CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Radman, Korana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Other Within: Gender and Nation-state imagination |
| Summary | My project is interested in exploring ways in which the Croatian nation-state has been more recently imagined in the media discourses, around a debate of Flower Square project in Zagreb, Croatia. The Flower Square project is a multi-purpose, modern shopping mall that was built in 2011, in one of the Zagreb’s downtown squares. The project was highly controversial, contested, and followed by a strong campaign organised to prevent its construction. As I focus my research on the discourses that advocated the project, my analysis of this debate is twofold. First part is concerned with the ways in which the place of Flower Square was represented through discourses about Croatian nation-state and East/West dichotomy. In this process, through production of difference, places and spaces become gendered. Second part of my analysis examines how main actors, the state and the activists opposing the project, were gendered in their representations. I argue that the nationalist narrative that was created around this debate was not just exclusionary, but also gendered in myriad ways. In the end, I maintain that these representations can be seen as a reflexion of the way in which Croatian nation-state is (re)imagined as masculine, progressive and capitalist. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa Lynelle |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/radman_korana.pdf |
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