Retrogressive Modernity and the Effects of Coloniality in the Former Yugoslavia

Šefik Tatlić (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5691-7 (ISBN)

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This book is a critique of the regressive nature of modernity, the biopolitical, necropolitical, and colonial character of (global) capitalism, and the subservience to such a system in the former Yugoslavia. By relying on leftist and decolonial theoretical apparatuses, this work addresses the coloniality of power as a contemporary form of colonialism through which developed countries' monopoly on the definition of concepts like reason, freedom, and progress continues. The critique of representation and perception of these concepts as ideologically neutral is, in these terms, the main point of approach to the analysis of the entanglement of capitalism and colonialism on both a wider scale and in the periphery. It is argued, therefore, that coloniality permeates the contemporary architecture of power and capitalist modes of production, which results in suppression/pacification of pro-equality struggles and the depoliticization of social-political realities, as well as ideology itself. Hence, one of the main theses is that commitment to (the Eurocentric notion of) "progress" and knee-bending to the "post-ideological" ideology lead only to the next iteration of capitalism. So, if yet another version of the capitalist/colonial order, and its democracy, is seen as a solution, this book wants to be a part of the "problem."

Šefik Tatlić is a theorist in the fields of political philosophy, decolonial theory, and cultural critique. He has worked as a journalist, organizer, lecturer, editor, curator, and researcher; which involved the research work on the Genealogy of Amnesia project at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria from 2018 to 2021. His works include the book (co-authored with Marina Gržinić) Necropolitics, Racialization, and Global Capitalism: Historicization of Biopolitics and Forensics of Politics, Art, and Life (2014), and the (authored) book The Logic of Humanization of Capital: The Legitimization of Oppression and the Devaluation of the Function of Political Power (2015). He holds a PhD in sociology and lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-0364-5691-9 / 1036456919
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5691-7 / 9781036456917
Zustand	Neuware