Basic Analytical Assumptions of Empowering the Periphery: The Telling Experiences of South Africa and Republic of Serbia
Basic Analytical Assumptions of Empowering the Periphery: The Telling Experiences of South Africa and Republic of Serbia
Author(s): Radmila Nakarada, Jelena VidojevićSubject(s): Government/Political systems, Developing nations, Comparative politics
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu & Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: periphery; transition; South Africa; Republic of Serbia; assumptions of empowerment; history; global capitalism; the New South;
Summary/Abstract: Against the background of the global crises and the urgency it created, the authors attempt to problematise the pathways to empowering the peripheries of the world – the victimised, excluded, humiliated and entangled. As assumptions relevant for the empowerment of the peripheries they discuss: the need to re-read one’s own history; “accurate reconnaissance” of the current local circumstances; understanding the “workings of the global neoliberal capitalism”; focusing on integrating, making use of new scientific insights, reinvigorating fundamental values and generating internal actors of change; establishing new transformative alliances of the peripheries. The assumptions are contextualized in relation to the process of transition taking place in post-apartheid South Africa and post-socialist Serbia.
Journal: Političke perspektive
- Issue Year: 13/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 33-56
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English