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Yugoslav studies or Yugoslavistics (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavistika; Slovene: jugoslavologija; Macedonian: Југословенски студии; Albanian: Studime Jugosllave; German: Jugoslawistik; Latin: Iugoslavistica) is an academic discipline within Slavic studies and historical studies which is concerned with the study of the 19th-century or earlier origins of the Yugoslav idea, creation of Yugoslavia, history of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, World War II in Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia and breakup of Yugoslavia including Yugoslav Wars as well as the Yugoslavs either as an umbrella term or exclusive identification. In contemporary period the discipline is also focused on the post-Yugoslav remembrance of Yugoslavia.^[1] Historically, the term was also used as an umbrella term for Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Slovenian and Montenegrin studies. During the 1990s the discipline was closely intertwined with the field of security studies due to the conflicts in the region.^[2]

The collapse of the Yugoslav state in early 1990s brought the existence of the discipline into question with multiple institutions changing their names or closing down. The field needed to redefine its new position in relation to closely related South Slavic studies (which alongside post-Yugoslav space include Bulgaria as well) and Serbo-Croatian studies (further differentiated into Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin studies).^[3] In his 1993 essay The Phantom of Yugoslavistics (German: Das Phantom der Jugoslavistik) German Slavist Reinhard Lauer [de] stated that the field was based on the historical coincidence of the existence of a Yugoslav state and on the “fading out of the Bulgarian components and interests" concluding that the South Slavic studies should take its place.^[3] The conflict in the area of former Yugoslavia nevertheless attracted significant academic attention with over 130 books being published on it and with multiple authors analyzing it in the framework of Yugoslav or Post-Yugoslav studies.^[4] Today the field is dealing with transdisciplinary analysis of various Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav phenomena, social relations and practices.^[5]

History

After her exile from South Africa AnnMarie Wolpe gained a post at the Department of Yugoslav Studies of the University of Bradford in 1963.^[6]

Prominent academics in the field

• Stevan K. Pavlowitch^[7]
• Sabrina P. Ramet
• Tanja Lucić^[8]
• Fred Singleton^[9]

Historical and contemporary institutions

Contemporary

Former Yugoslavia

• Museum of Yugoslavia
• Archives of Yugoslavia
• Yugoslav Film Archive
• Centre for Yugoslav Studies (CEJUS) at the Singidunum University

Elsewhere

• Fred Singleton Archive, University of Bradford^[9]
• International Association of South-East European Studies

Historical

Former Yugoslavia

• Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
• Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute (today Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography)
• Department of Yugoslavistics (University of Skopje)^[10]
• Department of Yugoslavistics (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb)^[11]
• Department of Yugoslavistics (University of Osijek)^[12]

Elsewhere

• University of Bradford Postgraduate School of Yugoslav Studies
• Department of Yugoslavistics (Charles University)^[13]
• Department of Yugoslavistics (Jagiellonian University)^[14]
• Department of Yugoslavistics (University of Bucharest)^[15]

See also

• Balkan studies
• Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia
• Ottoman studies
• Soviet and Communist studies
• Titoism
• Yugo-nostalgia

References

Further reading

• Aleksandar Mijatović; Brian Willems, eds. (2021). Reconsidering (Post-)Yugoslav Time Towards the Temporal Turn in the Critical Study of (Post)-Yugoslav Literatures. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-50313-7.
• Ljubica Spaskovska (2014). "The Yugoslav Chronotope: Histories, Memories and the Future of Yugoslav Studies". In Florian Bieber; Armina Galijaš; Rory Archer (eds.). Debating the End of Yugoslavia. Routledge. ISBN 9781315576039.
• Vesna Drapac (2011). "Yugoslav Studies and the East-West Dichotomy". In Maxwell, A. (ed.). The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences. Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 9783034301985.
• Sabrina P. Ramet (2005). Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85151-0.
• M. Terry, Garth (1977). Yugoslav Studies: An Annotated List of Basic Bibliographies and Reference Works. A. C. Hall. ISBN 9780901997050.

External links

• YURG seminar: Heritage Scholars, Power, and Knowledge Production in (Post-)Yugoslav Studies (March 7, 2022), Central European University
• Yugoslav Studies platform, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Michigan
• Bosniak Institute Library Yugoslavistics Section. Bosniak Institute