ABSTRACT
Vernacular and state-supported environmentalisms in socialist Eastern Europe played an important role in articulating “green” visions of nature, society, personhood, and politics, both within and without the auspices of the socialist state. The socialist citizens’ association Unski smaragdi (The Una River Emeralds) in Yugoslavia provides insights into the philosophies, strategies, politics, and pedagogies of these “socialist greens.” In this chapter, I show how these visions and practices of the Una River Emeralds generated an ecological sensibility and environmental consciousness from which contemporary articulations of riverine citizenship emerged.
