Zoran Eric: 'Urban Feudalism' of New Belgrade

areal view, New Belgrade.


















How about Locality or is it worth to talk about Localization? How about the translation of the local?
Post-Western view: New Belgrade. How do we define self-organization?  Curator Zoran Eric discusses New Belgrade and the idea of 'Urban Feudalism' in Serbia.  What is New Belgrade? It's a borderline area between Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.  It was the 'tabula rasa' that needed to be filled with Socialism ideology. But it represents the failure of the Socialist ideology and its project of 'New Belgrade'. After the '50s the project was abandoned and with it any cultural initiative.  Lefebvre suggested that Ex-Yugoslavia failed in socialist project.  How does New Belgrade appear today? How can such project trasformed into a space for the 'local' community? What is the social idea behind the definition of 'Block community'?How has  the New Belgrade's project changed today?Zoran Eric talks about 'urban feudalism' a form of brutal neoliberalist appropriation  of social life and public space through gentrification, social and racial segregation and economical and cultural inequialities.

view of New Belgrade

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