Post-War Yugoslavia: a Modern History of Social Conflict and Control
The article aims at examining the post-war transition in Yugoslavia through the lens of
the social conflict broadly speaking, ie. considering social tensions, discourses, and official
measures taken for managing the socially marginal actors like prostitutes and beggars.
The goal is testing, from this point of view, the most recent historiographical thesis
about “phantom-borders” and post-imperial legacies. A second goal is to consider to
what extent one of the most established approach for interpreting the experience of the
first Yugoslavia, ie. focusing on the national conflicts, is useful for enlightening the postwar
social transition of that country.
