NE DA(VI)MO BEOGRAD: AN EXAMPLE OF SOCIAL CONFLICT WITHIN THE SERBIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

Since the fall of Slovodan Milosevic in October 2000, the social mobilization and the criticism in Serbia was almost missing. The civil society was reduced to the NGO activities. Other social actors, like trade unions, associations and social movements, were not relevant. Since the economical crises of 2008, that affected the whole region from 2009 onwards, conditions were established to have social conflict in some former republics of Yugoslavia, and there were movements of protest in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Macedonia. In the case of Serbia, a new generation post-Yugoslavia had to come and also the illegal demolition of some buildings in the Hercegovanka Street in Belgrade in 2016, when a initiative, the Ne da(vi)mo Beograd, changed the patterns of political action in the streets of Serbia and started a new period of social response with the elites, fighting against the Belgrade Waterfront urban project and the political responsibilities for it.