prof. dr. sc. Igor Duda
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Biography
Igor Duda (Pula, 1977) is a full professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, and at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. Since 2011 he is an external associate of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb; since 2021 a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. He is focusing on history of everyday life and social history of socialist Yugoslavia, particularly on history of leisure, tourism, consumer culture, standard of living, childhood, making of a socialist citizen and citizens’ participation in social self-management.
He graduated in history and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2000), where he also earned his MSc (2004) and PhD (2009) degrees in history. As an OSI/FCO Chevening Scholar he spent a year at the University of Oxford (2002/03). Later he was a visiting researcher at the CSEES, University of Graz (2015/16), and at the Leibnitz-IOS in Regensburg (2019). He cooperated with the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute in Zagreb and was a researcher within the project Tourism and Leisure Cultures in Socialist Yugoslavia (University of Graz, FWF, 2005-2008). He was the principal investigator of the research projects Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism (financed by HRZZ 2014-17) and Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990 (financed by HRZZ 2018-23). As a co-author, he participated in several exhibitions and documentaries. At the University of Pula he teaches courses in contemporary history. He also teaches at the PhD programme in modern and contemporary history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the initiator and head of the annual summer Doctoral Workshop in Pula (since 2015), co-organiser of the biennial conference series Socialism on the Bench (since 2013), as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the journal History in Flux (since 2019). He was the co-founder and the first head of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism in the year 2012/13 (again in 2016/17, 2020/21, 2023/24, 2024/25). He was the head of the Department of History 2013-17, and since October 2023 he is the head of the Chair of Late Modern and Contemporary History.
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List of select publications
Books
- U potrazi za blagostanjem. O povijesti dokolice i potrošačkog društva u Hrvatskoj 1950-ih i 1960-ih, Srednja Europa, Zagreb, 2005, 2014. [In Pursuit of Well-Being. On History of Leisure and Consumer Society in Croatia in the 1950s and 1960s]
- Pronađeno blagostanje. Svakodnevni život i potrošačka kultura u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih, Srednja Europa, Zagreb, 2010, 2014. [Well-Being Found. Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s]
- Danas kada postajem pionir. Djetinjstvo i ideologija jugoslavenskoga socijalizma, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2015. [Today when I Become a Pioneer. Childhood and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism]
- Socijalizam na kućnom pragu. Mjesna zajednica i svakodnevica društvenog samoupravljanja u Jugoslaviji, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2023. [Socialism on the Doorstep. Local Community and the Everyday Life of Social Self-management in Yugoslavia]
Co-authored book
- Nikad im bolje nije bilo? Modernizacija svakodnevnog života u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji, Ivana Dobrivojević, Igor Duda, Sabina Mihelj, Ana Panić, Muzej istorije Jugoslavije, Beograd, 2014.
- They Never Had It Better? Modernization of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia, Ivana Dobrivojević, Igor Duda, Sabina Mihelj, Ana Panić, Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, 2014.
Edited volumes
- Social Inequalities and Discontent in Yugoslav Socialism, eds. Rory Archer, Igor Duda, Paul Stubbs, Routledge (Southeast European Studies), London, New York, 2016.
- Stvaranje socijalističkoga čovjeka. Hrvatsko društvo i ideologija jugoslavenskoga socijalizma, ed. Igor Duda, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2017. [Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism]
- Komunisti i komunističke partije: politike, akcije, debate. (Zbornik odabranih radova s Trećeg međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa Socijalizam na klupi, Pula, 28-30. rujna 2017.), ed. Igor Duda, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2019. [Communists and Communist Parties: Policies, Actions, Debates]
- Mikrosocijalizam. Mikrostrukture jugoslavenskoga socijalizma u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih, ed. Igor Duda, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2023. [Microsocialism: Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism in Croatia in the 1970s and 1980s]
Recent papers
- „Društveno i svakodnevno u istraživanju povijesti socijalističke Jugoslavije: mapiranje područja i tema“, Reprezentacije socijalističke Jugoslavije: preispitivanja i perspektive, eds. Hannes Grandits, Vladimir Ivanović, Branimir Janković, UMIHS, Srednja Europa, Sarajevo, Zagreb, 2019, 35-42.
- „Camaraderie at the Table: Community Catering in the Time of the Yugoslav First Five-Year Plan“, Brotherhood and Unity at the Kitchen Table. Food in Socialist Yugoslavia, eds. Ruža Fotiadis, Vladimir Ivanović, Radina Vučetić, Srednja Europa, Zagreb, 2019, 53-72.
- „Écrire l’histoire de la Yougoslavie socialiste. Savoirs et représentations, usages et circulations“, co-authors Anne Madelain, Frank Georgi, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2019, 50, 1, 7-23.
- „Consumers and Self-Managers: Consumer Protection and its Challenges during the Yugoslav Economic Crisis of the 1980s“, Acta Histriae, 2019, 27, 1, 143-162.
- „'Radim sve što treba.' Aktivisti u mjesnim zajednicama u Jugoslaviji 1970-ih i 1980-ih“, Časopis za suvremenu povijest, 2020, 52, 3, 731-758.
- „Mikrosocijalizam ili što je dovoljno malo? Društveno samoupravljanje između općine, mjesne zajednice i kućnog savjeta“, Mikrosocijalizam. Mikrostrukture jugoslavenskoga socijalizma u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih, ed. Igor Duda, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2023, 1-30.
- „Društveni pravobranilac samoupravljanja: istarska i dalmatinska iskustva“, Mikrosocijalizam. Mikrostrukture jugoslavenskoga socijalizma u Hrvatskoj 1970-ih i 1980-ih, ed. Igor Duda, Srednja Europa and Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Zagreb and Pula, 2023, 149-175.
- „Drugarstvo za stolom. Društvena prehrana u Jugoslaviji za vrijeme prvoga petogodišnjeg plana“, Bratstvo i jedinstvo za kuhinjskim stolom. Hrana u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji, ur. Ruža Fotiadis, Vladimir Ivanović, Radina Vučetić, Srednja Europa, Zagreb, 2024., 53-72.
Profile/Bibliography CroRIS
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List of select projects
- Stvaranje socijalističkoga čovjeka. Hrvatsko društvo i ideologija jugoslavenskoga socijalizma (Making of the Socialist Man. Croatian Society and the Ideology of Yugoslav Socialism, HRZZ UIP-11-2013-1718, 2014-2017)
- Mikrostrukture jugoslavenskoga socijalizma: Hrvatska 1970-1990. (Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990, HRZZ IP-01-2018-5394, 2018-2023)
Other projects