‘It is Krajina all over again’: geopolitics of spite and geographical analogy in a Serbian newspaper audience
Journal: Territory Politics Governance
Year: 2021

This paper addresses the negotiation of geopolitical knowledge by internet audiences in the comment section of the website of the Serbian newspaper Politika. It maps changes in the commenters’ attitudes towards Russia’s declarative role as the international protector of Serbia’s territorial sovereignty through an examination of online comments on the Russo-Georgian war in 2008 and Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. Starting with Serbia’s international humiliation during the Yugoslav wars, exe