Balkan Immigrant Workers as Slovenian Victimized Heroes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4205285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreja Vezovnik (0000-0001-5157-2365, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244-264 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5612/slavicreview.74.2.244 |
| OpenAlex | W3149340705 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article sheds light on recent discursive shifts in representations of the "Balkan" in the Slovenian press. I focus on the strategies that the media, and the left-wing press in particular, uses to construct the identities of immigrant workers in Slovenia. I use critical discourse analysis to show how the media has recently attempted to avoid Balkanism and tried to create a more inclusive, democratic rhetoric on these workers and how they become a legitimate "other" in Slovenian society only when constructed as helpless victims. I analyze the role of the victim in the Slovenian imaginary, its disillusioned hero a cogent signifier for collective national identification, and how this figure's characteristics are transposed to ex-Yugoslav immigrants to Slovenia, placing them within a rhetoric of victimization that is framed within a broader humanitarian discourse in order to interrogate what Maria Todorova has defined asBalkanism. I conclude by exploring victimization as the process of desubjectivation and point out aspects of victimization that reaffirm long-standing power relations between Europe and the Balkans
Construct (python library · Democracy · HERO · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Sociology · The Imaginary · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
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Representational Discourses on the Erased of Slovenia
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |