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Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army by Tanja Petrović
A very Yugoslav experience: how the memories and legends from the conscription of millions of men into socialist Yugoslavia's military live on... and…
 • Nick Nasev
How subtitles can make or break a film
The only way a film or show can connect with an audience beyond its borders is through a translation, usually subtitles. Get them wrong and then it's…
 • Nick Nasev
When cheese is not simply cheese – kashkaval and sirene/sirenje
How come in some Balkan countries there is no simple word for "cheese"... and how two distinct types of cheese came to monopolise these markets.
 • Nick Nasev
Seeing yourself in colour: Balkan identity through household items and photos
A broom, a forbidden kitchen item for religious holidays, a secret book in Old Church Slavonic, and the colour photo that made my cousin cry. How…
 • Nick Nasev
You Go, Tito! How Yugoslavia lives on in Ethiopia
Tito's in his House of Flowers and Yugoslavia's off the maps, but you'd think otherwise in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where their spirits are eternal.
 • Nick Nasev
The journey of a Balkan song: its chilling present and obscured past
This is not your usual story. It's about a Balkan song's unlikely journey from obscurity to ultra-right-wing rallying call.
 • Nick Nasev
There's something about Tuesdays in the Balkans...
And it's not pretty. Actually, best avoid Tuesdays in the Balkans for your own good. Find out why here...
 • Nick Nasev
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