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Books by sven cvek
BOROVO U ŠTRAJKU: rad u tranziciji 1987. - 1991., 2019
Knjiga se bavi periodom 1987.-1991. kroz iskustvo radnika Jugoslavenskog kombinata gume i obuće B... more Knjiga se bavi periodom 1987.-1991. kroz iskustvo radnika Jugoslavenskog kombinata gume i obuće Borovo iz Vukovara. Posebna je pažnja posvećena odgovoru radništva na reformske mjere kojima su se u SFRJ uspostavljali kapitalistički društveni odnosi.
Attack je konačno izdao knjigu o sebi! Nakon teške muke, ipak, knjiga je ugledala svjetlo dana. p... more Attack je konačno izdao knjigu o sebi! Nakon teške muke, ipak, knjiga je ugledala svjetlo dana. pdf format možete skinuti na http://attack.hr/knjiga-o-attacku/.
Ukoliko imate distribuciju i želite knjigu imati u svojoj ponudi javite se na akc.attack@gmail.com. Ako u vašoj organizaciji postoji knjižnica ili infoshop - javite se: knjigu dajemo na poklon.
Knjigu su uredili: Boris Koroman, Sunčica Remenar, Sanja Burlović i Sven Cvek
Izdavač: AKC Attack, Zagreb 2014.
This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding t... more This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While focusing on the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon, the author locates this work within a larger 9/11 cultural archive. The book proceeds by way of a series of thematic leaps in order to unearth the active entanglement of the event with systems of meaning and power that create the conditions for its emergence and understanding. The main problem of such an approach consists in articulating the three-fold relation at the heart of the archive in which issues of traumatic loss, affect, and politics appear as central: between the historical event, its cultural imprint, and the wider social system. In order to grasp these fundamental relations, the author resorts to a layered interpretive framework and engages a number of theoretical protocols, from psychoanalysis and nationalism studies to philosophy of history, world-system theory, and the heterogeneous critical practices of American Studies. Coming from a non-US Americanist perspective, this contribution to the scholarly production about 9/11 concentrates on trauma as a problem in the conceptualization the event, insists on globalization as its crucial context, and argues for a historical materialist approach to the 9/11 archive.
Papers by sven cvek
Working Papers in American Studies , 2020
The volume before you contains a selection of contributions from the workshop “Transformation: Na... more The volume before you contains a selection of contributions from the workshop “Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture,” held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb on September 24, 2019. Organized by the Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS) and the Croatian Association for the Study of English (CASE), the workshop hosted a fine array of international and domestic guests and featured the participation of doctoral students. The editors would like to thank Professor Tatjana Jukić Gregurić and Dr. Martina Domines Veliki, who provided invaluable assistance in the organization of the event. We also thank the participants at the workshop and the authors of the contributions. The workshop was organized as part of the research activities carried out under the auspices of the research group “Transatlantic Literature and the Transformation of the World in the Long Nineteenth Century.”
In addition, this issue features a contribution on Toni Morrison, whose work continues to capture the attention of academic and general readers.
Socijalizam - izgradnja i razgradnja, 2017
This article is part of the research project on the continuity of social conflict in Croatia fro... more This article is part of the research project on the continuity of social conflict
in Croatia from 1987 to 1991, organized by the Center for Peace Studies and
the Organization for Workers Initiative and Democratization from Zagreb.
The focus of the text is on the shift in the dominant economic paradigm at
the end of the 1980s and beginning of 1990s. Looking at the „Borovo“ shoe
factory complex, we analyze the ways in which the reorientation to a market
economy affected the position of the workers. We are especially interested in
the process of generalization of market relations, in which the state plays a
central role. In this way, we put the struggles for sovereign national states in
the context of the contemporary transformation of class relations, which also
entailed a redistribution of social wealth.
