Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia
EU is discursive field where multiple meanings are created, negotiated and contested. Research has shown that it has interpretive power often used as an instrument of political confrontation. Such is the case, this study argues, with the two largest Macedonian parties – the Social Democrats and VMRO...
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Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
2017-01-01
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| author | Aleksandar Takovski |
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| description | EU is discursive field where multiple meanings are created, negotiated and contested. Research has shown that it has interpretive power often used as an instrument of political confrontation. Such is the case, this study argues, with the two largest Macedonian parties – the Social Democrats and VMRO -DPMNE – who in a pursuit of changing or maintaining power have produced an EU discourse fitting to their own political agendas. In a situation of a prolonged political crisis, and a significant EU involvement in it, the two parties have turned their EU discourse into an instrument of positive presentation of the self and a negative presentation of the other. The general goal of the study is to analyze the specific discursive strategies in the party programs and media statements of the two parties and their leaders. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4158edb5cce842b5a3cf7c8763ee9e332024-04-15T15:16:03ZengFaculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Faculty of Political Science, University of ZagrebPolitičke Perspektive2217-561X2335-027X2017-01-0173274910.20901/pp.7.3.02Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in MacedoniaAleksandar Takovski0Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje, Republic of MacedoniaEU is discursive field where multiple meanings are created, negotiated and contested. Research has shown that it has interpretive power often used as an instrument of political confrontation. Such is the case, this study argues, with the two largest Macedonian parties – the Social Democrats and VMRO -DPMNE – who in a pursuit of changing or maintaining power have produced an EU discourse fitting to their own political agendas. In a situation of a prolonged political crisis, and a significant EU involvement in it, the two parties have turned their EU discourse into an instrument of positive presentation of the self and a negative presentation of the other. The general goal of the study is to analyze the specific discursive strategies in the party programs and media statements of the two parties and their leaders.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/314132MacedoniaEuropean Unionparty programsEU discoursenegative campaign |
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| title | Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia |
| title_full | Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia |
| title_fullStr | Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia |
| title_short | Turning EU into me and you: The politicization of EU representations in Macedonia |
| title_sort | turning eu into me and you the politicization of eu representations in macedonia |
| topic | Macedonia European Union party programs EU discourse negative campaign |
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