General information
Code: N5-0134
Period: 1.1.2020 - 31.12.2023
Project leader at FDV: izr.prof.dr. Natalija Majsova
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
Nationalism – that stubborn global phenomenon – is omnipresent. It hides in canned fish, parties with distilled spirits and drives down the road. But despite the professional attention that this omnipresence of nationalism has enjoyed in recent times, the materiality of nationalism remains something that is discussed marginally if at all. In this project we will study nationalism in the light of its material expression, scope and persistence. This will be done by tracing humble things of the quotidian – woven immanently into daily life, a locus of objectification, and promiscuous things – constantly finding their way into new economic, political, cultural, technological, artistic and other connections and networks. The study will focus on one of the many national projects of the 20th century, which despite the changed political landscape lives on in the present day through things – Yugoslavia.
We will rewrite the history of Yugoslavia using the methodological approach of bricolage – an alternative to the conventional structured “planner” approach, a synthesis of a wide range of research methods (analysis of various texts: written, oral, audio-visual, hypertext; interviews, participant observation etc.).
Scientific impact of the project: a) the emancipation of things that have been silenced through historiography could result in a reconceptualization of historiography; b) the reassembled concept of nationalism (i.e. the focus on stuff-nationalism) could affect studies of nations and nationalism; c) the integrative conceptual approach to things will be useful to studies of material culture and other approaches to the role of nonhumans in social processes.
The phases of the project and their realization
M1-M12: Team consolidation, methodology calibration, field mapping
M13-M28: Data collection (fieldwork)
M29-M36 Data analysis, ERC application preparation
Research Organisation
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18042
Researchers
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18042
Citations for bibliographic records
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18042
Key words
collective memory, material culture, nationalism, sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG4 | Quality education
SDG10 | Reduce inequalities
SDG16 | Peace, justice and strong intitutions
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