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#Balkanization: A Critical Study of Otherness through Twitter

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  • Study in the Field of Knowledge – Discourse, Media Studies and Semantics

Part of the book series: Masters of Peace (MAPEAC)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
  2. Conclusions and Future Work

    • Liridona Veliu
    Pages 97-99
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 101-134

About this book

Liridona Veliu examines ‘balkanization’ as a long-standing discourse of identity construction, otherness and stereotyping through Twitter. Although deriving from the Balkans and attached to the Balkan Peninsula, the ‘balkanization’ discourse has gained a life of its own. The author challenges its current manifestations shaped by the era of social media and identifies and connects its meanings with deeper processes of historical events. This book denaturalizes ‘balkanization’ as a constructed source of knowledge, approaching the topic embedded in genealogy and deconstructivism, and applies critical discourse analysis as a method of research.

Authors and Affiliations

  • UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Liridona Veliu

About the author

Liridona Veliu is a peace researcher from the MA program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is currently a PhD student at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Congruently, she is supporting the Erasmus+ European Commission funded project on the creation of the graduate curricula in Peace Studies in Georgia (PESTUGE) as part of the University of Innsbruck staff.

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