Scientific Policies and Research Entities in Historical Self-Reflection: Institute of Ethnography SASA Cover Image

Научне политике и истраживачки ентитети у историјској ауторефлексији: Eтнографски институт САНУ
Scientific Policies and Research Entities in Historical Self-Reflection: Institute of Ethnography SASA

Author(s): Miroslava Lukić-Krstanović
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, State/Government and Education, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: scientific policies; research entities; history; collectivities; individualism;

Summary/Abstract: Analyzing a scientific institution and its protagonists in diachronic perspective also entails different levels of (self)assessment – retrospection, introspection, and extrospection, which also points out to turmoils, stratification, and contradictions of scientific temporal strategies. In this paper I am interpreting processes of the establishment of normative strategies, institutional politics, construction of collectivities, and individual aspirations at the Institute of Ethnography SASA from 1947 until present. Historical self-reflection encompasses five options through which scientific subjectivities and objectivities were formed and confronted: 1. Routinization of meaningful systems and sliding individual inventiveness; 2. Efficiency of the institutional order and distinctiveness in reaching scientific goals; 3. Determined order and individual agility in the zone of enterprising and skillful activism; 4. Consistency of scientific order and constant dynamics in the zones of public visibility; 5. Verifiability in accordance with institutional standards and coordinated work at the collegial level.

  • Issue Year: LXVI/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-32
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian