Naslov
Position of culture in the politics of non-alignment and the requests for 'common cultural action'

Autori
Kolešnik, Ljiljana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni

Skup
Non-alignment on the move

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 28.06.2022. - 29.06.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Socialist Yugoslavia, non-alignment, cultural collaboration, Africa, cultural and racial emancipation

Sažetak
Within the scholarly discourse on non-alignment in Yugoslavia – focused on the viability of its political objectives, problems, and prospects – culture took a more prominent position only at the beginning of the 1980s. Echoing its inclusion among developmental resources in the framework of the Second UN Development Decade, and responding to the call for “common cultural action” and more intense cultural collaboration within NAM, most of the studies belonging to the scope of that discourse were focused on the importance of the correlation between culture and technology for overall societal development, and on “cultural foundations of non-alignment”. The latter formulation is the furthest instance Yugoslav scholars wanted to go in the discussions on the “non-aligned culture”, imagined as a unique and specific entity with the capacity of bringing together a diversity of cultures integral to NAM’s geo-political space. The very idea of “non-aligned culture” raises the question of culture’s integrative power, position, and relation to fundamentals of the politics of non-alignment, examined using documents and declarations issued after NAM summits – from the first Belgrade conference in 1961 to the second one, held in 1989. We shall also examine contact zones, and shifting trajectories of NAM’s political and cultural geographies, defined by both important political meetings, and series of transnational, and regional cultural events, as they are recorded and described in available archival documents and studies of that period. Taking Yugoslav policies and practices of cultural exchange as a case study, we shall also discuss certain controversies in approach to and understanding of cultural interactions with the “non-aligned World”, raising the question of their epistemic consequences.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Povijest umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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