Antropologija postsocijalizma
Anthropology of Postsocialism
Contributor(s): Vladimir Ribić (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Special Historiographies:, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Srpski genealoški centar
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-86-83679-47-8
- Page Count: 306
- Publication Year: 2007
- Language: English, Serbian
O ekonomskoj tranziciji iz makroistorijske perspektive
O ekonomskoj tranziciji iz makroistorijske perspektive
(ON ECONOMIC TRANSITION FROM A MACRO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE)
- Author(s):Vladimir Ribić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):National Economy, Economic development, Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:6-22
- No. of Pages:17
- Summary/Abstract:While at the macro-historical level we strive to elucidate large scale structures and processes in societies and their successive forms, on a micro-historical level attempts are made to distinguish individual and group contacts with these structures and processes so as to grasp how the public essentially perceived them. From its very beginnings, capitalist economy has been the grounds of interchange between two dominant trends: the strengthening of state intervention and the strive towards liberalisation. Such alterations in the field of economics are in correlation with the substitution of the modes of imperial hegemony.
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Problem interpretacije tranzicije iz "nerealnog socijalizma"
Problem interpretacije tranzicije iz "nerealnog socijalizma"
(THE PROBLEM OF INTERPRETING TRANSITION FROM AN "UNREAL SOCIALISM")
- Author(s):Ines Prica
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:24-50
- No. of Pages:27
- Summary/Abstract:The goal of the paper is to denote the fundamental questions and problems of the (anthropological) interpretation of post socialism, commencing from its initial moment, that is, the identification of the event that indicates the establishment of transition as a social, political and cultural process. After assessing the circumstances of interpreting transition as a change of a global nature, particular consideration will be focused upon the local: how, principally in the Croatian social and humanist sciences, the question of "shift" is being reproduced considering the idiosyncrasies of the Yugoslav socialism.
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Ljudi (koji nisu sasvim) kao mi. Kulturna konceptualizacija pojma privatnik u Srbiji
Ljudi (koji nisu sasvim) kao mi. Kulturna konceptualizacija pojma privatnik u Srbiji
(PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT (ENTIRELY) LIKE US. CULTURAL NOTIONS OF THE TERM ENTREPRENEUR IN SERBIA)
- Author(s):Bojan Žikić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:52-74
- No. of Pages:23
- Summary/Abstract:Unlike other transitional milieus, countries of the former Yugoslavia have had contact with privately owned business in their pre transitional period, i.e. in the era that preceded their economic, social and cultural transformation into capitalism. Private entrepreneurs in Serbia have always had a unique status from a legal, social, and culturally cognitive position. In the essay, preconditions and motives, through a cultural conceptualization viewpoint, are discussed.
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Dimenzije ekonomije: prilog promišljanju privatizacije kao socio-kulturne transformacije
Dimenzije ekonomije: prilog promišljanju privatizacije kao socio-kulturne transformacije
(DIMENSIONS OF ECONOMY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE REFLECTION OF PRIVATIZATION AS SOCIO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION)
- Author(s):Ildiko Erdei
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:76-127
- No. of Pages:62
- Keywords:transition from communism to capitalism;privatisation;antropology;
- Summary/Abstract:The process of privatization, in other words the transformation of the former state owned, into private property, represents an element of the "transitional package" that brings about expectations of procurement for the ex-socialist societies into a state of "new economic normality" that is, in today’s societies and economy, represented by liberal capitalism. In the examination and analysis of the privatization through the economic, governing and expert milieus, this process is frequently situated in the context of economic and political study. In doing that, the investigation of the social and cultural implications of the process that stems from privatization representing not only a modification of the ownership structure, but a complex process in which there is an encounter of the different business and organizational cultures of "east" and " west", and through which they are subject to a reexamination and revision of some of the basic cultural categories, such as time, the idea of a person, concept of production, labor, as well as the questions of responsibility, freedom, creativity, independence, is recurrently being disregarded. From such a perspective, that is pursued by many anthropologists who deal with post-socialist countries, it comes about that privatization will foster, not only, a novel mode of ownership and a new breed of business, but primarily, a new category of social individuals, that are expected to epitomize the new economic and social order, in which they are successfully integrated, so as to reproduce it. In other words, the "disciplining" of the manufacturers, is intrinsically linked to the transformation of the logic of economy that is based upon the"independent consumer" that twists privatization into an ambiance in which questions of responsibility, choice, freedom and coercion, are discussed and negotiated. In this paper such queries will be inspected through a privatization of a local brewery in 2003, by a known, but not a leading world beer and beverage producer.
