This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War. Drawing ...upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region. The article focuses on historical narratives in the commemorative speeches, the role of space in shaping memory politics, symbols and monuments present at Bleiburg Field, and the broader context of how Austrian politics affects the commemoration and its public perception.
At the time of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the beginning of the war in Croatia in 1991, the Balkans were not in the focus of Western politics, which was preoccupied with the collapse of the ...USSR and the Gulf War. The dominant position of Western policy was the preservation of Yugoslavia and the maintenance of geopolitical stability. In the second half of 1991, under the influence of the war in Croatia, Western policy slowly turned towards the possibility of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the recognition of the independence of Slovenia and Croatia. The article analyzes the American and British newspaper narratives about the war in Croatia during the five-month peak of the conflict, from September 1991 to January 1992. The analysis was conducted on four daily newspapers, two American (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times) and two British (The Independent, The Guardian). A total of 920 texts were analyzed through coding based on the adoption of a pro-Croatian, pro-Serbian, or neutral position. The research shows that more texts about the war in Croatia were published in the analyzed British newspapers. Secondly, the narrative is significantly marked by a neutral stance, which coincides with the unclear and undefined policy of the West towards the Yugoslav crisis. Thirdly, there were significantly more pro-Croatian than pro-Serbian texts in the analyzed period.
U vrijeme raspada Jugoslavije i početka rata u Hrvatskoj 1991. godine, Balkan nije bio u fokusu zapadne politike koja se prije svega bavila kolapsom SSSR-a i Zaljevskim ratom. U ranom razdoblju dominantna pozicija zapadne politike bila je očuvanje Jugoslavije i održavanje geopolitičke stabilnosti. U drugoj polovici 1991. godine, pod utjecajem rata u Hrvatskoj, zapadna politika polako se okreće prema mogućnosti raspada Jugoslavije i priznanju neovisnosti Slovenije i Hrvatske. Članak analizira američke i britanske novinske narative o ratu u Hrvatskoj tijekom petomjesečnog vrhunca sukoba, od rujna 1991. do siječnja 1992. Analiza je provedena na četiri dnevna lista, dva američka (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times) i dva britanska (The Independent, The Guardian). Ukupno je analizirano 920 tekstova kroz kodiranje temeljeno na usvajanju prohrvatske, prosrpske ili neutralne pozicije. Istraživanje pokazuje da je u analiziranim britanskim novinama objavljeno više tekstova o ratu u Hrvatskoj. Drugo, narativ je značajno obilježen neutralnim pozicijama, što se poklapa s nejasnom, nedorečenom i podijeljenom politikom Zapada prema jugoslavenskoj krizi. Treće, u analiziranom razdoblju bilo je značajno više prohrvatskih nego prosrpskih tekstova.
Riječ urednika Pauković, Davor
Suvremene teme,
2018
9
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
Dear readers, a new issue of our journal has been published. In accordance with the policy of the journal, we continue with an exclusive focus on South Eastern Europe. In this issue we bring you five ...research articles and two book reviews. Mirela Holy analyzes in what extent have Croatian professional and scientific articles from the field of social sciences and humanities processed integration, globalization and multiculturalism and their interrelationships. Marija Slijepčević i Sanja Fligić examine presence of interpretative frames in the migrant crisis media coverage in Croatia, on a sample of 702 articles from four Croatian media. Anđelka Raguž, Sebastijan Ivasović i Ema Kukolić analyze media coverage based on a referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage. Maja Kolega examines the theoretical model of social entrepreneurial intent on a sample of 786 students, out of which 384 students are undertaking entrepreneurial and 402 psychosocial studies. Nikola Buković analyzes the characteristics, differences and potential of policytransfer from Austrian to Croatian skill-formation system.
Papers collected in this book were presented at an international scientific conference "Globalization of Politics" held on October 12 and 13, 2007 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The conference was organized ...by the Political Science Research Centre and Scientific Forum, in cooperation with the University of Dubrovnik. It gathered eminent scientists and experts in the field from Croatia and several European countries that represented a wide variety of different perspectives on the topic. Globalization of politics is certainly an important and emerging issue that concerns current international politics and its transformation in the age of gloablization. Papers in this book analyze and discuss a fairly broad spectrum of issues, starting from more general and theoretical ones such as: reflections of globalization on democracy, changes of governance, nation state and its role, rule of law and new geopolitics in the age of globalization, etc. Some of the papers are particulary focused on issues related to regional organizations, mainly the European Union, and furthermore on specific national case studies. Different approaches and methodology ensure a multidisciplinary character of this book which in the end offers a multi-layered reading covering the most important and relevant discussions on the subject.
This article provides an overview on some of the key issues related to the Bleiburg commemoration and more broadly the cultural memory of Partisan crimes at the end of the Second World War. Drawing ...upon four years of fieldwork, media analysis, and recent historiographical debates, the authors take a transnational approach in examining why Bleiburg remains one of the most controversial commemorations not just in Croatia but in the region. The article focuses on historical narratives in the commemorative speeches, the role of space in shaping memory politics, symbols and monuments present at Bleiburg Field, and the broader context of how Austrian politics affects the commemoration and its public perception.
The author shows the basic elements in the strategies of argumentation employed in Croatian and Serbian journalistic discourse during the election campaign in Croatia. The article is based on an ...analysis of the Croatian newspapers Vjesnik, Večernji list, Danas and Start, and the Serbian newspapers Politika, Duga, NIN and Intervju.
During the eighties, Yugoslavia was faces with a growing crisis that has put into question the survival of the federation. Conflicting strategies of the future Yugoslavia, based in the republic ...League of Communists, have finally separated on the 14th LCY extraordinary Congress in January 1990. This article has shown the context in which the Congress was held, as well as its course. In addition, the article exposed the strategies and goals of individual national organizations and the consequences of the collapse of LCY. Extraordinary 14th Congress of the LCY represents an important episode in the process of the breakup of Yugoslavia. On that Congress, all illusions about the united LCY and the power that can bring the country out of the crisis were dispelled. Yugoslavia faced with the more uncertain period after the Congress, without any significant cohesive force that would lead to some kind of compromise.
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