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The Kultura Journal is an international scientific journal for the theory and sociology of culture and cultural policy, which follows culture in the widest sense of the word where science, education and all human activities are taken as its integral part.
It was started in 1968 courtesy to the efforts of Stevan Majstorović, founder of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development, with the objective to encourage integrative, analytical and critical interpretations of the modern cultural phenomena.
At the time of its establishment, the Kultura Journal was unique in the domain of intellectual thought both in terms of its concept and its design. Since the first issue, i.e. over the fifty years of its existence, Kultura has been and has remained open to creative ideas from the country and the world, as seen from the texts of important foreign authors and contributions from professionals coming from the cultural centres of former Yugoslavia, as well as domestic authors who offered new ideas and approaches to culture. The recognizable design solution of the logo of the journal and its cover page were created by the artist and calligraphist Božidar Bole Miloradović, for the very first number.
As of 1971, the issues were edited thematically, which has been dominant practice to this date, with the aim of enriching certain thematic fields in our cultural and scientific community.
The first Editorial Board of the Kultura Journal consisted of eleven members, led by the Editor-in Chief Stevan Majstorović and Trivo Inđić, as conceptual instigators of the journal which heralded a new orientation in the intellectual field. Members of the Editorial Board were: Slobodan Canić, Dragutin Gostuški, Vujadin Jokić, Danica Mojsin, Mirjana Nikolić, Nebojša Popov, Bogdan Tirnanić, Milan Vojnović and Tihomir Vučković. Over the five decades of the Kultura Journal, editorial boards changed several times.
Kultura is issued every three months (four times a year) and its printing has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia since 2001. With support of the competent ministry, all numbers of this journal, from the first to the last issue, were digitalized in 2009. As a result, a DVD containing digital form of the journal, was available with the issue No. 129, titled "Electronic libraries". A few years later, in 2013, Kultura switched to the Cyrillic script, with an important note that it still published in Latin script those authors from the region who originally use Latin script(Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia). With the issue No. 140, on the occasion of marking the 45th anniversary of the Kultura Journal, a special USB was made available, with all the texts from the numbers 1-137. The web page of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development contains all the texts ever published in any issue of the Kultura Journal over half a century of its existence.
The Department for Registration of Journals of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, the Kultura Journal was registered in 2005 (when categorisation of scientific journals started) marked as category P53. In 2010,it was registered as category M52 in the group of journals for history, art,history, ethnology and archaeology. At the beginning of July 2012, the journal advanced to the category of national interest, by Decision of the Ministry of education, science and technological development of the Republic of Serbia (M51).
Kultura is regularly deposited with the Repository of the National Library of Serbia, and since 2010, it has been included in the Serbian Quotation Index, where the texts published in Kultura can be found in full digital form. As of 2011, the texts i.e. scientific articles, apart from the regular UDK (universal decimal classification) also carry specific DOI (Digital Object Identifier) codes, that allow for their greater visibility and international indexing under international standards. In the meantime,electronic version of the journal was started i.e. the first steps were made towards electronic edition by CEON (Service for monitoring, measuring and valorisation of scientific journals) through Aseestant electronic editing programme. This has contributed to the quality of published articles, as the editorial board now have at their disposal adequate programmes for text checking in terms of correct citation sand listings of references as well as prevention of plagiarism.
Kultura is regularly delivered to the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade, Belgrade City Library,University Library "Svetozar Marković" in Belgrade, Library of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Library of the Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade, University Library in Niš and University Library in Kragujevac. The Kultura Journalis regularly received by numerous interested institutions of culture (libraries, theatres, museums, culture centres) as well as individuals. The Journal nurtures professional exchanges with many similar institutions and magazines in the country, region and in Europe (Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia,Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and other countries).
In addition to respecting scientific rules and standards for publishing scientific papers, Kultura has not lost the curiosity or the freshness of an avant-garde magazine dealing with both eternal and very actual topics.
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- Women's press in socialist Yugoslavia
- The position of women had changed significantly in the socialist Yugoslavia after World War II. However, despite the declarative and ideological equality between men and women, such equality was not reflective of reality. Women's magazines which were an important part of the popular culture also testify to this. In addition to its entertainment function, women's press, including the Bazar magazine, was intended to enlighten women. Women were required to be beautiful and attractive, and they were taught the roles of wives, mothers, housewives and the role of workers only to a certain degree. Domestic (household) domain was reserved for women, while public domain remained reserved for men. This paper will attempt to answer whether popular culture in the socialist Yugoslavia was liberal, and whether women's press promoted freedoms or supported patriarchal ideology. The goal was to use the qualitative analysis method to analyze the first issue of the magazine Bazar and to prove that women's popular culture in socialism emphasized pre-established gender roles, despite regulatory changes whose aim was emancipation of women.
