Archer, R;
(2018)
The moral economy of home construction in late socialist Yugoslavia.
History and Anthropology
, 29
(2)
pp. 141-162.
10.1080/02757206.2017.1340279.
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Abstract
Housing shortages in Yugoslav cities were a perennial concern for authorities and citizens alike. They disproportionately affected Yugoslav workers who as a consequence were the demographic most likely to independently construct a family home. This article explores how informal builders justified home construction in moral terms, legitimizing it on the basis of physical labour that was invested in home construction. This was couched in both the language register of Yugoslav socialism and patriarchal custom (according to which a male-headed household should enjoy the right to a family home). Construction was also conditioned by the opportunities and constraints of late socialist temporalities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The moral economy of home construction in late socialist Yugoslavia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02757206.2017.1340279 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2017.1340279 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Socialist working class, Yugoslavia, moral economy, informal construction, housing |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1561589 |
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