Interpretacije jugoslovenskih sukoba i njihove posledice: između suštinskog neslaganja i dijaloga, 2016
Our interest in the problem of Yugoslav conflicts comes from our work on the research project Co... more Our interest in the problem of Yugoslav conflicts comes from our work on
the research project Continuity of social conflicts in Croatia 1987-1991., in which
analyze the events in the “Borovo” industrial system in Vukovar in this period, while
working on the microlevel of sociohistorical analysis. This allows us to reach certain
insights relevant for the more general problems of continuity of social conflicts in
post-yugoslav societies. Our approach assumes that Yugoslav conflicts begin at the
time when capitalist social relations are being established, and that this simultaneity is not merely incidental. Our analysis begins before the conflicts reach their final,
violent phase. We are interested in reconstructing the position of “Borovo” workers
before the war, their experience of the contemporary crisis and dramatic social change.
When approaching this period, we try to take into account the cultural and political
ways by which workers could articulate their interests and their resistance to the
ongoing reforms. Our goal is also to intervene in present-day debates about Yugoslav
conflicts. Today, the retrospective disposition and identitarian logic of isputes among
post-Yugoslav countries occludes the undisputed character of their transitional present
and the persistent conflicts it implies.
Key words: socialism, capitalism, nationalism, Yugoslavia, labor, class, identity.
Politička misao, 2015
The article is based on the research project Continuity of Social Conflict in Croatia 1987-1991,... more The article is based on the research project Continuity of Social Conflict in
Croatia 1987-1991, organized by the Center for Peace Studies and the Organization
for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization, Zagreb. Our point of
departure is the strike that took place in one of the biggest industrial systems
in socialist Yugoslavia, “Borovo” from Vukovar, in 1988. The strike was part
of the wave of labor unrest of the late 1980s, a time of economic and political
crisis in a country undergoing dramatic social transformation. Our main goal
is to delineate, on a micro level of socio-historical analysis, the transformation
of the unrest of the late 1980s, in our view basically of a class character, into
the violent conflicts of the 1990s, now rearticulated in ethno-national terms.
In this article, we look at the situation in “Borovo” in the period following the
1988 strike, when first divisions between workers start taking place. We relate
the fragmentation of the “Borovo” labor force in this period to: 1) the structural
reforms, including the dismantling of self-management and the consequent
elimination of the last institutional possibility for the articulation of workers’
interests; and 2) the shifting ideological and material conditions, involving
deep contradictions between a nominally workerist state and the reality of its
“post-socialist” experience.
The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (eds Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović and Danijela Lugarić), 2017
In socialist Yugoslavia work and labor were central to the legitimacy of the state and government... more In socialist Yugoslavia work and labor were central to the legitimacy of the state and government, and represented the basis of social and political rights. Such position of labor was underpinned by social and cultural institutions that either disappeared or underwent dramatic transformation with the restoration of capitalism. This chapter traces the emergence of regional class cultures in relation to print and literacy in the 19th century, and offers a look at one subsequent institutional development under socialism—factory newspapers. The chapter revolves around the weekly paper of one of the biggest industrial systems in Yugoslavia, Borovo. This was the oldest factory newspaper in the country. The aim of the essay is twofold: to show how the social transformation of the time was registered in the newspaper, and to reflect on the ways in which a cultural form participated in the longer process of class formation.
The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas (FF press, Zagreb, 2017), 2017
The article offers a reflection on the end of Yugoslav socialism by way of a reading of Stipe Grg... more The article offers a reflection on the end of Yugoslav socialism by way of a reading of Stipe Grgas's more recent work. Relying on Grgas's claim that the U.S. presence in former Yugoslavia reflects the mutations of American capitalism, the author comments on the ways in which the experience of socialism's demise was registered in the culture of the Yugoslav 1980s up to 1991. Arguing that the existing approaches to this period favor the experience of the elites, the author stresses the need for more expansive archival work and consideration of the class aspect of the end of socialism.
Iako integralan dio kulture rada u socijalizmu (sedamdesetih godina u Jugoslaviji izlazi oko 2.00... more Iako integralan dio kulture rada u socijalizmu (sedamdesetih godina u Jugoslaviji izlazi oko 2.000 listova " udruženog rada " , a njihova naklada premašuje nakladu dnevne štampe), fenomen tvorničkih ili radničkih novina danas je gotovo potpuno zaboravljen i vrlo slabo istražen.
Working Papers in American Studies Vol .2 (2016)
Based on the reading of a 1991 World Bank report on the industrial restructuring of Yugoslavia an... more Based on the reading of a 1991 World Bank report on the industrial restructuring of Yugoslavia and the archival study of one of Yugoslav biggest industrial systems, Borovo, this article reflects on the position of labor during the critical period of our transition to capitalism. The Yugoslav socialist project is here viewed as an instance of “socialist Fordism.” The beginning of its demise in the 1980s is described in the light
of the global advance of a U.S.-dominated, financialized capitalism. Particular stress is put on the class aspect of “post-socialist” transition, as well as the lived experience of crisis.
Interpretacije jugoslovenskih sukoba i njihove posledice: između suštinskog neslaganja i dijaloga, ur. Goran Tepšić, Radmila Nakarada i Nemanja Džuverović. Fakultet političkih nauka i Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst: Beograd, 2016., str. 109-130.
Temi jugoslavenskih sukoba pristupamo na temelju istraživanja o događajima u jugoslavenskom kombi... more Temi jugoslavenskih sukoba pristupamo na temelju istraživanja o događajima u jugoslavenskom kombinatu gume i obuće " Borovo " u periodu od 1988. do 1991. Vukovarsko " Borovo " , često nazivano i " Jugoslavija u malom " , pruža priliku da se kroz studiju slučaja, na mikrorazini društvenopovijesne analize, dođe do uvida relevantnih za širu problematiku kontinuiteta društvenih sukoba na post-jugoslavenskom prostoru. Naš pristup ovoj problematici određen je tezom da se jugoslavenski sukobi događaju u vrijeme uspostavljanja kapitalističkih društvenih odnosa te da ova simultanost nije slučajna, već da se radi o povezanim procesima. Krećući od pretpostavke kako u analizi sukoba treba krenuti od perioda prije njihove finalne, nasilne faze, u istraživanju se bavimo pozicijom radnica i radnika kombinata prije rata i njihovim iskustvom krize i dramatičnih društvenih promjena. U analizi ovoga razdoblja, obilježenog socijalnom nesigurnošću, stečajevima i otkazima, vodimo računa o alatima koje su radnici imali na raspolaganju za razumijevanje svoje pozicije i artikulaciju otpora. Pritom, namjera nam je ne samo ponuditi pogled u prošlost, već i intervenirati u sadašnjost: danas, često retrospektivno usmjereni i identitetski utemeljni prijepori između bivših jugoslavenskih država prikrivaju neupitnost njihove zajedničke tranzicijske sadašnjosti i trajnih sukoba koje ista pretpostavlja.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects Volume 1 – Literature and Cultural Studies, eds. Stipe Grgas, Tihana Klepač, Martina Domines Veliki (2016), 179-193.
Opening with a critique of identity-based interpretive paradigms, the article offers a reading of... more Opening with a critique of identity-based interpretive paradigms, the article offers a reading of Snežana Žabić's Broken Records (2015) and Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man (2002) that situates their origins in the Yugoslav socialist project.
