Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.61.2.7
Potentials and Obstacles for the Transnationalisation of Recent Environmental Struggles in Serbia
Mina Petrović
orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-8188
; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
Jelena Pešić
orcid.org/0000-0003-4352-6689
; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Serbia
Abstract
Considering the growing tendency of contemporary environmental movements
from the Global North to internationalise their struggles, in this paper we try to explore the
potentials and obstacles of recent environmental initiatives in Serbia - the protests against small
hydropower plants and struggles against the exploitation of lithium - to scale-up from the local
to national and transnational level. Focusing on the discursive framing of these initiatives
based on the analysis of the digital content created and shared by environmental organisations
and activists on social media, we investigate to what extent eco-nationalism represents an incentive
or a barrier for the creation of transnational alliances. We also explore the willingness
of this movement’s advocates to participate in organised collective actions addressing their
grievances to international institutions, and especially to the European Union. We interpret
the emergence of eco-nationalism as related to the environmentalism of the poor/dispossessed,
which arises as a reaction to the commodification of natural resources, advancing neoliberal
policies and neoextractivism on the (semi-)periphery of the world capitalist system.
Keywords
environmental struggles; transnationalisation; eco-nationalism; environmentalism of the poor/dispossessed; Serbia
Hrčak ID:
308954
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Publication date:
18.10.2023.
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