Objective
IMAGiNE asks why supra-national identities that once bound Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the USSR proved variably durable, and what this reveals about how collective belonging is made and unmade. The project addresses a core gap: existing accounts privilege institutions and ethnicity but lack a generalisable explanation of the socialist imaginaries—the ideological languages, symbolic narratives and enacted rituals—that rendered identification plausible in everyday life. IMAGiNE advances the hypothesis that specific bundles of languages–repertoires–practices, mediated by experts and experienced from above and below, predict both trajectories of cohesion and modes of dissolution. To test this, the project develops a three-layer analytical framework and a transnational, multi-level comparison across four periods (post-1945 consolidation; reform decades; late socialism; crisis and afterlives). It assembles harmonised corpora of party texts, newspapers and readers’ letters, a prosopography of mediating institutions, and structured catalogues of rituals; and it triangulates archival research with the analysis of legacy public-opinion data. Expected results include a theory-bearing typology of “socialist imagination regimes,” an explanatory account of divergent endings (war, negotiated split, systemic collapse) and identity afterlives (e.g. the persistence of “national Yugoslavs”), and openly shared datasets and tools that meet FAIR standards. Beyond historiography, IMAGiNE offers design-relevant insights for composite polities on how inclusive imaginaries can be built, maintained and undone, clarifying trade-offs and institutional supports while anticipating unintended consequences.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
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