Burdensome past: Challenging the socialist heritage in Macedonia
Tegobna prošlost: propitujući socijalističko naslijeđe u Makedoniji

Goran Janev
2017 Studia Ethnologica Croatica  
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Analysis of the project "Skopje 2014", a major symbolic reconstruction of Macedonia capital, points towards establishment of ethnocratic regime in the country. Juxtaposed to the treatment of the socialist monuments it reveals the major shift in the historical narrative. This symbolic appropriation accompanies the neoliberal capitalist appropriation of space and is in its service by
more » ... hifting the debate away from the capitalist accumulation by means of dispossession. The neglect of socialist monuments is indicative of grey-zoning, a governmentality technique easily abused in ethnocratic regimes that allows neoliberal practices to flourish unhindered by any productive public debate. Article concludes with a discussion of the possibilities for articulated resistance.
doi:10.17234/sec.29.8 fatcat:eaw65tneyvfwrgkgynkpeffubm