdan 1914

All for Faith, Home, and Emperor!

The Language of Ljubljana’s Streets

Teaching Culture with a Steel Fist

Miloš Obilić Has Turned against Marko Kraljević

Chapter 4. The Memory of Fallen Soldiers as a Seed of Discord

From the Kosovo Temple to the Pantheon of the Liberators

Petrified Opanaks and Šajkačas

Stone Soldiers Strike Back

Chaplain France Bonač

Monument to the Unknown Slovene Soldier

Chapter 5. The Father of Modern Yugoslav Idea

Projecting the Present to the Past

A Great Yugoslav and a Small Austrian

The Dilemma of a Yugoslav Anthropologist

Only God Came from Nothing, a Yugoslavs Needed a Creator

Yugoslavism as a Burden

Chapter 6. Creating the New Nation-State

If a Kernel of Wheat Dies, It Produces Many Seeds

The Yugoslav Piedmont

The Nation-State Is Founded, What Shall Its Citizens Be Called?

Пијемонт vs. Piemonte

Symbolic Integration

“The Brother Is Dear Whatever His Faith Is”

Chapter 7. Celebrating the Unity of the Nation with the Three Names

“Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, Forever Brothers to Each Other!”

Rousseauian Pillars of Nationalism

March Separately, Strike Unitedly

Straw that Quickly Burns

A Nation-State without Nationalism

Chapter 8. The Yugoslav Nation-State as a Mosaic, Not a Melting Pot of Peoples

The Argonauts of Yugoslav Nationalism

The Price of Unification

“Yugoslav Bismarck”

King the Unifier

Instrumentalisation of the National Question

“Brotherhod and Unity”

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-043-0 / 1805390430
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-043-5 / 9781805390435
Zustand	Neuware