Reconnecting work and distribution: entanglements of labour, finance and welfare after Yugoslav socialism

Recently, there has been a surge of fresh historical and anthropological perspectives on contemporary politico-economic shifts, most interestingly bringing the value of labour, the influence of finance, and the importance of social dependence back into research agendas.

This workshop will gather several leading early researchers of post-Yugoslav region, social anthropologists and historians based in West European and US universities, in order to reflect on the state of the art in the field, discuss converging research findings, and probe what unique trajectories of Yugoslavia’s (post)socialism can bring to the wider contemporary debates on labour and distribution.

As participants will circulate their papers and develop a reading a list of the currently influential works outside of the region, the primary result will be a substantive comparison and focused reflection on the vast body of work done on Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav political economy, and its relation to the wider global trends of historical and anthropological scholarship. At the final session, participants will discuss ideas and strategies for a special journal issue.

Convenor: Dr Ivan Rajković, UCl Mellon Postdoctoral fellow, SSEES

Participants:

Dr Rory Archer, the incoming Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL.

Dr Fabio Mattioli, incoming Asisstant Professor, NYU, New York, USA

Dr Marek Mikuš, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Group Financialization, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany

Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli, Newfelpro Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, University of Pula, Crotia

Dr Goran Musić, Researcher, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria

Dr Andre Thiemann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany