Identity Matters

Introduction; Uses of the Term IdentityA": 1. Historical Background; 2. Discursive Understanding of Identity; 2.1 Representational Order: Identification and Exclusion; 2.2 Bodies that (do not) matter; Consequences; Theoretical Framework - An Inquiry into Movements and Models: 1. Feminist Movements and the Re-Articulation of Group-Consciousness; 2. Subjugated Knowledge and the Critique on WesternA" Superiority; 3. Hybrid Identities and Diaspora; Consequences; In Search for Identity - European Nation States: 1. OriginA" of the Nation State in the WestA"; 1.1 Imagination as a Side of Collective Amnesia and the Role of the Mass Media; 1.2 Nation-building in the South-East of Europe: Slovene Independence and the Role of National Media; 2. In Search of the NatureA" of People in a NormalA" Nation; 2.1 Deconstructing a Naturalised National Order; 2.2 The Sexualised OtherA" within the Nation State; Consequences; The Project of the European Union: 1. (No) European solidarity - Who are the Europeans?; 1.1 Slovenia's Relation to Discourses of Europe; 1.2 The Borders of Europe; 1.3 Unified in Difference and Diversity; 1.4 Legal Foundation of the European Union; 2. Fortress Europe Syndrome; 3. Balkanisation of Europe?; 4. The Political Project: A Real Chance for the Multicultural Condition?; Consequences; Interwoven in Europe. Positioning Slovenia: 1. Economy; 2. Christianity; 3. Journalism; 4. Escaping the BalkansA"; 5. Returning to the BalkansA"; Consequences; Global Fragmentation or Another Universalism?: 1. Different Meanings of Globalisation; 1.1 World-Wide Distribution of Content: Another WesternA" Domination?; 2. The Confluence of Globalisation and Local Mobilisation; 3. The Confluence of Globalisation and Neo-Liberalism; 4. Losing the Sense of Security and Safety: A WesternA" Phenomenon; 5. Different Worlds in the World Society; Consequences; Empirical and Analytical Standpoints: 1. Methodology; 2. Discourse Analysis; EU-European SlovenesA": 1. The Attempt of Defining

Gronold, Daniela
Daniela Gronold received a doctoral degree in Media and Communication Studies. She is based at the University of Klagenfurt in the Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education. Her academic interests focus on gendered and nationalised identities, racism and public representation, Critical Whiteness Studies and Postcolonial Studies.