This study merges two perspectives, the historiographical and the archival, in order to capture and analyze key elements relating to issues encountered in records-based research into the labor history of Yugoslav socialism. In combining ongoing historiographical (social and labor history) and theoretical (archival science) research with auto-ethnographic, practice-based reflections, the author outlines several observations, facts, and propositions, which may be of help to both researchers and archivists. The essay accepts the recent resurgence of Yugoslav labor history as a premise upon which it discusses key problems relating to fieldwork, local and historical case study research, obstacles relating to communication and information, as well as pressing issues in the field of the archival profession, upon which it elaborates possible strategies and practical solutions to remedy the current conditions.
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Albanian-speaking migrants in Switzerland mobilized massively on behalf of the national cause in Kosovo in the 1990s. Despite this strong engagement with their homeland, however, some have felt forgotten and have been offended by negative stereotypes in Kosovo itself since the war ended in 1999. Taking a boundary-making approach, the author analyses the ways in which Albanian-speaking former activists in Switzerland have responded to their unfavourable standing, and how they have sought to improve their transnational position. She shows how former activists tend to choose between one of two narratives to describe their place in their societies of origin and settlement: either they yearn to be a part of the ‘Albanian nation’ as imagined in Kosovo; or they adopt a new model of what it is to be ‘Albanian’ in Switzerland.
{"title":"Narrating the ‘Liberation of Kosovo’ in Switzerland . Transnational Strategies of Boundary-Making","authors":"Farquet Romaine","doi":"10.1515/SOEU-2020-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/SOEU-2020-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Albanian-speaking migrants in Switzerland mobilized massively on behalf of the national cause in Kosovo in the 1990s. Despite this strong engagement with their homeland, however, some have felt forgotten and have been offended by negative stereotypes in Kosovo itself since the war ended in 1999. Taking a boundary-making approach, the author analyses the ways in which Albanian-speaking former activists in Switzerland have responded to their unfavourable standing, and how they have sought to improve their transnational position. She shows how former activists tend to choose between one of two narratives to describe their place in their societies of origin and settlement: either they yearn to be a part of the ‘Albanian nation’ as imagined in Kosovo; or they adopt a new model of what it is to be ‘Albanian’ in Switzerland.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"68 1","pages":"79-100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/SOEU-2020-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67297800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Polish and the Hungarian governing party, PiS and Fidesz, are mnemonic warriors who had already tried to enforce their memory politics during their first government terms, as their flagship museums, the Warsaw Rising Museum, opened in 2004, and the House of Terror in Budapest, opened in 2002, show. In museums they ‘inherited’ from their predecessors, the current governments either change content, as PiS at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, or ‘only’ battle against the directors in office, as happened at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. Yet even mnemonic warriors cannot ignore international developments like the ‘universalization of the Holocaust’. As the author shows, the Polish and the Hungarian governments favored opening new museums over changing existing museums identified as ‘Jewish’, including those that explicitly deal with Polish and Hungarian complicity. New museums, like the Ulma Family Museum in southeastern Poland, the House of Fates in Budapest, and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, focus on rescuers of Jews and uplifting messages of Polish and Hungarian heroism.
