Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman’s Croatia
Balkan Is Beautiful: Balkanism in the Political Discourse of Tudman’s Croatia
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巴尔干是美丽的：图德曼领导下的克罗地亚政治话语中的巴尔干主义
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2004
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Nicole Lindstrom
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Maple Razsa;Nicole Lindstrom
本文探讨了在图德曼的克罗地亚语的作用。托多罗娃的反政府主义概念提供了一个有用的理论框架，通过它来探讨西方领导人对克罗地亚的反政府主义刻板印象的部署。巴尔干主义还阐明了巴尔干人如何使用许多相同的巴尔干半岛的刻板印象来区分自己与南部和东部的邻国。本文通过对20世纪90年代以来克罗地亚报纸专栏、政府文件和演讲以及政治漫画的研究，分析了克罗地亚主义者的解释和表达如何在克罗地亚民族认同的构建和克罗地亚人围绕各种政治议程的动员中发挥不可或缺的作用。然而，这一条的目的并不仅仅是要记录对克罗地亚或在克罗地亚境内的反政府主义陈规定型观念的部署。文章的第二部分提出了克罗地亚在“欧洲”和“巴尔干”之间的界限立场可能作为一个理想的立场，从这个立场可以挑战二元对立的巴尔干主义和开始重新想象巴尔干，重新定向这些类别作为一个网站的政治参与和批评。
This article examines the role of Balkanist discourse in Tudman’s Croatia. Todorova’s concept of Balkanism provides a useful theoretical framework through which to explore the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against Croatia by Western leaders. Balkanism also illuminates the ways in which Croatians used many of these same Balkan stereotypes to differentiate themselves from their neighbors to the south and east. Through an examination of Croatian newspaper columns, government documents and speeches, and political cartoons from the 1990s, this article analyzes how Balkanist interpretations and representations played an integral role in the construction of Croatian national identity and the mobilization of Croatians around a variety of political agendas. The objective of this article is not, however, simply to document the deployment of Balkanist stereotypes against or within Croatia. The second component of the article suggests ways in which Croatia’s liminal position between “Europe” and the “Balkans” might serve as an ideal standpoint from which one might challenge the binary oppositions of Balkanism and begin to reimagine the Balkans, redirecting these categories as a site of political engagement and critique.