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id\_broj=11931 Članak je dio istraživanja o kontinuitetu d... more http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=11931
Članak je dio istraživanja o kontinuitetu društvenih sukoba u Hrvatskoj 1987-1991., koje se provodi u suradnji Centra za mirovne studije i Baze za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju iz Zagreba. Početni je fokus istraživanja štrajk koji se u ljeto 1988. odigrao u Jugoslavenskom kombinatu gume i obuće “Borovo” iz Vukovara. Borovski je štrajk bio dio vala nemira koji su potresali SFRJ u trenutku duboke ekonomske krize i sveobuhvatne društvene reforme. Cilj je istraživanja na mikrorazini društvenopovijesne analize opisati transformaciju sukoba čiji je karakter krajem osamdesetih bio prvenstveno klasni u sukob s početka devedesetih, tada bitno određen etno-nacionalnom logikom. U ovom članku bavimo se situacijom u kombinatu “Borovo” u periodu između štrajka 1988. i prvih demokratskih izbora 1990. Naime, u tom se razdoblju počinju javljati prve ozbiljnije podjele među radnicima “Borova”. Članak analizira uzroke i dinamiku fragmentiranja borovskoga radništva u 1989. godini uzimajući u obzir dva središnja momenta: 1) strukturne promjene u tom periodu, koje uključuju ukidanje samoupravljanja i posljedično eliminiranje mogućnosti političke artikulacije radničkih interesa; 2) materijalne i ideološke uvjete za podjele među radnicima “Borova”, koje u tom trenutku nemaju etnički/nacionalni predznak, već se stvaraju oko problema raspodjele sve oskudnijih materijalnih resursa.
Hrvatski filmski ljetopis 81/2015 (9-20), 2015
Ovaj se rad bavi HBO-ovim serijalom Žica (2002.-2008.) kao mogućim primjerom Jamesonove estetike ... more Ovaj se rad bavi HBO-ovim serijalom Žica (2002.-2008.) kao mogućim primjerom Jamesonove estetike kognitivnoga mapiranja. U radu se obrazlažu formalni i ideološki preduvjeti i problemi vezani za ostvarenja ove estetike u Žici. Ovi preduvjeti i problemi dvojakog su karaktera: mogućnost kognitivnog mapiranja povezana je s razvojem medija televizije od 1980-ih nadalje, te s tematskim interesom za klasnu problematiku. U radu se razmatraju načini na koju Žica prekoračuje granice hegemonije suvremene američke kulture, kao i ograničenja njezine političke imaginacije.
In this essay I offer a reflection on a conspicuous absence in digital humanities discourse. Enga... more In this essay I offer a reflection on a conspicuous absence in digital humanities discourse. Engaging with the manifold ways in which the digital sphere shapes culture and society, the interests and methods of digital humanities appear indispensable in contemporary academia. However, it is my contention that digital humanities systematically omits dealing with the ways in which issues of technology converge with our labor in humanities today. Viewed in the context of an increasing adaptation of research and higher education to the market form, this disciplinary blind spot reveals technological instrumentality as a structuring principle of both digital humanities and its institutional setting, the “university of excellence.”
et al. - Terror(ism) and Aesthetics (2014), 2014
This essay expands on “Killing Politics: The Art of Recovery in Falling Man". It offers a reading... more This essay expands on “Killing Politics: The Art of Recovery in Falling Man". It offers a reading of DeLillo's novel that goes beyond the notion of trauma, which has become a reflexive analytical framing for any 9/11-related work of literature. Moving away from trauma allows us to look into the incident of 9/11, as it appears in the novel, not only as an historical event, but also a figure for a larger historical transformation.
BOROVO U ŠTRAJKU: rad u tranziciji 1987. - 1991., 2019
Knjiga se bavi periodom 1987.-1991. kroz iskustvo radnika Jugoslavenskog kombinata gume i obuće B... more Knjiga se bavi periodom 1987.-1991. kroz iskustvo radnika Jugoslavenskog kombinata gume i obuće Borovo iz Vukovara. Posebna je pažnja posvećena odgovoru radništva na reformske mjere kojima su se u SFRJ uspostavljali kapitalistički društveni odnosi.
Attack je konačno izdao knjigu o sebi! Nakon teške muke, ipak, knjiga je ugledala svjetlo dana. p... more Attack je konačno izdao knjigu o sebi! Nakon teške muke, ipak, knjiga je ugledala svjetlo dana. pdf format možete skinuti na http://attack.hr/knjiga-o-attacku/.
Ukoliko imate distribuciju i želite knjigu imati u svojoj ponudi javite se na akc.attack@gmail.com. Ako u vašoj organizaciji postoji knjižnica ili infoshop - javite se: knjigu dajemo na poklon.
