The complex intertwining of history, memory, space, place and identity in borderlands is the topic of this edited collection. Using a transnational analysis of multi-layered cases from the northern Adriatic and Central Europe, the essays address fundamental questions in the history of the twentieth century. The geographical areas under scrutiny have experienced regular re-drawings of political borders, reconfigurations of state orders, and changes in ideological frameworks. Its content represents a privileged perspective on understanding ruptures as well as continuities in memory cultures, commemorative practices, situational identifications and the varying politics of the past in European borderlands.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 2512083Conference Sites of memory, sites of border focused primarily on the northern Adriatic region, noted for its history of changing political and symbolic borders. Since the beginning of the twentieth century the area has frequently been situated on major geo-political fault lines. The region has experienced regular re-drawings of borders and reconfigurations of state orders. Different ideologies, state systems and their spatial politics are encoded in the landscape until the present. This makes the northern Adriatic an ideal region for a case study that has great relevance for the whole of Europe. An international group of scholars from different European countries and the United States of America interdisciplinarly devoted themselves to various aspects of the interweaving of spatial phenomena, memory and identity.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 64235362The aim of the conference »The Yugoslav Laboratory of Political Innovation« was first to reconstruct, from a time distance that allows us to access hitherto unavailable archival sources, the course of the Yugoslav–Western European debate on the perspectives of self-management socialism, and, secondly, to determine its significance for the development of a political theory and practice both in Tito’s Yugoslavia as well as in capitalist countries. Drawing on this context, the conference aimed to ascertain which forms succeeded in penetrating Yugoslav society, and vice versa, the impact of the self-management experiment on industrial democracy in Western European and democratic transitions in Mediterranean countries from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. To some degree, we addressed the question regarding how the Soviet Union and its satellite countries reacted to the Yugoslav alternative to the state-socialist model and how “Open Marxism” and Eurocommunism challenged its aspiration to present itself as a ‘third way’ alternative to liberal capitalism and state socialism. At the conference, 22 scholars from France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia presented results of their research.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 294784256The conference »Border in arms« focused primarily on forms of political violence by examining its relationship to identity and ideology from a historical perspective in the region of the northern Adriatic that today is shared by Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. The time frame spans from the beginning of World War I in July 1914 to April 1941, when the Italian army invaded neighboring Yugoslavia in World War II. An international group of scholars from different European countries and the United States of America interdisciplinary devoted with the following general but interrelated topics: forms of demobilization in the northern Adriatic after World War I; forms of military, paramilitary and police violence; public violence and its state and non-state actors; rhetoric of violence (popular images, narratives etc.); gender and violence.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 296239360The exhibition Burnt in memories was organised within the framework of the project of the same name, financed by the European program Europe for Citizens. The project focused on the multiethnic border region between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. During the Second World War, the Nazi and Fascist occupying forces burned down several villages in this border area. These war crimes usually came as a retaliatory measure against the civilian population because of its support for the rebel partisan forces. The arsons were almost always accompanied by killings, deportations, robberies and other forms of violence. The catalogue of the exhibition contains the historical framework of this process, and detailed descriptions of distinct arsons. In addition, the publication contains a rich collection of photos. Finally, the catalogue is accompanied by a preface, in which the editor Gašper Mithans reflects the importance of preserving the memory on these events.
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