Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20901/pp.13.2.02

Basic Analytical Assumptions of Empowering the Periphery: The telling experiences of South Africa and Republic of Serbia

Radmila Nakarada ; New South Institute *
Jelena Vidojević ; New South Institute

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

Against the background of the global crises and the urgency it created, the authors attempt to problematise the pathways to empowering the peripheries of the world – the victimised, excluded, humiliated and entangled. As assumptions relevant for the empowerment of the peripheries they discuss: the need to re-read one’s own history; “accurate reconnaissance” of the current local circumstances; understanding the “workings of the global neoliberal capitalism”; focusing on integrating, making use of new scientific insights, reinvigorating fundamental values and generating internal actors of change; establishing new transformative alliances of the peripheries. The assumptions are contextualized in relation to the process of transition taking place in post-apartheid South Africa and post-socialist Serbia.

Keywords

periphery; transition; South Africa; Republic of Serbia; assumptions of empowerment; history; global capitalism; the New South

Hrčak ID:

312411

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/312411

Publication date:

27.12.2023.

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