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  Tanja Petrović
A long way home: Representations of the Western Balkans in Political and Media Discourses
  Brankica Petković, Marko Prpič, Neva Nahtigal, Sandra B. Hrvatin
Media Preferences and Perceptions - A Survey Among Students, Ethnic Minorities and Politicians in Slovenia
  Mitja Velikonja
Titostalgia – A Study of Nostalgia for Josip Broz
  Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin, Brankica Petković
You call this a media market? The Role of the State in the Media Sector in Slovenia
  Brankica Petković, Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin, Lenart J. Kučić, Iztok Jurančič, Marko Prpič, Roman Kuhar
Media for Citizens
  Mitja Velikonja
EUrosis
  Jernej Rovšek
The Private and the Public in the Media
  Sandra B. Hrvatin, Lenart J. Kučić, Brankica Petković
Media Ownership
  Roman Kuhar
Media Representations of Homosexuality
  Dragan Petrovec
Violence in the Media
  Majda Hrženjak, Ksenija H. Vidmar, Zalka Drglin, Valerija Vendramin, Jerca Legan, Urša Skumavc
Making Her Up
  Gojko Bervar
Freedom of Non-accountability
  Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin
Serving the State or the Public
  Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin, Marko Milosavljević
Media Policy in Slovenia in the 1990s
  Breda Luthar, Tonči Kuzmanić, Srečo Dragoš, Mitja Velikonja, Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin, Lenart J. Kučić
The Victory of the Imaginary Left
  Matevž Krivic, Simona Zatler
Freedom of the Press and Personal Rights
  Karmen Erjavec, Sandra Bašić-Hrvatin, Barbara Kelbl
We About the Roma
  Tonči Kuzmanić
Hate-speech in Slovenia
  Darren Purcell
The Slovenian State on the Internet
  Breda Luthar
The Politics of Tele-tabloids
  Marjeta Doupona Horvat, Jef Verschueren, Igor Ž. Žagar
The Pragmatics of Legitimation

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Tonči Kuzmanić
Hate-speech in Slovenia
Slovenian Racism, Sexism and Chauvinism

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This paper is an analytical study and presentation of the Nightwatch column (Nočna kronika) that has been published weekly in the Slovenian Sunday paper Nedelo since the end of summer 1995. The author in the first place endeavors to present this phenomenon in the light of its chauvinist, macho and racist nature, and (possible as well as actual) the anti-political and extremist impact of the discourse communicated through this column. The ‘products’ of the Nightwatch column presented here are: foreigners, those from the south, Yugoslavia, Balkan creatures, beings with a half-roof over their heads, citizenship granted to foreigners, Bosnians, Muslims, Islam, refugees, sevdah, pedophiles, transvestites, girls, chicks, and women. Through the analysis of this rich material and particularly the characteristic ‘bar flies discourse’, the author exposes the inner workings of unprecedented dehumanization of those seen as “other” and different in Slovenia. He also proves that dreams about a racism-free Slovenia are the dreams of people who believe they are “innocent” and hence can indulge in comfortable pretense and ‘unknowingness’. The analysis of Nightwatch reveals numerous criminal dimensions of chauvinism, sexism, racism and radical intolerance in general. The author’s main interpretative point is directed towards antipolitical and criminal impacts of the Nightwatch discourse which should be taken extremely seriously as a direct incitement to more or less violent action against those who are seen as other and different. Last but not least, the author shows that the issue of violence and even killing cannot be ascribed only to those who kill, but also to those who sow seeds of hatred into the heads or, if you like, hearts of potential murderers, thus causing and directing the very possibility of slaughter.

   
   
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