... chronology tragedy Yugoslav wars ...

... This chapter explores the characteristics of Yugoslav military service that made it an embodiment of some of the central political ideas of Yugoslav socialism—equality, solidarity, brotherhood and unity, and internal internationalism. These characteristics are the army’s syncretic character, its...

... film forgetting commemoration remembering Yugoslav wars ...

... army biography history of Yugoslavia popular culture Yugoslavism ...

... This chapter follows the ways in which narratives about and archives of military service in the Yugoslav People’s Army have been accommodated to the logic of life in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. This logic dictates flattening and remaking biographies, squeezing people into narrow boxes...

... The Interlude offers a glimpse into the terminal stage of the dissolution of forms through which the Yugoslav military created a framework for a specific sociality, ethicality, and futurity. In a series of short episodes, it leads the reader through a chronology of events during the catastrophe...

... This chapter is a detailed account of Frank Thompson’s mission in Bulgaria and his time with the Yugoslav partisans in Bulgarian-occupied Serbia in the spring of 1944. Frank Thompson partisans Bulgaria General Tempo Serbia ...

... After providing a concise history of the idea of and the sociopolitical context in which the Yugoslav People’s Army, based on mandatory military service, existed in socialist Yugoslavia, the chapter outlines the main narrative threads about military service present in everyday conversations...

... This chapter observes the early signs of the process of Yugoslavia’s tragic destruction in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the loosening and dissolving of fixed ritualized and standardized forms of being and living in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The protective capacity of ritualized forms...

... in socialist Yugoslavia. In spite of its organizational and formal rigidity and its paucity of forms, the Yugoslav army was part of this infrastructure. It enabled a collectivity based on interdependency, mutual responsibility, and solidarity, and feelings of care, love, and friendship across class, religious...

... This chapter focuses on the ritualization and standardization of life in the Yugoslav army. It analyzes the performative language of command and official interactions, and looks at standardized studio portraits of soldiers as manifestations of these processes. It shows how ritualization enabled...

... and its implications for relations among young Yugoslav men brought together on military bases, as well as for relations between men’s uniformed and “ordinary” selves. Together with repetitive, standardized routines, the uniform worked as an equalizer for drastically different men, but the military...

... Archival bits and memories of the service in the Yugoslav People’s Army are capable of questioning the ethnonational logic that prevailed after Yugoslavia and of pointing to alternatives to it. This chapter’s focus is on this faculty, and describes conditions that make it possible. Specifically...

... This chapter explores forms in which the afterlife of military service in the Yugoslav People’s Army manifests itself amid the ruins of Yugoslavia, working against the stillness of the aftermath and questioning and destabilizing it. These are forms signaled by silence, hesitation, and suspension...

... of affective communities, and the Yugoslav military, despite being a total, compulsory, all-male, oppressive, and strictly hierarchical institution, was explicitly engaged in this affective work, oriented toward building friendships, solidarities, and ties across ethnic, class, and gender divisions...

... This chapter offers a glimpse of the routines that structured Yugoslav military service. Soldiers had to learn these routines through repetition, embody them, and become habituated to them. During the first months of the military service, they were exposed to intense training, education...