| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 415 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Preface: Some contexts for Yugoslav tourism history / John K. Walton -- Tourism and the making of socialist Yugoslavia: an introduction / Karin Taylor & Hannes Grandits -- Workers into tourists: entitlements, desires, and the realities of social tourism under Yugoslav socialism / Igor Duda -- From comrades to consumers: holidays, leisure time, and ideology in communist Yugoslavia / Rory Yeomans -- The Yugoslav road to international tourism: opening, decentralization, and propaganda in the early 1950s / Igor Tchoukarine -- Travelling to the birthplace of "the Greatest Son of Yugoslav Nations": the construction of Kumrovec as a political tourism destination / Nevena Škrbić Alempijević & Petra Kelemen -- My own Vikendica: holiday cottages as idyll and investment / Karin Taylor -- Highways of desire: cross-bordershopping in former Yugoslavia, 1960s-1980s / Maja Mikula -- Fishing for tourists: tourism and household enterprise in Biograd na Moru / Karin Taylor -- Youth Labor Action (Omladinska radna akcija, ORA) as ideological holiday-making / Dragan Popović -- What to do at the weekend? leisure for happy consumers, refreshed workers, and good citizens / Igor Duda -- Yugoslav unity and Olympic ideology at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games / Kate Meehan Pedrotty -- Yugoslavia as it once was: what tourism and leisure meant for the history of the Socialist Federation / Patrick Hyder Patterson |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Yugoslavia
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Communism -- Yugoslavia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Communism
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Tourism
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Yugoslavia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grandits, Hannes, editor.
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Taylor, Karin, editor.
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| LC no. |
2010011443 |
| ISBN |
9781441677075 |
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1441677070 |
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9786155211874 |
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6155211876 |
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