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Bizarre Academism and Science in Slovenia: Elements for Anthropological Study of Postsocialism and Transition
Bizarre Academism and Science in Slovenia: Elements for Anthropological Study of Postsocialism and Transition
(BIZARRE ACADEMISM AND SCIENCE IN SLOVENIA: ELEMENTS FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF)
- Author(s):Vlado Kotnik
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Higher Education , Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:128-171
- No. of Pages:44
- Keywords:anthropology; postsocialism; transition; academism; Slovenia
- Summary/Abstract:This article addresses some of the aspects the academic sphere, science and intellectual culture under postsocialism offer for the understanding of transition issues in contemporary Slovenia. It starts with the surprise that has been caused by the bizarre commodification and domestication of anthropology in Slovenia, particularly at Slovenian universities, after 1990s, and tries to reflect social reception, institutional organization and academic status of anthropology in this country. Furthermore, through a specific case study of a violent debate which recently took place in Slovenia concerning the reasons for the absence of Slovenian universities on the notorious list of top 500 world universities, it tries to illustrate the essence of how academic spheres in transitional societies function. The conclusion presents some elements of social hypocrisy and discrepancy. It reveals certain facts that have taken place within the last few years, and thus helps us understand the contribution of the Slovenian state administration for science to the process of systematic transformation of this autonomous social domain of highly intellectual work into a turbo-neoliberal enterprise of wageworkers, academic lumpenproletarians, anti-intellectual jobbers, profiteers and money-spinners.
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Ethnography of "socially marginalized groups". Mapping and community based research study on most at-risk adolescents to hiv/aids/stis in macedonia. Methodological issues
Ethnography of "socially marginalized groups". Mapping and community based research study on most at-risk adolescents to hiv/aids/stis in macedonia. Methodological issues
(ETNOGRAPHY OF "SOCIALLY MARGINALIZED GROUPS". MAPPING AND COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH STUDY ON MOST AT-RISK ADOLESCENT TO HIV/AIDS/STIS IN MACEDONIA - METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES)
- Author(s):Ljupčo Risteski
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Methodology and research technology, Health and medicine and law
- Page Range:172-198
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:HIV; research; Macedonia; Most At-RiskAdolescent
- Summary/Abstract:The main target group in the research are the most at-risk adolescents (MARA) to HIV/AIDS and STIs in Macedonia at the age of 13 to 18. Having in mind the specifics of the target group which belongs in the so-called hard-to-reach target groups, in our case due to the social and cultural context that the research took place in R.. Macedonia one can say extremely hard-to-reach target groups, especially when it is about some specific target groups and for the smaller places in Macedonia, it was necessary to involve more adult members of the target groups at the age from 19 to 22.
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Od Morlaka do postsocijalizma. Tranzicija kao element mimikrijskog diskursa
Od Morlaka do postsocijalizma. Tranzicija kao element mimikrijskog diskursa
(FROM MORLOKS TO POST SOCIALISM)
- Author(s):Tomislav Pletenac
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:200-215
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:postsocialism; transition;anthropology;ethnography;
- Summary/Abstract:The acknowledgement of post socialism as a specific culture that rose upon the remnants of the political and social system of Eastern Europe and Asia, was until the 90's, a marker of Western anthropological theory, as well as its ethnographic terrain. The proliferation of such a anthropological paradigm was frequently executed undermining the local practices. They were perceived as uninformed or nationalistic, and in the case of the Balkans, even indirectly responsible for the war and ethnic cleansing. Such denial of the local discourse, on the other hand has unlocked a contradiction through which it is perceived that the socijalist matrix was responsible for nationalism, even dough it was based upon class, and not a national identity. But such a paradox is a product of a more fundamental anthropological embeddedness in the Enlightenment etiquette that was built into the foundations of anthropology. Negation of the practices of others, and the introduction of "rational, better, more informed and advanced", is a precondition for the formation of the other in anthropology. Even if it seems that in the anthropology of post socialism we perceive a reinvention of such Enlightenment/colonial discourse, it can be exposed through the examples of the Dalmacija depiction by Albert Fortiss and Ivan Lovric that such development commenced long before, almost at the dawn of anthropology in Eastern Europe.
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Antropologija raspada Jugoslavije: o etničkom nacionalizmu
Antropologija raspada Jugoslavije: o etničkom nacionalizmu
(THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE YUGOSLAV DISINTEGRATION: ETHNIC NATIONALISM)
- Author(s):Vladimir Ribić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Nationalism Studies, Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:216-243
- No. of Pages:28
- Keywords:ethnic nationalism;denationalization;political particularism; political integralism
- Summary/Abstract:At the root of the civil war and the disintegration of Yugoslavia lies a clash of different ethnic nationalisms that considerably influenced the content of many anthropological debates dedicated to social phenomena which appeared in the context of the disappearance of the multinational state of the South Slavic peoples. Heuristically, the most productive method for an anthropological assessment of nationalisms is based upon an interpretation of the nationalistic idiom in the context of the structural preconditions on the national and global scene. In the Yugoslavia, a process of state decentralization that lasted several decades, as well as the culmination of the denationalization processes on a global scale, have preconditioned the advantage of the particularistic nationalisms of nonSerbian peoples, confronted by the integrated Serb nationalism.
