Soviet Cosmonauts and American Astronauts in Yugoslavia

Vučetić, Radina

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“…Potočniks bok är autentisk. Överlag var intresset för utforskning av rymden och i senare skede rymdkapplöpningen väldigt närvarande i jugoslavisk media (för en genomgång av jugoslavernas intresse för det kalla krigets rymdkapplöpning, se Vučetić, 2011). Filmen igenom lyckas man skickligt väva in fabricerade detaljer med de riktiga.…”

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Även om det inte hände är det sant – Houston, We Have a Problem

Pejkovic

2020

Nordisk Østforum

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“Even if it didn’t happen, it’s true” – Houston, We Have a Problem!Houston, We Have a Problem! (director: Žiga Virc, 2016) is a mockumentary film from Slovenia that stirred up controversy in the former Yugoslavia. The film deals with the Yugoslav space program, which Josip Broz Tito sells to the United States under President Kennedy for $2.5 billion. However, it turns out that the Yugoslavs have nothing to sell: their space program is utterly useless. The payment is then converted into a loan, forcing Yugoslavia into an economic crisis. Tito dies, and with more or less direct involvement from the US side, Yugoslavia dies with him. The content of this film, and the debate surrounding it, show that popular culture dealing with the past has inherited traces of the ideologizations of the past. This article presents interpretations of public reactions to the film, but also analyzes what it seeks to convey regarding Yugoslav historiography, through this fable of Yugoslavia, its purported space program, and US involvement.

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Pejkovic

2020

Nordisk Østforum

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The Fallen Envoy: The Rise and Fall of Astronaut in International Space Law

Sreejith

2019

Space Policy

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Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War

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Nexon²

2018

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Why do leading actors invest in costly projects that they expect will not yield appreciable military or economic benefits? We identify a causal process in which concerns about legitimacy produce attempts to secure dominance in arenas of high symbolic value by investing wealth and labor into unproductive (in direct military and economic terms) goods and performances. We provide evidence for our claims through a comparative study of the American Project Apollo and the Ming Dynasty's treasure fleets. We locate our argument within a broader constructivist and practice-theoretic understanding of hierarchy and hegemony. We build on claims that world politics is a sphere of complex social stratification by viewing constituent hierarchies in terms of social fields. Our specific theory and broader framework, we contend, provide tools for understanding the workings of power politics beyond military and economic competition.

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Soviet Cosmonauts and American Astronauts in Yugoslavia

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Även om det inte hände är det sant – Houston, We Have a Problem

Även om det inte hände är det sant – Houston, We Have a Problem

The Fallen Envoy: The Rise and Fall of Astronaut in International Space Law

Defending Hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic Capital and Political Dominance in Early Modern China and the Cold War

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