The chapter focuses on the paths of memorialization of the war events and collective violence, especially on some features of remembering in cases of war and genocide in Bosnia and Hercegovina and in Rwanda. It analyses the influence of today's dominant European and Euro-atlantic international politics of memory and representation of the both events and their eventual understanding – but also on other cases of collective mass violence.
COBISS.SI-ID: 828269
The article focuses on the elements of the European legacy in Africa that crucially frame the transition form the 20 to the 21 century and have decidedly contributed to the emergence of massive crime on the African continet: the genocide of Namibian Hereros at its beginning and the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis at its end (with all its consequences and potential lessons).
COBISS.SI-ID: 41296994
Evil of Thoughtlessness deals with some of the most important political and conceptual dilemmas of our time by using and foregrounding of the perspective proposed by Hannah Arendt – one of the most prominent theoreticians of the 20th century. The book asks questions about, for instance, what have in common mass killings in Srebrenica, erasure of thousands of permanent residents of Slovenia and the genocide in Rwanda? Furthermore, what it means when we talk about new, post-totalitarian forms of (global) domination?
COBISS.SI-ID: 249255168
The article deals with the reception of the Hannah Arendt's theory in former Yugoslavia, especially how her approach and understanding of collective violence enhanced the processes of rethinking the war, the nature of collective crime and the responsibility for the past. The author problematizes the intellectual's responsibility for non-thinking and linking with nationalisms as a »respectable cover« for their support to genocidal policies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 673389
The chapter discusses the question of contested meanings of concepts of gender and equality in feminist theory and in gender equality policies in selected countries. It explores the challenges of the political uses of the “gender” category in policy making.
COBISS.SI-ID: 720493