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Angažovana književnost
No full textA nga žova na knji žev nost
(fr. literature engagé, eng. engaged litetarure, it. literatura impegnata, šp. literatura
de compromiso) – a. književnost podrazumeva aktivan odnos pisca prema društvenoj i političkoj stvarnosti, kao i sklonost
da se ona promeni putem literarnog delanja (angažmana, v. društveni angažman,
društvo). .
Election boycott in a hybrid regime: The case of 2020 parliamentary elections in Serbia
No full textThe 2020 elections in Serbia were held on 21 st of June, as the first elections in Europe since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic. The pre-electoral period was marked by the announcement of boycott from opposition, followed by a number of attempts of ruling party to mitigate the potential negative effects. The decision of opposition to restrain from participation came as a response to the long-term accusations of heavily biased electoral and media conditions, which culminated in EU-mediated (but largely unsuccessful) roundtable talks in 2019. On a larger scale, the administration headed by the President Aleksandar Vučić is becoming increasingly authoritarian, with several indices now classifying Serbia as a hybrid regime. As expected, the elections brought a convincing victory to Vučić's Serbian Progressive Party, which won 188 out of 250 seats. Despite the overwhelming triumph, government was formed more than four months later. This paper is contributing to the literature on actors' strategies in hybrid regimes. Although only short-term effects of the boycott could be assessed, the 2020 elections in Serbia demonstrate that legitimacy of the regime cannot be endangered if the opposition is not supported by international actors, and moreover, that the election results have only strengthened the regime
Liberating Education: What From, What For?
No full textEducation may lead to emancipation, but it may also be precisely
what one should emancipate oneself from. Even though we are the
inheritors of the emancipatory potential of the Enlightenment, never
before have these been under such rigorous critical scrutiny as from
various intellectual traditions of the second half of the 20th century,
such as postcolonial and decolonial studies, post-structuralist thought,
feminist critique, posthumanism, etc. But precisely because the classic
educational emancipatory ideal appears both outdated and still current,
there is a great need for rethinking the idea of emancipation, along
with the role and the aim of education
Educational Technology: From Educational Anarchism to Educational Totalitarianism
No full textIn the paper, the authors explore the relations between educational technology and educational ideology through the lens of philosophical inquiry. The optics of critical analysis is applied to review the instructional tools, services and systems which compose the complex picture of contemporary educational technology. The authors claim that even when initially established in the ideological domain of educational anarchism most educational technologies when being applied systemically can end up on the more oppressive side of the ideological spectrum close to educational totalitarianism. They focus on the risks of technology that are growing with the social change brought by the lifelong learning paradigm in education
An Interpretation of the Educational Process from the Perspective of Kant’s Philosophy of History and Legal-Political Theory
No full textAlthough he considered education to be one of the greatest challenges facing the individual and the human race in general, Kant (Immanuel Kant) left behind relatively little written testimony on the subject, which is why his works on education are best interpreted if placed in the broader context of his philosophy. Kant's understanding of education is most often interpreted from the perspective of his ethics, where the importance of the moral development and cultivation of each individual is particularly emphasized. The topic of this article, however, will be somewhat different. Instead of the usual analysis of one's duties to oneself and emphasizing the importance of developing one's own talents for the purpose of personal growth and education, attention will be paid to examining the phenomenon of education from the perspective of Kant's philosophy of history and legal-political theory. We will see that this perspective is very important, because it shows us that the goals of education coincide to a large extent with the goals of the historical-political process. Also, educational and historical-political processes take place in parallel and influence each other. That is why in this paper we will examine their mutual relationship. We will argue that without progress in one field, there is no progress in another: the full development of educational potentials is impossible to achieve in an underdeveloped society
Urban rivers in Belgrade, Serbia. Radical transformations and illegal urban practices in a post-socialist capital
No full textThe present paper focuses on the area of the Serbian capital marked off by two transnational
rivers, the Sava and the Danube and by their confluence, which determined the birth and
development of Belgrade. This area, target of radical and illegal urban transformations in the last
decade, is analysed focusing on local activist groups’ engagements and their reactions to these
dynamics. The case explored is a specific place in Belgrade: river Sava and the banks in the
vicinity of the confluence. This is a perfect example of landscape intended as a multi-layered
concept that connects natural resources, human-made elements and most important – the
people and their movements, actions, narration, emotions and relations. The paper describes
how this place has been transformed through time, in cultural, ecological and physical sense, and
it will mostly analyse the social consequences that the mentioned transformations have left on
local citizens and on the way they are reacting to that, gathered in the neighbourly, activist
groups
Views on direct democracy and self-government from the perspective of Praxis journal
No full textU radu se analiziraju tekstovi jugoslovenskih autora časopisa Praxis tokom jedanaestogodišnje produkcije i daje se prikaz različitih pogleda na direktnu (delegatsku, participativnu) demokratiju i radničko, odnosno društveno, samoupravljanje. Na osnovu različitih razumevanja normativnih modela direktne demokratije i samoupravljanja identifikuju se četiri glavne linije kritike koje se mogu okarakterisati kao: 1) etatizam, 2) nedovoljna demokratizacija, 3) neintegralnost samoupravljanja i 4) tržišna orijentacija. Kritike se, s jedne strane, međusobno dopunjuju, dok su s druge strane postavljene jedne nasuprot drugih.The paper analyzestexts ofYugoslav authors to Praxis journal duringthe eleven years of production. It offers an overviewof different views on direct (delegate, participatory) democracy and workers', or social, self-government. Based on different understandings of normative models of direct democracy and self-government, we identified four main lines of criticism that can be characterized as 1) statism, 2) insufficient democratization, 3) non-integrality of self-government and 4) market orientation. On the one hand, these criticisms complement each other, while on the other hand, they are set against each other