{"title":"‘Our’ vs. ‘Inherited’ Museums. PiS and Fidesz as Mnemonic Warriors","authors":"Ljiljana Radonić","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Polish and the Hungarian governing party, PiS and Fidesz, are mnemonic warriors who had already tried to enforce their memory politics during their first government terms, as their flagship museums, the Warsaw Rising Museum, opened in 2004, and the House of Terror in Budapest, opened in 2002, show. In museums they ‘inherited’ from their predecessors, the current governments either change content, as PiS at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, or ‘only’ battle against the directors in office, as happened at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. Yet even mnemonic warriors cannot ignore international developments like the ‘universalization of the Holocaust’. As the author shows, the Polish and the Hungarian governments favored opening new museums over changing existing museums identified as ‘Jewish’, including those that explicitly deal with Polish and Hungarian complicity. New museums, like the Ulma Family Museum in southeastern Poland, the House of Fates in Budapest, and the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, focus on rescuers of Jews and uplifting messages of Polish and Hungarian heroism.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"68 1","pages":"44 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48032871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
tation taken from a newspaper article— Cercel analyzes public discourses on this ‘invasion’ of the deserted German villages by ‘gypsies’. Instead of debating rational public policies and launching media campaigns to cope with the emigration of the Germans, the ethnic Romanian elites resorted to blaming other minorities, such as the most vulnerable one, the Roma, and sometimes even the Hungarians. Thus, in reality, their professed ‘philo-Germanism without Germans’ reveals their rejection of Romania’s other national minorities and thus, of the ‘other Others’. The volume informs the readers about the German–Romanian relationship in the turbulent postsocialist years. The richness of detail and their careful contextualization helps readers to form an accurate image of these relationships. That said, with regard to the theoretical framework, the shortcomings I have noted above diminish the quality of the book and leave scholars specializing in this field with a sense of inconsistency.
{"title":"Class Cultures in Postsocialist Eastern Europe","authors":"Ana Birešev","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0008","url":null,"abstract":"tation taken from a newspaper article— Cercel analyzes public discourses on this ‘invasion’ of the deserted German villages by ‘gypsies’. Instead of debating rational public policies and launching media campaigns to cope with the emigration of the Germans, the ethnic Romanian elites resorted to blaming other minorities, such as the most vulnerable one, the Roma, and sometimes even the Hungarians. Thus, in reality, their professed ‘philo-Germanism without Germans’ reveals their rejection of Romania’s other national minorities and thus, of the ‘other Others’. The volume informs the readers about the German–Romanian relationship in the turbulent postsocialist years. The richness of detail and their careful contextualization helps readers to form an accurate image of these relationships. That said, with regard to the theoretical framework, the shortcomings I have noted above diminish the quality of the book and leave scholars specializing in this field with a sense of inconsistency.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"68 1","pages":"116 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47138525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
manual workers limits the opportunities for generalization. On the one hand, the consolidation of capitalism has crystallized social classes, as is evident in lifestyle choices, parents’ aspirations for their children’s educational and occupational prospects, and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. On the other hand, however, ‘legacies of the old regime in the form of egalitarian values’ (151), far from having been abolished, have in fact been revived through cross-class sociability. Cepić attributes this egalitarianism, ‘both in a sense of failing to build one’s feeling of self-worth on a class basis, and in the sense of creating cross-class friendships’(152), to the resilience of old sociocultural structures. The author could have considered his findings as a symptom of the present system’s incapacity to meet the expectations of many people and thus a warranted response to rising social inequalities. This, however, is something he failed to do.
{"title":"Adam Fabry, The Political Economy of Hungary. From State Capitalism to Authoritarian Neoliberalism","authors":"A. Juhász","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0009","url":null,"abstract":"manual workers limits the opportunities for generalization. On the one hand, the consolidation of capitalism has crystallized social classes, as is evident in lifestyle choices, parents’ aspirations for their children’s educational and occupational prospects, and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. On the other hand, however, ‘legacies of the old regime in the form of egalitarian values’ (151), far from having been abolished, have in fact been revived through cross-class sociability. Cepić attributes this egalitarianism, ‘both in a sense of failing to build one’s feeling of self-worth on a class basis, and in the sense of creating cross-class friendships’(152), to the resilience of old sociocultural structures. The author could have considered his findings as a symptom of the present system’s incapacity to meet the expectations of many people and thus a warranted response to rising social inequalities. This, however, is something he failed to do.","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"68 1","pages":"119 - 121 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romania and the Quest for European Identity. Philo-Germanism without Germans","authors":"Stelu Şerban","doi":"10.1515/soeu-2020-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2020-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51954,"journal":{"name":"Sudosteuropa","volume":"68 1","pages":"114 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/soeu-2020-0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47145090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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