Description
| Product ID: | 9789639776692 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | HU |
| Title: | Yugoslavia'S Sunny Side |
| Subtitle: | A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950s-1980s) |
| Authors: | Author: Hannes Grandits, Karin Taylor |
| Page Count: | 438 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Tourism industry, Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia, c 1945 to c 1960, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1970 to c 1980 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. Despite the central role of tourism in the political making of the Yugoslav socialist state after WWII and in everyday life, the topic has remained neglected as an object of historical research, which has tended to dwell on war and "ethnic" conflict in the past two decades. For many former citizens of Yugoslavia, however, memories of holidaymaking, as well as tourism as a means of livelihood, today evoke a sense of the "good life" people enjoyed before the economy, and subsequently the country, fell apart.Undertakes a critical analysis of the history of domestic tourism in Yugoslavia under Commumism. The story evolved from the popularization of tourism and holidaymaking among Yugoslav citizens in the 1950s and 1960s to the consumer practices of the 1970s and 1980s. It reviews tourism as a political, economic and social project of the Yugoslav federal state, and as a crucial field of social integration. The book investigates how socialist and Yugoslav ideologies aimed to turn workers into consumers of "purposeful" leisure, and how these ideas were set against actual practices of recreation and holidaymaking. |
| Imprint Name: | Central European University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Central European University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-07-15 |