Euroacademia Conferences
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition)April 24 - 25, 2020
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (9th Edition)June 12 - 13, 2020
8th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainJanuary 24 - 25, 2020
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (7th Edition)December 13 - 14, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (8th Edition)October 25 - 26, 2019
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (8th Edition)June 28 - 29, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)January 25 - 26, 2019- 7th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainNovember 23 - 24, 2018
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition)September 28 - 30, 2018- Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (7th Edition)June 14 - 15, 2018
Papers
Media Analysis Of Political Crisis and the Enlargement Policy of the European Union: Impact on European Integration Processes in Macedonia
The European scenario for the Macedonian case is completed with the meeting of the European Council in December 2014, without a discussion of the sixth European Commission recommendation to open accession negotiations to the European Union without the issue of the Greek blockade. In March and September 2016, Macedonia received the seventh and eight recommendation conditional on the successful completion of the political crisis and early legislative elections. Through the analysis of media content, interviews with scientists and experts in European integration processes, this research confirms the thesis that the institutional and political crisis in the EU mediated by the unresolved Greek blockade affects the integration processes of Macedonia, or a date for starting negotiations accession membership.Migratory Flows and Self-Governing Rights: A New Paradigm for the Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Migratory phenomena are currently challenging the sphere of human security and democracy in the post-Communist Eastern Europe, in turn affected since the collapse of Soviet Union and Yugoslavian regimes by the fear of proliferation of ethnic and religious violence and instability promoted by national minorities. Since the spring 2015, the wider areas constantly deal with the humanitarian migrants’ crisis through their geographical corridors, exacerbating the public realm among locals and newcomers. Meanwhile, human rights abuses, political implications for EU candidate states, as well as selfish boundary policies and stubborn nationalisms, take already more and more place. Hence, what kind of scenario in terms of contribution to general securization of interstate-minority relations the migration will shaped? Migratory flows seem to be the new challenge for the region. Therefore, could such phenomenon negatively discourage the idea of self-governing rights and territorial autonomy to national minorities into the region?Fighting the Trope of the Tolerance Deficit: An Ethnography of Tolerance Proponents in Slovakia
In this paper, I will lay out the context for engaging with tolerance in Slovakia and present my upcoming project as well as my approach to the field. I take an individual approach to the emergence of political subjects, assuming that modes of internal conversation or heteroglossia may allow individuals to hold contradictory views, ultimately leading to the coexistence of distinct, but intricately linked discourses on tolerance on a public scale. The project aims to enhance the current political debate on populism and nationalist movements in formerly socialist countries.The Magic and the Secular in European Politics: Case Studies from Romania
What are the roles discursively assigned to the occult and the secular and how can we deconstruct them to make sense of why people choose or dismiss religious identities and practices? My work analyzes ideological West-East divides by looking at the scholarship produced by anthropology on areas largely accepted as ‘Eastern European’, ‘socialist’ and ‘post-socialist.’Somewhere In Between: Poland Within the Discourse of Secularism
Many countries in Europe, although lastingly interwoven in the general history of the continent, cannot be inscribed in some of its allegedly common rhetorics, especially these concerning the terms of ‘modernity’, ‘secularism’, and so-called ‘development’. I will to focus particularly on the case of Poland and prove that Polish experience of the ‘secular’ cannot be equated with its Western European version. I argue that the difficulties, which our continent encounters nowadays, should not be explained through the monolithic universalism of the ‘(post-)secularist’ vocabulary, but ought to be described from more individual and bifurcated perspectives.The Genealogy of the Construction and Stigmatization of the Other: The Case of Orthodox Serbs and South Slavic Muslims
The society creates not only socially acceptable patterns, but also those that are unacceptable. In this paper, we will try to identify the point in time when the South Slav Muslims were actually defined as the archetypical Other. After that, the aim of this paper will be to provide a detailed analysis of the genealogy of the development of an ideology which served to rationalise its hostile attitude, which eventually, on a number of occasions in recent history, resulted in genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated against the South Slav Muslims.Services Trade and Structural Change in the Western Balkans
This paper investigates the development of the services sectors in the Western Balkans both from the point of view of their international integration (EU and WTO membership and accession processes) and from the point of view of the structural changes that are taking place in their economies. The analysis is based on statistical data gathered from various international sources (UNCTAD, WTO and World Development Indicators databases). The paper concludes that in order to achieve a higher level of economic development, these countries need to develop the production and international trade of higher value-added services sectors.Geopolitical Changes And The State Of The Croatian Economy: Examples Of High-Tech Companies’ Transitions
It is argued in this paper that the position of the Croatian economy was and is heavily determined by geopolitical factors, contrary to analyses that emphasize cultural, ideological and economic policy factors. Sewell's emphasis on global contingency and his plea for eventful sociology i.e. on analysis of unpredictable events that are able to change durable structures is followed in this paper. It is argued that historically important events have been changing the structure of the Croatian economy in the last hundred years. Path-dependency of companies is compared with path-dependency of their sectoral counterparts in CEE countries. It is also presented how the entrance in the European Union is again changing trajectories of Croatian high-tech companies.General Prosperity: Is Wellbeing a Human Right?
Is Wellbeing a Human Right? If so: what do politicians, economists and other social scientists so far miss and, thus, need to learn, in order to be able to successfully work for that right? What do citizens have to learn, in order to claim, achieve and secure that common right for themselves and their countries?Good Apple, Bad Apple? How Nation Branding And Other Trade Factors Challenge Serbian Food Trade to Reinvent Itself
This study examined whether there are “hidden” trade obstacles that are observed by the Serbian fruit industry but not analysed and sufficiently discussed within research. By examining the Serbian framework conditions for producing high value and internationally competitive fruit products, a questionnaire was developed which was discussed with the Serbian direct and indirect participants of the Fruit Value Chain. Methodologically, the research work is oriented towards the Multi-strand Conversion Mixed research design as described by TEDDLIE and TASHAKKORI.
