Nostalgia in Flux

A redux of Episode 48, "Yugoslav Cuisine" (abridged and remastered).Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.* * * Remembering Yugoslavia is on hiatus. * * * Support the show

Zastava was first and foremost a weapons manufacturer. It was the flagship of Yugoslavia’s and is of Serbia’s defense industry. The history of its M70 automatic rifle tells the story of the country itself.With Vladimir Onokoy (From Balkans to Babylon: Zastava AKs of Yugoslavia, Serbia, and Iraq).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/arms-industry-under-red-banner/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

From reform to embargo, or how cakes have shaped memory in Serbia.With Milena Jokanović (University of Belgrade) and Ivana Bajić-Hajduković (Syracuse University).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an extended, ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/memory-cakes/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Anti-government protesters in Serbia carry banners that reference Yugoslav and American pop culture. Two of their peers set out to find out why.With Milena Dragićević Šešić and Tatjana Nikolić (University of Arts, Belgrade).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Serbia-Protests/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Diaspora Voices is an occasional series of conversations with ex-Yugoslavs living abroad.With Vedrana Govorčin (Vienna/Mostar).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Diaspora-Voices11/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Some ex-Yugoslavs switch between different kinds of nostalgia, depending on context. The fluctuations of yugonostalgia highlight Yugoslavia as an enduring social and moral category.With Jelena Golubović (Northeastern University, Boston).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Nostalgia-in-Flux/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Yugoslavia, not France, was the world's first country to enshrine the right to abortion in its constitution. Socialist Yugoslavia wielded reproductive regulation as a state and nation-building instrument to construct a unique communist project.With Branka Bogdan (New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia, 2025).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Abortion/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Slavenka Drakulić has died. In remembrance, a remastered interview with the great Yugoslav-Croatian journalist and author from 2022.A redux of Episode 56, "Slavenka Drakulić: A European Person."* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/Slavenka-Drakulic-Redux/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

All around the world, there are people with zero Yugoslavia links and tons of Yugoslavia love. Today, we meet a yugophile in England.With Toby Kinder (England).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/yugophiles2/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show

Yugonostalgia as a collective emotion is a sentimental longing for a positively remembered past of the former country and life in it. Why and how does it arise? What are its positive and negative effects? And what are its implications?A redux of Episode 80 and the second in the "Nostalgia" series.With Anouk Smeekes and Borja Martinović (Utrecht University).* * * On Remembering Yugoslavia PLUS: an ad-free episode; exclusive for Yugoblok members. * * * Remembering Yugoslavia is a Yugoblok podcast exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak.Show notes and transcript: Yugoblok.com/collective-nostalgia-redux/Instagram: @rememberingyugoslavia & @yugo.blokJOIN YUGOBLOKSupport the show