Historizacija tranzicije – slučaj (post) jugoslavenskog prostora

The paper analyses the phenomenon of transition on several levels, with the main focus on the former Yugoslavian space. In the introduction, a brief overview of basic theses, interpretations and understandings of this phenomenon are given, both from the perspective of mainstream authors who belong to liberal and conservative traditions in political sciences and sociology, as well as the critics of “transitology” from the leftist, Marxist-oriented approaches. The paper then addresses the following questions: how to think of transition within the context of its own nature of time, its own temporality; as well as which method and tradition of thought would be adequate for analysing this kind of problem. Then, the paper confronts the practices of historization and the, so-called, culture of memory. The paper continues with the analysis of transition as ideology and transition as a term / concept – ideologeme. The central and longest part of the paper is devoted to the main case – the transition experience of (post)Yugoslav space.