Test the West : Transformations of Central European Ideas of Belonging to the West
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Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Test the West : Transformations of Central European Ideas of Belonging to the West
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
In this chapter I propose a new methodological tool for analyzing social and communicative phenomena that I call "a deictic perspective". Deploying this perspective, the chapter explores various ways in which the notions of "us" has been formed by, and transformed in, the most salient parts of discourse - slogans used in public rallies in two Central European countries in two different times. In late 1989 the West was the much desired Other for many citizens of Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic; at the turn of 2014 and 2015, the West frequently became a rhetoric means by which to protect "us" against the undesired Other, i.e. the (often Muslim) migrants coming from non-European territories - the East and the South. The once cheerful we-want-to-be-part-of-the-West attitude has been, by some people at least, transformed into a much less cheerful we-don't-want-others-to-be-part-of-the-West. Based on samples of public discourse from Germany and Czech Republic, I argue that the deictic perspective suits to comparing the fine interplay among time, space and identity. The chapter concludes by emphasizing both similarities and differences in public "we" across time and space within Central Europe, thus documenting the changing - and yet to a certain degree stable - sense(s) of belonging to the West.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Test the West : Transformations of Central European Ideas of Belonging to the West
Popis výsledku anglicky
In this chapter I propose a new methodological tool for analyzing social and communicative phenomena that I call "a deictic perspective". Deploying this perspective, the chapter explores various ways in which the notions of "us" has been formed by, and transformed in, the most salient parts of discourse - slogans used in public rallies in two Central European countries in two different times. In late 1989 the West was the much desired Other for many citizens of Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic; at the turn of 2014 and 2015, the West frequently became a rhetoric means by which to protect "us" against the undesired Other, i.e. the (often Muslim) migrants coming from non-European territories - the East and the South. The once cheerful we-want-to-be-part-of-the-West attitude has been, by some people at least, transformed into a much less cheerful we-don't-want-others-to-be-part-of-the-West. Based on samples of public discourse from Germany and Czech Republic, I argue that the deictic perspective suits to comparing the fine interplay among time, space and identity. The chapter concludes by emphasizing both similarities and differences in public "we" across time and space within Central Europe, thus documenting the changing - and yet to a certain degree stable - sense(s) of belonging to the West.
Klasifikace
Druh
C - Kapitola v odborné knize
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2018
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název knihy nebo sborníku
Cultures in Times of Transition. East Central Europe after 1989
ISBN
978-83-64707-25-4
Počet stran výsledku
13
Strana od-do
111-123
Počet stran knihy
130
Název nakladatele
Piktogram Polska
Místo vydání
Slubice
Kód UT WoS kapitoly
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