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VRATUŠA( - ŽUNJIĆ)
UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY,
Department of Sociology
Cika Ljubina 18-20, 11OOO Beograd, Srbija
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POST SCRIPTUM
My immediate
motive for constructing this home page and
its mirror
wiki page was to be able to individualize my response
to the cyber age imperative. It compels practically each
contemporary academician to make her/his syllabi,
biography and bibliography
available on the Internet, even when the servers of this original
home page or of the Belgrade
University Faculty of Philosophy Moodle Sociology Courses sites
are not available. Such personalization and spreading
of internet
open source publishing risk
is not possible on an official University site.
Another Important
medium and long term reason for input of effort in
this home page project is the goal to innovatively benefit
from the complex use of this visum to the sociologists' cyber society. Firstly, to enrich myself through
interactive exchange of information and views, and,
secondly to enjoy the fruits of a possible success in the quest
for collaborators in the participative research of
society among colleagues sharing similar general and concrete research interests.
The brief
summary of my official site biography,
if it existed, would probably sound like this: "Born in 1951. in
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Studies of sociology finished in 1974
at the Department of Sociology,
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. At the same Department
obtained MA degree (1979A in bibliography),
Ph.D. degree (1991A in bibliography) and in 1997 the position of the Associate
Professor instructing Introduction
to Sociology I, Introduction to the Theory of Society, Theories and methods of society research, Sociology
of knowledge and Action
Research. Published
a monograph Development, Religion, War, (1995BM in bibliography)
and numerous contributions to books and essay collections(B),
interactive digitalised textbooks and practicums for electronically
supported courses (EL), articles in journals (J) and on the
Internet (W), book reviews and critical
comments (RC), papers presented at the world and European conferences
of international professional and scientific associations (IC).
They are all dealing with sociology of knowledge inspired historic
contextualisation of sociological theories and corresponding methodologies,
and application of findings of longitudinal comparisons and of critical
analyses of diferent local, national, regional and global strategies
of social, economic, political and cultural development in mitigation
and prevention of socially generated war complex disasters, through
participatory action research promotion of stakeholders' democratic
and creative participation in strategic decision-making. " Some
of the reactions to my writings can be found in the "cited
texts (C)" section of the bibliography
.
On this home
page I would like as well to present an attempt at self-reflexive examination of the
interdependence between personal and professional biography
in a changing
social and historic context.
I hope dear
home page visitor and potential Internet communication and research
partner, that you will one day read this self-searching autobiography demonstrating
the application of my theoretical
and methodological credo in the field of my general
research interest in sociology of knowledge
approach to the study of the history of social
theories and their social embodiment within different individual
and collective bearers of concepts, strategies and practice
of social development. This would give me the opportunity
to learn from your reaction, critical
comments, sugestions and your own experience.
The fact
that my
first
name means "faith" in
Serbian, my mother's tongue, might explain my tendency to express my
main standpoint in terms of a firm belief
that the farthest we can hope to
approach to the ideal of the scientific objectivity, is to attempt
to control our subjective biases as much as possible.
We should strive to become conscious and explicitly
state to others our own inescapably particular and value
ridden assumptions, formed by combination of our a)
inborn, b) socially determined
and c) irreducibly individual characteristics.
We should at least strive that our approach to research of
complex social processes that interest us be
holistic and comprehensive as well, dialectically
synthesizing comparative structural-functional and historic analysis
on the macro level from without, and
biographical, phenomenological and ethnographic methodology on the
micro level from within
.
