Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina

This paper analyzes narratives of ethnic conflict among Hungarian and Serbian youth in Vojvodina. These experiences are narrated by Hungarian young people from Mali Iđoš in the Central Bačka region in the interviews with the author of the paper, and the excerpts of the transcripts are analyzed accor...

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Autor principal:	Krisztina Rácz
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Publicado:	University of Belgrade 2018
Materias:	narrative ethnicity ethnic conflict minority Vojvodina Hungarians Anthropology GN1-890
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a984cba9bcb648b8bdd69efd1cc27b0d2021-12-02T02:02:59ZFortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina10.21301/eap.v13i1.70353-15892334-8801https://doaj.org/article/a984cba9bcb648b8bdd69efd1cc27b0d2018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.eap-iea.org/novi-ojs/index.php/eap/article/view/817https://doaj.org/toc/0353-1589https://doaj.org/toc/2334-8801This paper analyzes narratives of ethnic conflict among Hungarian and Serbian youth in Vojvodina. These experiences are narrated by Hungarian young people from Mali Iđoš in the Central Bačka region in the interviews with the author of the paper, and the excerpts of the transcripts are analyzed according to the Labovian socio-linguistic scheme. It argues that narrative structure varies according to the interlocutor’s gender; however, all narratives demonstrate similarity in terms of positioning the protagonists of such events as committing subjects and suffering objects. In addition, the narratives are highly script-like, which suggests a lack of diversity in the available discursive frames for narrating the experience of conflicts perceived as ethnically motivated. The most common script, which the interlocutors of this research use as well, constructs and justifies ethnic groups as simultaneously in confrontation with and isolated from each other, linguistically, culturally and geographically, and articulates interethnic experiences as a threat.Krisztina RáczUniversity of Belgradearticlenarrativeethnicityethnic conflictminorityVojvodinaHungariansAnthropologyGN1-890ENFRSREtnoantropološki Problemi, Vol 13, Iss 1 (2018)
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spellingShingle	narrative ethnicity ethnic conflict minority Vojvodina Hungarians Anthropology GN1-890 Krisztina Rácz Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
description	This paper analyzes narratives of ethnic conflict among Hungarian and Serbian youth in Vojvodina. These experiences are narrated by Hungarian young people from Mali Iđoš in the Central Bačka region in the interviews with the author of the paper, and the excerpts of the transcripts are analyzed according to the Labovian socio-linguistic scheme. It argues that narrative structure varies according to the interlocutor’s gender; however, all narratives demonstrate similarity in terms of positioning the protagonists of such events as committing subjects and suffering objects. In addition, the narratives are highly script-like, which suggests a lack of diversity in the available discursive frames for narrating the experience of conflicts perceived as ethnically motivated. The most common script, which the interlocutors of this research use as well, constructs and justifies ethnic groups as simultaneously in confrontation with and isolated from each other, linguistically, culturally and geographically, and articulates interethnic experiences as a threat.
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title	Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
title_short	Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
title_full	Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
title_fullStr	Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
title_full_unstemmed	Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina
title_sort	fortress under siege: narratives of ethnic conflict and discrimination among hungarian youth in vojvodina
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Fortress under Siege: Narratives of Ethnic Conflict and Discrimination among Hungarian Youth in Vojvodina

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