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Recepcija novog državnog praznika u tranziciji: primer Sretenja
Recepcija novog državnog praznika u tranziciji: primer Sretenja
(THE RECEPTION OF HOLIDAY IN TRANSITION: "SRETENJE" EXAMPLE)
- Author(s):Senka Kovač
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
- Page Range:244-257
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:holiday;reception;transition;
- Summary/Abstract:In the paper, the result of field inquiry concerning the reception of "Sretenje"-Serbias national day holiday, in times of transition, are presented. Through a five year research of this public holiday, communication channels, form and contents of the community messages were being analyzed. From 2004-2005 the research was focused upon the recipients of these messages, towards a communication collective, i.e. the public. The study was performed in Belgrade, Krusevac and Vrnjacka Banja. I examined the reception of a holiday in transitional times, as well as the fulfillment of the prime objective of the messages.
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Tranziciona budućnost: politička upotreba proročanstava u Srbiji devedesetih
Tranziciona budućnost: politička upotreba proročanstava u Srbiji devedesetih
(TRANSITIONAL FUTURE: THE POLITICAL USAGE OF PROPHECIES IN THE 90'S SERBIA)
- Author(s):Lidija Radulović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Media studies, Politics and communication, Politics and religion, Post-Communist Transformation
- Page Range:258-279
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:politics;religion;media analysis;prophecy;
- Summary/Abstract:Media propaganda utilizes and revitalizes myths for their ability to generate nationalism. Prophesies or statements by psychics in the media, instigate and participate in the construction and reconstruction of mythologies of the Serbs in a new historical position. In this paper on the basis of discourse analysis of media propaganda, its usage in the social and political context of the nineties, is emphasized. In the prophecies, rhetoric mythical motives are being utilized: myth of the martyr and the destiny of the Serbian people as victims of a curse; the distinctions of the nation in regards of the supernatural and Para psychological motives; myth of the "golden age" that is mostly associated with the rule of Milosevic, widely considered to be the capable of leading the Serbs back to their past glory. The prophecies legitimize the existing relations of government and political dominance, construct new, or reinterpret old myths, ascribing to them new political functions that represent an element of the vital, national "mythologies of survival and identity". The usual methods of propaganda in the prophetic messages of psychics are being analyzed, and their instrumentalisation for the propagation of a model of thought magic, that is dogma free, but which relies on the psychology and the fear, are pointed out.
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Ljubav u doba tranzicije
Ljubav u doba tranzicije
(LOVE IN TIMES OF TRANSITION)
- Author(s):Jana Baćević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Culture and social structure , Social Norms / Social Control
- Page Range:280-303
- No. of Pages:24
- Keywords:romantic relationships;romantic love;transition; anthony giddens;pure relationship;
- Summary/Abstract:In the social and humanist disciplines at the end of the XX and the beginning of XXI century, several influential theories, relating to the transformation of contemporary personal relations, emerged. In the later, romantic liaisons occupy an important position, bearing in mind that in the historical analysis they were mostly interpreted as a Western idiosyncrasy. English sociologist Anthony Giddens in his study; "Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies"(1992), presented a theory of a fundamental transformation of personal relations in the context of, what he describes as Second modernity. According to Giddens, contemporary personal relations are frequently shaped as pure relationships, in which partners are equals and are tied together exclusively through time, contextualized mutual interests. To that effect, pure relationships signify a shift from the type of associations that were dominant during the pre modern and the better half of the modern era, which in fact, represented a function of social embeddedness of its participants, and the empowerment of their social networks ("traditional" arranged marriages, are one of the principal examples). Perceiving the same relationships as a result of the social transformation interconnected with the passing of modernity, Giddens and other authors (Beck 1992, Beck in Beck-Gernsheim 1995) ascribe to them properties such as openness, reciprocity, but also ephemeralness and incertitude. In this paper, I closely examine the concepts of these authors, proceeding with an elaboration of how, and if, they are applicable on the empirical material collected in Serbia, a society that cannot, unambiguously, be described as belonging to the Second modernity. Relaying on my study of the cognitive construction process of romantic relationships relating to a segment of the Belgrade populous, I reflect on how it can be ascertained that the transition and the general social transformation, are reflected on this cultural domain.
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