We suggest the "sensitizing concept of mediatization" as an analytical tool to analyze public communication of social movements in times of social, economic and political crisis, and we apply the tool to explore the case of the Slovenian uprisings of 2012-13. First, theoretically, we couple Tilly's understanding of social movements' practices with Hjarvard's distinction between "direct" and "indirect" forms of mediatization. Second, in the empirical part, we categorize and classify movement organizations, activist initiatives and political groups into two distinct groups and observe how they respond to the media logic of newsworthiness and the political logic of office-seeking during the contentious actions of mass mobilization. We observe asymmetrical responses to processes of mediatization, which vary according to organizational structure, practices and movements' vision of social transformation. The article shows how different protest groups respond to the three media logic techniques: a) personalization of political actors, b) decontextualization and simplification of transformative potential that are inherent to protest cycles, and how the two mobilized groups interact with the journalistic focus on c) spectacle and images of violence. We argue that the more the specific movement/group expresses criticism over the interplay of the media and the political logic, marked by the three discursive modes mentioned, the less it adopts the dominant media logic and the more it adopts alternative media action.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 36350045The book illustrates how the trend of associating migrants and refugees with criminality is on the rise. In political discourses and popular media alike, migrants and refugees are frequently portrayed as being dangerous, while cultures intent on welcoming newcomers are increasingly seen as being naive, and providing assistance to migrants is more and more frequently subject to administrative or criminal penalties. At the same time, nondemocratic trends and practices that violate human rights and equality are gaining momentum in Europe, the US and Australia. Racism, xenophobia and anti-Islamism are simultaneously becoming more open and public; they are no longer restricted to clandestine platforms but are increasingly being mainstreamed into the political programs of parties that are entering both the EU parliaments and member state legislatures. Similar developments can be seen in the US and Australia. Such transformations in societies, governments, and institutions seem to reflect a growing amnesia regarding the lessons of the two World Wars of the 20th century, and the role that Europe, the US and Australia played in developing a post-war legal framework based on a shared, if imperfect, commitment to human rights. The book presents individual national analyses to reveal an emerging trend of “crimmigration” regardless of the peculiarities of national legislatures and internal political dynamics. By collecting original contributions from scholars based in and focused on each of these regions, it addresses above all the causes and impacts of the criminalization of migration in the early 21st century. It tackles the direct causes of these trends and encourages readers to rethink their broader political and socio-historic context. Importantly, the book does so by highlighting the ties between the criminalization of migration and equality, racism, and xenophobia. Contributions of the research group: KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža, FRETT, Barry, KETCHUM, Elizabeth Stark. Global crimmigration trends. V: KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža (ur.). Causes and consequences of migrant criminalization, (Ius gentium, ISSN 1534-6781, vol. 81). Cham: Springer. cop. 2020, str. 3-25. [COBISS.SI-ID 22953475] KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža. EU conditionality in the Western Balkans : does it lead to criminalisation of migration?. V: KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža (ur.). Causes and consequences of migrant criminalization, (Ius gentium, ISSN 1534-6781, vol. 81). Cham: Springer. cop. 2020, str. 131-155, tabele, graf. prikazi. [COBISS.SI-ID 22953987] JALUŠIČ, Vlasta. Less than criminals : crimmigration "law" and the creation of the dual state. V: KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža (ur.). Causes and consequences of migrant criminalization, (Ius gentium, ISSN 1534-6781, vol. 81). Cham: Springer. cop. 2020, str. 69-87. [COBISS.SI-ID 22953731] BAJT, Veronika. Crimmigration and nationalist paranoia. V: KOGOVŠEK ŠALAMON, Neža (ur.). Causes and consequences of migrant criminalization, (Ius gentium, ISSN 1534-6781, vol. 81). Cham: Springer. cop. 2020, str. 171-189. [COBISS.SI-ID 22954243]
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 22953219This article starts from the premise that the democratic struggle over (state) power consists not solely of an exchange of rational arguments, but is inherently affective and emotional. The right-wing populist and nationalist emotional discourse can yield political capital from spreading fear, but also through antagonistic distinctions between the ‘common sense’ of the people, i.e. ‘us down here’, the hardening and coldness of the political class, ‘those up above’, and the ‘Others’, i.e. migrants and refugees, who are untrustworthy or threatening. These discourses accelerated across Europe, including Austria and Slovenia, two countries at the middle-north of the so-called Balkan route of migration, after the ‘summer of migration’ in 2015. The overall aim of this article is to analyse and theorize right-wing national populist mobilization and communication strategies with a perspective on affective governmentality. Which affects have right-wing national populists mobilized in Austria and Slovenia since 2015 when both countries adopted emergency legislation curbing the rights of migrants? How are populist antagonisms (such as anti-elitism, people-centrism and Othering) modulated by affects? How do parties create an exclusive and exclusionary affective atmosphere? And to what kind of governing people and governmentality does the affective charging of populist antagonisms lead?
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 40231427The Slovenian Sociological Association awarded the book edited by dr. Ana Podvršič and dr. Maja Breznik, Chains of Global Capitalism (Sophia Publishing House, 2019); the book was awarded for its scientific contribution in the field of sociology. With the book, the authors presented a new research area that studies the integration of companies into global production and consumption systems. With methodologically innovative, empirically based and theoretically elaborated analyses, the collection presented a new mental horizon, the task of which is to explain the issue of unequal development of regions in the time of globalization of production and supply chains.
E.01 National awards
COBISS.SI-ID: 301722880Paper argues that different forms of populism not only differ from one institutional framework to another, but manifest themselves according to principles and mechanisms, prevalent in the social field in question. Paper’s main aim is twofold: it mainly points out numerous differences in rhetoric, content as well as styles that exist across the social, political and media spectrums. Secondly, it explores cleavages intrinsic to the complex phenomenon of populism at the crossroads of political field, journalistic field, field of NGOs and field of social movements. Author presents preliminary findings of an ongoing empirical study of broader political reactions expressed by numerous actors in mentioned social fields to an increased number of arrivals of refugees and migrants in Slovenia from 2015 onward. He first and foremost argues that the »refugee crisis« (2015 and 2016) served as a focal point for a reinvention of the social-liberal consensus (Gonzalez Villa, 2017) and reinsertion of the far-right in the country after the crisis of neoliberal hegemonic formation (from 2010-2014). On the other hand the paper explores the notion of inclusionary and participatory populism (Dzur and Hendriks 2018) and presents how various non-parliamentary (civil society) actors developed critical counterarguments (in various published petitions, manifestos, public letters etc.) and participatory practices (protests, coordination groups, meetings, working shops etc.). The paper concludes with the examination of the journalistic discourse and the role of populism in the Slovenian media reporting during the period of last 5 years. Author evaluates the role of the Slovenian media in the reproduction of migrants as the outcast group, as well as the journalistic role of enhancers, creators and reproducers of xenophobic and exclusionary populism.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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