Knjigu su uredili: Boris Koroman, Sunčica Remenar, Sanja Burlović i Sven Cvek
Izdavač: AKC Attack, Zagreb 2014.
This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding t... more This volume offers a critical analysis of a segment of American literary production surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. While focusing on the writing of Jonathan Safran Foer, Art Spiegelman, Don DeLillo, and Thomas Pynchon, the author locates this work within a larger 9/11 cultural archive. The book proceeds by way of a series of thematic leaps in order to unearth the active entanglement of the event with systems of meaning and power that create the conditions for its emergence and understanding. The main problem of such an approach consists in articulating the three-fold relation at the heart of the archive in which issues of traumatic loss, affect, and politics appear as central: between the historical event, its cultural imprint, and the wider social system. In order to grasp these fundamental relations, the author resorts to a layered interpretive framework and engages a number of theoretical protocols, from psychoanalysis and nationalism studies to philosophy of history, world-system theory, and the heterogeneous critical practices of American Studies. Coming from a non-US Americanist perspective, this contribution to the scholarly production about 9/11 concentrates on trauma as a problem in the conceptualization the event, insists on globalization as its crucial context, and argues for a historical materialist approach to the 9/11 archive.
Working Papers in American Studies , 2020
The volume before you contains a selection of contributions from the workshop “Transformation: Na... more The volume before you contains a selection of contributions from the workshop “Transformation: Nature and Economy in Modern English and American Culture,” held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb on September 24, 2019. Organized by the Croatian Association for American Studies (CAAS) and the Croatian Association for the Study of English (CASE), the workshop hosted a fine array of international and domestic guests and featured the participation of doctoral students. The editors would like to thank Professor Tatjana Jukić Gregurić and Dr. Martina Domines Veliki, who provided invaluable assistance in the organization of the event. We also thank the participants at the workshop and the authors of the contributions. The workshop was organized as part of the research activities carried out under the auspices of the research group “Transatlantic Literature and the Transformation of the World in the Long Nineteenth Century.”
In addition, this issue features a contribution on Toni Morrison, whose work continues to capture the attention of academic and general readers.
Socijalizam - izgradnja i razgradnja, 2017
This article is part of the research project on the continuity of social conflict in Croatia fro... more This article is part of the research project on the continuity of social conflict
in Croatia from 1987 to 1991, organized by the Center for Peace Studies and
the Organization for Workers Initiative and Democratization from Zagreb.
The focus of the text is on the shift in the dominant economic paradigm at
the end of the 1980s and beginning of 1990s. Looking at the „Borovo“ shoe
factory complex, we analyze the ways in which the reorientation to a market
economy affected the position of the workers. We are especially interested in
the process of generalization of market relations, in which the state plays a
central role. In this way, we put the struggles for sovereign national states in
the context of the contemporary transformation of class relations, which also
entailed a redistribution of social wealth.
Interpretacije jugoslovenskih sukoba i njihove posledice: između suštinskog neslaganja i dijaloga, 2016
Our interest in the problem of Yugoslav conflicts comes from our work on the research project Co... more Our interest in the problem of Yugoslav conflicts comes from our work on
the research project Continuity of social conflicts in Croatia 1987-1991., in which
analyze the events in the “Borovo” industrial system in Vukovar in this period, while
working on the microlevel of sociohistorical analysis. This allows us to reach certain
insights relevant for the more general problems of continuity of social conflicts in
post-yugoslav societies. Our approach assumes that Yugoslav conflicts begin at the
time when capitalist social relations are being established, and that this simultaneity is not merely incidental. Our analysis begins before the conflicts reach their final,
violent phase. We are interested in reconstructing the position of “Borovo” workers
before the war, their experience of the contemporary crisis and dramatic social change.
When approaching this period, we try to take into account the cultural and political
ways by which workers could articulate their interests and their resistance to the
ongoing reforms. Our goal is also to intervene in present-day debates about Yugoslav
conflicts. Today, the retrospective disposition and identitarian logic of isputes among
post-Yugoslav countries occludes the undisputed character of their transitional present
and the persistent conflicts it implies.
