Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath

Branislav Radeljić is Professor of International Relations at Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, and Visiting Professor of European Politics at Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid. He is the author and editor of numerous publications dealing with European Union, East European and Western Balkan political and socioeconomic developments. Carlos González-Villa is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka. His main research interests focus on the post-Yugoslav space and US foreign policy. He has held visiting fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Ljubljana.

• 1. Post-socialist ‘discovery’ of Yugoslavia: Intrinsic and extrinsic obstacles to studying an atypical phenomenon.- 2. The benefits of frame analysis to understanding Yugoslavia and beyond.- 3. Digging for the truth: Archival bias in Yugoslavia.- 4. Stranci: Political research and language learning in Yugoslavia.- 5. Native ethnography in Yugoslavia: The role of home, migration and republike.- 6. Multiplicity, nuance and contradiction: Knowledge production.- 7. What happened in the Goli otok labour camp?- 8. Researching ‘the lost decade’ of New Belgrade.- 9. Oral accounts of Slovenia’s sovereignty process: Representations and justifications after independence.- 10. Defying dogma: Encounters with rigid models of fluidity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“It brings together a broad and compelling mix of interdisciplinary contributions that certainly broaden our understanding of the methodological challenges in researching Yugoslavia’s aftermath. … The volume under review can be a good starting point to open up for such topics and questions on the future of research about Yugoslavia and its aftermath.” (Elisa Satjukow, Comparative Southeast European Studies, Vol. 72 (1), 2024)