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An Intellectual Affair – Meeting Hannah Arendt: An Interview with Richard Bernstein
No full textMatthias Bormuth
An Intellectual Affair – Meeting Hannah Arendt: An Interview with Richard Bernstei
Seeing Violence: Images and Critique
No full textThus, my main interest here is in what images of horror produce. What happens to reason when confronted with an image of something that surpasses the powers of explanation or rational reconciliation with the seen? Surmising that the frames of horror – which re-present violence in different ways – equally exercise a certain form of violence over us, I wonder in which part of us this violence takes place. But what if we want, as indeed many have, to use precisely these images as the means for a critique or, further, for the development of a strong ethico-political stance? Is it possible to be both numb and critical? What is critique, and what are our critical capacities, when sifted through violent images – images of violence and images exercising violence? What role do affects play in our being ‘seized’ and what – if anything – propels us to act against violence by being exposed to it
Painter and the Pledge of Silence
No full textThe essay discusses whether painting can be a socially engaged art. Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty gave a negative or at least skeptical answer. However, the essential fact that the images are silent does not prevent them from potentially obliging their viewers. The silence of the painter is not a negative act. Counter-examples that test the position of the generation of French phenomenologists will be sought in the Spanish and Yugoslav tradition of visual arts, primarily in the works of Francisco Goya and Đorđe Andrejević Kun
Retrospective Lessons and Generational Gaps: The Impact of Yugoslav Communist Émigrés in Interwar Czechoslovakia on the Postwar Yugoslav State
No full textThis article will examine the course of the factional struggle between Yugoslav communists that developed behind the frontlines of Spain in 1938 and investigate the involvement of foreign communists in their dispute. I will attempt to contextualize the struggles inside the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) within broader power dynamics of the Comintern during the Great Purge, in order to gain a better understanding of both the KPJ and the Comintern as a whole in this period. The main organizer of the Yugoslav volunteers for the cause of the Spanish Republic, the KPJ, found itself in one of the most turbulent periods of its history at this particular time. In August 1937, its general secretary was arrested in Moscow and charged with espionage. The news of the arrest soon reached the volunteers in Spain, and many of them became engulfed in the emergent factional conflict, while struggling to make sense of the situation based on fragmentary information from abroad
Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging
No full textThe study looks into the interrelationship between social identity and forcible displacement. It explores how the war and the experience of forcible displacement influenced internally displaced persons’ (IDP) identification processes or their sense of membership and belonging. One important characteristic of the subjects of this study is that they are re-settlers, meaning that they are former IDPs who did not wish to return to their pre-war places of residence after the war ended but willingly decided to settle down in their place of refuge; thus, the study’s interest also spreads to the question of what have been the reasons behind these group(s)’ decision to resettle. The study intended to challenge the assumption that IDPs’ resettlement decision in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be seen only through the prism of their ethnic identifications and ethnic loyalties. Also, it aimed to show that the shared ethnic identity between locals and newcomers in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not lessen the significance of perceived cultural differences between these two groups. In other words, the thesis intended to challenge the narratives of unconditional unity and cultural homogeneity within one particular ethnic group, which have often been stressed in the post-war rhetoric of the ethno-national political elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally, the study intended to explore the presumption that ethnically based groups and categories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although very much present and influential, are not quite as solid, stable and relevant in all aspects of social life as it has usually been stressed and given attention to. Thus, although ethnic identities are impossible to separate from the topics of war and forcible displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this thesis attempts to point out that people in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina possess a variety of different identities that, within particular social settings and under particular social circumstances, can matter more than their sense of ethnic belonging
National Assembly of the Republic Of Serbia: Temple or Façade of Democracy?
No full textSnažan, efikasan i uticajan parlament, kao izvor legitimnosti vlasti i osnovni element koji omogućava podelu i ravnotežu vlasti, predstavlja „čist blagoslov za demokratizacijuˮ. Upravo zbog toga, funkcionalan parlament od presudne je važnosti za uspostavljanje stabilne i konsolidovane demokratije, posebno u društvima još uvek mlade i manjkave demokratije kakva je u Srbiji. Kako bismo utvrdili kako parlament u Srbiji sprovodi zakonodavnu i kontrolnu funkciju u praksi, analizirali smo i meru i način na koji Narodna skupština koristi procedure, institute i mehanizme koje ima na raspolaganju. Dva osnovna izvora građe u ovom istraživanju su statistički podaci o radu Narodne skupštine i podaci prikupljeni kroz dubinske intervjue s narodnim poslanicima i s predstavnicima akademske i stručne zajednice, međunarodnih organizacija i civilnog društva, koji su nam pružili značajan uvid u percepciju o radu parlamenta i njegovim najznačajnijim mehanizmima, kao i pojašnjenja o načinima funkcionisanja parlamenta. Strukutura ovog izveštaja stoga je podeljena na dve celine. Nakon uvodnog dela, s kratkim pregledom pravno-institucionalnog okvira koji uređuje položaj i rad parlamenta u Srbiji, slede dva centralna poglavlja ovog rada. Fokus prvog poglavlja usmeren je na zakonodavnu funkciju, odnosno na način na koji se zakoni u Skupštini usvajaju. Posebna pažnja usmerena je na aktivnosti narodnih poslanika u plenumu, kao i sve češću praksu zloupotrebe pravila i procedura, kao i posledice po kvalitet legislativne aktivnosti parlamenta. Drugo poglavlje posvećeno je kontrolnoj funkciji parlamenta, odnosno analizi načina na koji Skupština (ne) koristi mehanizame koje ima na raspolaganju. Mehanizam javnih slušanja i rad parlamentarnih odbora obrađeni su u okviru ovog poglavlja, uz naznake značaja koji imaju i za delotvorno sprovođenje zakonodavne funkcije Narodne skupštine. Rad se završava zaključkom, s kratkim osvrtom na ključne nalaze i njihove efekte na funkcionisanje političkog sistema u Srbiji.A powerful, efficient and influential parliament, as the source of legitimacy of the authorities and the basic element that enables the division and balance of power, represents a "pure blessing for democratization". For this very reason, a functioning parliament is crucial for establishing a stable and consolidated democracy, especially in societies of still young and deficient democracies such as Serbia. In order to determine how the Parliament in Serbia performs its legislative and oversight functions in practice, we analyzed both the extent and the manner in which the National Assembly uses the procedures, institutes and mechanisms available. Two primary sources of material in this research are statistical data on the work of the National Assembly and the data collected through in-depth interviews with MPs and representatives of the academic and professional community, international organizations and civil society, who provided us with a significant insight into the perception of the work of the Parliament and its most important mechanisms, as well as clarifications on the ways in which the Parliament functions. The structure of this paper is therefore divided into two parts. After the introductory part containing a brief overview of the legal and institutional framework that regulates the position and work of the Parliament in Serbia, there are two central chapters of this paper. The focus of the first chapter is aimed at the legislative
function – the way laws are adopted in the Assembly. Special attention is paid to the activities of MPs in the plenum and to increasingly frequent practices of abuse of rules and procedures, as well as the consequences for the quality of legislative activities of the Parliament. The second chapter is devoted to the oversight function of the Parliament i.e. the analysis of the way in which the Assembly (does not) use
mechanisms at its disposal. The mechanism of public hearing and the work of parliamentary committees have been elaborated within this chapter with indications of their importance for the effective implementation of the legislative function of the National Assembly. The paper ends with a conclusion – a brief overview of the key findings and their effects on the functioning of the political system in Serbia