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The 13th International Law and Ethics Conference Series (ILECS) What does it mean to win a war? Belgrade, June 25-27, 2014.
No full textThe 13th ILECS conference will address the issue of victory in war. When is victory deserved and what is the status of the fact of deserving (or not deserving) a victory? What is the connection between the fact of deserving to win and the concept of defense? Can we have a victory without capitulation? Finally, is capitulation the last resort of defense? The normative pair of victory and defeat might be seen as a constitutive rule of the institution of war, hich opens the issue of the legitimacy of starting a war: is here a similar condition for a war to be started as there is for it to be ended? Has victory become obsolete, perhaps by some (disguised or overt) world control where everything can be determined in advance? For example, what does it mean to win in Iraq or Afghanistan, or “win the war on terror”? These enticing and provocative questions will be discussed at the 13th International Law and Ethics Conference in Belgrade by leading scholars from all over the world
Portraits and Memories of the Jewish Community in Serbia before the Holocaust: Facing the inscription of the Holocaust in the postmemory media representation contexts
No full textOne of the main problems of Holocaust research and representation is closely linked with the idea of original source. The original source is usually considered to be a visual or textual testimony and/or document of the actual historical event. However, we are always-already dealing with the multitude of complex (re)presentations mediated through the post-situation of a heavily layered knowledge and also with the segmented character of broken, suppressed debris of memories and traumas. Holocaust seems to inscript itself in the very core not only of the memory of that happening, but also in the memory of the whole period before, which was the primary aim of the project " The Portraits and Memories of the Jewish Community of Serbia Before the Holocaust ". Further approach to the problem reveals two parallel stories (one of the before-Holocaust past and one of the Holocaust past) that eventually become one – the one that becomes the actual source of knowledge of the Holocaust in the present, the source with which we are dealing with when we try to represent, interpret and speak about it. The implication of multimedia environment of the Internet and its mediation of such conflicted discourse is an interface through which we receive this complexity of knowledge. This paper deals with these many problems of the inscriptions and re-inscriptions of the knowledge of the Holocaust, as well as with the issue of opening the questions of the further construction and mediation of a Holocaust-related discourse
Media addiction and political pariticpation
No full textGrounded in above written theoretical frameworks, this exploratory study seeks to expand previous
research by addressing the main research hypothesis that increase in media addiction causes
decrease in political participation. Further research hypotheses are that the bigger media addicts
are people who have less confidence in future, who fear about present and future, who are not
interested in politics, who have lower political knowledge, and who have lower participation in
elections. In this research, these hypotheses are addressed by adequate research questions.
Main research question of this study concerns relation of media addiction and political participation.
Establishing this relation is goal of this study because of higher infiltration of media into people lives
and appearance of new media, use of the Internet on the go, and new technology. This study
examines possible dangers of new technology – media addiction and decline of political
participation. If people use extensively media, they might not have time for voting or participating in
activities of common interest.
The next questions examine significant relations of media addiction and elements of political
participation with main aim to determine if increases in media addiction cause decreases in political
participation. Political participation may be basic pillar of democracy and lack of interest toward
“common interest” participative activities may be dangerous for societies
Human Rights and Cultural Rights – An Anthropological Critique
No full textThe paper starts by examining some of the key conceptual problems related to the idea of human rights, as well as some key arguments raised in defence of human rights as universal and emacipatory modern project. This is followed by a discussion on cultural rights, sometimes understood as a correction of human rights’ universalism, at other times taken as their „logical extension“; it will be shown how human rights have gradually begun to be amalgamated with cultural and collective rights. The third section of the paper continues with an overview of anthropological critique of cultural (and collective) rights, with an emphasis on ethnographies critically examining the domination of the „rights talk“ in perceptions and self-perceptions of various local „cultural“ struggles. Finally, the issue of the universality of human rights is reexamined from the perspective of the particularity of citizens’ rights with the aim of questioning the validity of their conceptual demarcation. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 43007 i br. 41004]U pr vom de lu ra da iz lo ži ću ne ke od ključ nih kon cep tu al nih proble
