Description: Utopia of the Uniform : Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army, Paperback by Petrovic, Tanja, ISBN 1478025689, ISBN-13 9781478025689, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persisted even after the horrific violence of the 1990s, in which many of these men found themselves on opposite sides of the front lines. In Utopia of the Uniform, Tanja Petrovic draws on memories and material effects of dozens of JNA conscripts to show how their experience of military service points to futures, forms of collectivity, and relations between the state and the individual different from those that prevailed in the post-Yugoslav reality. Petrovic argues that the power of repetitive, ritualized, and performative practices that constituted military service in the JNA provided a framework for drastically different men to live together and befriend each other. While Petrovic and her interlocutors do not idealize the JNA, they acknowledge its capacity to create interpersonal relationships and affective bonds that brought the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, egalitarianism, education, and comradeship into being.
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Book Title: Utopia of the Uniform : Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav Peop
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Utopia of the Uniform : Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Gender Studies, Military / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / General
Publication Year: 2024
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Tanja Petrovic
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Theory in Forms Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
