Naslov
Perception and reception of national identity in the mirror of World's Fair between 1920s and 1960s: The case study of Yugoslavia

Autori
Galjer, Jasna

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Skup
NISE Conference 2023: Nationalism and World Fairs

Mjesto i datum
Beč, Austrija, 31.05.2023. - 01.06.2023

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
World Fair, history of exhibition, self-representation, national identity, Yugoslavia

Sažetak
By taking the performative context of world fairs as a starting point, the paper examines how national identity of Yugoslavia, first as a kingdom during the 1920s and 1930s, later as a socialist state after WWII, was imagined, constructed and promoted in relation to the paradigms of tradition and modernity, democratization and societal modernization. In the given period of time, world fairs became a specific (self)representational paradigm that integrated differentiated aspects of cultural politics in an idealized „model“ of the world. Arguing that the world fairs functioned as a powerful vehicle of propaganda, the paper focuses on the roles of world fairs as sites of mediation and promotion of modernism, as well as in mapping transfers of cultural production. Including multiple aspects of world's fairs (political, urban/architectural, anthropological, sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational), it traces the impact of the world fairs on the emergence of alternative narratives, from openness and cosmopolitanism to Cold War Modern.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Povijest umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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