CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Mladenovic, Andrija |
|---|---|
| Title | The Unwanted Intellectual Elite: What Is Other Serbia? |
| Summary | Twenty-five years after the emergence of the Other Serbia, this intellectual circle still remains an unexplored topic. It is often used as a mean for political disqualification, due to the fact that their ideas were never analyzed with structural and historical determinants taken into consideration. In order to do this, and provide an answer to the broad question, what Other Serbia is, this research used interpretivist approach with special emphasis on close-reading and historical method. The historical and structural determinants were subsumed into four ‘critical junctures’, Belgrade’s student rebellion in 1968, the 1974 Constitution, the 1986 Memorandum and the war as a direct trigger for the emergence of this intellectual circle. The main ideas identified are the anti-war platform (normative and analytical part), the struggle against collectivism and the struggle for modernization. They chose particular ideas, radically different in every sense from those embraced by the dominant nationalist intellectuals. This happened due to the public isolation they were subjected to, the context of war, and the fact that they represented intellectual counter-elite that sought to delegitimize the dominant intellectual elite, their position, as well as the factual foundation they were building it upon. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic Nenad; Trencsenyi Balazs |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/mladenovic_andrija.pdf |
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