Naslov
Europe as ‘Other’: Historical discourses on European in Croatia

Autori
Martina Topić

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
9th International conference on History: From ancient to modern

Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 01.08.2011. - 04.08.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
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Sažetak
Drawing from the research findings from FP7 ‘Identities and modernities in Europe’ project, this paper discusses the interplay between religion and identity in Croatia. The main argument is that present situation is a result of long historical politics of Croatian officials, premodern as well as modern in maintaining strong relations with the Catholic Church that was participating in national unification process. Europe and European was however always used as an instrument for achieving national cohesion. Notions of antemurale christianitatis, unquestionable belonging to Europe accompanied with necessary ‘return’ to Europe, European betrayal, cradle of Christianity and similar discourses rule Croatian politics and the public sphere through out history up to today shifting from one to another depending on the current situation in the country. There are three main discourses that can be identified: national, religious and European however, their usage is different. In this national always went together with the religious equalizing ethnicity and the faith (term ‘Croat-Catholic’) whereas European was used to enforce the first two however, it has been presented as unquestionable and necessary. When the so called ‘return’ to Europe would fail then a politics of the European betrayal would get enforced. In this sense, Croatian politics was always closely tied with the European and the notion of Europe as the reference point. However, Europe and the European were used as an instrument in achieving the national and as, some sort of, ‘other’.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Rad u okviru projekta FP7 IME

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