Peter Wright
Peter Wright is an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he teaches history, culture, and language courses focused on the Yugoslav region.
The Business of Solidarity
Peter Wright
Peter Wright
The Business of Solidarity
Socialist Yugoslavia and Non-Aligned International Development
In the 1950s, socialist Yugoslavia pioneered new global solidarities by sending engineers, economists, and doctors to places like Syria, Ethiopia, and Sudan to develop postcolonial economies and solidify state sovereignty. However, the work of international development also produced profound changes back in Yugoslavia. Using novel sources to connect the local and the global scales of Yugoslavia’s Non-aligned politics, The Business of Solidarity reverses conventional Cold-War directionalities of influence in examining how the global development aid economy shaped identities and institutions on Europe’s socialist periphery. With a focus on the fields of education and healthcare, the book’s chapters detail how Yugoslav colleges and hospitals came to marketize networks of development aid for revenue generation in times of economic crisis in the 1970s and 1980s. In doing so, The Business of Solidarity charts the evolution of Yugoslav development solidarity from postcolonial state-building in the 1950s to commercialized exchange by the 1980s.
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Author
- Title
- The Business of Solidarity
- Subtitle
- Socialist Yugoslavia and Non-Aligned International Development
- Author
- Peter Wright
- Price
- € 134,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789048577149
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 26 - 02 - 2027
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Global Easts
- Categories
- Eastern Central Europe
- Modern History
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Imprint
- CEU Press
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Yugoslav Development Experts in East Africa, 1954-1970
Chapter 1: Planning for Development: Economic Planning Between Socialist Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Ethiopia
Chapter 2: Partners, Patrons, or Pe.albari? Yugoslav Development Expert Self-Fashioning in East Africa, 1954-1970
Section 2: International Healthcare Cooperation Between Libya and Yugoslavia, 1959-1991
Chapter 3: Yugoslav Healthcare Labor in Libya in the 1960s
Chapter 4: Health for All? The Business of Healthcare between Yugoslavia, WHO, and and the Non-Aligned Movement
Section 3: International Higher Education in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1953-1991
Chapter 5: Dinars and Dormitories: The Politics of Financing Postcolonial Students at Yugoslav Universities, 1953-1970
Chapter 6: Between the Market and Solidarity: Commercializing Development Aid and International Higher Education in Socialist Yugoslavia
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Section 1: Yugoslav Development Experts in East Africa, 1954-1970
Chapter 1: Planning for Development: Economic Planning Between Socialist Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Ethiopia
Chapter 2: Partners, Patrons, or Pe.albari? Yugoslav Development Expert Self-Fashioning in East Africa, 1954-1970
Section 2: International Healthcare Cooperation Between Libya and Yugoslavia, 1959-1991
Chapter 3: Yugoslav Healthcare Labor in Libya in the 1960s
Chapter 4: Health for All? The Business of Healthcare between Yugoslavia, WHO, and and the Non-Aligned Movement
Section 3: International Higher Education in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1953-1991
Chapter 5: Dinars and Dormitories: The Politics of Financing Postcolonial Students at Yugoslav Universities, 1953-1970
Chapter 6: Between the Market and Solidarity: Commercializing Development Aid and International Higher Education in Socialist Yugoslavia
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
