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PROJECTS
EUROPE
RESEARCH ON POST-SOCIALISM
(1)
Jelena Tošic
| Global Rights and Local Contexts: The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
(2)
Andrea Strasser-Camagni
| Global Rights and Local Contexts: Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
(3)
Johanna Riegler
| The Transformation of Labor: An East-West Comparison.
GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION, NATIONALISM
AND IDENTITY RESEARCH IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
(4)
Susanne
Binder | Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques.
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, GENDER
AND SOCIETY
(5)
Eva-Maria
Knoll | Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
METHODOLOGICAL CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE
(6)
Susanne
Binder and Gebhard Fartacek | Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl.
JELENA TOŠIC | GLOBAL RIGHTS AND
LOCAL CONTEXTS
The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
Following the collapse of the socialist-communist system and the breakup of the nationalist-authoritarian régime of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia and Montenegro experienced a social and economic transformation that proceeded towards a western market-oriented democracy. This was characterized by diverse institutional, political, and economic reforms (or the lack of them) and the absence of political stability and continuity. As a result, a complex transition combined with a transformation of values, imaginations and hopes for a western style democratic society.
The focus of this study in legal anthropology is on political and daily discourses about human rights and democracy, in the context of globalization and the ongoing post socialist transformation. Jelena Tošić conducted a 12-month field research in Serbia. She analyzed local media and observed a variety of social actors in the present, while keeping in mind both the socialist and nationalist pasts. Participatory observations, interviews, and daily conversations in private settings were conducted with workers in Human Rights groups (NGOs), teachers, journalists, and members of various social movements. In particular, the author examined the combination of concepts of human rights and the processes of confrontation with history, war crimes, and reconciliation that occurred in the context of the influence and local reception of the daily televised judicial proceedings of the UN War Crimes Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
The author completed the investigation by analyzing discourses of individual political and socioeconomic rights, as well as local perceptions of the globalization process.
Tošic, Jelena (2005): Global
Rights and Local Contexts. Menschenrechte und Globalisierung
in der post-sozialistischen Transformation Serbien und Montenegros.
Dissertation. University of Vienna.
Tošic, Jelena (2005): Jenseits
des Scheindilemmas Nationalismus vs. Reformdemokratie? Globalisierung
und Menschenrechte in der Transition Serbien und Montenegros.
In: Riegler, Johanna (ed.): Kulturelle Dynamik der Globalisierung
- Ost- und Westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse aus
sozialanthropologischer Perspektive. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Science Press.
S.121-153
-> see publications
Tošic, Jelena and Susanne
Binder (2005): Refugees as a Particular Form of Transnational
Migrations and Social Transformations. Socio-anthropological
and Gender Aspects. In: Schuerkens,
Ulrike (ed.): Transnational Migrations and Social Transformation.
Current Sociology, Vol.53 No.4, Monograph 2, Sage Publications: 607-625
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Kommission für Sozialanthropologie
Schwindgasse 14/6
A-1040 Wien
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Notice:
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