ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on The Plenum Movement, which is most radical of the experiments in non-institutional politics that is found across the Balkans since the collapse of Yugoslavia. The Plenum Movement was and is, as such, in its horizontal form, in its overall goal to create an alternative to the post-socialist neoliberal 'transition' era, and in its deconstructing of ethno-nationalist divides post-conflict, a radical new regional geography in the state within which it finds itself and also in grand scope a simultaneous opening-on-to and distancing-from the new Europe. Despite the short-lived hope The Plenum Movement provided, as the chapter demonstrates, instead of division and fragmentation, the common language of Balkanist literature, the region is in a new era of collective resistance after a recent rebirth of radical politics, as individuals forge a trajectory towards a democratic future.