Key words: socialism, capitalism, nationalism, Yugoslavia, labor, class, identity.
Politička misao, 2015
The article is based on the research project Continuity of Social Conflict in Croatia 1987-1991,... more The article is based on the research project Continuity of Social Conflict in
Croatia 1987-1991, organized by the Center for Peace Studies and the Organization
for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization, Zagreb. Our point of
departure is the strike that took place in one of the biggest industrial systems
in socialist Yugoslavia, “Borovo” from Vukovar, in 1988. The strike was part
of the wave of labor unrest of the late 1980s, a time of economic and political
crisis in a country undergoing dramatic social transformation. Our main goal
is to delineate, on a micro level of socio-historical analysis, the transformation
of the unrest of the late 1980s, in our view basically of a class character, into
the violent conflicts of the 1990s, now rearticulated in ethno-national terms.
In this article, we look at the situation in “Borovo” in the period following the
1988 strike, when first divisions between workers start taking place. We relate
the fragmentation of the “Borovo” labor force in this period to: 1) the structural
reforms, including the dismantling of self-management and the consequent
elimination of the last institutional possibility for the articulation of workers’
interests; and 2) the shifting ideological and material conditions, involving
deep contradictions between a nominally workerist state and the reality of its
“post-socialist” experience.
The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other (eds Dijana Jelača, Maša Kolanović and Danijela Lugarić), 2017
In socialist Yugoslavia work and labor were central to the legitimacy of the state and government... more In socialist Yugoslavia work and labor were central to the legitimacy of the state and government, and represented the basis of social and political rights. Such position of labor was underpinned by social and cultural institutions that either disappeared or underwent dramatic transformation with the restoration of capitalism. This chapter traces the emergence of regional class cultures in relation to print and literacy in the 19th century, and offers a look at one subsequent institutional development under socialism—factory newspapers. The chapter revolves around the weekly paper of one of the biggest industrial systems in Yugoslavia, Borovo. This was the oldest factory newspaper in the country. The aim of the essay is twofold: to show how the social transformation of the time was registered in the newspaper, and to reflect on the ways in which a cultural form participated in the longer process of class formation.
The Errant Labor of the Humanities: Festschrift Presented to Stipe Grgas (FF press, Zagreb, 2017), 2017
The article offers a reflection on the end of Yugoslav socialism by way of a reading of Stipe Grg... more The article offers a reflection on the end of Yugoslav socialism by way of a reading of Stipe Grgas's more recent work. Relying on Grgas's claim that the U.S. presence in former Yugoslavia reflects the mutations of American capitalism, the author comments on the ways in which the experience of socialism's demise was registered in the culture of the Yugoslav 1980s up to 1991. Arguing that the existing approaches to this period favor the experience of the elites, the author stresses the need for more expansive archival work and consideration of the class aspect of the end of socialism.
Iako integralan dio kulture rada u socijalizmu (sedamdesetih godina u Jugoslaviji izlazi oko 2.00... more Iako integralan dio kulture rada u socijalizmu (sedamdesetih godina u Jugoslaviji izlazi oko 2.000 listova " udruženog rada " , a njihova naklada premašuje nakladu dnevne štampe), fenomen tvorničkih ili radničkih novina danas je gotovo potpuno zaboravljen i vrlo slabo istražen.
Working Papers in American Studies Vol .2 (2016)
Based on the reading of a 1991 World Bank report on the industrial restructuring of Yugoslavia an... more Based on the reading of a 1991 World Bank report on the industrial restructuring of Yugoslavia and the archival study of one of Yugoslav biggest industrial systems, Borovo, this article reflects on the position of labor during the critical period of our transition to capitalism. The Yugoslav socialist project is here viewed as an instance of “socialist Fordism.” The beginning of its demise in the 1980s is described in the light
of the global advance of a U.S.-dominated, financialized capitalism. Particular stress is put on the class aspect of “post-socialist” transition, as well as the lived experience of crisis.
