Researching Slovenian Media in Transition: Situating Knowledge

Jurij Smrke

doi:10.32855/fcapital.201101.004

Abstract

Researching Slovenian Media in Transition: Situating Knowledge

Highlights

Twenty years after the inhabitants of Slovenia decided in one voice (95 %) to split from SFR Yugoslavia, in the midst of a worldwide crisis of capitalism, and very much in sync with the premiere of a South Park episode featuring Capitan Hindsight, there was one question that seemed very important to a great number of people
Is what we have after twenty years of transition to capitalism, what we have opted for in 1990? Responses that came from various politicians, analytics and opinion leaders went in the general direction that is implied in the question: The country has problems and this is not what people expected
All in all only one answer to the question, caught my attention and it came from the mouth of Milan Kučan, former president of Slovenia and an important figure in ex-Yugoslavia

Summary

Introduction

Twenty years after the inhabitants of Slovenia decided in one voice (95 %) to split from SFR Yugoslavia, in the midst of a worldwide crisis of capitalism, and very much in sync with the premiere of a South Park episode featuring Capitan Hindsight, there was one question that seemed very important to a great number of people. These circumstances (I speak here of the dominant discourses in Slovenian media and public sphere) do not offer an interpretation of history that would allow new ways of thinking about the past and the present.

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