„Отечеството е в опасност“ – символни стратегии за конструиране и политизиране на етническото напрежение в България: етнонационалистическият дискурс на ВМРО (2011–2020)
“Fatherland Is in Danger” – Symbolic Strategies for Construction and Politicization of Ethnic Cleavage in Bulgaria: The Ethno-Nationalist Discourse of VMRO (2011–2020)

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the present article is the ideological strategy of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization Party (VMRO) for ethnicizing social problems and their politicization along ethnic lines. First, the research con- centrates on reconstructing VMRO’s nationalist narrative through a discursive analysis of the party’s official newspaper, “Bulgaria,” from 2011–2020. The focus is on VMRO’s attempts to inculcate a public fear of an impending national catastrophe by aggressively imposing topics such as the demographic, ethnic balance, the role of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms Party (DPS) in Bulgarian politics, and the refugee crisis. Special attention is paid to the symbolic construction of threatening and negative images of the Roma minority. Further, the study focuses on the relationship between, on the one hand, the radical messages’ frequency and, on the other hand, the dynamics of the national agenda and VMRO’s participation in governance.

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