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Introduction: Constructing Balkan Identity in Recent Media Discourses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andreja Vezovnik and
Ljiljana Šarić
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Rethinking “Europe” Versus “The Balkans” in Media Discourses
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Slavic Review , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , Summer 2015, pp. 237 - 243
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2015 

Footnotes

1. This bilateral project, “Media Constructions of Balkan National and Cultural Identity in Transition: From Yugoslavia to Europe,” is conducted at the University of Ljubljana and the University of Oslo.

2. See Benhabib, Seyla, “Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference,” in Benhabib, Seyla, ed., Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton, 1996), 3–18 ; and Wodak, Ruth, de Cillia, Rudolf, Reisigl, Martin, and Liebhart, Karin, The Discursive Construction of National Identity (Edinburgh, 2009).

3. See, for example, Triandafyllidou, Anna, “National Identity and the ‘Other,’” Ethnic and Racial Studies 21, no. 4 (1998): 593–612 .

4. Mihelj, Sabina, Media Nations: Communicating Belonging and Exclusion in the Modern World (Basingstoke, 2011).

5. Wolff, Larry, Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment (Stanford, 1994).

6. Bjelić, Dušan I., “Introduction: Blowing Up the ‘Bridge,’” in Bjelić, Dušan I. and Savić, Obrad, eds., Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), 1–22 .

7. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York, 1979).

8. See Bjelić, “Introduction.”

9. See ibid.; Todorova, Maria, Imagining the Balkans (Oxford, 1997); Bakić-Hayden, Milica, “Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia,” Slavic Review 54, no. 4 (Winter 1995): 917-31; and K. E. Fleming, “Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography,” American Historical Review 105, no. 4 (October 2000): 1218-33.

10. Fleming, “Orientalism”; Bakić-Hayden, Milica and Hayden, Robert M., “Orientalist Variations on the Theme ‘Balkans’: Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics,” Slavic Review 51, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 1–15 .

11. Woodward, Susan L., Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton, 1995).

12. Patrick Hyder Patterson, , “On the Edge of Reason: The Boundaries of Balkanism in Slovenian, Austrian, and Italian Discourse,” Slavic Review 62, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 110-41.

13. Ibid. See also Hammond, Andrew, British Literature and the Balkans: Themes and Contexts (Amsterdam, 2010); Hammond, Andrew, The Debated Lands: British and American Representations of the Balkans (Cardiff, 2007); Bakić-Hayden and Hayden, “Orientalist Variations”; Bakić-Hayden, “Nesting Orientalisms“; Ingrid Hudabiunigg, “Slowenien in der deutschen Presse,” in Karmen Teržan Kopesky and Teodor Petrić, eds., Germanistik im Kontaktraum Europa 2, vol. 1, Literatur (Maribor, 2003), 346-61; and Hudabiunigg, Ingrid, “The Otherness of Eastern Europe,” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25, nos. 5-6 (Winter 2004): 369-88.

14. See, for example, Marion Kraske, “Deutsche vom Balkan,” Der Spiegel, December 31, 2007, at spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-55231875.html (last accessed February 10, 2015).

15. Bakić-Hayden and Hayden, “Orientalist Variations.”

16. See Bjelić, “Blowing Up.”

17. See Tanja Petrović, “Dolga pot domov: Reprezentacije zahodnega Balkana v političnem in medijskem diskurzu” (PhD diss., Mirovni inštitut, 2009); and Dubravka Kuna, “Diskursna analiza imenovanja i opisa naroda i država u hrvatskom dnevnom tisku” (PhD diss., University of Osijek, in progress).

18. See Kordić, Snježana, Jezik i nacionalizam (Zagreb, 2010); Mario Grčević, “Some Remarks on Recent Lexical Changes in the Croatian Language,” in Radovan Lučić, ed., Lexical Norm and National Language: Lexicography and Language Policy in South-Slavic Languages after 1989 (Munich, 2002), 150-63, at http://wwwO.ids-mannheim.de/prag/sprachvariation/fgvaria/croatian_lexical_changes.pdf (last accessed February 10, 2015); and Langston, Keith and Peti-Stantić, Anita, Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia (Basingstoke, 2014).

19. See Billig, Michael, Banal Nationalism (London, 1995).

20. Dolar, Mladen, “Slovenska nacionalna identiteta in kultura: Navodila za uporabo,” in Pagon, Neda, ed., Nacionalna identiteta in kultura (Ljubljana, 2003), 21–36 .

21. See Velikonja, Mitja, Evroza: Kritika novega evrocentrizma / Eurosis: A Critique of the New Eurocentrism (Ljubljana, 2005).

22. See Nataša Zambelli, “East of Eden: A Poststructuralist Analysis of Croatia's Identity in the Context of EU Accession” (PhD diss., University of Edinburgh, 2011).

23. Said, Orientalism, 332.