The Serbian Progressive Party's re-articulation of the Kosovo myth within the internal dialogue on Kosovo, 2017–2018

This article focuses on the re-articulation of Kosovo myth, specifically Serbia's claim to territory Kosovo, within so-called internal dialogue initiated in 2017 by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. It asks what elements are re-articulated and through which practices, an effort institute a counter-hegemonic project partitioning Northern from rest territory. is mainly achieved de-mythologizing, de-emotionalizing/rationalizing economizing approach Kosovo. Within this project, Vučić constituted as empty signifier, incarnating solution Kosovo-Serbia dispute, whatever content it might take on. Re-articulation myth involves both transposing Southern Central dis-articulating discourse sedimented affects love pride that constitute it. The offers deconstructive reading conceptualizing poststructuralist terms focusing citationality its other discursive constellations. Such has implications for re-thinking national myths bounded narratives past, examining how their can even projects aimed at future.