| dc.description.abstract | There are many contested descriptions of globalization, but only
a few contextual frameworks through which we can observe anti-globalist discourses in Eastern Europe’s post-socialist societies.
One of them, figuring prominently among ethno-conservatives and
far-right activists in contemporary Serbia rests on the foundations
of conspiracy theories (Žikić 2022). Outlined in such an ideological
framework, and understood as a grand-scale conspiracy, globalization is framed as an imposing mechanism which leaves its negative
effects mainly in the spheres of political and socio-cultural life. The
negative – as well as positive – effects of globalization in the area
of economy do not interest the majority of ethno-conservatives in
Serbia (the critique of globalization on the level of economy is,
interestingly enough, usually reserved for the left-wing politicians
and public commentators). Allegedly, political, social and cultural
maladies caused by globalization stem from corrupting the nation’s
“body” (perceived as “invaded” by immigrants, chemtrails, 3G,
4G and 5G wireless mobile telecommunications technology, virus
pandemic outbreaks…) to corrupting the nation’s “soul” (reflected
in ethnic history, cultural values, traditional ethos, religious customs, and the spiritual leadership of the Serbian Orthodox church)
to compromising its (ethnic) identity – a process evident in the
pro-Kosovar attitude of the Euro-Atlantic community, its attempts
to Westernize the Serbian culture and to uproot it from its ethnic
traditions, and similar (for detailed analysis of conspiratorial discourses in relation to COVID-19 pandemic, see: Lazarević Radak
2021). | sr |
