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21 JEMIE 1 (2022)

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Joural on Ethnopoliics and
Minority issues in Europe
Jsurnal onEtntoPci tics and     Banal Balkanism? - Rethinking Banal
Nationalism     and Regional Identity in the Post-
Vo 21    ue                     Yugoslav Media Space
pp. 1-22                        Martina Plantak
Edina Paleviq
DOI:
Andrdssy University Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
With the collapse of Yugoslavia, the supranational Yugoslav identity
Authors:                        disappeared and was replaced by strengthened national identities. While
some states of the former Yugoslavia have rediscovered their
Ma rti n Pnta k                Europeanness, others have further strengthened their national identity.
This paper answers the question of whether, three decades after the
dissolution of Yugoslavia, a so-called regional identity still exists among
the former Yugoslav states (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo). The authors
set the initial hypothesis that belonging to a regional - in this case, Balkan
a- identity is more pronounced in the five candidate (Serbia, Montenegro
and North Macedonia) and potential candidate countries (Bosnia and
Herzegovina (BiH), and Kosovo) for European Union (EU) membership
than in Slovenia and Croatia, which have become EU Member States.
Hence, this article will provide insight into regional identity and the
banality of Balkanism reproduced in state media. By examining articles
on national online news portals, we will examine the linkage between
symbols and deixes in media and their role in creating national and
regional identity. This analysis will confirm our initial hypothesis that the
term regional identity is much more prominent in the media of the EU
candidate countries, than in those states which are already members of the
EU. By analysing everyday nationalism in the media - a gap that exists in

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