Also, the subtle but stinging violence through language/script. "Apologies but we cannot include the diacritics" !!!
This is why I insist so much on the ć in my last name, and refuse to erase it. Trip on it, break your tongue over it.
I, too, am an ungrateful subject :)
Growing up in Canada, I was told (directly, indirectly) to be thankful and not complain (too much). I didn't expect this to be such an emotional read. This spoke to me so directly, down to the shared passport with my mother. Down to the bubbling rage.
the description of the meme in the article slayed me 🤣
Branka Vierda and Nikola Puharić (and their colleagues) did an incredible job building this website based on courtroom evidence. Operation Pocket-93 was one of the many violent military campaigns during the wars fought in the former #Yugoslavia. Take a look: www.snv.hr/operacija-dz... #Croatia #ICTY
as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
This! ☝️ What life is considered life, who is considered grievable, all of that is deeply political.
It outlines that the salute's "contemporary public use inevitably normalizes the symbols of the Ustaša genocidal system and stands in direct contradiction to the constitutional and moral foundations of the Republic of Croatia."
Louder for the NEO-FASCISTS & genocide deniers in the back! 👏
The Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe has released a public statement on the fascist 'Za Dom Spremni' salute👇
Just bracing for the backlash that has already begun to trickle in... this is an inevitability, particularly in November.
chgrse.wordpress.com/public-state...
Also super weird? It's like the US tearing down the World Trade Center Memorial to sell the land... It seems counterproductive for these hyper-nationalists. Unless their greed really supersedes their nationalism... which is an interesting, albeit depressing, conclusion.
Whenever things get bad, minorities pay the price. Some more than others. In the words of one of my colleagues in Zagreb: "we know as Croatian Serbs that we can always be collateral damage."
Over 50 masked men gathered in front of the Serb Cultural Centre in Zagreb tonight, chanting the Croatian version of Sieg Heil–Za Dom Spremni.
The police checked their IDs and let them go. This follows a similar incident in Split and death threats made to Pupovac.
www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...
Quand les vraies nouvelles ressemblent à de la satire… c’est quoi ce délire?! 😂
Centering his minoritised identity is "a radical move in a political culture that expects minoritised candidates to constantly reassure majority audiences."
The author makes an interesting comparison to Obama, who attempted to downplay his difference to appease white Americans.👇
Great documentary on student protests in Serbia, highly recommended: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3t4...
I wonder if Vučić is watching this with trepidation.
In my experience, institutions are less concerned with the safety/well-being of the researcher than they are with the participants of the research. I was drilled with ethical questions about my interlocutors, but nobody ever asked me how I would ensure my own safety in the field. It is absurd.
Zašto su HDZ-ovci poludjeli na benkovački festival:
"Mirotvorac" ruši službeni narativ o tzv. Domovinskom ratu kao crno-bijeloj priči skroz nevinih Hrvata i krivih Srba. Film otvara pitanje unutarnje odgovornosti za rat i pokazuje krvave HDZ-ove ruke za ratne zločine u Osijeku.
Pogledajte film:
The pertinent question is not whether languages exist. Of course they exist. What those of us who are often derisively called “postmodern” are pushing the field to ask is how languages come to exist, who benefits from them existing in these particular ways and how else they can and do exist.
Quelle belle trouvaille! 😦
Worth every second of your day.
Sure, but I am always careful about comparisons between Croatia and BiH. The power dynamics are very different: national minority vs. constitutive people. And, consequently, we should analyse the political/social implications of such acts (and their consequences) differently.
This type of hyper-surveillance is typical, but I'm surprised that someone born there isn't more aware of the risk. 🤔 However, I can also imagine this being a misguided act of defiance... after all, nobody is monitoring what Croat players (hell, even local politicians) are following.
"But I'm closer to you than you are to yourself
and this, my enemy friend,
is the definition of distance."
The art for "April in Paris," by Hana Tintor, is mostly a starry, black sky, with a crescent moon in the bottom right corner. A window hovers in the upper left corner, warmly lit; through it you can see two figures sitting at a table, drinking wine. One figure is mostly visible; the other is just a sleeve. A simple candelabra is on the table.
The art for "Winter's King," by Daria Čičmir, is minimal, showing shapes (mostly black) on a cream background. One shape is a hand mirror with a blue bird on the back. Another is the suggestion of a head, with bows under the eyes and short black hair.
The art for "Vaster than Empires and More Slow," by Ivana Miloš, is filled with lines that suggest vines and growth. At the bottom of the image, green plants grow.
The art for "The Ones That Walk Away from Omelas," by Klasja Habjan, shows a thin child, drawn in thin lines, to the left of the page. The child looks to the right of the page, where there are two images: at the top, a white city glows against a black square, people and animals joyously dancing before it; at the bottom, two figures crest a hill, their backs to the viewer.
A new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, published by Artikularij, includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection.
Here are four of the images; four were posted last week, and we'll share the rest in coming weeks!
(Credits below and in alt text)
What are your thoughts on Hannah Arendt? :)
What is most interesting to me isn't who is going or why, but rather the social and political consequences of normalizing such a concert. As if it's T. Swift. There are people singing Ustaša songs in the heart of Zagreb as we speak.
Where many linguists see a language tree I see race science presenting itself as objective linguistic fact
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