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Communicative Dimensions of Centre-Periphery Relationships: Communicating the Post-1989 Traumatic Conjuncture in the Balkans and the Future of Europe.
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Politicka Misao: Croatian Political Science Review . 2022, Vol. 59 Issue 4, p251-275. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323241
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Politicka Misao: Croatian Political Science Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161864391
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.59.4.11