Balkan and European? Place Identifications of Young People in Croatia

Q3 Social Sciences
A. Ross, Saša Puzić, K. Doolan
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IN ENGLISH: The article analyses how young people in Croatia conceptualise their identities in terms of “place identifications”, a type of social identification that captures membership of a group of people who are defined by their location. It is based on focus group discussions conducted with 68 elementary and secondary school students aged between 11 and 17 in three urban localities in Croatia: Rijeka, Zagreb and Zadar. The concepts guiding the analysis included place identifications, the civic and cultural components of national identity and intersectionality. The study found that students displayed a strong identification with the region they are from through a discourse of stereotypes along the coastal–inland, rural–urban and north–south distinctions. National cultural identities and liminal European-Balkan identities were equally strong providing interesting examples of inclusion and othering. The young people showed a sense of aspiring to be European, of feeling almost European, of being not-quite-yet European, of being “Balkan”. There was a common sense of the Balkan-European divide being a line that stood very slightly to the north-west of wherever the students happened to be: there was Europe, generally beckoning – but they were on a threshold and still leaning towards the Balkan side, described as impolite, quarrelsome, underdeveloped and littered. The study suggests complex and kaleidoscopic identity constructions of young people in Croatia in which different and even opposed elements do not exclude each other but rather coexist in various ways. --------------- IN CROATIAN: U radu se ispituje kako mladi u Hrvatskoj konceptualiziraju svoje identitete u vidu »mjesnih identiteta« kao vrste drustvene identifikacije koja obuhvaca pripadnost drustvenoj skupini koja se definira njezinom lokacijom. Rad se temelji na podacima prikupljenima u okviru fokusnih grupa u kojima je sudjelovalo 68 ucenika i ucenica osnovnih i srednjih skola u dobi između 11 i 17 godina u trima gradovima u Hrvatskoj: Rijeci, Zagrebu i Zadru. Konceptualni okvir analize ukljucuje mjesne identitete, građansku i kulturnu komponentu nacionalnog identiteta i intersekcionalnost. Analiza pokazuje da ucenici i ucenice izražavaju snažan regionalni identitet u kojem znacajno mjesto zauzimaju stereotipi koji se odnose na razlike između priobalja i unutrasnjosti, između ruralnih i urbanih podrucja te između sjevera i juga. Nacionalni kulturni identiteti i rubni europsko-balkanski identiteti podjednako su snažni te pružaju zanimljive primjere inkluzije i iskljucivanja »drugog i drukcijeg«. Mladi obuhvaceni istraživanjem izražavaju istodobno težnju k europejstvu, osjecaj nepotpunog odnosno jos nedostignutoga europejstva, kao i osjecaj pripadnosti balkanskome kulturnom krugu. Analiza je pokazala i zajednicko razumijevanje podjele između Europe i Balkana shvacene kao razdjelnice koja se nalazi uvijek sjeverozapadno u odnosu prema lokalitetu ucenika: iako po pravilu teže Europi, ucenici jos nisu presli europski »prag« te su jos uvijek »nagnuti« prema Balkanu, koji se prikazuje kao nepristojan, svadljiv, nerazvijen i neuredan. Na tom tragu, autori upucuju na složene i kaleidoskopske identitetske konstrukcije mladih u Hrvatskoj, u kojima se razliciti i suprotstavljeni elementi međusobno ne iskljucuju, nego koegzistiraju na razlicite nacine.
巴尔干和欧洲?克罗地亚年轻人的地点识别
中文:文章分析了克罗地亚年轻人如何从“地方认同”的角度来概念化他们的身份,这是一种社会认同,它捕捉了由他们的位置定义的一群人的成员身份。它是基于对克罗地亚三个城市地区的68名年龄在11至17岁之间的中小学生进行的焦点小组讨论:里耶卡、萨格勒布和扎达尔。指导分析的概念包括地方认同、国家认同的公民和文化组成部分以及交叉性。研究发现,学生们通过对沿海-内陆、农村-城市和南北差异的刻板印象的讨论,对自己所在的地区表现出强烈的认同感。民族文化认同和欧洲-巴尔干的边缘认同同样强烈,提供了包容和另类的有趣例子。年轻人表现出渴望成为欧洲人的感觉,感觉自己几乎是欧洲人,还不完全是欧洲人,是“巴尔干人”。人们普遍认为,巴尔干-欧洲的鸿沟是一条稍微位于学生所在地西北部的线:那里有欧洲,通常在招手——但他们站在门槛上,仍然倾向于巴尔干一侧,被描述为不礼貌、争吵不休、欠发达和乱丢垃圾。这项研究表明,克罗地亚年轻人的身份结构复杂多样,不同甚至对立的因素并不相互排斥,而是以各种方式共存。在克罗地亚:有人质疑克罗地亚的年轻人将他们的身份概念化为“当地身份”,认为这是一种社会认同,包括由其所在地定义的社会群体的存在。根据克罗地亚三个城市Words、Zagreb和Zadru的68名年龄在11至17岁之间的中小学生的重点小组收集的数据。分析的概念框架包括地方认同、民族认同的公民和文化组成部分以及交叉点。分析表明,学生和学生代表着强烈的地区认同,这在与主要地区和内陆、农村和城市地区以及北方和南方之间的差异有关的刻板印象中占有重要地位。民族文化认同和红色的欧洲巴尔干认同同样强烈,并提供了包容和排斥他人的有趣例子。研究覆盖的年轻人表达了对欧洲同样的困难,对不完整或不完整的欧洲的感觉,以及对巴尔干文化的感觉。分析还表明,人们对欧洲和巴尔干半岛之间的分歧有着共同的理解,即相对于学生所在地而言,欧洲和巴尔干地区位于西北部:尽管这对欧洲来说很困难,但学生们还没有跨过欧洲的门槛,仍然被“推向”巴尔干半岛,这被证明是粗鲁、有争议、不可预测和公正的。在这种背景下,作者指出了克罗地亚年轻人复杂而多变的身份,在这种身份中,不同和对立的因素并不相互排斥,而是以不同的方式共存。
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