Communicative Dimensions of Centre-Periphery Relationships
Communicating the Post-1989 Traumatic Conjuncture in the Balkans and the Future of Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6163013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zlatan Krajina (0000-0002-9114-1006, Fakultet političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 251-275 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politička misao (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1846-8721 • E-ISSN: 0032-3241 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia (PUBLISHER • HR) |
| DOI | 10.20901/pm.59.4.11 |
| OpenAlex | W4315491486 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper surveys the post-1989 Europe/Balkan conjuncture from the perspective of communication studies. I employ David Morley’s materialist definition of communication, encompassing exchange/movement of information/ ideas, goods, and people. Observing the exchange of ideas, we find EU’s Euroscepticism contrasting the Balkans’ Europhilia. Considering the movement of people, the brain-drain from the Balkans is paralleled by incoming migrations and a questioning of whether leaving the region is necessarily advantageous. The movement of goods, finally, elucidates the ascendancy of Chinese investment in the region, confronting Europe with being seen as a periphery of Asia. The materialist communication approach thus reveals unanticipated dynamism (a working-through of inherited inequality), rather than one-way perpetuation of old centre-periphery prejudice. Though historically modelled as Europe’s traumatized inner Other where nationalism was imposed, the Balkans still have much to narrate about impurity of identities and uncertainty as Europe’s new/old possible cultural heritage
Aesthetics · Art · Dynamism · Epistemology · Inequality · Materialism · Movement (music · Nationalism · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Political Unconscious of Croatia and the EU
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Media, Modernity and Technology
On Unthinking Eurocentrism
Spaces of Identity
Stuart Hall
De-westernizing mediated city research
Non-media-centric media studies
EU Accession of Central and Eastern European Countries
Europe's eastern expansion and the reinscription of otherness in East-Central Europe
Unfinished Europe
Beyond Balkanism
European Coronationalism? A Hot Spot Governing a Pandemic Crisis
Europe
Trauma, History, Memory, Identity
Making and Unmaking of Strangers
Nesting Orientalisms
Writing the World from an African Metropolis
Traces of empire
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |