Review article

ECOLOGY MOVEMENTS IN YUGOSLAVIA 1971 - 1991

Zoran Oštrić ; Green action Zagreb, Zagreb

Abstract

Having studied the ecology movements in ex-Yugoslavia, the author distinguishes 3 periods: (1) there is an attempt to founding of the movement at the beginning of seventies, covering the gradual decrease of interest as well; (2) there is a crisis of legitimacy of the system and the appearance of the ecology movement by mid-eighties; (3) there is an attempt to uniting the existing and, by the end of eighties and the beginning of nineties, the green parties are appearing.
The author is considering the ecology fightings as a conflict of "the world of life" with the system, and his opinion is based upon the analytic definiton of Albert Melucci; a social movement is a form of collective action founded on solidarity, which is introducing the conflict and is destroying the limits of the system in which the action is being performed. The very strong anti-nuclear mass movement was of quite special significance within the ecology movement in ex-Yugoslavia.
The difference should be made between the spontaneous local protests and self-organizing of the citizens on one side, and, on the other, the spontaneity ecology groups which are supporting alternative values and acting principles.
Owing to the crisis of political system, the ecology movement did not succeed, except in Slovenia, to organize itself as a significant social and political power. The present day domination of rather political and more state forming themes is pushing it away and this time into a marginal position. By mid seventies the system is succeeding to control the spontaneous ecology action, but ten years later it cannot be doing it any more. The ecology movement actively helped to pull down the system, but the relations between the opponent parties did not change for the better. That is mostly evident on the question of nuclear energy problem.

Keywords

anti-nuclear movement; environmental movement; social conflicts; social movement; the green

Hrčak ID:

136632

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/136632

Publication date:

15.1.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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