{"id":5872,"date":"2022-10-10T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/?page_id=5872"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:04:09","slug":"matko-krce-ivancic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/matko-krce-ivancic\/","title":{"rendered":"Matko Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matko Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107 –
Nostalgia tourism: \u2018Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For over a decade, the Croatian National Tourist Board (CNTB) had been using the slogan \u2018Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was.\u2019 In the CNTB\u2019s catalog, tourists were attracted by the following image: \u2018Washed by the precious salt waters of the Adriatic, roused by the intoxicating fragrances of pines, lavender, and sage, caressed by the sun and gentle breezes, Croatia\u2019s shores are the real hidden garden of Mediterranean beauty.\u2019 This paper examines discursive strategies that were deployed under the slogan \u2018Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was.\u2019 Drawing on postcolonial theory and Rey Chow\u2019s notion of \u2018coercive mimeticism\u2019, the process \u2018in which those who are marginal to mainstream Western culture are expected […] to objectify themselves in accordance with the already seen and thus to authenticate the familiar imagings of them as ethnics\u2019, I demonstrate how nostalgia tourism fosters a mode of self-representative agency that exceeds coercive mimeticism. The CNTB enthusiastically promoted Croatia as a country that is relieved of any contemporaneity, thereby engaging in a rather complaisant mimeticism by inviting tourists to visit Croatia just as they would visit a museum, or a zoo, and experience those \u2018lost\u2019 times and \u2018authentic\u2019 passions. The paper shows how the idea of Croatia as a tourist destination that is arrested in premodernity and self-incurred immaturity taps into the Enlightenment ideology which, in turn, allows nostalgia tourism to sell a self-congratulatory experience of visiting Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Matko Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107 has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. For his Ph.D. project, Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107 was awarded the President\u2019s Doctoral Scholar Award, School of Social Sciences Ph.D. Studentship and the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council North West Doctoral Training Centre Studentship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107\u2019s research is focused on exploring the relationship between subjectivity and politics, where power is understood to be constitutive of our subjectivity. His article \u2018Governing through anxiety\u2019, in which anxiety is explored using psychoanalytic theory to extend Foucault\u2019s conceptualization of neoliberal governmentality, is published in Journal for Cultural Research (2018). Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107\u2019s chapter \u2018Neoliberal subjectivity at the political frontier\u2019, provides a critique of Laclau\u2019s model of emancipation by emphasizing the importance of neoliberal subjectivity, which is a part of The Late Foucault. Ethical and Political Questions, published by Bloomsbury (2020). His article \u2018The knowledge of pessimism\u2019 is published in Cosmos and History (2021) and Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107\u2019s article \u2018In the aftermath of the radical empiricist onslaught\u2019 is published in Critical Horizons (2021). His article \u2018Feminist epistemology: possibilities of postmodern feminist standpoint theory is published in Social Ecology (2021), while Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107\u2019s article \u2018Keeping our contradictory voices in existence\u2019 is published in Studia ethnologica Croatica (2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107 gave a number of talks at international conferences across Europe, including the London Conference in Critical Thought 2017 (London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom), Populism, and Constructing a People. Ideology and Discourse Analysis International Conference 2017 (University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom), Government of Self, Government of Others: Ethical and Political Questions in the Late Foucault (New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal), Foucault at 90 (the University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, United Kingdom).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matko Krce-Ivan\u010di\u0107 – Nostalgia tourism: \u2018Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was\u2019 For over a decade, the Croatian National Tourist Board (CNTB) had been using the slogan \u2018Croatia. The Mediterranean as it once was.\u2019 In the CNTB\u2019s catalog, tourists were attracted by the following image: \u2018Washed by the precious salt waters of the Adriatic, roused…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5872","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfius.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}