Polarisation and the Politics of Division

This year’s post-graduate seminar »Divided societies XXV« that is traditionally organized at the Inter-University center in Dubrovnik and that includes Mojca Pajnik as one of the lecturers, will discuss the topic of »Polarisation and the Politics of Division«. Applications to the course that will take place May 6-12 are possible until April 12: https://iuc.hr/programme/1878

Course outline:
Recent decades have seen a marked polarisation of opinion in many democracies as voters become more firmly attached to opposing camps that are moving further apart. Polarisation is associated in part with the emergence of new social cleavages between the winners and losers of globalisation and the mobilisation of opposition to immigration and to economic and cultural globalisation. A new generation of right-wing populists has gained ground and support has increased for authoritarian figures who base much of their appeal on chauvinistic nationalism. Much of the blame for the increasing spread of ill-informed and xenophobic ideas is laid at the door of social media and other new information and communication technologies. In this year’s Divided Societies course we examine the growth of political polarisation with a special focus on the impact on deeply divided societies.

We encourage the participation of students and scholars in the social sciences, law and humanities and other fields and disciplines studying social phenomena such as divisions, cleavages, conflicts, borders, migration, ethnicity and diversity.