Europe after 1989: The Ethnic Wars, Fascizisation of Civil Society and Body Politics in Serbia

This article deals with the specific area of representational practices in which the media production/appropriation of reality in Serbia played a decisive part in the process of the fascizisation of the social life & every day practices in Serbia -- before & during the wars in former Yugoslavia. It analyzes how chosen discourses of appropriation of social memory, collective trauma, & the re-creation of enemy otherness in image & event can become an integral, "self-participatory" agent in the pro-fascist construction of social reality through the very image/concept of "reality" itself, which then becomes the lived experience of people exposed to the constant working of the image/concept. The power over the representation of social reality can therefore be seen as the strongest discursive instrument of a political order. The legitimizing power of this dominant discourse lies in the construction of a collective consensus as a cultural/political code of language. 10 References. Adapted from the source document.