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• Title:
  Contested Anniversary – Celebrating November 29, Republic Day (of Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia) in Present-Day Slovenia
• Creator:
  Velikonja, Mitja
• Description:
  Summary: The article is based on the study of informal features of celebrating the former national holiday, the Republic Day (of the SFRY), in post-socialist Slovenia: Yugonostalgic parties, concerts, political graffiti and street art, songs, various public events, news in the media and internet events (holiday greetings, Facebook groups, blogs, virtual Yugoslavias etc.). In the research I applied a combination of the usual cultural-studies methods (urban ethnography, sociology of time and critical visual semiology), which deals with these phenomena from the point of its production (top-down) and from the point of its reception (bottom-up). These celebrations are, on the one hand, increasingly commodified (in the sense of pop-resistance, painless provocation, pure entertainment or profitable market niche), while on the other hand, they present a critique, challenge, opposition and symbolic alternative to contemporary Slovenian dominant ideological currents and politics (ethno-nationalism and neo-liberalism).
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne
• Date:
  2019.10.28
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne; Tom 58 (2019): Dziedzictwo kulturowe; 71-86;
  Lodz Ethnographic Studies; Vol. 58 (2019): Dziedzictwo kulturowe; 71-86;
  2450-5544;
  0076-0382
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LSE/article/view/LSE.2019.58.04/23547
• Subject:
  socialist Yugoslavia;
  Slovenia;
  post-socialist transition;
  political holidays;
  Yugonostalgia;
  ideology;
  anti-fascism
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LSE/article/view/LSE.2019.58.04
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text