NON-RECOGNITION OF DIFFERENCES IN CULTURAL FORMS: CULTURAL EXCLUSION, ETHNOPHAULISM AND GENOCIDE Cover Image

Nepriznavanje razlike u kulturnoj formi: kulturna isključivost, etnofaulizam i genocid
NON-RECOGNITION OF DIFFERENCES IN CULTURAL FORMS: CULTURAL EXCLUSION, ETHNOPHAULISM AND GENOCIDE

Author(s): Senadin Lavić
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: difference; cultural form; cultural diversity; ethnophaulism; exclusiveness; persecution; non-recognition; other

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the question of non-recognition of cultural diversity which is a part of the historical diversity of cultural forms in wide life’s context. The natural diversity of species and cultural plurality of human forms, represent content in which we recognize the ambiguous significance of human existence. Hegemonic discourses reduce otherness to an insignificant or ideologized line by which the content cannot be detected and seen by holistic view, that deny all such reductionism in historiography, political science, ethnology and other social sciences. Our interpretations tend to deny all suspicious images, planted constructs and controversial points around which we have dilemma in interpretive activities as rational beings. In this connection, it turns out that the name of a being, a history of a being, constructed narration about an event or set knowledge of a problem do not correspond to the reality, or established facts that give new insights. Our task is critical-“heretical”, in a sense that we do not agree to a given hegemonic canon of truth, and criticalrational, because we boldly destroy the canonical interpretation of reality that we can show that they are hegemonic ones, ideological and false in a new cultural and historical context. For a long time we recognize anti-civilization, hegemonic and destructive matrix of “culture” that is directed against Bosnia’s being at all levels...

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 173-183
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian
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