Where is Serbia? Traditions of Spatial Identity and State Positioning in Serbian Geopolitical Culture

Savić, Bojan

doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.915808

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“…The narcissistic reaction was reflected in frequent references to Serbia’s “genuinely good people”, “historical role in protecting Europe”, “being the first and the last gate of Europe” (Interviews 9, 17, 19), and even “being more European than Europeans themselves when it comes to the migrant crisis” (Politika, 2015). These narcissistic interpretations only echoed deep-seated geopolitical imaginaries of being the bulwark of Christianity (Savić 2014, p. 698). By putting Serbia’s refugee history forward (RTS, 2018), from the great migrations of the Serbs in 17th and 18th century to the forced displacements caused by the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s, the officials were hoping that empathy fostered through self-identification with migrants would serve as the best cure to the rising citizens’ anxieties (Aljazeera Balkans, 2015).…”

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Ontological Insecurity as an Emergent Phenomenon

Ejdus

Rečević

2021

European Psychologist

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Abstract. One of the central debates in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been about the level-of-analysis. While some authors focus on individuals, others have scaled up the concept and applied it to collectives such as states as the main ontological security seekers. In this article, we contribute to the level-of-analysis debate in OSS by providing a novel argument in defense of scaling up. By drawing on the literatures on complexity and securitization, we conceptualize ontological security as an emergent phenomenon. It arises from the ground-up and is driven by feedback loops in a non-linear and spontaneous fashion from horizontal micro-interactions and securitizations from below, ultimately reaching a tipping point. We illustrate this argument in a case study of anti-immigrant mobilization in Serbia since the outbreak of the European migration crisis (2015–2020). At the outset of the crisis, state officials interpreted the migration crisis as a manageable and temporary situation, adopted an “open door” policy and even banned far-right extremist demonstrations against migration. Over time, however, ontological insecurity over the migrant threat has gradually emerged from the bottom-up through a cascade of rumors, connective action, and everyday securitizing acts. While it might be too early to conclude that the national tipping point has been reached, this case study clearly shows why ontological insecurity merits to be studied as an emergent phenomenon.

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Ontological Insecurity as an Emergent Phenomenon

Ejdus

Rečević

2021

European Psychologist

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“…Considering online comments as users' participatory engagement with geopolitics is one way of accessing the everyday dimension of geopolitics postulated by Dittmer and Gray (2010). Previous research (e.g., Dittmer & Parr, 2011;Măgurean, 2017;Petsinis, 2016;Savić, 2014;Subotić, 2016) has concentrated on elite (practical geopolitics), media (popular) and academic (formal geopolitics) reasoning in Serbia and beyond in relation to Kosovo/South Ossetia and Abkhazia (on social levels of geopolitics, see Ó Tuathail, 1999). In contrast to this research, I ask how a particular geopolitical 'knowledge' is formed in the online communication of 'ordinary readers'.…”

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‘It is Krajina all over again’: geopolitics of spite and geographical analogy in a Serbian newspaper audience

Pierzynska

2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This paper addresses the negotiation of geopolitical knowledge by internet audiences in the comment section of the website of the Serbian newspaper Politika. It maps changes in the commenters' attitudes towards Russia's declarative role as the international protector of Serbia's territorial sovereignty through an examination of online comments on the Russo-Georgian war in 2008 and Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. Starting with Serbia's international humiliation during the Yugoslav wars, exemplified by the exodus from the Republic of Serbian Krajina in 1995 and the Kosovo crisis of 1999, it analyses the strategies that users deploy to draw geographical analogies between distant and local places and across time. The example of this Serbian newspaper comment board is used to discuss the benefits of deeper engagement with online comments in geopolitical narrative and argue for the value of treating geographical analogies as expressions of emotion. The sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) is shown to be useful in popular geopolitical analysis, especially of the knowledge/emotion nexus. SKAD is used to propose a context-specific way of accessing emotions in geopolitical narratives, taking the case of what is traditionally regarded as a national character trait in Serbia -inat, or 'spite, defiance'.

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“…According to Savić (2014), Serbia could not be labelled either as an Eastern or a Western culture because it has a lower Cultural Globalisation Index (74.63) compared to Germany (89.38) but higher than Russia (67.39) Gygli et al (2019). Some differences in the daily life in Serbia and Germany can also be associated with different levels of economic development and personal freedom.…”

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Personality traits and perception of parenting: The comparative twin study from Germany and Serbia

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This study examines the aetiology of the relationship between personality traits and perceived parenting in light of cross‐cultural differences. The sample consisted of 188 Serbian and 394 German twin pairs. Personality traits were measured using the NEO‐personality inventory. A Blocks Environmental Questionnaire (BEQ) was applied to measure two dimensions of perceived parenting: support and organisation. Genetic factors account for 63–79% of the variance for BEQ dimensions in both samples, while around 50–60% of the variance in Big Five personality scores could be attributed to genetic factors. The exception was Neuroticism in the Serbian sample, where the genetic effect was somewhat smaller. The results indicated similar etiological pathways of the relationship between personality traits and perceived parenting, with some cultural differences related to Neuroticism and Extraversion. Negative Neuroticism‐Support and positive Extraversion‐Organisation environmental relationships were stronger in the Serbian sample. Genetic overlaps were more significant in the German sample, except for the relationship of Organisation with Conscientiousness and Extraversion. This indicates that the relationship between personality and perceived parenting is largely genetically mediated, but that the environmental effect may play an important role in individual adaptation to the family setting.

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Where is Serbia? Traditions of Spatial Identity and State Positioning in Serbian Geopolitical Culture

Cited by 13 publications

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Ontological Insecurity as an Emergent Phenomenon

Ontological Insecurity as an Emergent Phenomenon

‘It is Krajina all over again’: geopolitics of spite and geographical analogy in a Serbian newspaper audience

Personality traits and perception of parenting: The comparative twin study from Germany and Serbia

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