[Redux] Collective Nostalgia

About this episode

The episode explores Yugonostalgia as a collective emotion, its origins, effects, and implications.

Yugonostalgia as a collective emotion is a sentimental longing for a positively remembered past of the former country and life in it. Why and how does it arise? What are its positive and negative effects? And what are its implications? A redux of Episode 80 and the second in the "Nostalgia" series. With Anouk Smeekes and Borja Martinović (Utrecht University). * * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Y...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Korchnak

Guests: Anouk Smeekes, Borja Martinović

Topics covered

• Yugonostalgia
• collective emotion
• positive effects
• negative effects
• nostalgia
• history

Keywords

• Yugonostalgia
• collective nostalgia
• sentimental longing
• positive memory
• negative effects
• nostalgia series

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Utrecht University

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