On Neutrality: O Neutralnosti / Jelena Vesić; Rachel O'Reilly; Vladimir Jerić Vlidi - Belgrade; Museum of Contemporary Art; 2016 - 32p; 21x15cm - Non-aligned Modernisms / Nesvrstani Modernizmi #6 .

Neutrality as a political concept has existed as long as there has been warfare. At its simplest, neutrality means not taking part in a war, or, in more durational terms, to remain uncontaminated by great rivalries. But with any second glance through its conflicting legacies, the terminological negativity of the Neutral gets quite complex — juxtapolitical and generative — as it continues to be utilized across progressive and conservative, legal-normative and revolutionary identifications. It is often said that in international law there is no term more complex, entangled and subtle than the one of neutrality. Within the history of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), we locate Neutrality as not a static term, nor a petrified legal institution, but rather a dynamic category of position taking. Our research experiment tracks through Neutrality as a political discourse of comportment, as a strategy, and as a historic geopolitical phenomenon, constitutive of philosophies of war and peace, or of inequality in conflict. We consider the NAM experiments in Active Neutrality as key element of both the genealogy of the very term of Neutrality and what the movement was about.


English; Serbian

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21st century


International relations
N81-390 Study and teaching. Research