ma ko ji se po sta vlja ju pred ide ju ljud skih pra va, kao i naj če šće iz la ga ne
ar gu men te ko ji ma se ljud ska pra va bra ne kao uni ver zal ni i eman ci pa tor ni
moderni proje kat. Na ovo će se nado ve za ti razmatranja o kulturnim pravima,
ko ja se po ne kad raz u me ju kao ko rek ci ja uni ver za li zma ljud skih pra va, a pone
kad kao nji ho va lo gič na eks ten zi ja; u tom smi slu, po ka zać u ka ko su ljud ska
pra va sve vi še po če la da se shva ta ju kao kul tur na i ko lek tiv na pra va. U tre ćem
delu ra da predstavi ću pregled antropološke kritike pre svega kulturnih prava,
a za tim i sta vo ve pro i za šle iz em pi rij skih is tra ži va nja ko ja kri tič ki pro pi tu ju
do mi na ci ju pa ra dig me pra va u raz u me va nju i sa mo ra zu me va nju raz li či tih
lokalnih „kulturnih“ bor bi. U za ključ ku ću se vratiti na pita nje univer zalnosti
ljud skih pra va (pa i kul tur nih pra va shva ćenih kao produže tak ljudskih prava)
iz per spek ti ve par ti ku lar no sti gra đan skih pra va, te pro pi ta ti svr sis hod nost
njiho vog konceptualnog raz dvajanja
On the Difference Between Duhem and Quine’s Theses
No full textIako između Dijema i Kvajna postoje brojne sličnosti, čini se da postoje jaki argumenti u prilog tvrđenju da ono što možemo izolovati kao Kvajnovu tezu, Dijem ne bi bio sklon da prihvati. Dijemova holistička teza zajednička je obojici autora: empirijska tvrđenja su međusobno povezana na način da ne možemo govoriti o opovrgavanju ili potvrđivanju izolovanih iskaza. Kako je, kao što ćemo u nastavku videti, Kvajnov holizam radikalniji, njegova teza postaje tvrđenje da uvek možemo zadržati neki pojedinačni iskaz tako što ćemo izvršiti izmene u drugim delovima sistema. Pokušaćemo da pokažemo, kako bismo Dijemu mogli s pravom da pripišemo samo prvo tvrđenje, da ove dve teze nisu identične i da nisu identične sa onim što se u literaturi naziva tezom subdeterminacije. Kao što ćemo videti u nastavku, ni jedna ni druga teza ne govore o mogućnosti empirijski ekvivalentnih teorija. One su pre svega holističke teze koje uz neke, dodatne, pretpostavke povlače tezu subdeterminacije
Postjugoslovenske autorke pišu Jugoslaviju: traganje za izgubljenom prošlošću i njegove književne posledice
No full textAnalizirajući prozu autorki iz Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine i Srbije, u ovom se tekstu pokušava objasniti kako je uopšte moguće pričati o postjugoslovenskoj književnosti, kao i šta bi takvu književnost suštinski obeležavalo. U tekstovima ovih postjugoslovenskih autorki traganje za prošlošću je jedan od ključnih književnih prosedea. Ta je prošlost jugoslovenska prošlost. Ipak, uprkos tome što fakta svedoče da Jugoslavija jest postojala, ona je postojala u prošlosti, dakle, više ne postoji. Ambivalentnost istovremenog fikcionalnog i stvarnog postojanja Jugoslavije uspostavlja podudarnost između statusa literature (čiji je odnos prema stvarnom i fikcionalnom takođe konstitutivan) i statusa prošlosti. Ova se podudarnost dalje razvija kroz svoje melanholičke aspekte, da bi se na kraju melanholičnost prošlosti literarizovala i oblikovala kao instanca književnog teksta. Kroz ironijske, autofikcijske i metafikcijske strategije konstituiše se jedan od hronotopa postjugoslovenske književnosti – Jugoslavija kao prošlost
Предизборне коалиције: Идеологија или интерес?
No full textРад се бави логиком предизборних коалиција на парламентарним изборима у Србији, марта 2014. године. Од 19 листи на гласачком листићу, чак 12 су чиниле формалне коалиције или листе на којима се налазе кандидати две или више политичких партија. Готово све партије из одлазећег састава парламента (осим три мањинске), на изборе су ишле у неком виду коалиције. У том смислу, занимљиво је истражити логику коалиционог удруживања. Да ли коалиције произилазе из идеолошких блискости политичких партија или из интересне рачунице за прелажење изборног цензуса и освајање више мандата? Да бисмо то утврдили, класификовали смо појединачне партије на идеолошкој оси, а затим испитали да ли су оне идеолошки компатибилне, тј. да ли су коалиције између њих „принципијелне“. Класификација политичких странака је извршена методом експертског скора, односно анкетирањем релевантних експерата из области политичких наука. На основу добијених резултата анкете и поменутог теста идеолошке компатибилности, испитали смо све коалиције које су се кандидовале на парламентарним изборима и донели закључке о природи предизборног коалирања у Србији
