Description
This paper reflects on affective encounters with the fragmented archives of Yugoslav social medicine. Rather than treating the archive as a fixed repository of facts, it approaches it as a living, affective terrain where traces of care, hope, and attachments linger. Drawing on my ongoing research into the histories and futures of social medicine in post-Yugoslav contexts, I explore how these archives evoke not only institutional memory but also embodied feelings of hope, loss, and collective aspiration. Thinking with the archive means engaging with its silences, contradictions, and gestures toward unfinished worlds of solidarity. Through reading and feeling these materials, the paper asks how affective arrivals at the archive might open new ways of imagining health, care, and worldmaking in times of transitions.
