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Item Redefining national identity in Macedonia: Analyzing competing origin myths and interpretations through hegemonic representations(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Takovski, AleksandarThis paper analyzes symbolism pertaining to and popular receptions of the project Skopje 214, an architectural journey in the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. While attempting to understand the multifaceted symbolic meanings and perceptions associated with this project, we pay attention to the existence of previous narratives of Macedonian national identity prior to the announcement of Skopje 2014 and therefore position the project against that backdrop. We want to argue that Skopje 2014 represents a monumental and spectacular turning point in official narratives of Macedonian national identity. ' e gap between the previously dominant narrative of Macedonian national identity, and the new official discourse offered and realized in and through Skopje 2014, and the multicultural reality of the country are the central themes of this work.Item RIGHT THEN, LEFT NOW1: CONSTRUCTING “MACEDONIA” IN THE MACEDONIAN DIASPORAS IN AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Takovski, AleksandarIn the XX century, especially after WWII, a great number of ethnic Macedonians have migrated to Australia and the US, while recently, after the 1991 dissolution of Yugoslavia, the direction of the migration influx has changed its course mainly towards Europe. While the first diaspora community was motivated by economic reasons drawing rural and urban citizens alike in pursuit of better life, the second wave of migration was led by political circumstances pushing mostly young educated people who failed to envisage decent life in the homeland. Hence there is a reason to believe that the two communities have different views and feelings of their homeland that underpin their construction of it. To identify the types of ‘Macedonia’ constructed by these two communities of migrants, and trace similarities and differences, this study will analyze on-line discourses on Macedonia produced by the members of the two diasporas. In so doing, we will be particularly interested in the meanings, attitudes, feelings and images the two communities ascribe to the homeland through the on-line interaction on their FB pages.Item FROM AGORA TO PANDORA: THE UNPRECEDENTED CASE OF THE SIMPLE SKOPJE SQUARE(AAB College, 2025-07-14) Takovski, AleksandarThis paper maps the multitude of symbolic meanings and popular receptions and interpretations that are being discharged in the process of realization of an architectural and heavily ideological project in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Skopje is currently in the process of an intense urban reshaping and remodeling created through a project called Skopje 2014. This project, in all its extravagance, glitter and kitsch, also known and criticized as Antiquisation, prompts one to see the collision of nationalistic frustration that produced it in the first place and that still resonate around it. It is to a great extent an expression of a multitude of frustrations of Macedonians that finally found their reification and palpability in the Skopje 2014 project. It is in this context of plethora of potential significations, both complementary and radically opposed; that the paper tries to map the multifarious nature of the semiotic processes emerged by and through the culturally redefining project of Skopje 2014 by looking at the full spectrum of the meaning production process, form the imposing intention of the maker, through the sociopolitical connotations by the act of its still on-going execution to the accepting or bitterly rejecting end of popular interpretations by the most affected of all, the citizens of both, the capital and the country in general.