Dissemination of the Image of Dark-Province of Bih in Belgrade Publishing and Newspapers Industry in the Early 1980s. Cover Image

Diseminacija slike tamnovilajetske BiH u beogradskoj izdavačkoj i informativnoj djelatnosti s početka 1980-ih godina
Dissemination of the Image of Dark-Province of Bih in Belgrade Publishing and Newspapers Industry in the Early 1980s.

Author(s): Denis Veladžić
Subject(s): Media studies, Ethnohistory, Nationalism Studies, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade’s opposition intelligentsia; BiH Communist Party; dark-province; Muslims / Bosniaks; Vuk Drašković; Knife; Esad Ćimić; Politics as a Destiny; Vojislav Šešelj;

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this paper is the image of the dark-province of BiH, created and disseminated perception of the aforementioned republic, which emerged in the Belgrade publishing and newspapers industry in the early 1980s. Ideological syntagm of the dark-province of BiH implies a “criticism” and a negative stance towards the socio-political reality and conditions in that republic at that time. The paper points to the main propagators of the syntagma and explains their driving motive, placing their activism in the context of broader socio-political environments and movements on the ideological scene of socialist Yugoslavia then. Through an analysis of the narratives used to build this image, the means and methods employed by the proponents of this perception, their ethical and scientific approach in processing facts and presenting BiH reality, the paper points to the main structure theories used to construct the image of dark-province of BiH.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 115-172
  • Page Count: 58
  • Language: Bosnian