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Retracing images : visual culture after Yugoslavia
Drawing on visual materials (film, art, graffiti, street-art, public advertisement, memorials), the essays of this collection offer detailed views on the cultural and political dynamics that preceded and emerged in the wake of the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s.
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Towards Women's Minor Cinema in Socialist Yugoslavia
This essay theorizes the concept of women's minor cinema in socialist Yugoslavia, conceptualized through examples of cultural texts that circulate within the so-called women's genres: romance films, \"chick flicks,\" and TV soap operas. Women's cinema is here not defined solely as films made by women, but rather, films that address the spectator as a woman, regardless of the spectator's sex or gender. I argue that, in the context of Yugoslavia, such works frequently articulated emancipatory, feminist stances that did not demarcate a dichotomous opposition to the socialist state as such, but rather called for the state to fulfill its original promise of gender equality as tied both to the class struggle and the annihilation of patriarchy. In the latter parts of the essay I focus on the work of a pioneering Yugoslav woman director Soja Jovanovic, and urge a rethinking of her oeuvre through the lens of socialist minor cinema that seemingly possesses low cultural capital yet frequently articulates poignant critiques along the intersections of sex, gender and social class. In focusing on the class-based critiques embedded in her television work in particular, the gender politics of socialist women's cinema are explored vis-a-vis their distinction from the famed New Yugoslav Film. Jovanovic has largely been left out of the historical accounts of socialist Yugoslav cinema, as well as out of the feminist accounts of the history of socialist women's film in Eastern Europe more broadly. As a result, this essay seeks to perform a feminist historiography that writes Jovanovic both into the history of Yugoslavia's socialist film and into the history of women's socialist minor cinema on an international scale. Keywords: feminism, socialism, women's cinema, minor cinema, Yugoslavia
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Social Integration of Roma People-The Importance and Remit of Roma Media: A Case Study
The improvement of the social status of the Roma as a highly deprived social group is a priority of the countries signatories of the Roma inclusion 2005-2015. The Roma population, outstandingly more than all others, faces numerous problems. The state institutions in the Republic of Serbia have been actively involved in the process of social integration of the Roma through numerous actions and measures of positive discrimination, exclusively aimed at the Roma (employment, education etc.). Special attention is paid to developing and supporting the media in the Roma language. As the researches have shown, the media using Roma language contribute significantly to building up and maintaining the cultural identity of the Roma, as well as to promoting an improved image of this social group. Keywords: Roma population, decade of Roma inclusion, readmission, Roma integration, Roma media
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Investing in Peace
International intervention in internal wars has gained rhetorical legitimacy in the post-cold war period, but in practice it has remained problematic. Response to these conflicts has remained mainly diplomatic and military - and belated. Is there anything international actors can do to prevent, or at least ameliorate, such conflicts? Are conflict-prevention measures already being attempted, and sometimes succeeding so well that we are unaware of their effectiveness? If so, what can we learn from them? In this book, Robert J. Muscat, a veteran international development expert who has worked in South America, South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and the Balkans, attempts to answer these questions. Drawing on the work of others as well as his own extensive experience, he reviews the accrued insights into the causes of internal conflict. He examines nine cases in which the work of development agencies exacerbated or ameliorated the root causes of conflict. This permits some generalizations about the efficacy or deleterious effects of development programs - and of their futility when the conflict-prevention dimension of international assistance efforts is ignored.
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Matrixes of War
The 78-day US-led NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo in the spring of 1999 produced over 3,000 bombing sorties and 650,000 refugees. The Old World \"moral order\" envisioned the bombing as destructive of life and its environs, a necessity to restore coherency and order through technological mastery over catastrophe. Zimmermann discusses the artistic images that resulted from the event.
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