by Marina Grzinic, March, 2013, Skopje / http://emancipationofresistance.wordpress.com/grzinic/
I took part in the conference in Skopje entitled Emancipation of the resistance, organized by NGO Kontrapunkt in collaboration with many partners in the region. The point of departure at the conference regarding resistance made me think what is the concept of the resistance today? I connected this question with memory and history, and as well with the specific context of Macedonia that was part of the space of former Yugoslavia.
On such a basis memory and history have to be re-thought in connection to the wars in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and in relation to the aftermath of the wars’ “monumentalizations” in the time of global capitalism and of the construction of the EU as “Fortress Europe.” My thesis is that the ways of monumentalization or de-monumentalization of the war in the 1990s in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia (Macedonia is not excluded from this process, as we have to think of the 2001 events in Macedonia), have several paradoxical, pathological and tragic faces in the political and social realm of global capitalism.