Conference topic: Panel no. 99 - National Intimacy Historical Present and Possibilities of New Imaginaries

Lauren Berlant argues that the politics of sentimentality relates to the fantasy of good life. The central focus of this paper is to question the fantasy of good life (Berlant) in contemporary narratives on Croatians as being ”a brand in...

What does it mean when the media present migration as cosmopolitan experience? What is at work when a program constructs its audience as a convivial hybrid “we”? The paper examines these questions in the context of various discourses on “cultural...

“Unseen traffic collapse in Zadar, people are bringing tons of clothing for patients of Psychiatric hospital Ugljan” is just one of the headlines that made their way across Croatian media in December 2020. Traffic blockage event was the culmination of...

The Croatian community significantly supported the Second Russian Expedition to South America in 1914-1915. An Argentine businessman of Croatian descent, Nicolás Mihanovich, in 1914 allowed discounts on the passage of the expedition on his steamboats from Buenos Aires to Corumbá...

Bleiburg, a small town in Austria, is a controversial site of memory for many Croatians. The commemoration of what is now known as ‘Bleiburg tragedy’, which happens every year in May, is seen by some media as ”the biggest neo-Nazi...

I situate the formation of ‘national intimacies’ (Berlant 1998) in the context of ‘precarity capitalism’ (Azmanova 2020). The actual case involves the ‘intimation’ of hate-speech in the contemporary Hungarian political discourse in multiple intersecting narratives of ‘familiarity and comfort’ within...

The presentation aims at describing the dreams of Polish people in 2019, the moment we call "neo-patriarchal turn." Starting with the presentation of the nightmares in regard to social and political spheres, we focus on presenting visions of the new...

The current intensification of national sentiments, an increase in support for right-wing parties are the activation of the ideas about the state, power and nation derived, among others, from centuries-old peasant experience of rural farm management. I argue in favour...