Ideology of neo-fascism, education, and culture of peace: the empirical case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 (English)In: Critical Education, ISSN 1920-4175, E-ISSN 1920-4175, Vol. 10, no 6, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The aim of this article is to critically analyse intellectual conditions for education pertaining to the empirical and normative knowledge dimensions that can oppose the ideologies of neo-fascism. The analytical basis is a literature review of various studies from the domains of sociology of knowledge, war sociology, social epistemology, and critical pedagogy. The article explains the social need for better-quality public education pertaining to the meaning of political, media, and religious use and misuse of “identitarian concepts” and “identitarian terminology.” The privileged strategies of the political application of referential systems and mechanisms of ‘differentiating’ serve as the epistemic foundation to teach the concepts, terminology, taxonomies, and classifications used to separate people into “ours” and “theirs.” The genocide of Bosnian Bosniaks in the war against the Bosnian-Herzegovinian multicultural society conveys the need to create peaceful emancipatory identity politics and for a new pedagogy of emancipation of many of the oppressed and disenfranchised who are difficult to explicitly name. Conceptual problems, related to certain obvious paradoxes intrinsic in the politics of the collective representation of citizens after genocide, are linked to these processes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
University of British Columbia Press, 2019. Vol. 10, no 6, p. 1-20
Keywords [en]
Education, Peace, Culture, Ideology, Neo-fascism, Clero-nationalism, Discourse, Clericalisation, Identity, Tolerance, Epistemology, Neo-populism, Victim status, War
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Pedagogy Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Research subject
Pedagogics and Educational Sciences, Education; Social Sciences, Practical Philosophy; Social Sciences, Peace and Development Studies; Police Science, Criminology; Social Work, Social Psychology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-81115DOI: 10.14288/ce.v10i6.186410ISI: 000461437400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85111718817OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-81115DiVA, id: diva2:1296421
Conference
The Second International Scientific Victimology Conference ”Ambassadors of Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Institute for Development of Victimology, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Foundation "Help Victims of Power and the Authority Abuse in Bosnia and Herzegovina"; University of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Institute of Knowledge Management, Republic of Macedonia; Associations of Mediators in Bosnia and Herzegovina; THINK THANK – Research Center Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, November 22, 2017
Projects
War anomie2019-03-152019-03-152023-08-30Bibliographically approved