Децентрирање света после колонијализма: стратегије супротстављања од краха цивилизаторске мисије до успона новог оријентализма
Decentering the World After Colonialism: Strategies of Resistance from the Twilight of Civilising Mission to the Ascent of New Orientalism

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the contribution of postcolonial studies to the resistance to Western hegemony, decentralization of the world colonized by Eurocentric ideas and subjectivization of non- Western communities. The emphasis is on Postcolonialism as fiercely disputed platform, a kind of „theoretical location“ of resistance, and the ways in which it contributed to demystification and challenged the Western privilege in the neocolonial world. Considerable attention has been paid to poststructuralism and ambivalent attitude towards marxism, including the reasons why Marxists have been trying to discredit and even „bury“ postcolonial studies as an enemy and an accomplice of the capitalist domination. It is pointed out why the postcolonial insights should be seen as complementary to the marxist’s ones, which have usually been made with disregard for key cultural factors. To illustrate the size of the challenge today, the paper gives a brief overview of the ways in which Orientalist binaries have been being relegitimized and Western interventions framed as rescue missions. The author points out that colonialism should also be viewed as „colonialism of the mind“ and that the struggle against neocolonialism is always „internal“ in non- Western societies, requiring a permanent confrontation with autocolonial actors. Special attention is paid to the dilemmas and disputes regarding essentialism, a shadow that hangs over postcolonial insights and their applicability in the meaningful politics of subjectivization and resistance. Further on, in the context of the enduring financial crisis and the „Global War on Terror“ the main challenges to already established and institutionalized postcolonial critique have been reviewed. In the final part of the paper, the author stresses the contribution of postcolonial studies to the understanding of various consequence of liminal position of the Balkans and points to their importance for fledgling resistance to the neocolonial interventions in the region.

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