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And localization
and globalisation and regionalisation
 Glocalization
is neologism which well explains
Kontrapunkt and Margina position: only deep inside could be far
outside, outside the centripetal grindery of our province, somewhere
there between the sparks from the grinding stones or mistically
built as a Poe's cat, or the tomcat from the Carol's hat, indeed,
while you disappear and appear, between the walls, so far away but
so close.
And we realised, finally, stepping out of Skopje, beggining with
"spreading the Margins" into the "province",
that the provincialism, the closeness are not the only problems of
our community, but that the country in cultural, political and every
other sense is so lost even "locally", in the relation
towards itself, as much as it is lost "globally", towards
outside, exchanging it's otherness/uniqueness in some other
mirrors.
We don't want to make an apology either of the local nor of global
but to create connections and nets on a local as well as on a global
level. We consider that even the locallity is "produced";
the local differences are not given and natural but are result of a
certain social machinery which creatise and enlives identities and
diferences.That is why we do not understand the globalization as a
cultural, political and economical homogenization.
Between the local and the global we put the regional, which we
concider to be of a special importance for the part of Europe we
live in - the so called West Balkans. After the desolution of the
common state, SFRY, the nationalism is still the major social force,
and the need of regional cooperation is still on the second line -
either everyone looks towards the "great" Europe of EU or
in the mighty U.S.A., the symbol of the global. We consider one of
the priority social tasks in Macedonia to be the strenghtening of
the awareness for the need of regional cooperation that would calm
down the local and the global identitarian tensions.
We concider the cultural and the ethnical division from one side,
and the modernistic homogenisation from the other, are not two
confronted sides of the same processes, but two tendencies which
equally constitute the global reality.
The globalization presupposes the localization. It means there is no
mere globalization; what we called globalization is always a
globalization of a certain localism. We live in a local as much as
in a global world.That is why we try not to mistyfy the storming
social and historical events that happen to us. We try to tell that
to people, on as simple way as possible and on a way that reaches
their interest and their context.
We also try to widen the ways on which we could reach the people.
Aparadui, for example, stresses that the phantasy gets a bigger role
in the social life under globalisation. The state, the market and
other dominant group of interest use the phantasy as a mean for
imposing discipline and control over citiziens. But even the
citizien use the phantasy to develope the collective systems of
alternative thinking and to develope new representations of
collective life.
Besides all even through the developement of phantasy we try to help
the citizien to get at least a primary orientation for the ways the
contemporary world functions.
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