Search Results for utopia of the uniform

... This chapter discusses the army uniform, its difference-erasing capacity, and the ways it structured life in the liminal space of military bases and governed soldiers’ paths and interactions in the towns and cities in which they served. It looks at the concrete effects of military uniform...

... the military institution to function and strengthen its power over soldiers, but also how it protected soldiers from that power. Ritualization’s protective capacity stretched beyond life on army bases, working against the ethnicizing forces that shape reality after Yugoslavia. It brings to the fore the uniform...

... subsided, ethnic belonging became decisive for soldiers’ treatment and destiny, and prevailed over the uniform’s difference-erasing capacity. The institutional infrastructures that generated meanings and values that were foundations of Yugoslav socialism and enabled the relationship between the citizens...