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Culture of Trauma and Identity Politics - Critical Frames and Emancipatory Lenses of Cultural and Knowledge Production

This presentation reflects on the ways forward in recent knowledge production encompassing the gestures of repoliticization within the cultural politics of memory in the (post-)Yugoslav space. It builds on several critical insights and important heuristic tools provided in the respective analyses by panel speakers concerning visual and performative cultural production (monuments, theatre, etc.) in the wider context of identitarian regimes for managing affect in the Yugoslav successor states, caught up in a complex “transitional” ethnonationalist-neoliberal dynamic. The author’s aim is to focus on the emancipatory potential for challenging the culturalization of trauma within the therapeutic paradigm of governance as an ideological mechanism for the perpetuation of sovereign and identitarian terror (inter)nationally (using select empirical lenses of current conundrums of memory and identity politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina). In this regard, the presentation will attempt to gear the discussion towards the importance of artistic and scholarly interventions interrogating the politics of abjection, affect, revolt and collectivity in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and post-SFRY context which traverse the petrified ideological straitjackets of cultural politics today.

culturalization of trauma, identity politics, (post-)Yugoslav space, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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