Yugoslavia's Sunny Side : : A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s–1980s) /

Yugoslavia's Sunny Side : : A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s–1980s) / / ed. by Hannes Grandits, Karin Taylor.

Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and "ethnic" conflict in the past two decades. For many former...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
MitwirkendeR:
Duda, Igor,
Grandits, Hannes,
Hyder Patterson, Patrick,
Kelemen, Petra,
Meehan Pedrotty, Kate,
Mikula, Maja,
Popović, Dragan,
Taylor, Karin,
Tchoukarine, Igor,
Walton, John K.,
Yeomans, Rory,
Škrbić Alempijević, Nevena,
HerausgeberIn:
Grandits, Hannes,
Taylor, Karin,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface: Some Contexts for Yugoslav Tourism History
  • Tourism and the Making of Socialist Yugoslavia: An Introduction
  • PART I: “HOLIDAYS ON COMMAND”
  • Workers into Tourists: Entitlements, Desires, and the Realities of Social Tourism under Yugoslav Socialism
  • From Comrades to Consumers: Holidays, Leisure Time, and Ideology in Communist Yugoslavia
  • The Yugoslav Road to International Tourism: Opening, Decentralization, and Propaganda in the Early 1950s
  • PART II: TOURISM AND THE “YUGOSLAV DREAM”
  • Travelling to the Birthplace of “the Greatest Son of Yugoslav Nations”: The Construction of Kumrovec as a Political Tourism Destination
  • My Own Vikendica: Holiday Cottages as Idyll and Investment
  • Highways of Desire: Cross-Border Shopping in Former Yugoslavia, 1960s–1980s
  • PART III: TOURISM ECONOMIES IN TRANSFORMATION
  • Fishing for Tourists: Tourism and Household Enterprise in Biograd na Moru
  • Youth Labor Action (Omladinska radna akcija, ORA) as Ideological Holiday-Making
  • What To Do at the Weekend? Leisure for Happy Consumers, Refreshed Workers, and Good Citizens
  • Yugoslav Unity and Olympic Ideology at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games
  • SYNOPSIS
  • Yugoslavia as It Once Was: What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the History of the Socialist Federation
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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