Against capitalism, self-imposed colonialism and nesting orientalism // Balkan Open || 12th May 2013 HD

Panelists: Matija Medenica (Marks21, Serbia), Florin Poenaru (Position Working Group, Hungary), Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (IDEA / CriticAtac, Romania), Tibor Mesman Chairs: Agnes Gagyi (Position Working Group, Hungary) and Mariya Ivancheva (Social Center Haspel, Bulgaria) Paralell sessions II Hall II: Against capitalism, self-imposed colonialism and nesting orientalism 12/05/2013, 12:00h, ZKM 6th Subversive Festival, 2nd Balkan Forum, Balkan Open The panel focuses on regional taxonomies and conceptual ghettos of the Balkans, WestBalkans, Eastern Europe and Central Europe. It asks how such taxonomies worked through recent history: if and how these divisions and units of analysis and political action can be reconsidered if a critical global perspective was applied to these regions as loci of global capitalism. The panel also aims to investigate historical emancipatory projects and their conceptualization of the region -- e.g. the idea of federalism and its historical traditions. We ask what contemporary struggle can learn from these traditions. Can we think of types of emancipatory projects that would conceptualize the region in a way that helps contemporary struggle? What does the recognition aspect of contemporary emancipatory projects look like? Also, can we transcend nesting orientalism and self-colonizing gestures in the way we relate to each other regionally? What kind of emancipatory projects would allow us to do that? Our main intention is to connect streams of regional discussions and possible units of political action that have been historically divided, but can be mutually inspiring. In cooperation with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung http://www.subversivefestival.com/foruml/7/252/en/paralell-sessions-II