Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to serve as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politics, gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. It is open to all theoretical strands, to all schools and non-schools of thought without prioritizing cannons and their major figures of authority. It does not seek doctrinal consistency, but it seeks consistency in rigor of investigation which can combine frameworks of interpretation derived from various and sometimes opposed schools of thought. Our passion is one for topics rather than philosophical masters.
Identities is published by the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje, North Macedonia.
Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender, and Culture is proud to announce the official call for papers for its newest issue of the Joural: Identities, Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2022): Universality and the Future of Europe.
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This Special Issue of Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is result of implementation of a project „Combatting anti-EU discourses and misinformation in North Macedonia and Serbia “ funded by the International Visegrad fund, This project builds on a previous IVF supported project, titled “Alliances for EU.” One of the major takeaways from the previous project is: the main issue to be tackled to help “unfreeze” the negotiations is the misinformation about the EU negotiating framework, rising pro-Russian narratives painting the EU as undemocratic. The project we are proposing now is focusing on a relatively recent phenomenon, namely the virtual indistinguishability between pro-EU and anti-EU actors. In North Macedonia, the traditional pro-EU civil society actors have suddenly turned into “disappointed Europeans,” who reject the Framework consistently dubbing it the “French Proposal,” interpreting it as undemocratic pro-Bulgarian trap set by the EU, appeals to abandon EU accession have been overwhelming in the public, launched by the political left and right. The discourse of disillusionment with the EU and the impossibility to distinguish between pro-EU and anti-EU actors is something that marks Serbia as well: the actors differ in relation to the question of authoritarianism and open pro-Russian positions(those opposing Aleksandar Vucic), but there is a wide consensus about a disillusionment with the EU. Thus, we are not facing simple misinformation or disinformation that can be tackled by fact-checking only, but by revealing narrative building by actors clearly identified in a recent study commissioned by the German Bundestag (ISD, Mediaweb: Dec. 2024) leading to a new social consensus.
Katarina Kolozova, Juraj Marušiak, Michal Vit
CONTENTS
Jelisaveta Blagojević and Irena Cvetković - Cycling to Brussels: Democratic Subjectivity Between Situationship and Political Form
Spasimir Domaradzki - Internal Mobilization and European Integration. Polish Lessons and Macedonian Experience
Christina Eva Griessler - Illiberal loyalists: Viktor Orbán’s regional clientelistic networks in the Western Balkans
Katarina Kolozova - Misinformation Through Selective Information Geared Toward Anti-EU Narrative Building
Juraj Marušiak - Foreign policy – a new field of populist politics. Case study of the “Eastern policy” of Slovakia after the 2023 national elections
Michal Vit - Shaping the narrative of (dis)information, a view from the Czech Republic
Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal that seeks to serve as a platform for the theoretical production of Southeastern Europe and enable its visibility and an opening for international debate with authors from both the “intellectual centers” and the “intellectual margins” of the world. It is particularly interested in promoting theoretical investigations which see issues of politics, gender and culture as inextricably interrelated. It is open to all theoretical strands, to all schools and non-schools of thought without prioritizing cannons and their major figures of authority. It does not seek doctrinal consistency, but it seeks consistency in rigor of investigation which can combine frameworks of interpretation derived from various and sometimes opposed schools of thought. Our passion is one for topics rather than philosophical masters.
Identities is published by the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje, North Macedonia.
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