Globalizacijska modernizacija i tradicionalni identitet lokalnih zajednica na Balkanu
Globalizing Modernization And Traditional Identity In The Local Communities In The Balkans

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of the “violation” of the traditional identity in local communities, resulting from the more and more accelerated processes of globalization. In this sense, the problem of globalizing modernization is seen as a particular form of modernization. This form of modernization is open for local influences, unlike the classical (national) process of modernization, which involves a kind of contempt for the identity of local communities. Intranational modernization has largely contributed to the “devastation” of the natural resources in local communities and to the impoverishment of their sociocultural capital. The globalizing modernization of local communities is expressed by the term “glocalization”, which was “introduced” into a broader scientific and political use by R. Robertson inorder to indicate that globalization is not a “bogey” that circles the world aiming to dispense with the (tradition) accumulated heritage, but that it respects heritage as an important factor in the global development. The author of the paper recognizes the processes of glocalization as an adequate framework for understanding the development opportunities for the local communities in the Balkans, which could accelerate a more substantial inclusion of the Balkan societies into the more highly developed part of Europe.

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