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- Works of Nikola Dobrović in the region of the Adriatic Sea
- This paper is a research of the designing activities of architect Nikola Dobrović (18971967) in the Adriatic Sea region in the 1940s, represented by his designs for competitions and tourist facilities architecture in Split and Dubrovnik. They were a great contribution to the development of the avant-garde thought and Modernism in architecture in between the two World Wars, as well as a stimulus for the development of modern tourist economy in the interwar Yugoslavia. In several designs of tourist facilities at the Adriatic Sea (public bathing sites, entertainment hall, hotel, tourist office), which showed high architectural and aesthetic value as examples of interwar modernism, Nikola Dobrović drew attention to the necessity of developing modern tourist structures designed according to the requirements of new tourist demand. Some of these designs have remained unrealized, because there was not enough understanding for them among the expert public or the wider social community, but they still are excellent expressions of Dobrović's modernist ideas and his authentic architectural language so important for the Yugoslav architecture of the 1930s. The market aspects of tourism inspired the investors to plan construction of hotels that would follow new standards in the hospitality industry in order to meet the requirements of demanding guests who got used to the standards of high quality hotel services while visiting other European tourist resorts. Having applied modernist principles in the architecture of the Grand Hotel on Lopud, near Dubrovnik, as a unique example of modern hotel architecture in Yugoslavia, the architect has also pointed to the social aspect of the modern tourist industry oriented at a new profile of tourists.
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- World and truth of literature
- The article seeks to situate motivationally Camus' vision of 'corrected creation' in literary and ideological controversies of his time. Relying on systematically unrepresented but numerous and explicit reflections on the status of literary and the role of artistic practice, it also intends to point to the theoretical argumenation and aesthetic justification of such a vision. Conclusion is that the seemingly reluctant Camus' position is the product of a conscious decision - and its implementation - that the task of the artist is primarily to understand and, contrary to the subversive doctrines of the salvation, with his rebellious announcement of considerate revival in the name of justice and beauty, to creatively testify contradictions of his own time and advocate perhaps unconceivable comprehensive reconciliation.
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- WorldCat
- The global environment in which libraries operate has changed dramatically in recent years. People discover items of interest in a variety of ways and library services need to build their workflows accordingly. Regardless of a library's presence in its local geography, it will be its ability to make resources available in a global Web environment that will guarantee its relevancy and longevity. Since its inception in 1971, WorldCat has evolved to meet the changing needs of the world's library community. Begun as a union catalogue of library holdings, WorldCat has become a global hub around which discovery, delivery, automation, sharing and management occur. Every time a librarian, partner or end user makes a connection on the WorldCat network, that activity enables other avenues for cooperation, efficiency and discovery. WorldCat has become the foundation of an array of services that connect libraries, vendors, partners and users in a shared, global platform.
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- Writing on the border
- Multilingualism has been an important element in the history of Trieste, a prosperous seaport with a lively cultural scene, situated at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin and Slavic cultures. The mash of various influences on this small area of great cultural differences is pictured in the novels by probably the best Istrian author Fulvio Tomizza (an Italian who was born near Umago and moved thirty kilometers up north to spend the greatest part of his life in Trieste), and his younger contemporary Marko Sosič, a writer and theatre director, who is one of the most notable representatives of the Slovene community in Italy. They both write their novels against the backdrop of ethnic and linguistic otherness, extensively exploring both the multilingual situation of their environment and the individual histories of characters displaced and uprooted for various reasons. Sosič uses different linguistic varieties in his novel Ballerina, ballerina, with the intention of depicting a specific multilingual situation of the Slovene community in Italy.
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- Written legacy and verbal endowment
- The hand written and bibliophilic legacy of the historian of civilization and the historiosopher Žarko Vidović, as an example of a not quite typical legate, points to some significant issues of legacy which legislation and cultural policy avoid or include only implicitly. In view of the fact that a written testament has not been found after Vidović's death and that his successors wanted to preserve the rich written legacy he had left behind, a different question arose the question of moral obligation in care of legacies. That question has directed us to the personal attitude of the legator towards his legacy, and to the relation of the legatee towards the legacy, which stems from a personal sense of duty and morality. The authenticity of Vidović's written and oral testimonials, his careful attitude towards manuscripts and strong messages that his manuscripts and also his personality carry, have obliged his legatees to preserve well this legacy. However, that obligation would not exist if it did not stem from a personal feeling of duty of Vidović's successors. The personal and interpersonal relations between legators and legatees enrich the inheritance and transform it into a legate. Thus, awareness of all the participants about the contribution to the common cultural values is also crucial for the realization of national interest.
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- You are not a loan
- "Debt binds the 99%" is one the many slogans created by Strike Debt, a grassroots movement of debt resisters that began in 2012 in New York City. In this article, I analyze Strike Debt's attempt to organize debtors and build conditions for a debt strike. I use the specific example of Strike Debt to reflect of the possibilities and challenges of resistance in the age of neoliberalism. I argue that debt activists were successful in shifting the public conversation from debt as a personal failure to debt as a structural condition, thus laying the groundwork for the emergence of a collective indebted subject. I also underline the importance of utopian demands in the debt movement, and in any attempt to resist neoliberalism.