Interpretacije jugoslovenskih sukoba i njihove posledice: između suštinskog neslaganja i dijaloga, ur. Goran Tepšić, Radmila Nakarada i Nemanja Džuverović. Fakultet političkih nauka i Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst: Beograd, 2016., str. 109-130.
Temi jugoslavenskih sukoba pristupamo na temelju istraživanja o događajima u jugoslavenskom kombi... more Temi jugoslavenskih sukoba pristupamo na temelju istraživanja o događajima u jugoslavenskom kombinatu gume i obuće " Borovo " u periodu od 1988. do 1991. Vukovarsko " Borovo " , često nazivano i " Jugoslavija u malom " , pruža priliku da se kroz studiju slučaja, na mikrorazini društvenopovijesne analize, dođe do uvida relevantnih za širu problematiku kontinuiteta društvenih sukoba na post-jugoslavenskom prostoru. Naš pristup ovoj problematici određen je tezom da se jugoslavenski sukobi događaju u vrijeme uspostavljanja kapitalističkih društvenih odnosa te da ova simultanost nije slučajna, već da se radi o povezanim procesima. Krećući od pretpostavke kako u analizi sukoba treba krenuti od perioda prije njihove finalne, nasilne faze, u istraživanju se bavimo pozicijom radnica i radnika kombinata prije rata i njihovim iskustvom krize i dramatičnih društvenih promjena. U analizi ovoga razdoblja, obilježenog socijalnom nesigurnošću, stečajevima i otkazima, vodimo računa o alatima koje su radnici imali na raspolaganju za razumijevanje svoje pozicije i artikulaciju otpora. Pritom, namjera nam je ne samo ponuditi pogled u prošlost, već i intervenirati u sadašnjost: danas, često retrospektivno usmjereni i identitetski utemeljni prijepori između bivših jugoslavenskih država prikrivaju neupitnost njihove zajedničke tranzicijske sadašnjosti i trajnih sukoba koje ista pretpostavlja.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects Volume 1 – Literature and Cultural Studies, eds. Stipe Grgas, Tihana Klepač, Martina Domines Veliki (2016), 179-193.
Opening with a critique of identity-based interpretive paradigms, the article offers a reading of... more Opening with a critique of identity-based interpretive paradigms, the article offers a reading of Snežana Žabić's Broken Records (2015) and Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man (2002) that situates their origins in the Yugoslav socialist project.
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id\_broj=11931 Članak je dio istraživanja o kontinuitetu d... more http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=11931
Članak je dio istraživanja o kontinuitetu društvenih sukoba u Hrvatskoj 1987-1991., koje se provodi u suradnji Centra za mirovne studije i Baze za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju iz Zagreba. Početni je fokus istraživanja štrajk koji se u ljeto 1988. odigrao u Jugoslavenskom kombinatu gume i obuće “Borovo” iz Vukovara. Borovski je štrajk bio dio vala nemira koji su potresali SFRJ u trenutku duboke ekonomske krize i sveobuhvatne društvene reforme. Cilj je istraživanja na mikrorazini društvenopovijesne analize opisati transformaciju sukoba čiji je karakter krajem osamdesetih bio prvenstveno klasni u sukob s početka devedesetih, tada bitno određen etno-nacionalnom logikom. U ovom članku bavimo se situacijom u kombinatu “Borovo” u periodu između štrajka 1988. i prvih demokratskih izbora 1990. Naime, u tom se razdoblju počinju javljati prve ozbiljnije podjele među radnicima “Borova”. Članak analizira uzroke i dinamiku fragmentiranja borovskoga radništva u 1989. godini uzimajući u obzir dva središnja momenta: 1) strukturne promjene u tom periodu, koje uključuju ukidanje samoupravljanja i posljedično eliminiranje mogućnosti političke artikulacije radničkih interesa; 2) materijalne i ideološke uvjete za podjele među radnicima “Borova”, koje u tom trenutku nemaju etnički/nacionalni predznak, već se stvaraju oko problema raspodjele sve oskudnijih materijalnih resursa.
