Igor Duda
Igor Duda is a full professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, and at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Since 2011 he is an external associate of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; since 2021 a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg). He is focusing on history of everyday life and social history of socialist Yugoslavia, particularly on history of leisure, tourism, consumer culture, standard of living, childhood, making of a socialist citizen and citizens’ participation in social self-management.
He graduated in history and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2000), where he also earned his MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) degrees in history. As an OSI/FCO Chevening Scholar he spent a year at the University of Oxford (2002/03). Later he was a visiting researcher at the CSEES, University of Graz (2015/16), and at the Leibnitz-IOS in Regensburg (2019). He cooperated with the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb and was a researcher within the project Tourism and Leisure Cultures in Socialist Yugoslavia (University of Graz, FWF, 2005-2008). He was the principal investigator of the research projects Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism (financed by HRZZ 2014-17) and Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990 (financed by HRZZ 2018-23). As a co-author, he participated in several exhibitions and documentaries. At the University of Pula he teaches courses in contemporary history. He also teaches at the PhD programme in modern and contemporary history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the initiator and head of the annual summer Doctoral Workshop in Pula (since 2015), co-organiser of the biennial conference series Socialism on the Bench (since 2013), as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal History in Flux (since 2019). He was the co-founder and the first head of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in the year 2012/13 (again in 2016/17, 2020/21, 2023/24). He was the head of the Department of History 2013-17, and since October 2023 he is the head of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History.
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Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Filozofski fakultet/CKPIS
Zagrebačka 30
52100 Pula
Hrvatska
He graduated in history and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2000), where he also earned his MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) degrees in history. As an OSI/FCO Chevening Scholar he spent a year at the University of Oxford (2002/03). Later he was a visiting researcher at the CSEES, University of Graz (2015/16), and at the Leibnitz-IOS in Regensburg (2019). He cooperated with the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb and was a researcher within the project Tourism and Leisure Cultures in Socialist Yugoslavia (University of Graz, FWF, 2005-2008). He was the principal investigator of the research projects Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism (financed by HRZZ 2014-17) and Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990 (financed by HRZZ 2018-23). As a co-author, he participated in several exhibitions and documentaries. At the University of Pula he teaches courses in contemporary history. He also teaches at the PhD programme in modern and contemporary history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the initiator and head of the annual summer Doctoral Workshop in Pula (since 2015), co-organiser of the biennial conference series Socialism on the Bench (since 2013), as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal History in Flux (since 2019). He was the co-founder and the first head of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in the year 2012/13 (again in 2016/17, 2020/21, 2023/24). He was the head of the Department of History 2013-17, and since October 2023 he is the head of the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History.
Address: Igor Duda
Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Filozofski fakultet/CKPIS
Zagrebačka 30
52100 Pula
Hrvatska
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Knjiga je rezultat rada na projektu Stvaranje socijalističkoga čovjeka (HRZZ).
Danas kada postajem pionir. Djetinjstvo i ideologija jugoslavenskoga socijalizma, Srednja Europa i Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb i Pula, 2015., ISBN 978-953-7963-35-4
Table of contents
1. Bringing class back in: an introduction (Rory Archer, Igor Duda and Paul Stubbs)
2. What nationalism has buried: Yugoslav social scientists on the crisis, grassroots powerlessness and Yugoslavism (Ana Dević)
3. The gastarbajteri as a transnational Yugoslav working class (Brigitte Le Normand)
4. ‘Paid for by the workers, occupied by the bureaucrats’: housing inequalities in 1980s Belgrade (Rory Archer)
5. Education, conflict and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia (Jana Bacevic)
6. Roma between ethnic group and an ‘underclass’ as portrayed through newspaper discourses in socialist Slovenia (Julija Sardelić)
7. Of social inequalities in a socialist society: the creation of a rural underclass in Yugoslav Kosovo (Isabel Ströhle)
8 ‘They came as workers and left as Serbs’: the role of Rakovica’s blue-collar workers in Serbian social mobilisations of the late 1980s (Goran Musić)
9 ‘ Buy me a silk skirt mile!’ Celebrity culture, gender and
social positioning in socialist Yugoslavia (Ana Hofman and Polona Sitar)
10 When capitalism and socialism get along best: tourism, consumer culture and the idea of progress in Malo misto (Igor Duda)
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Papers in Croatian by Igor Duda
Knjiga je rezultat rada na projektu Stvaranje socijalističkoga čovjeka (HRZZ).
Danas kada postajem pionir. Djetinjstvo i ideologija jugoslavenskoga socijalizma, Srednja Europa i Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb i Pula, 2015., ISBN 978-953-7963-35-4
Table of contents
1. Bringing class back in: an introduction (Rory Archer, Igor Duda and Paul Stubbs)
2. What nationalism has buried: Yugoslav social scientists on the crisis, grassroots powerlessness and Yugoslavism (Ana Dević)
3. The gastarbajteri as a transnational Yugoslav working class (Brigitte Le Normand)
4. ‘Paid for by the workers, occupied by the bureaucrats’: housing inequalities in 1980s Belgrade (Rory Archer)
5. Education, conflict and class reproduction in socialist Yugoslavia (Jana Bacevic)
6. Roma between ethnic group and an ‘underclass’ as portrayed through newspaper discourses in socialist Slovenia (Julija Sardelić)
7. Of social inequalities in a socialist society: the creation of a rural underclass in Yugoslav Kosovo (Isabel Ströhle)
8 ‘They came as workers and left as Serbs’: the role of Rakovica’s blue-collar workers in Serbian social mobilisations of the late 1980s (Goran Musić)
9 ‘ Buy me a silk skirt mile!’ Celebrity culture, gender and
social positioning in socialist Yugoslavia (Ana Hofman and Polona Sitar)
10 When capitalism and socialism get along best: tourism, consumer culture and the idea of progress in Malo misto (Igor Duda)