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Relationship between nationalism and urban or rural environment is not one that is often studied, part from traditional historical interpretation of it being a modern, urban phenomenon, characterized by imagery and discourse of rurality. Yet it seems that, in the last several decades, not only have nationalist conflicts mostly been rooted within the countryside and nationalist agendas won on elections in them, but that there is a more fundamental connection between nationalism and rurality. While briefly addressing this issue, this paper focuses on the analysis of 2014 GSS data, exploring the relationship between the place of living and the notion of national belonging. What is presented is a clear, but not conclusive, evidence on the presence of more nationalistic attitudes among persons living in rural areas, especially among those who spent most of their childhood in them. More details under projects page.
Discourse analysis is used to analyse identity constructs promoted in school textbooks for Serbian diaspora, looking for the elements of common national and cultural identity, and the way in which common historical past, present, but also future, is constructed. Additionally, I looked for presentation of Serbian diaspora and its historical role. Following Appadurai and Bauböck, I assume that diaspora is Anderson’s imagined community, which as a political project needs to be imagined and mobilized across the world - and these textbooks are one of the unifying components. General description of the textbooks was created by quantifying 822 lessons across 20 categories of analysis. Sample of 99 units was selected for discourse analysis, which was employed by modifying Ruth Wodak’s main themes through emphasis on Hall’s discursive strategies and Hobsbawm’s invented tradition.
For the purpose of my bachelor thesis, I attempted to reconstruct the image of Serbia and Canada portrayed in Serbian diaspora weekly newspapers “Novine” from Toronto, assuming that at least in part they shape and reflect political and cultural attitudes and formations of Serbian diaspora. Sample included 1579 texts from March 2011 to March 2012, quantitatively analyzed in 35 substantial categories, of which few were qualitatively studied.
The goal of this paper was to determine the way in which four Belgrade daily newspapers – “Danas”, “Politika”, “Kurir” and “Pravda”, reported on public gathering led by “Nacionalni stroj”, a national-socialist organization. The period covered was three weeks before, and two weeks after the gathering. The results show that newspapers “Danas” and “Politika” gave a lot of attention to the problem of Nazism and fascism in society, and to whether and how should society react to that public gathering. “Kurir” and “Pravda” gave significantly less attention to the gathering, and the problem of Nazism and fascism was brought up only as a daily-political topic. An important observation, to which we came, shows that radical organizations started to act “politically correct” in media, although their statutes and programs haven’t changed at all, which implies an important question: what kind of attitude should media have towards that type of organizations.
Assistantship, GPA 3.67 (4.00).
Full tuition award, av. grade 9.67 (10.0).
Full tuition award and scholarship, av. grade 9.12 (10.0), top 5% of cohort in speed of studies.
Special school for gifted and talented students of mathematics, physics and informatics, with advanced curriculum.