CALL for contributions

Yugoslavia’s Sunny Side
A history of tourism in socialism
(1950s-1980s)

edited by Karin Taylor and Hannes Grandits
(Department of Southeast European History, Karl-Franzens University Graz)

This book aims at a history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia: from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking in the 1950s and 60s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 80s. It will consider tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The contributions will discuss the socialist and Yugoslav ideologies that aimed to turn workers into consumers of purposeful leisure, and will set these ideas against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking. As a history of everyday life in socialism, it will deal with popular texts (e.g. life-style and leisure magazines) and memories as important sources.

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