“In Utopia of the Uniform, Tanja Petrović offers a powerful and compelling narrative that provides a very much needed alternative reading of the end of socialist Yugoslavia. I particularly like the way the author mines the Yugoslav past for the possibilities of a utopian future. This book will shift the debate in a variety of fields.”
~Kristen R. Ghodsee, author of, Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us about the Good Life
“Tanja Petrović’s Utopia of the Uniform is a tender, provocative account of how men lived, thought, and felt in the Yugoslav armed forces. It is also about what happened to their friendships and solidarities when their country came apart at the seams. Petrović writes about masculinity from a place outside it. In so doing, she captures something that those who live it can’t see.”
~Samuel Fury Childs Daly, author of, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War