Articles - Afkors
For some time we are observing increasingly stronger tendencies towards “retraditionalization” of society with strengthening the “tradition” of patriarchal violence through systemic measures on the level of Slovenian state and on a wider scale of Fortress Europe. We understand the current agenda pulled out of the archive for conscription as a part of xenophobic tendencies that play on machoization and patriarchisation of society.
We understand the spread of the military sphere – let this be conscription, giving additional authorizations to the army, their growing presence or the additional and substantial finances for the razor wire, security cameras and other military technology – as strengthening of the aggressive discourse turned against the people and public interests no matter against whom or for what these measures are introduced and performed. Right wing xenophobic politics love to abuse our bodies, stating our bodies need protection from someone or something, as an argument for before mentioned current manoeuvres for spreading of military sphere.