Visualisation of the “Balkan road”

Media representations of the refugee crisis at the periphery of Europe

Bibliographic Data

ID13124124
AuthorsKsenija Vidmar Horvat (0000-0002-6776-6698, University of Ljubljana, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume5
Issue1
Pages67-84
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCulture Practice & Europeanization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2566-7742 • E-ISSN: 2566-7742
PublisherNomos (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.5771/2566-7742-2020-1-67
OpenAlexW3217443629
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This article investigates visual representations of refugees in the Slovene public sphere at the time of the opening of the "Balkan Road" refugee route in 2015. The article begins with a comparative historical view of media depictions of refugees after the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia. It is argued that the early depictions were region specific and dependent on European Union (EU) integration discourses of a post-socialist transition state. In contrast, in 2015 public memories of World War II and transnational solidarity were invoked. The paper then focuses on two cases, a newspaper series I Am a Refugee and a photograph entitled The Path, which diverge from the conventional institutional framing of the refugee. The analysis draws on critical theory of visual counter-narratives to investigate these documents' potential for re-humanizing the figure of the refugee in the EU

Business · Internationalization · Library science · Media studies · Order (exchange · Originality · Political science · Public relations · Publishing · Qualitative research · Refugee · Refugee crisis · Regional science · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Computer Science · Law

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