Borderlands of Memory: Adriatic and Central European Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781788741347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 316 str.

Borut Klabjan

Opis

West vs East, antifascism vs fascism, capitalism vs communism: these are the symbolic boundaries that have divided Europe. Focusing on the Adriatic and central European regions, this collection of essays explores ruptures and continuities in memory cultures, commemorative practices and the varying politics of the past in European borderlands.

Recenzje

«This timely volume puts the latest conceptual and methodological insights from border studies in service to understanding the lands of the former Habsburg Empire, a region constituted by overlapping cultural, linguistic and political boundaries. Covering a wide range of cultural products, such as film, novels, architecture and monuments, the essays illuminate the enduring legacies of historical bordermaking processes in both memory and the built environment. An important contribution to literatures on the Adriatic, Central Europe and borderlands more generally that showcases current work by preeminent scholars in the field.» (Pamela Ballinger, Professor of History, Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights, University of Michigan)

«The volume fruitfully sits at the crossroads of memory studies, nationalism studies and border studies. The mnemonic entanglements of late imperial times, the World Wars, the Cold War and its aftermath are vividly made palpable and represent a quintessential pars pro toto of European memoryscapes of the twentieth century.» (Sabine Rutar, Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Borut Klabjan: Bordering and Memorializing the Northern Adriatic and Central Europe: Introductory Notes on Borderlands of Memory - Hannes Grandits: Changing Legitimations of State Borders and «Phantom Borders» in the Northern Adriatic Regions - Marta Verginella: Slovene Mapping of Urban Centres in the Austrian Littoral in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Borut Klabjan: Habsburg Fantasies: Sites of Memory in Trieste/Trst/Triest from the Fin de Siecle to the Present - Vanni D'Alessio: Divided Legacies, Iconoclasm and Shared Cultures in Contested Rijeka/Fiume - Nancy M. Wingfield: The Sonnenwende: From Traditional German Folk Festival to Radical Right-Wing Mobilizing Ritual along Austria's Language Frontiers -Pieter M. Judson: «The border took him»: The Ambiguous Peoples of «Der Fremde Heimat» - Matic Batic: «Le Terre Redente si presentano a noi come vecchie terre italiche»: Building italianita in the Provincia di Gorizia between the Two World Wars - Klaus Tragbar/Elmar Kossel: Conquest through Architecture? Italy's Strategies of Appropriation in Alto Adige and the Trentino after 1920 - Gasper Mithans: Burnt Villages in the Julian March as Memorial Landscapes - Oto Luthar: Memory, Revision, Resistance: Reviving the Partisan Monuments along the Slovenian-Italian Border - Mila Orlic: Italians or «Foreigners»? The Multilayered Memories of Istrian Refugees in Italy - Vida Rozac Darovec: Commemorating Anti-Fascism: Remembering TIGR in the Northern Adriatic Borderland following Slovenian Independence - Katia Pizzi: Trieste, Film and the Cold War: Sites of Memory in the Borderlands.

O autorze

Borut Klabjan is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Research Centre in Koper. He graduated from the University of Trieste and received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana. In 2011 he was Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for South-East Europe at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2014 at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. His work addresses themes of political, diplomatic and cultural history, memory, border and minority issues in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.