The Non-Aligned Movement and Cultural Politics in the Former Yugoslavia (original) (raw)
2016, Monuments Should Not Be Trusted, Nottingham Contemporary, UK (Catalogue)
The emancipatory potential of the non-aligned movement had its roots, from the perspective of the former Yugoslavia, in the people’s national liberation struggle, that is, the Partisan resistance movement of the Second World War, and later, from the 1950s onwards, in the special Yugoslav brand of socialism, called the self-management system. Some political philosophers speak of the so-called ‘politics of rupture’, the three historical sequences that enabled the beginning of a radical novum, something that was completely different from the established state politics in Yugoslavia of that time. Those three sequences were, as mentioned, the Partisan liberation struggle, self-management and the non-aligned movement.
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