Minorities under Attack.

Othering and Right-Wing Extremism in Southeast European Societies

Martin Mlinaric, Sebastian Goll, Johannes Gold, Martin Mlinaric, Sebastian Goll, Johannes Gold

• Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9783447105538
• eBook ISBN: 9783447195058
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Minority Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

In the media, Southeastern Europe (SEE) is repeatedly portrayed as an area characterized by the exclusion of the "Other". There is no doubt that xenophobia, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and anti-Ziganism are deeply rooted within every European society, as is evident in the rise of hostile atmospheres towards Muslims in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. Recurrent debates in Germany on so-called "poverty- and social welfare-migrants" from Bulgaria, Kosovo, and Romania, as well as anti-Islam movements like Patriotic Europeans against Islamization of the Occident (PEGIDA) are illustrating examples. Focusing on Southeastern Europe, this volume will make a nuanced contribution to these ongoing debates. Volume contributions are composed as empirical case studies on diverse forms of othering in different national contexts and settings of SEE and bare actual insights for further comparisons; some of them also seek to compare or analyze transnational aspects. In methodological terms, these contributions take a multilayer perspective addressing a variety of different academic schools and approaches including historiographic perspectives, remembrance history, poststructuralist discourse analysis, intersectional feminist and queer research, network analysis, studies on social movements, quantitative approaches, societal comparison, and anthropology.The editors managed to gather a broad variety of contributors from different disciplines both from the region of Southeastern Europe and Germany. Therefore, this volume is a multi-perspective contribution to answer the question on manifestations of othering in SEE. Especially in the light of the refugee crisis, the texts presented in this volume are relevant for the whole of Europe.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Acknowledgements
• Sebastian Goll, Martin Mlinarić, and Johannes Gold: Minorities under Attack: Othering and Right-Wing Extremism in Southeast Eu opean Societies
• Johannes Gold: Measuring Interethnic Relations: A Quantitative Approximation on the Relations between Albanians and Serbs in post-UNMIK Kosovo (2008–2014)
• Zhidas Daskalovski: Skopje 2014: Construction of a Nation and its Exclusionary Effects
• Claudia Lichnofsky: The Exclusion of Minorities and the Construction of Identities: The Case of Anti-Ziganism in Kosovo
• Jelena Kisić and Željana Tunić: “For Homeland – ready!” World War II Remembrance Culture in Croatia
• Dragan Šljivić and Martin Mlinarić: Sexual Othering and Democracy in post-Yugoslav Societies: A Comparison of Dveri and U ime obitelji
• Costas Canakis and Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić: Spray-Canned Discourses Reimagining Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship Trough Linguistic Landscapes in the Balkans
• Sanja Đurin: On the Politics of Sexuality in Croatia during the 1990s, the Discourses that Shaped it and its Current Symptoms
• Henry Ludwig: Big Brother’s Big Bang: Debates and Developments on LGBT Issues in Albania since 1990
• Sebastian Goll: Right-Wing Extremism in Romania
• Philipp Karl: Network Analysis of Right-Wing Extremism in Hungary
• Đorđe Tomić: Post-Yugoslavia’s “Political Wasteland” and the Radical Right: Between State Sponsored Nationalism and Neoliberal pro-European Reform Course
• Maik Fielitz: Beyond the Fringe: Unfolding the Dynamics of Golden Dawn’s rise
• Antony Todorov: The Extreme Right Wing in Bulgaria
• List of Contributors