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HOUSING POLICIES IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIAL AND SPATIAL (IN)EQUALITY

The book deals with distinctive periods of housing policy and mechanisms of their implementation, as well as their impact on the territory of cities in Croatia from the socialist to the present period. 
13.07.2021.
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Online & Skopje, North Macedonia
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CLIMATE JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF UNBRIDLED CAPITALISM

«Climate justice in an age of unbridled capitalism: Establishing a unified front through eco-socialism, Marxist feminism and critiques of authoritarianism»

Date & Place: 10-12th of September 2021, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje, North Macedonia

Lecturers: Blair Taylor, Zdravko Saveski, Ivana Dragshich, Yavor Tarinski

THE NEW BALKAN LEFT

Struggles, Successes, Failures
On the morning of 15 April 2009, students of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Filozofski fakultet) in Zagreb interrupted classes to declare a blockade (blokada) of the premises. What began as just another student strike against the rampant commercialisation of higher education would become the day the Left was born—or rather re-born—in the post-socialist Balkans.

ART AND CULTURAL WORKERS CONGRESS

The proverbial prestige of artists and cultural workers skilfully conceals the nature of work in this field, dominated by unrecognized and unpaid work. Where, until recently, there were stable jobs, atypical forms of work prevail today, and with them a growing reserve army of cheap labor. A neoliberal invention, 'project culture' - quite contrary to the discourse in which it proclaims 'democratization' and 'decentralization' - has profoundly transformed the role of art and culture in society.
28.02.2021.
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WHEN DOCUMENTS ARE FAR FROM REALITY

From political education towards self-organisation
The publication represents a collection of critical texts created as a result of years of work of the Roma Forum of Serbia on the programme of political education.

THE LEGACY OF SOCIALISM AFTER NEOLIBERAL CRISIS

Austerity Measures and Gender Equality in Slovenia
The study »The Legacy of Socialism after Neoliberal Crisis: Austerity Measures and Gender Equality in Slovenia« is a reflection on and an analysis of the consequences austerity measures had for the lives of women and for gender equality in Slovenia after the economic crises in 2008.

The Non-Aligned Movement & Socialist Yugoslavia

Exploring social, cultural, political and economic imaginaries / Tuesday 23 February – Friday 26 February 2021 / 15.30 – 18.00 CET

ONLINE DIALOGUES

THE DARK SIDE OF EUROPEANISATION

Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Border Regime
Examining migration movements, policies, public discourses and struggles in the Balkans between the summer of migration in 2015 and the pandemic crisis in 2020, this study provides an analysis of the impact of the EUropean border and migration regime in the region, which has become a buffer zone for people on the move.

THE NEW RIGHT AND THE OLD LEFT IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE

In recent years Europe has experienced an unexpected rise in the power and influence of the far-right.

CLIMATE AND ENERGY TRANSITION IN THE BALKANS

While political elites do not even use euphemisms for their practices, mostly corrupted by western European capital, grassroots struggles and left political views on parliamentary levels are seldom (in non-EU countries) if not non-existant (in EU countries). Reason for this is a «shock doctrine».