Research Colloquium | Čarna Brković (Mainz) | Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s

The Research Colloquium is organised by Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg in cooperation with the ScienceCampus.

Abstract:

The Red Cross of Yugoslavia invited the International Red Cross Movement in the 1970s to reconsider its humanitarian principles and include perspectives from the countries belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement. The organization created an alternative humanitarian imaginary that both challenged and reproduced the premises of the humanitarian sector in the West. This largely forgotten episode in the history of humanitarianism presented an attempt at worldmaking, not of a world free from the coloniality/modernity nexus, but of a socialist modernist world that was in many aspects different from the one that had been built since the 1970s.