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Informationen zum Autor Karin Taylor is a historian of everyday life and popular culture in Southeast Europe and the Middle East, with recent research focusing on Southeast Europe in socialism. Hannes Grandits is a Professor at the Department of History at the Humboldt-University in Berlin and a former senior associate for Southeast European history at the University of Graz. Klappentext 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 citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the "good life" people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart.Undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The book investigates how socialist and Yugoslav ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of "purposeful" leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface 1. Tourism and the Making of Socialist Yugoslavia: an Introduction PART 1: Holidays on CommandA" 2. Workers into Tourists. Entitlements! Wishes and Realities of Social Tourism in Yugoslav Socialism 3. From Comrades to Consumers: Holidays! Leisure Time and Ideology in Communist Yugoslavia 4. The Yugoslav Road towards International Tourism: Opening! Decentralization and Propaganda in the Early 1950s PART 2: Tourism and the Yugoslav DreamA" 5. Travelling to the Birthplace of "The Greatest Son of Yugoslav Nations". The Construction of Kumrovec as a Political Tourism Destination 6. My Own Vikendica - Holiday Cottages as Idyll and Investment 7. Highways of Desire: Cross-Border Shopping in Former Yugoslavia! 1960s-1980s PART 3: Tourism Economies in Transformation 8. Fishing for Tourists - Tourism and Household Enterprise in Biograd na Moru 9. Youth Labour Action (Omladinska radna akcija) as Ideological Holidaymaking 10. What to Do at the Weekend? Leisure for Happy Consumers! Refreshed Workers and Good Citizens 11. Yugoslav Unity and Olympic Ideology at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games Synopsis 12. What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the History of the Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia Bibliography Index ...
