Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol52no207
A Walk from the Victims of Fascism Square to Pride Park: A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Street Renaming at the Zagreb Pride as Memory Practices
Mislava Bertoša
; Odsjek za lingvistiku, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sandra Antulov
; Rijeka
Abstract
In this paper we analyse the act of symbolic renaming of streets included in the Zagreb Pride route, which has so far happened only once, in 2010. We view it as a practice that helps to construct and communicate collective memory of a marginalized group. The perspective in this paper is semiotic: the act of renaming is observed within the framework of relations among the constructions of meaning, history and memory. Using the examples of renamed streets, squares and parks, we show which elements of meaning are included in this construction. On the one hand, we observe the evocation of different significant events in the global LGBT history, and, on the other, we discern local (Zagrebian, national, Mittel-European) elements. We also explore the ways in which the local and global elements are intertwined and recontextualized in today’s context and the relationship they create with history and space (the centre of the capital of the Republic of Croatia) into which they are inscribed.
Keywords
odonyms, renaming, linguistic landscapes, semiotics, memory, toponymic resistance
Hrčak ID:
149478
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Publication date:
14.12.2015.
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