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Europskost ukidanja praznika i socijalističkog neradničkog mentaliteta
The European Character of Eliminating Holidays and Socialist Indolent Mentality

Author(s): Mateja Habinc
Subject(s): Labor relations, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: holidays; austerity; mentality; former Yugoslavia; (post)socialism;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses official and unofficial discourses (media reports, web commentaries and forums) in Slovenia and Croatia which deal with eliminating holidays as a part of austerity measures. It focuses on the relationship between eliminating holidays, diligence and mentality on the one hand and Balkan, socialist and European identity on the other.

  • Issue Year: 52/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 69-84
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian