Стратегии на езика на омразата в статията на Николай Фенерски "Празните утроби на българките"
Strategies of Hate Speech in Nikolay Fenerski's Article "The Empty Wombs of Bulgarian Women"

Author(s): Denitsa Nencheva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Applied Sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: „us“ and „them“ groups; discoursive strategy; hate speech; Nikolay Fenerski; womb
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of „doing” inequality as a discoursive practice. For this purpose, I will focus on a specific case – the text of Bulgarian writer and columnist Nikolay Fenerski entitled „The empty wombs of Bulgarian women” which became the subject of lively discussions after its publication in the summer of 2017. The first part of the article draws attention to Nikolay Fenerski’s position as the holder of a specific social and cultural (and hence symbolic) capital, as well as his role as a producer and speaker of the given discourse. The second part of the article offers an attempt to analyze the text itself. Emphasis is placed on the various discursive strategies used by Fenerski in the formation of one’s own group and that of the Other. In the course of analysis, a line of repeated in-situ recasting of the categories of „us” and „them” is revealed, the „boundaries” of which are not only bound but also extremely flexible. As a result, an unremitting opposition of us-them unfolds before the reader, which serves as the basis of Fenerski’s (hateful) discourse and uses the theme of the demographic crisis as a starting point. Against this background, the figure of the woman is placed in the position of a passive object of the author's discourse, in whose „we” ideal stands the figure of the man, a Bulgarian, a citizen, who is having (more than one) children.

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