“Cultural” hate speech and the fall of Yugoslavia – discourse analysis of the selected aspects

• Authors: PILARSKA JUSTYNA

Title variants

PL

„Kulturowa” mowa nienawiści i upadek Jugosławii – wybrane aspekty analizy dyskursu

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article tackles the issue of written and spoken propaganda in Serbian and Croatian realms of culture and media proceeding the fall of Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s. It makes two pieces of writing a point of departure for further analysis, i.e. Dubravka Ugrešić’s “The Culture of Lies”, and Ivan Čolović’s “The Balkans: The Terror of Culture: Essays in Political Anthropology”. By so, the article attempts to reveal the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeated science, culture and media, involving the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, followed by the strategies of human manipulation. The subject of analysis embraces the use of the Serbian and Croatian state-run mass media, anthropological discourse and other written forms of deconstruction of the social order, shortly before and following the fall of Yugoslavia.

PL

Artykuł porusza temat (nacjonalistycznej) propagandy reprezentantów świata kultury w Serbii i Chorwacji u schyłku istnienia Socjalistycznej Federacyjnej Republiki Jugosławii, a więc na początku lat 90. XX wieku. Punktem wyjścia dla dalszej analizy autorka uczyniła zbiór esejów Dubravki Ugrešić „Kultura kłamstwa (eseje antypolityczne)”, oraz zbiór tekstów Ivan Čolovicia „Bałkany – terror kultury”. Poprzez analizę prowadzonego w mediach (w słowie i piśmie) dyskursu, zrekonstruowana została brutalność, a zarazem banalność retoryki nacjonalizmu, a także sposób, w jaki ideologia nacjonalistyczna przeniknęła do nauki, kultury i mediów, angażując konformistyczne postawy intelektualistów, propagandę, cenzurę oraz pozostałe strategie manipulacji innymi. Przedmiot analizy obejmuje dyskurs medialny w byłej republice Serbii i Chorwacji, dyskurs nauki (szeroko pojętej humanistyki), oraz innych pisemnych form dekonstrukcji ładu społecznego przed rozpadem Jugosławii.

Keywords

EN

Fall of Yugoslavia; hate speech; discourse analysis; culture; nationalistic propaganda in Serbia nationalistic propaganda in Croatia

PL

rozpad Jugosławii; mowa nienawiści; analiza dyskursu; kultura; propaganda nacjonalistyczna w Serbii propaganda nacjonalistyczna w Chorwacji

• Publisher: Zakład Edukacji Międzykulturowej i Badań nad Wsparciem Społecznym, Wydziału Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
• Journal: Multicultural Studies
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-71

Dates

published

2017-06-01

Contributors

author

PILARSKA JUSTYNA

• Department of Intercultural Education and Social Support Research Institute of Pedagogy, University of Wroclaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.23734/mcs.2017.1.055.071