Lecture at the Department of anthropology at the Faculty of arts of the University of Belgrade. In this lecture I presented a study of native representations of the changing cultural landscape and the relations between the actors of its reproduction in the Trenta valley. The native “model” of local cultural landscape is reflected in the representations of the “green desert” (overgrowing and dissolving of cultural landscape). These representations are also used in the evaluations of the role of key actors of landscape reproduction: the natives, the “weekenders” and the Triglav national park.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 512483968During my filed research, I joined local civil initiative “Movement for the existence of humans in the Triglav national park” that was formed by residents of the Bovec region as a response to the proposal of the new law of the TNP. I used my fieldwork data to write an expertise in a publication edited by local community in order to present their views to the “agents of national interest”. In this paper the negative demographic and social-economic trends in the valley are particularly outlined. At the same time, I point out the reasons for skeptical locals' views of the future developments.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 1380051The paper presented some of the contested issues regarding heritage preservation in the case of the Triglav national park (Slovenia). The national, legal conceptions of heritage preservation and the natives’ point(s) of view were confronted. The ambivalence of “national” versus “local” were presented in two contexts, related to the issue of preserving the traditional agricultural landscape and to the one of preserving hunting as a traditional spatial praxis.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1493459The paper sketched complex relations between local inhabitants of the Trenta valley, and two other groups of actors that are intervening into the valley from the urban spaces: seasonal residents and the Triglav national park. I presented how locals interpret differences in attitudes toward natural and built environment, and in views on the future development of the valley as the consequence of the urban origin of the others. On the other hand they construct local identity as basically “rural” - not merely agricultural, but as well as tied to “unique” moral relation with their home environment.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1369043In this lecture I presented Slovenian scientific and educational primordialistic discourses in the context of constructions of “Slovenian ethnic territory” in Italy. Contemporary publications that use diffusionistic reasoning to present linguistic “border” between Slovenian/Slavic and Italian/Romance speaking “areas” as ethnic boundary were outlined. The lecture intended to stimulate critical reflections on reasons for the presence of these “ancient” scientific concepts in contemporary Slovenian scientific and educational system.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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