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Albanians Ante Portas: Representation of Albanian Migrants in the British Media
No full textThe topic of Albanian immigration to the UK recently gained prominence in the British
media, evoking sensationalist claims and tropes of Albanians being prone to criminal
activities, comprising a majority of people crossing to the UK illegally via the English
Channel by small rafts and boats, even emphasising a surge of children born in the UK to
Albanian parents. In this article, the authors conducted nominative and predicative
discourse analysis in order to identify crucial discursive strategies of the British media’s
reporting on Albanian immigration in 2022 and 2023. Three representative outlets were
considered: left-oriented The Guardian, conservative The Times and right-wing The Sun.
Some 200 articles featuring Albania/ns overall were identified and analysed, the majority
of which focused on immigration. It is argued that the over-representation of Albanian
immigration in the British media and political life reiterates centuries-old prejudices and
stereotypes about the Balkans, often presenting Albanians collectively as “intruders”,
“criminals”, abusers of public funds, villains in the old threat narrative about the invasion
of the British shores, and arguably instrumentalised them as a smokescreen for pressing
internal economic and political problems
Articulating contesting policy narratives: Acomparative analysis of two political arenas Democracy Democratisation Environmental Policy Political Participation Public Policy Agenda-Setting Narratives Policy-Making
No full textGiven that the narratives used to articulate, justify and challenge public policies are the lifeblood of political life, the existence of a democratic public sphere in which different narratives about public policies collide and contest each other is very important. For this reason, this research seeks to examine and compare the characteristics of public policy narratives articulated in two different, but comparable, political arenas, the citizen assembly and the public hearing. The main goal of the research is to use the narrative components index (NCI), to examine the characteristics of the narratives within both arenas, in the context of the hybrid regime, for the purpose of comparative analysis of those narratives regarding the two most constant variables for measuring the quality of democracy, inclusivity and contestation. If the research shows that within the deliberation process in the citizens' assembly, a more inclusive narrative was articulated that contests the dominant narrative of politicians of the ruling coalition, then we can say that the deliberation process leads to the democratization and pluralization of the public sphere in terms of narratives about policies. The preliminary results of this research, which is part of my doctoral dissertation in preparation, will be presented at the conference itself
Polite Divergence? Exploring the Barrenness of Digital Sociology Due to Absence of Conflict and Controversy
No full textIn the last ten years, following the publication of the first “grand” book about Digital Sociology (Lupton, 2014), only two more books have been produced, along with a few journal special issues named “Digital Sociology”. In our bibliometric analysis, since 2015, only 31 articles have included the term “digital sociology” as part of their title, keyword, or abstract. Certainly, this isn't an indicator that scholars are not dealing with the various topics of digital technology and different aspects of society. Rather, it points to a problem within Digital Sociology as a field and its (delayed) fruitful emergence. The question is - why is this the case? Using Andrew Abbott's fractal distinction analysis and Bruno Latour's concept of scientific controversies, we aim to shed light on the absence of prevalence of Digital Sociology as a field. We argue that the field's sterility is premised on at least two underlying issues. The first one is the lack of open theoretical and conceptual conflicts (and therefore - “controversy”) among “digital sociologists”. Even though their perspectives diverge and sometimes directly oppose each other, authors “politely” cover up these core disagreements, and cite opposed ideas as “diversity” that digital sociology supposedly nurtures. This nullifies the development of ontological, epistemological, and theoretical frameworks. The second, broader one, stems from sociology's inability to acknowledge the crisis that digital technology, algorithms, and AI introduced to its monopoly on empirical inquiry. Finally, we aim to explore the inherent temporality of Digital Sociology and propose ways in which its untimely demise could be averted
International Conference "Transformations of Late Socialism: the 1980s" Book of Abstracts, Belgrade, 28th – 29th October 2024
No full textWhat is normalcy?
No full textNormalcy is a controversial concept in modern psychotherapy, which suffers from the postmodernist woes of seeking to question the very normative foundations of what is personal and collective wellbeing and thus, also, ‘mental health’. In this paper we reaffirm the concept of normalcy along the Lacanian psychoanalytic lines of socialization and internalization of projections of virtue and the underlying values adopted by the community. In the process, we distinguish between the constitutive elements of individual normalcy, resilience as an attribute of mental health (and, thus, of normalcy) that is associated with the propositional characteristics of individual normalcy, and institutional and social normalcy as parallel to individual normalcy
Kako razbiti zid ćutanja?
No full textZbornik radova Rod i nasilje na Balkanu rezultat je zimske škole koja je u februaru 2024. godine održana u Novom Sadu, u organizaciji Univerziteta u Novom Sadu, sarajevske TPO fondacije, Instituta za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju Univerziteta u Beogradu i Univerzitetskog gender resursnog centra iz Sarajeva (Ćeriman, Knežević, Lalić-Krstin 2024a). U svom uvodnom tekstu, urednice publikacije, Jelena Ćeriman, Aleksandra Knežević i Gordana Lalić-Krstin, obaveštavaju nas o motivu da se rod i nasilje nađu u imenu zimske škole (Ćeriman, Knežević, Lalić-Krstin 2024b). Škola je, naime, trebalo da podstakne da se kritički reflektuje o kulturi ćutanja i poricanja rodno zasnovanog nasilja. Govoriti obuhvatno i sistematično o fenomenu nasilja i kritički osvetljavati kontekst koji ga omogućava, ohrabruje ili ne kažnjava, po sebi je već hrabar i odgovoran čin, koji mora probiti granice učionice. Ako smo umesto ćutanju i poricanju izloženi podsticaju da mislimo i progovorimo, vrlo je moguće da ćemo već samo time početi da menjamo kulturu – ili nekulturu – koja nasilje odobrava, ne stajući mu na put. Zbornik Rod i nasilje na Balkanu otuda zbilja možemo razumeti kao svojevrsnu direktnu akciju u pravcu promene te kulture. On je dragoceni dokaz o tome šta se dogodi kada polaznice i polaznici jedne ovakve škole odmah ulože napor da sprovedu istraživanja čiji je cilj da se s ćutanjem obračunaju
Virtualis rokonság: Identitás, kisebbség és diasporizáció a vajdasági Magyar közösségben (Virtuelno srodstvo: identitet, manjine i dijasporizacija u vojvođanskoj mađarskoj zajednici)
No full text2024. március 7-én Rácz Krisztina, a Belgrádi Egyetem Filozófiai és Társadalomelméleti Intézetének tudományos munkatársa tartott előadást a Földrajztudományi Intézetben „Virtuális rokonság: Identitás, kisebbség és diaszporizáció a vajdasági magyar közösségben” címmel. Rácz Krisztina kutatási területei a nyelv, többnyelvűség, multikulturalizmus, etnikai kisebbségek és oktatás; társadalmi emlékezet, nemek és migráció, a kortárs elméleti perspektívákra építő virtuális etnográfiai módszerek alkalmazásával.
Előadásában két Facebook-oldal, a Rokon Ilonka Copyright és az University of Bótelőtt posztjait és kommentjeit elemezve mutatta be napjaink vajdasági magyar identitáselemeit főbb tematikus csomópontok köré szervezve, továbbá rámutatott a kisebbségkutatás és a diaszpórakutatás összekapcsolásának szükségszerűségére és lehetőségeire. Az előadást követően élénk diszkusszió bontakozott ki a témában, mind az előadás szakmai újdonságaival kapcsolatban, mind a közönség személyes tapasztalataira támaszkodva.https://hungarian-geography.hu/nyitolap.htm