The characteristics of the nationalist representation of the border history: a) Anachronisms. Putting elements of the present or later past “into” the certain period. b) False methodology. Instead of researching the phenomenon of the border in the past, the question is raised(where is the true border), then the answer is given that fits. c) Inconsistency; mixing the various levels. Legal and administrative elements are mixed with linguist and ethnographical arguments. If the arguments don’t fit, they are simply ignored. d) The focus on the "movements" of the individual parts of the border, which is related to the disregard for the wider historical context and qualitative changes. e) The Belief in the “naturalness” of the national identities - presupposing that the differences between Croats and Slovenians are very old, "natural" and could be clearly divided.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 3119988The author analyzes three different cases from the Slovenian-Croatian border in a comparative perspective: one at the far south-western border sector near Dragonja River and the Piran bay renowned by Joško Joras's struggle; another from the far north-eastern section around Mura River; and the third lying centrally in the 'gerrymandered' border knot of several kilometers of borderline entangling the local houses and premises below the Gorjanci/ Žumberak mountains.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 12317005