The Research Laboratory of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab) brings together a multidisciplinary team of historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, theorists and other researchers in the humanities and social sciences whose aim is double thematization. On the one hand – the study of socialism as a real historical process in the past, and an attempt to think of a counterbalance to the currently existing multi-level matrix of domination and the social thinking that results from it, on the other. The second part of this laboratory is devoted to the study of the Yugoslav state and society during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on its second half. The laboratory asserts its research and knowledge potential through the organization of forums, round tables, scientific conferences, book promotions, as well as through national and international project activities.
The Research Laboratory of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab) brings together a multidisciplinary team of historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, theorists and other researchers in the humanities and social sciences whose aim is double thematization. On the one hand – the study of socialism as a real historical process in the past, and an attempt to think of a counterbalance to the currently existing multi-level matrix of domination and the social thinking that results from it, on the other. The second part of this laboratory is devoted to the study of the Yugoslav state and society during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on its second half.
The Research Laboratory of Socialism and (Post)Yugoslav Studies (YugoLab) brings together a multidisciplinary team of historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, theorists and other researchers in the humanities and social sciences whose aim is double thematization. On the one hand – the study of socialism as a real historical process in the past, and an attempt to think of a counterbalance to the currently existing multi-level matrix of domination and the social thinking that results from it, on the other. In order to build alternative paradigms vis-à-vis the seemingly non-alternative (neo) liberal-capitalist model, it is necessary to rely on the democratic legacy of Yugoslav socialism, as well as on contemporary global democratic-socialist perspectives, within which one can think of credible social platforms with mobilizing potential.
The second part of this laboratory is devoted to the study of the Yugoslav state and society during the twentieth century, with a particular focus on its second half. A complex and plural community, based on the consensus regarding anti-fascist values, with a specific model of social integration (self-government) and the characteristic foreign policy stance (non-alignment) – remains to this day the subject of study beyond the geographical area in which it existed due to importance and influence it had on a global level. In addition to Yugoslavia as a historical phenomenon, the laboratory conducts research on the politics of memory of the past era, studying the development of the Yugoslav cultural space in the period of post-war and post-socialist transformation, marked by the rise of ethnic nationalism, right-wing demagogy, authoritarian tendencies, and the submission of all social spheres to the criteria of the market.
The laboratory asserts its research and knowledge potential through the organization of forums, round tables, scientific conferences, book promotions, as well as through national and international project activities. In line with its orientation towards connecting and networking researchers in the social sciences and humanities of the region, YugoLab is mainly composed of scientists and theoreticians from the post-Yugoslav area.
Filip Balunović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Milivoj Bešlin (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Balša Delibašić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Ankica Čakardić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), Edvard Đorđević (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Jelena Đureinović (University of Vienna), Jasmin Hasanović (Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo), Tvrtko Jakovina (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), Husnija Kamberović (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo), Gal Kirn (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), Hrvoje Klasić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), Dušan Marković (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade), Goran Marković (University of East Sarajevo), Vukan Marković (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Aleksandar Miletić (The Institute for Recent History of Serbia), Srđan Milošević (Faculty of Law, Union University), Velizar Mirčov (University of Priština – Faculty of Philosophy, Kosovska Mitrovica), Ivica Mladenović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Ivana Pantelić (Institute for Contemporary History), Ljiljana Pantović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Aleksandar Pavlović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Milovan Pisarri (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Adnan Prekić (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro), Srđan Radović (The Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art), Veljko Stanić (Université Paris IV Sorbonne – PhD candidate), Nenad Stefanov (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Igor Štiks (The Faculty of Media and Communication, Singidunum University), Jelena Vasiljević (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Petar Todorov (Institute for National History, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje), Mitja Velikonja (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), Damir Zejnulahović (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Petar Žarković (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), Stefan Gužvica (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade).
Coordinators: Milivoj Bešlin (milivoj.beslin@gmail.com) & Ivica Mladenović (ivicamladenovic@instifdt.bg.ac.rs).