Ispitivanje mogućnosti univerzalističkog oblika uključivanja s one strane evropskog kulturnog hegemonizma
Examining the Possibility of a Universalist Form of Inclusion beyond European Cultural Hegemonism

Summary/Abstract: The critique of universalism as a form of domination and subjugation of the variety of possible subject positions (identity configurations) that has been central to the contemporary cultural theory represents a form of methodological and ideological self-normalization. I will argue that the cancelling of the possibility of rethinking universalism in some radically novel way produces the perpetual instance of auto-cancelling of the possibility for radical innovativness of the cultural-political theory and activism today. I am speaking in particular of those forms of theory and activism which deal more closely with the issues of integration of the cultural/ethnic, gendered, sexual and migrant minorities in the dominant society forms in Europe. We shall tackle the question of European cultural hegemony, its production of (Balkan) Otherness and the possibility of political universalism within Europe which would be beyond the logic of Euro-centrism or any other form of centrism.

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