Ponovna procjena „diskursa socijalnog kapitala“ iz bosanskohercegovačke geoepistemološke perspektive
REASSESSMENT OF “SOCIAL CAPITAL DISCOURSE” FROM BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN GEO-EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with possibility of reassessment of social capital discourse in regional context. The assessment has made after huge historical discontinuities, following international / legal, global 'events' - after genocidal violence and a joint criminal project, applied in the epistemic body of European late modernity and globalization. In social sciences in the West, social capital is represented as a multifunctional 'alchemical resource', 'magical measure' and 'magic remedy' for all social diseases. In the Bosnian-Herzegovinian environment, which is shaped and constructed by the ethno nationalist and partners formations of the peripheral crony capitalism, social capital primarily functions in its negative, dark version of the Discourse of Social Capital can turn into its opposite, thus become a discursive caricature of an anomalous network of formalized and schematized conceptual expressions, rhetorical phrases and ideologem that mask the democratic possibilities of using alternative vocabulary and emancipatory scientific practices.Neglecting the analysis of the 'dark sides of social capital' in the hegemonic ethno political order comes to its full expression through the processes of self-deceiving 'leadership' production and reproduction of partner’s knowledge about politics and knowledge. Such production disables the self-understanding of the community as a 'state cause', with what prevents the autonomous organization of social cohesion and solidarity. By scientometric normalization of discursive anomalies, contained in the dominant concept of social capital, it strives to avoid alternative attempts to analyse the institutional conditions of the possibilities that are necessary for the activation of its dark sides.Robert Putnam wrote about dark sides of social capital in the 22nd chapter of his own book, Bowling Alone, which became socially unbearable in the constellations of institutional normalization of ethno-corruption and 'fundamentalism of debility' (Svetislav Basara). The conclusion is that cross-border and trans-state alliances between political parties, which want to present and legitimize their identity by obscure “sign“ and anomalous party declarations of “vulnerability“ and „threat“ instead of rational communication signs - require decisive „geo-epistemology cuts“ in the core of tissue of politics and political, as well as the essential epistemic change in the ways of articulation and perception of the desirable forms of our common sociality.

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