„Rubikova kocka” postkolonijalizma: teorijski sinkretizam i novi izazovi u postkolonijalnim studijama
THE RUBIK’S CUBE OF POSTCOLONIALISM: THEORYʼS SYNCRETISM AND CHALLENGES IN POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the genesis of postcolonialism in various (mutually conditioned) forms: at the conceptual, humanistic, theoretical and disciplinary level. With the contextualization of the work of the first authors who put the question mark on the established and dominant western-centric perception of global divisions, we will (de)construct various historical and paradigmatic influences on the development of postcolonialism. A special emphasis is put on the position of postcolonialism within the so-called The great debates in the academic discipline of International Relations. Also, we consider the possibility of development of postcolonialism as a theory on medium level that have multiple utility for the International Relations. A critical examination of initial assumptions of postcolonialism as inherently processual, reflexive and subversive, will open up the issues of the contemporary challenges of the social life of former colonies and their relationships with other actors on the international scene. One of the major issues (which can be set as a hypothesis) is how to use advantage of the epistemological and theoretical postulates of post-colonialism in the research of the modern world in which the orientalist rhetoric largely survives, but, due to the rise of terrorism and large-scale migration from the Middle East, political and social reality is changed?

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