Savic, Bojan (2014) Where is Serbia? Traditions of Spatial Identity and State Positioning in Serbian Geopolitical Culture. Geopolitics, 19 (3). pp. 684-718. ISSN 1465-0045. E-ISSN 1557-3028. (doi:10.1080/14650045.2014.915808) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:50216)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2014.915808 |
Abstract
This article studies the geopolitical traditions of spatial imagining of Serbia amongst the country’s political elites since the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. It examines some of the socially dominant discourses of spatial positioning of Serbia as a historical-political narrative. The study argues that one can identify five distinct geopolitical traditions that, in variably overlapping or mutually contradicting ways, address two questions: ‘Where is Serbia’ and ‘How is its perceived smallness felt and described’? A first tradition is that which attributes sacred, divine and martyr-like features to the country, its small earthly “Serbian lands” and people. A second tradition conveys spatially maximised and biopolitical visions of “Serbdom”, amounting to variable designs of a “Greater Serbia” anxious about its felt frontiers and smallness. The final three traditions are the mutually exclusive positioning of Serbia around an East-West axis as either Eastern or Western, or a geographically unique and exceptional bridge between the two, whereby each positioning recasts smallness as a crucial feature of geopolitical exceptionality. The article concludes with some general observations on the challenges of studying geopolitical cultures.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/14650045.2014.915808 |
Subjects: |
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation H Social Sciences J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations |
Depositing User: | Bojan Savic |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2015 12:04 UTC |
Last Modified: | 17 Aug 2022 10:59 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50216 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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