An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina

Kurtović, Larisa

doi:10.1080/02757206.2018.1532893

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“…Surely, this remains an important theme to be explored. For an indepth discussion on how activists reclaim and activate the unrealized potentials of Yugoslav socialism, see Kurtović (2018b).…”

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Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar

Carabelli

2019

Space and Polity

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This article reflects on the meanings and possibilities of social change in Mostar, a city more often associated with the seeming impossibility of eradicating ethno-national divisions and corruption that paralyses it. It focuses on the under-researched politics of grassroots activism by drawing on Hardt's and Negri's work on the political potential of 'love' to shape and propel radical politics. Overall, the article reveals the lack of a cohesive agenda of grassroots politics in Mostar, and asks whether love (that creates and sustains political movement) can educate, patiently, to the revolution.

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Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar

Carabelli

2019

Space and Polity

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“…A more presentist approach would rather point to a series of moments of subjectivationinstances when people are made to be East German by a joke, a question, a comment or any other act of interpellation such as the fact that East Germans earn lower wages and have lower pensions than their West German co-patriots. On the level of identity, these invocations of East Germanness (or post-socialist-ness) entail their own temporal logics, which might differ from the political uses of the socialist past (see Gallinat, 2016;Kaneff, 2004;Kurtović, 2019). In a recent article, such ideological invocations of the socialist past were felicitously referred to as forms of 'zombie socialism' (Chelcea and Drut ¸ǎ, 2016), where the socialist past is made to reappear in its already deadbeat form.…”

Section: The Time Of Post-socialismmentioning

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The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept

Ringel

2022

Critique of Anthropology

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When accounting for changes in the post-socialist era, anthropologists were forced to carefully distinguish between what had remained the same, what had actually changed and what was emerging anew and on its own terms. As a sub-discipline, the anthropology of post-socialism has thereby contributed prominently to theories of time, change and temporal agency. It has also shown that the post-socialist present is, if at all, as determined by its socialist past as it is by its insecure futures. Based on a few ethnographic examples from a former socialist model city in East Germany, and my own experiences as both a post-socialist anthropologist and an anthropologist of post-socialism, I scrutinize the temporal logic of the sub-discipline’s defining concept. I do so by testing its applicability to three objects of anthropological inquiry, and by pondering upon its implications for a more sustained study of the future. The temporal multiplicity that this concept affords, I claim, is crucial for the discipline overall, but demands further scrutiny. Rather than abandoning it, as I and others have previously argued, it is time to rewrite the time of post-socialism with regards to the future.

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“…As ethnographers of activist politics, we work in contexts which are already overdetermined by tensions, interpersonal strife, and deep disagreements. Channell-Justice's article in this issue documents this wellall the while also showing how activists themselves strategically perform the work of suturing in order to create a united front in times of crisis (see also Kurtović, 2019). Moreover, activists are often just as, if not more, sceptical than their anthropological companions about the capacity of their efforts to usher in meaningful political change, given the often inevitable exhaustion that accompanies their political work (see Sargsyan, 2019).…”

Section: Beyond Dark Anthropology: Ethics and Politics Of Anthropologmentioning

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After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world

Kurtović¹,

Sargsyan²

2019

History and Anthropology

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In this introduction to special issue 'After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World', we explore the theoretical implications for thinking about activism as a form of historically situated practice in the former socialist world. Building on insights from the papers included in this issue, which draw on ethnographic research in Ukraine, Armenia, Bosnia and along the Balkan refugee route, our introduction considers both the fragility and resilience of leftist imaginaries in the aftermath of lost utopian dreams of socialism and the betrayed promises of post 1989 democratic transformation. We do so in four moves, (i) by offering a reframing of postsocialism as a problem-space of historical and political consciousness; (ii) by interrogating the figure of the activist in its self-conscious and ethnographically embedded guises; (iii) by heeding Sherry Ortner's call to think beyond 'dark anthropology' and finally, (iv) by considering what it might mean to imagine, and model, political alternatives in both activist and scholarly work.

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An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina

Cited by 30 publications

References 25 publications

Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar

Love, activism, and the possibility of radical social change in Mostar

The time of post-socialism: On the future of an anthropological concept

After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world

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