Teritorijalnost i neteritorijalnost autonomije: dileme s one strane kulturalizma
TERRITORIALITY AND NONTERRITORIALITY OF AUTONOMY: DILEMMAS BEYOND CULTURALISM

Author(s): Alpar Lošonc
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Cultural Essay, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: autonomy; national minorities; culture
Summary/Abstract: Тhe paper consists of three parts. Its intention is to rethink the terms of the debate on territoriality and non-territoriality related to the minority-based autonomy. In the first part, we start from the legal regulation of national councils in Serbia and register the special status of culture in the legal text. We point to the fact that this is a multifaceted term that makes it difficult to translate it into legal discourse, which allows for conflicting political interpretations of the same term. At the same time, we conclude that a solution has been accepted in Serbia that equates non-territoriality with culture. There are arguments for this orientation, but we must be aware that the notion of culture is exposed to waves of global dynamcics. In the second part, taking into account global metaframeworks, we try to rethink the arguments for and against territorial and non-territorial solutions, emphasizing that many debates are reductive due to the narrow interpretation of culture. We pay attention to the fact that the meanings of territoriality and non-territoriality are changing, which motivates us to think in relation to the situation in Serbia. Starting from the fact that no solution is perfect, we intend to fix the conditions of the discussion with a complex coverage of appropriate dilemmas and to rethink the condition of a critical analysis of the situation in Serbia. In the third part, we criticize the narrow understanding of culture that ends in culturalism. We point out that economic/ political dynamics are always inscribed in cultural relations. Starting from the exceptional importance of the market for globalization trends, we express the opinion that today’s multiculturalism is destined to oscillate between the original social-liberal and neoliberal variants, which brings the notion of culture into new contexts.

• Details
• Contents