”Revolutionary Totalitarianism, Pragmatic Socialism, Transition Volume One, Tito’s Yugoslavia, Stories Untold” and “Titoism, Self-Determination, Nationalism, Cultural Memory Volume Two, Tito’s Yugoslavia, Stories Untold”, will have their launch at The Norwegian Center for Human Rights in Oslo on August 30.
These volumes provide a more detailed picture, which might surprise those who thought they knew everything about Yugoslavia. The authors also hope to inspire others to read more about this historically social experiment “that against all odds actually did exist and prospered for a while in the midst of the spiders web of the global political chaos which lasts still today.”
Contributors cover a range of topics including ‘absolute modernity,’ film, the abolition of the multi-party system, the preservation and creation of memory through clothing, nonalignment…
The book launch will be followed by discussion led by Jasna Jozelic, Advisor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Gorana Ognjenovic, Guest researcher, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and Nils A. Butenschøn, Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
Jozelic, who is the co-author, is Dr.philos. Candidate. She is author of Islamisation and Islam’s Position in Today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina (2006) and she is contributor and co-editor with Gorana Ognjenovic of Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism (2014) and Politicization of Religion, The Power of State, Nation, Faith (2014).
The other co-author is Gorana Ognjenovic, who is a Research Fellow at the University in Oslo, Norway. She is contributor and editor of an anthology Responsibility in Context (2009) and she is contributor and co-editor with Jasna Jozelic of Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism (2014) and Politicization of Religion, The Power of State, Nation, Faith (2014).
