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VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Multiculturalism in time of terrorism : re-imagining Europe post-9/11.

This article analyzes media coverage of the protests in France in 2005 in Slovenia. The key finding is that the image of the protesters were framed by the discourse of Islamic fundamentalism and negative depictions of Muslims after 9/11. The author places this finding in the theoretical discussion about citizenship, identity and belonging in Slovenia and Europe.

COBISS.SI-ID: 43150690

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Ksenija Vidmar Horvat: The maps of the in--betweeness: essays on European culture and identity after the Cold War

This book deals with the social change in Europe after the Cold War era. It exposes the question of the process of transformation of cultural identity and it focuses the research angle on the Slovenian post-socialist experience. The scientific research is based on media studies and media coverage on the occasion of the joining of Slovenia of the Schengen regime, riots in France, debates on consumer goods in the EU and investigates the role of media in the construction of popular memory and comparisons between past and present times.

COBISS.SI-ID: 249172224

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VIDMAR, Ksenija H., DELANTY, Gerard. 'Mitteleuropa and the European Heritage'.

This study is a result of international collaboration with a renown author of social theory and theory of Europeanization, which was triggered by him to theoretically further the concept of ‘Mitteleuropa’ with the insights from political and cultural reality of post-socialist Slovenian society. A comparative analysis of Central-European, trans-European and Slovenian appropriations of the notion of Mitteleuropa leads to the development of a new scientific knowledge that Mitteleuropa is predominantly a discourse,which allows for the development of multiperspectival Europe.

COBISS.SI-ID: 36444258

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VIDMAR, Ksenija H. Consuming European identity : the inconspicuous side of consumerism in the EU.

The article analyzes media discourses about the formation of two European markets for former Western and Eastern Europe. The analysis is based on discourse reading of public perceptions which emerge from the discussion about consumerism and links these with the memories of socialism in the Slovene society of today.

COBISS.SI-ID: 40165218

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Ana Vogrinčič Čepič: Marginal Europe: image of the European Union through marginal newspaper references

The article presents the analysis of newspaper coverage of EU-related topics (i.e. the European Union, intercultural dialogue and the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU')in two Slovenian dailies (Jan. - June 2008). It focuses on articles which only just mention but do not deal per se with EU issues (categorised as marginal). As such, they function as repositories of meanings, revealing latent conceptions of the common European space. The author demonstrates the effects of the ephemeral by applying critical discourse analysis to the selected examples.

COBISS.SI-ID: 29067101