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tourism
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yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9789639776692
- Weight: 970g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Central European University Press
- Publication City/Country: HU
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and ethnic conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the good life people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart. Ths book undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The book investigates how socialist and Yugoslav ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of purposeful leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking.
Karin Taylor is a historian of everyday life and popular culture in Southeast Europe and the Middle East, with recent research focusing on Southeast Europe in socialism.
Hannes Grandits is a Professor at the Department of History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and a former senior associate for Southeast European history at the University of Graz.
