Cyber Yugoslavia: from the World of Nations to the World of Cyber Countries

Lada Stevanović

doi:10.25038/am.v0i13.184

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Lada Stevanović

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https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i13.184

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Cyber Yugoslavia, nation, nation state, ideology, subversion, theory

Abstract

This paper examines Cyber Yugoslavia, a state created on the internet, after the fall of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Located in cyberspace, Cyber Yugoslavia belongs to the corpus of virtual countries appearing as a subversive response to the nationalism and wars that led to the disintegration of the SFRY. The ludic and parodic character of CY makes it a unique example of the way in which it challenges and questions deep structures and ideological mechanisms of nation and nation-state construction. Using parody and laughter, CY deconstructs the concepts that are essential parts in creating the ideology of nation. The very same concepts are the focus of the theoretical approach to nation, wherefore the paper focuses on the intersection of theoretical and IT creative work.

Author Biography

Lada Stevanović

The Institute of Ethnography SASA, Belgrade
Serbia

Lada Stevanović (1974) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade at the department of Classics and received her Ph.D. in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis. Her special interests are anthropology antiquity, reception studies and feminist theory. She also researches the concept of memory and identity construction in Yugoslavia. She works in the Institute of Ethnography, SASA in Belgrade. Her publications include the book Laughing at the Funeral: Gender and Anthropology in the Greek Funerary Rites.

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