Boundary-making in Europe’s Southeastern Margin: Balkan/Europe Discourse in Croatia and Slovenia

Abstract

L eading up to and following the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in 1991, leaders of national independence movements rallied around the aim of “returning to Europe.” Construing nation-state identities as European was a means by which national elites sought to gain international support for national independence movements with the dissolution of SFRY, and to differentiate their respective national identities from the Yugoslav (or “Balkan”) sphere, to which they claimed they were artificially tied for the past several decades. Europe was thus simultaneously an important element of internal national self-understanding, and something external to the nation, an identity to be achieved. As Susan Gal (1991, 442) points out, the rhetorical slogan “return to Europe” suggests such a duality, for one must return to a place where it currently does not belong. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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