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- Yugoslav idealism of Serbian patriotism
- In October 1918, after the successful military operations following the breaking of the Thessaloniki front line, representatives of the Serbian political elite in Vojvodina, having been forced into isolation during the Great War, but having also demonstrated loyalty to Vienna, started forming national committees. Their aim was to separate the territories of Banat, Bačka and Baranja from the existing state and to connect them into a new union state which would resemble the military and political aspirations of the Kingdom of Serbia. This was a long-awaited moment for the Serbs across the state borders for unification with compatriots into a single state. During this enterprise, there emerged various problems from which the opposition of the Hungarian population and their revolutionary government lead by Mihalj Karolji was the most serious. Although in these circumstances people expected a firm attitude, it was found only in the consensus on unification. Differences have appeared in the way of accomplishing the pursuit. The majority, led by the Radical party, advocated for merging of Vojvodina with the Kingdom of Serbia, while a number of Serbs, led by the prewar Democratic Party representatives, favoured Vojvodina's annexation to the National Council of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs from Croatia, which would, through this body, with the Kingdom of Serbia create a new Yugoslav State. The most influential among the representatives of these political lines were Tihomir Ostojić and Vasa Stajić.
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- Yugoslavia at Vuk's Fairs
- Vuk's Fair, a festival dedicated to the Serbian language reformer, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, has been held in Tršić since 1933. It is easy to follow, through the history of these fairs, all of the ever-changing cultural policies and ideologies that existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, postwar Yugoslavia, and modern Serbia. This paper, however, will focus on the period during which the first State Board for the Organisation of Vuk's Fairs operated, from the late 60s to the early 70s - as one of the key eras in the postwar Yugoslavia. It was during this period that Vuk's Fair gained all the characteristics of an 'annual state-party ritual'.
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- Yugoslavia in post-Yugoslav fiction
- The paper examines artistic practices and effects of transposing both the symbolic image of Yugoslavia and the accumulated experience of living in it into contemporary fiction written in Serbian and published in Serbia during the second decade of the 21st century. The authors whose novels are discussed represent diverging memories and concepts connected with the country that is either irretrievably lost or wilfully abandoned, but constantly longed for and therefore narrativized. Novelists Ivančica Đerić, Mirjana Novaković, Tanja Stupar Trifunović and Milan Tripković employ diverse mechanisms in their search for meaning within a paradigm of Yugoslav identity, which implied many different emotional responses and cultural concepts. Una, the main character in Đerić's novel, is haunted by memories of a paradise lost, as she saw the breakup of Yugoslavia firsthand and emerged from it a cripple, both literally and metaphorically, because of her self-contained act of rebellion against it. Boldly dealing with traumatized protagonists whose feelings and mood swings are difficult to convey, Đerić and Stupar Trifunović refuse to abide to the stereotypical literary characterization and their narratives find their own ways to express the pain, anger, memory and longing, the same as Novaković and Tripković choose to focus on depravities of living in the post-Yugoslav transition. Displacement is too painful a condition to be simply shrugged off as a temporary crisis and the only way to rescue oneself is leaving the turbulent history of both the family and the homeland behind, yet returning to it with a renewed potential of both self-examination and suffering.
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- Yugoslavs and Yugoslavism at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s
- At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, one of the questions that used to divide the Yugoslav public and additionally inspire national disputes was the question of defining the terms 'Yugoslav' and 'Yugoslavism'. The leadership of the Communist Alliance of Yugoslavia and the state, considered Yugoslavism does not mean existence of the Yugoslav nation, and they did not allow any national or ethnic reading of the term. In Croatia and Slovenia particularly, any mention of Yugoslavism would receive a negative, unitarian connotation. The only Yugoslavism that was allowed was in support of the political course of the socialist self-management. However, the negation of the nationalistic Yugoslavism, which arrived from the top people in power, could not deter many former fighters, members of the Army, young people, spouses and children from mixed marriages, population of the multiethnic communities and some communists from declaring as Yugoslavs. Although the top Party members made some attempts to prevent this, the Communist Alliance of Yugoslavia had to allow the citizens their right to declare as Yugoslavs in the 1971 Census, even though they did not fail to insist that it did not count as nationality.
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- Yugospotting in the regional hip-hop
- Through the concept of 'Yugospotting' this article explores how some established post-YU rappers, armed with the rap language and the strong generational knowledge, have constructed common identities in the new supranational social context before their shared rap audiences. What kind of transnational post-Yugoslav rap scene has been constructed by employing inherited ex-Yugo-knowledge and rappers 'hiphopographies'? Could this (mis)sampling of Yugoness and Balkanness be a significant identification base for the future rap generations of the "region"?