IMPLORATION TO THE
UN SECURITY COUNCIL
To:
france-presse@un.int ; rusun@un.int ; un@fmprc.gov.cn ; uk@un.int ;
bulgaria@un.int ; info@cameroonmission.org ; guinea@un.int ;
mexico@un.int ; syria@un.int ; ang-un@angolamissionun.org ;
chile@un.int ; contact@germany-un.org ; spain@spainun.org ;
Pakistan@un.int
Sent:
Monday, March 24, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Thank you so far, and please
continue to exercise responsibly your duty
Dear UN
Security Council Members, Thank you for not having succumbed so far
to the enormous pressure of the representatives of the oil and war
industry capital interests and refused to be the
accomplice of the cold blooded mass murder. I am pleading
with you like millions of people in the world today to continue to
realize responsibly your duty according to the UN Charter and to
order without delay the immediate stop to this
criminal war of aggression.
Today is the
fourth anniversary since the same main
perpetrators of the crime against peace,
began the bombing of Yugoslavia under
the pretext of bringing peace and security
to everybody living in Kosovo and Metohija. The results are devastating. Under the cover of UN mission and in drastic
violation of the Resolution 1244, people of all ethnic affiliations,
but mostly Serbs, are being killed and abducted (more than 3000),
driven out of their homes (more than
250 000), daily attacked and intimidated. Entire population is falling
ill and dying from cancer (more than doubled incidence rate) and
other diseases, caused by remains of radioactive and toxic depleted
uranium dust and poverty. Entire economy is ruined, centuries old
cultural monuments and cemeteries are being destroyed, but arms, drug and slave trafficking
are thriving, while the active and former representatives of UN
administration participate in illegal privatization
of state, social, church and even private property for the benefit
of transnational corporations with headquarters in their home countries.
The newest evidence of utmost failure of this UN mission is closing
down of US and British representatives' bureaus in Pristina out
of fear that this time they will be the victims of the same or new
terrorists whom they previously supported and presented as freedom
fighters.
The
consequences of aggression on Afghanistan
are also catastrophic and getting worse by day.
Please
listen therefore to the outcry of humanity. Demand the immediate
stop to the present bombing. Put finally an end
to the ordeal of the Iraq people who had been suffering the
longest under the genocidal bombs and UN sanctions, that so far took
the lives of more than one million children. Then proceed to return all UN missions to the right track of real
peace keeping instead of crime and plunder condoning or even
promoting.
I am
imploring you to courageously live up to your responsibilities
defined in the Charter of the UN. The survival
of humanity, including your own children, depends on it.
Vera Vratusa
professor of
sociology Beograd, Srbia, former Yugoslavia
POST SCRIPTUM
Act
permanently in defense of humanity
against
imperialist apologists of "humanitarian
intervention"
Video "There
is no humanitarian war" made at the occasion of the tenth
anniversary of NATO bombing can be seen here
Above imploration
to the members of the UN Security Council has proven to be in vain.
The people of Bosna
and Hercegovina, AP
Kosovo and Metohija, Iraq,
Afghanistan
are still suffering the effects of crimes
against peace performed by US led NATO imperialistic
forces through radioactive bombing assaults
from the sky and/or the terrorist attacks
by their regular and proxy paramilitary forces on the ground, complemented
by the "protectorate" institutions impoverishing and terrorising
local population. In the context of global accumulation of capital
crisis, the domination over oil and other strategic
resources hungry financial oligarchy is attempting
to recolonize
former Second and Third world through execution or preparation
of new terrorist aggressions
under a humanitarian and anti terrorism pretext in Lebanon,
Gaza, Iran...
Ideological
apologists of NATO "humanitarian interventions", in fact genocide
caused by bombings with radioactive projectiles, like Michael
Walzer , together with ad hoc Tribunals paid for by NATO member
states' financial oligarchy, continue brain washing aggression by
redefining
as genocide, as a rule contrary to
forensic evidence , exclusively war crimes perpetrated by one
side in the civil wars that financial oligarchy encourages around
the world according to the age old imperial tactics to easier attain
its occupation and exploitation aims.
As in the worst days of the League of Nations, present representatives of the United Nations' member states
are watching silently its Charter being violated.
How many people more have to die, be maimed and contaminated, or
driven out of their homes before the more responsible representatives
of the worl nations resolutely stop further
aggression of the would be rulers of the world?!
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