Boris Magaš and the Emergence of Postmodernist Themes in the Croatian Modernist Tradition

Šerman, Karin; Moravánszky, Ákos; Lange, Torsten

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“…Such strategic self-peripheralisation subscribed to an intellectual tradition in Central Europe that distinguished between ‘periphery’ and ‘province’. According to this tradition, provincial cultural production was characterised by an influence of one powerful centre; in contrast, a Central European, peripheral thinker receives impulses from many centres, and mixes and develops them (Białostocki, 1989; Moravánszky, 2012; Šerman, 2016). Along these lines, Polónyi acknowledged the delays, distortions and echoes that characterised peripheral production of knowledge, but he also saw them as an opportunity for scepticism, relativism and a pragmatic appropriation of ideas for the specific purposes at hand (Moravánszky, 2012: 335; Polónyi, 2000).…”

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Stanek

2021

Urban Studies

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This article revisits comparative urban studies produced during the Cold War in the framework of ‘socialist worldmaking’, or multiple, evolving and sometimes antagonistic practices of cooperation between socialist countries in Eastern Europe and decolonising countries in Africa and Asia. Much like the recent ‘new comparative urbanism’, these studies extended the candidates, terms and positionalities of comparison beyond the Global North. This article focuses on operative concepts employed by Soviet, Eastern European, African and Asian scholars and professionals in economic and spatial planning across diverse locations, and shows how they were produced by means of ‘adaptive’ and ‘appropriative’ comparison. While adaptive comparison was instrumental in the application of Soviet concepts in countries embarking on the socialist development path, appropriative comparison juxtaposed concepts from various contexts – whether the ‘West’ or the ‘East’ – in order to select those best suitable for the means and needs on the ground. This article argues that this conceptual production was conditioned by the political economy of socialist worldmaking and shows how these experiences are useful for a more critical advancement of comparative urban research today.

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Stanek

2021

Urban Studies

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Boris Magaš and the Emergence of Postmodernist Themes in the Croatian Modernist Tradition

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

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