ABSTRACT
Balkanization appears to be an ongoing political process in that the Europeanization of all Western Balkans countries requires their full political separation from each other and subsequent recognition of each other. The reshaping of Belgrade as part of a modern nation state was a form of balkanization in the sense that it was an attempt to erase the memory of Oriental traces. Post-socialism through balkanization is ultimately driven towards the establishment of post-Balkanism, a dispensation under which the people who live in the region finally learn to behave and cooperate in ways thought fitting by the rest of Europe and the West. Balkanization, that is, decentralization, was integrated purposely into the construction of mass housing after World War II. The radical potential of Balkanism is that it demonstrates alternative ways a society can be set up through events, leisure and everyday life as well as rethinking the preoccupation with land and power.
