Anita Buhin, Visiting Fellowship 2023/24

Anita Buhin

Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / IN2PAST — Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação em Património, Artes, Sustentabilidade e Território

Website: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/anita-buhin/, https://unl-pt.academia.edu/AnitaBuhin

Biography

Anita Buhin is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at the Universidade Nova, Lisbon. She obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in 2019. She holds a BA (2008) and MA degree (2011) in History and Croatian Language and Literature from the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, and an MA degree in Central European History from the Central European University in Budapest (2012). Since 2012 she collaborates as a researcher at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. She is mostly interested in cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia in Mediterranean context, focusing on the relations of popular culture and tourism. At the moment, as her post-doctoral project, she deals with the phenomena of the so-called “galebovi” (seagulls) in socialist Yugoslavia, i.e. local young men who are engaging in sexual/romantic relationship with foreign tourists at the Adriatic. On the Yugoslav example she aims to trace various economic, cultural and social aspects of the phenomena in order to establish a research paradigm for the whole of the (Euro-)Mediterranean area in the time of the development of mass tourism.

Visiting fellowship May 2024

Motivation

Embarking on a visiting fellowship presents an exciting opportunity for me to explore Slovenian youth masculinity and sexuality during socialism. This will provide general context for understanding differences in sexual behaviour, expectations and moral system in different parts of Yugoslavia. To do this, I will tap into the resources at the Institute for insights into Slovenian youth experiences during socialism. I will also use the fellowship to visit National and university library and study works by respected Slovenian experts in psychology, health, and sociology, such as Leon Žlebnik, Lidija Andolšek-Jeras or Katja Boh, as well the published research of Slovenian Institute for Family Planning. Magazines like Mladina will provide valuable perspectives from bellow, along with erotic magazines like Vroči kaj and Kaj specijal.

Selected publications

Buhin, Anita, Yugoslav Socialism “Flavoured with Sea, Flavoured with Salt”: Mediterranization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1950s and 1960s under Italian Influence, Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2022.

Buhin, Anita, “Samoupravni preobražaj kulture u praksi: mikroperspektiva Karlovca i Pule”, in Mikrosocijalizam. Mikrostrukture jugoslavenskoga socijalizma u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih, ed. Igor Duda, Zagreb – Pula: Srednja Europa – Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, 2023: 59-81.

Buhin, Anita, “‘Kulturni fenomeni dvaju giganata’: samoupravna kultura u brodogradilištu Uljanik i tvornici turbina Jugoturbina 1970-ih i 1980-ih”, Časopis za suvremenu povijest, 55/1 (2023): 93-111.

Buhin, Anita, “’Melodies from the Adriatic’: Mediterranean Influence in Zabavna Music Festivals of the 1950s and 1960s,” in Made in Yugoslavia. Studies in Popular Music, eds. Danijela Š. Beard and Ljerka V. Rasmussen, London: Routledge, 2020: 25-36.

Buhin, Anita, “Love and fashion: musical comedy and Yugoslav dolce vita,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 10 (2019): 96-110.