A new regional geography of a revolution: Bosnia's Plenum movement. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Riding, James
• Is Part Of: Territory, politics, governance. Volume 6:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 16
• Page End: 41
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: revolution -- regional geography -- Plenum -- radical politics -- socialism -- Yugoslavia -- Bosnia-Herzegovina; 革命 -- 区域地理 -- 全体会议 -- 激进政治 -- 社会主义 -- 南斯拉夫 -- 波斯尼亚—黑塞哥维纳; révolution -- géographie régionale -- Plénum -- radicalisme -- socialisme -- Yougoslavie -- Bosnie-Herzégovine; revolución -- geografía regional -- Plenum -- política radical -- socialismo -- Yugoslavia -- Bosnia-Herzegovina; Political science -- Periodicals; Jurisdiction, Territorial -- Periodicals; Territory, National -- Periodicals; Regionalism -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Political geography -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Periodicals; Geopolitics; Political geography; Regionalism -- Political aspects; Territory, National; Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2016.1260491
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2162-2671

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A new regional geography of a revolution: Bosnia's Plenum movement. Territory, Politics, Governance . This paper sheds a light on a recent reawakening of radical politics in the former Yugoslavia. It focuses on citizens living radical politics after socialism, as new groups and movements in the region struggle to embed radically democratic visions of society. Via an on-the-ground regional study, it exposes the endless post-conflict, post-socialist transition era after Yugoslavia, which has for citizens meant general impoverishment, de-industrialization, mass unemployment and living under a post-democratic governance of divisive and corrupt elites. Out of this desert of post-socialism a form of horizontal democracy emerged called Plenum, the most radical experiment in non-institutional politics that can be found across the Balkans since the collapse of Yugoslavia.