Hrvatski filmski ljetopis 81/2015 (9-20), 2015
Ovaj se rad bavi HBO-ovim serijalom Žica (2002.-2008.) kao mogućim primjerom Jamesonove estetike ... more Ovaj se rad bavi HBO-ovim serijalom Žica (2002.-2008.) kao mogućim primjerom Jamesonove estetike kognitivnoga mapiranja. U radu se obrazlažu formalni i ideološki preduvjeti i problemi vezani za ostvarenja ove estetike u Žici. Ovi preduvjeti i problemi dvojakog su karaktera: mogućnost kognitivnog mapiranja povezana je s razvojem medija televizije od 1980-ih nadalje, te s tematskim interesom za klasnu problematiku. U radu se razmatraju načini na koju Žica prekoračuje granice hegemonije suvremene američke kulture, kao i ograničenja njezine političke imaginacije.
In this essay I offer a reflection on a conspicuous absence in digital humanities discourse. Enga... more In this essay I offer a reflection on a conspicuous absence in digital humanities discourse. Engaging with the manifold ways in which the digital sphere shapes culture and society, the interests and methods of digital humanities appear indispensable in contemporary academia. However, it is my contention that digital humanities systematically omits dealing with the ways in which issues of technology converge with our labor in humanities today. Viewed in the context of an increasing adaptation of research and higher education to the market form, this disciplinary blind spot reveals technological instrumentality as a structuring principle of both digital humanities and its institutional setting, the “university of excellence.”
et al. - Terror(ism) and Aesthetics (2014), 2014
This essay expands on “Killing Politics: The Art of Recovery in Falling Man". It offers a reading... more This essay expands on “Killing Politics: The Art of Recovery in Falling Man". It offers a reading of DeLillo's novel that goes beyond the notion of trauma, which has become a reflexive analytical framing for any 9/11-related work of literature. Moving away from trauma allows us to look into the incident of 9/11, as it appears in the novel, not only as an historical event, but also a figure for a larger historical transformation.
Terror and the Cinematic Sublime: Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post-9/11 Films, eds Todd A. Comer and Lloyd Isaac Vayo, Jan 28, 2013
ROMANICA ET ANGLICA, Jan 1, 2009
(scroll down for English description) Borovo je do devedesetih godina bio europski gigant u koje... more (scroll down for English description)
Borovo je do devedesetih godina bio europski gigant u kojem je bilo zaposleno 22.000 radnika i gdje se proizvodilo 25 milijuna para cipela godišnje, kompanija sada zapošljava 770 ljudi i proizvodi oko 400.000 pari cipela. Ova godina im je nakon dugo vremena pozitivna. Kako tvrtka Borovo, ali i život u samom naselju izgleda danas, možete pogledati u novom video prilogu Udruge BRID - Baza za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju. Jedan od sugovornika, život u Borovu će otprilike opisati ovim riječima: "Nekada su u 05:15 svakog jutra odzvanjali koraci naseljem, a danas je – tišina".
Video je snimljen u suradnji s istraživanjem "Kontinuitet društvenih sukoba u Hrvatskoj 1987.-1991.: slučaj Borova" koje je započelo 2013. godine na Mirovnim studijima (CMS) u Zagrebu. Na istraživanju rade Jasna Račić, Snježena Ivčić, Sven Cvek i drugi suradnici.
Autori: Srđan Kovačević, Petra Ivšić, Ivor Ivezić.
Proizvodnja: Udruga Brid.
Uz potporu Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, lipanj 2015.
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This short film was made as part of the research project Continuity of Social Conflict in Croatia 1987-1991, by the Organization for Workers' Initiative and Democratization. It is a brief overview of the past and present of one of the biggest industrial systems in former/socialist Yugoslavia, Borovo near Vukovar (Croatia).
Intervju za Novosti o istraživanju o štrajkovima u kombinatu Borovo