The research focus is on whether transnational middle-class migrants perceive
Belgrade as a city suitable for their way of life. At the outset, the
analytical framework links the social production of ...contemporary cities to
processes of globalization and transnational migration, with a focus on
post-socialist cities and Belgrade as the object of empirical research. The
second part of the paper contains data analysis based on the 21
semi-structured interviews with middleclass transnational migrants who had
lived and worked in Belgrade for at least a year at the time of the
interviews, conducted in late 2018 and early 2019. The analysis focuses on
the opinions of transnational migrants regarding housing and working
conditions in Belgrade in comparison to their previous experiences; on daily
routines and practices they can or cannot realize in Belgrade; and on the
importance they attach to globally standardized places (such as
international cafes, restaurants, shopping malls, etc.) as compared to
locally specific equivalents. In the concluding section, seeking to examine
whether the Belgrade entrepreneurial urban policy meets the expectations of
these transnational actors, the key research findings are summarized in a
manner accordant with the inputs they could provide for Belgrade?s urban
development.
Rad predstavlja sintezu iskustava populacione politike u svetu u dvadesetom veku. Prezentirane su mortalitetna politika, politika prema fertilitetu, politika prema starima i migratorna politika. ...Program akcije usvojen na kairskoj konferenciji posmatran je u kontekstu novih pristupa populacionoj politici. Politici u oblasti fertiliteta stanovništva je posvećen najveći deo ovog priloga, pre svega, zbog toga što je ona u najvećoj meri demografska politika i politika sa najviše nedoumica. Specifičnost problema rađanja u Srbiji uslovila je obuhvat iskustava razvijenih i nerazvijenih zemalja. Dat je što konkretniji izraz principa, ciljeva i mera. Obrađeno je i pitanje efikasnosti odnosno razlozi izostavljanja željenih efekata. Analiza je pokazala da osobine i rezultati dosadašnje politike u oblasti fertiliteta stanovništva i mere koje se predlažu za sledeće decenije otkrivaju krupne probleme koji se gotovo graniče sa nemoći i u razvijenim zemljama i u zemljama u razvoju, za razliku od mortalitetne i migratorne politike i političkog odgovora na starenje populacije. Pored nesumnjivog napretka u kvalitativnom smislu - rasprostranjenost, postavljena načela, principi i ciljevi, izgrađen institucionalni okvir - natalitetna politika nije dovoljno efikasna da reši populacioni problem. Akcije u prilog rađanja odnosno njegovog ograničavanja moraju biti intenzivnije, celovitije i istraživačke. Ekonomski razvoj koji bi respektovao demografski faktor u svetu koji se razvija i populaciona edukacija u razvijenom svetu se nameću kao mogući novi pravci politike. Međutim, veliki i možda najsloženiji problem koji populaciona politika treba da savlada nalazi se u sferi svesti - državnoj, političkoj, društvenoj i individualnoj.
In line with contemporary urban policy to build a competitive city identity, this article deals with the post-communist identity of Novi Pazar, a medium-sized city in southwestern Serbia. Research ...attention is centred on building urban identity through the dynamic interaction between actors and socio-spatial structures. Following Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, the concept of a city’s habitus is employed as well as Lefebvre’s concept of the social production of space. Special focus is placed on the challenges that post-communist cities face in re-establishing their identity following the former promotion of the “communist (industrial) city” and its subsequent decline. The analysis is based on a survey of residents of Novi Pazar (n = 299) and interviews with experts employed in local government and other local institutions/organizations (n = 14), as well as content analysis of the city’s official website. Novi Pazar is a city with a potentially strong identity but also with considerable structural constraints that block the local agency needed to activate the city’s identity potential.
Paper takes a territory as a social construct and relational concept,
according to which a society is seen as being in a constant process of
deterritorilaization and retrriatorialization. First part ...of the paper
focuses on transformation of territorial identity of individuals, from
identity of island towards identity based on selective association of various
territorial levels, or from old to new localism. Second part of the paper
connects dimensions of territorial identity with the concepts of new
regionalism and glocalism, which are related to local-global dichotomy, and
issues on local development based on endogenous resources within the global
context. The main arguments are driven at the conceptual level, but both
parts of the paper also rely on empirical insights from the research ?Changes
in basic structures of society in Serbia?, conducted by the Institute for
Sociological Research, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, on the
representative sample for citizens in Serbia (N=2557), in 2012. Empirical
data illustrate that territorial identity of respondents has been profiled
through selective association of different territorial levels. However, only
half of respondents (44,7%) feel attached to any supranational territory,
while such attachment is not considerably related to respondents? structural
and value characteristics. Besides that, respondents show relatively low
level of glocalism, which, in accordance to new regionalism, is taken as
local actors? readiness for global connections through strategies based on
locally specific resources.
