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TWO FACES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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Two Faces of Social Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina

115 pages, pdf
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Two Faces of Social Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Publisher: Puls Demokratija, BiH

Date: 2014, pdf

Volume: 115 pages, pdf


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To talk and write about the social justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the 21st century’s second decade may appear as a superfluous attempt to articulate an irresolvable aporia. Judging by the obvious, the combination of notions of “social” and “justice” is virtually unknown among local intellectuals, activists and the social scene. The idea of social justice is patently marginal even to those who like to think of themselves as leftists, while others tend to see “social justice” mainly as the rubbish from the previous regime – something old-fashioned, outdated, and something that certainly cannot be applied to today’s social context. Have we really consented to become victims of the neoliberal capitalist doctrine in which socially just is only that which is commercially viable and justified, while the society itself is identified with the market? Is it instead possible that we have simply failed to cope with an unnameable system?