Neoliberal instrumentalism and the fight against it: the “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” movement
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The article focuses on the new anti-neoliberal social movements in
post-Socialist Serbia, most notably the Belgrade movement “We
Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own”. It does this by proposing an
analytical framework for analysing the way they deploy their
critique of what the authors term “neoliberal instrumentalism”, a
discourse of justification that legitimises the curtailing of
democracy in the name of economic efficiency. The article also
addresses Igor Štiks’s “disaggregation thesis” and suggests that,
rather than being a “failure”, the disaggregation of the
movements such as “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” at the initial
stage of their development can be an advantage for mobilising
specific segments of the population.
Keywords:
anti-instrumentalism / Balkans / neoliberalism / postsocialism / social movementsSource:
East European Politics, 2018Publisher:
- Abingdon-on-Thames : Routledge
Funding / projects:
- Studying climate change and its influence on environment: impacts, adaptation and mitigation (RS-43007)
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IFDTTY - JOUR AU - Matković, Aleksandar PY - 2018 UR - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/1757 AB - ABSTRACT The article focuses on the new anti-neoliberal social movements in post-Socialist Serbia, most notably the Belgrade movement “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own”. It does this by proposing an analytical framework for analysing the way they deploy their critique of what the authors term “neoliberal instrumentalism”, a discourse of justification that legitimises the curtailing of democracy in the name of economic efficiency. The article also addresses Igor Štiks’s “disaggregation thesis” and suggests that, rather than being a “failure”, the disaggregation of the movements such as “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” at the initial stage of their development can be an advantage for mobilising specific segments of the population. PB - Abingdon-on-Thames : Routledge T2 - East European Politics T1 - Neoliberal instrumentalism and the fight against it: the “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” movement DO - 10.1080/21599165.2018.1423965 ER -
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Matković, A.. (2018). Neoliberal instrumentalism and the fight against it: the “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” movement. in East European Politics Abingdon-on-Thames : Routledge.. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1423965
Matković A. Neoliberal instrumentalism and the fight against it: the “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” movement. in East European Politics. 2018;. doi:10.1080/21599165.2018.1423965 .
Matković, Aleksandar, "Neoliberal instrumentalism and the fight against it: the “We Won’t Let Belgrade D(r)own” movement" in East European Politics (2018), https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2018.1423965 . .