Paper starts with the link between contemporary globalisation and processes of de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation of society, which helps understanding the separation of social from ...state territoriality and increasing importance of other territorial scales (both sub national and supranational) in a numerous social issues. The paper aims to analyse identity dimension of these processes in two aspects. Firstly, it focuses on changing territorial identity of individuals regarding the weakening of their attachment to the nation-state and strengthening of their attachment to other territorial scales, primarily to the immediate local environment and then to supranational one (as EU). Secondly, re-territorialisation of citizens' identity (increasing attachment to place of living in an open and relational manner) is analysed as potentially valuable local developmental resource within globalising societies, as emphasized in EU territorial agenda. Both issues are important for Serbia, as well as for other European post-socialist societies, whose globalisation and recent de-re-territorialisation take place under the significant influence of EU. The analysis relies on empirical data obtained through questionnaire research conducted on a representative sample (N=2557) of citizens in Serbia by Institute for Sociological Research at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, in spring 2012. The research findings show that territorial identity of citizens in Serbia develops in accordance to the principles of selective associations and multiple loyalties, but that new localism and glocalism as desirable development resources still have not been sufficiently profiled.
The preconditions for new environmental governance in Serbia, which should be
developing with country's accession to EU, are the object of analysis.
Relying on regime theory, the paper is focused on ...the role of state and civil
society actors. The analysis is informed by two empirical researches.
Firstly, the concept of new governance regime is described as well as
different types of civic activism: participative and transactional. Secondly,
the legislative and institutional preconditions as well as action capacities
of state and civil society actors are analyzed. The concluding part
summarizes the basic findings and emphasizes the obstacles to new
environmental governance in Serbia: close political opportunities,
authoritarian legacy and prevalence of traditional command and control
approaches, lacking of important resources for cooperative action, no
tradition of institutionalized state-society relations, etc.
Rad se bavi pretpostavkama novog modela upravljanja okruzenjem u Srbiji,
kojeg bi trebalo razvijati sa procesom pridruzivanja Evropskoj uniji.
Oslanjanjem na regulacionu teoriju, analizira se uloga drzavnih aktera i
aktera civilnog sektora u novom modelu upravljanja na osnovu podataka dva
empirijska istrazivanja. U prvom delu rada je kratko predstavljen koncept
novog modela upravljanja i razliciti tipovi gradjanskog aktivizma:
participativni i transakcioni. Drugi deo rada bavi se zakonodavnim i
institucionalnim kapacitetima i ponasanjem posmatranih aktera u Srbiji. U
zakljucnom delu sumiraju se osnovni nalazi i isticu kljucne prepreke
uspostavljanju novog modela upravljanja okruzenjem u Srbiji: zatvorena
struktura politickih mogucnosti, autoritarno nasledje i dominacija
tradicionalno komandnog i kontrolnog pristupa odlucivanju, nedostatak vaznih
resursa za kooperativno delanje, odsustvo tradicije u institucionalizaciji
odnosa drzavnih i nedrzavnih aktera, itd.
Osnovno analitičko pitanje je da li transnacionalni migranti srednje klase percipiraju Beograd kao grad koji odgovara njihovom načinu života. U prvom delu rada, predstavljen je analitički okvir kojim ...se povezuje društvena produkcija savremenih gradova sa procesima globalizacije i transnacionalnih migracija, sa naglaskom na post-socijalističke gradove i Beograd kao predmet empirijskog istraživanja. U drugom delu rada, predstavljena je analiza podataka prikupljenih na osnovu 21 polustrukturisanog intervjua sa transnacionalnim migrantima srednje klase koji su u vreme istraživanja živeli u Beogradu najmanje godinu dana. Intervjui su obavljeni krajem 2018. godine i početkom 2019. godine. Analiza obuhvata mišljenje transnacionalnih migranata o stambenim i radnim uslovima koje imaju u Beogradu u poreðenju sa njihovim prethodnim iskustvom, o dnevnim rutinama i praksama koje mogu ili ne mogu da realizuju u Beogradu, kao i značaju koji daju globalno standardizovanim mestima u poreðenju sa lokalno specifičnim. U zaključnom odeljku rada nalazi istraživanja su sumirani tako da ukažu da li preduzetnička urbana politika Beograda odgovara očekivanjima transnacionalnih aktera i kakve bi, u tom smislu, mogle biti preporuke za budući razvoj Beograda.
S obzirom na sve izraženiju tendenciju suvremenih ekoloških pokreta da internacionaliziraju svoje borbe, u ovom radu pokušavamo istražiti potencijale i prepreke nedavnih ekoloških inicijativa u ...Srbiji - prosvjeda protiv malih hidroelektrana i borbi protiv eksploatacije litija - da se prošire s lokalne do nacionalne i transnacionalne razine. Fokusirajući se na diskurzivno uokvirivanje ovih inicijativa temeljeno na analizi digitalnog sadržaja koji su ekološke organizacije i aktivisti kreirali i dijelili na društvenim mrežama, istražujemo u kojoj mjeri ekonacionalizam predstavlja poticaj ili prepreku za stvaranje transnacionalnih saveza te njihovu spremnost na sudjelovanje u organiziranim kolektivnim akcijama upravljenima prema meðunarodnim institucijama, a posebno prema Europskoj uniji. Pojavu eko-nacionalizma tumačimo povezanom s ekologizmom siromašnih/razvlaštenih, koji se javlja kao reakcija na komodifikaciju prirodnih resursa, širenje neoliberalnih politika i neoekstraktivizam na (polu)periferiji svjetskog kapitalističkog sustava.
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