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Original scientific paper

BORDERLAND MIMICRY: IMPERIAL LEGACIES, NATIONAL STANDS AND REGIONAL IDENTITY IN CROATIAN ISTRIA AFTER THE NINETIES

Emilio Cocco orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0537-7267 ; Department of Theories and Policies of Social Development, University of Teramo, Teramo


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Abstract

Imperial legacies have a twofold nature: they can be used for supporting ethnonational identification but also for emphasising locally based narratives of hybrid identities and multiple attachments. The main hypothesis is that this twofold nature of imperial legacies emerges in the context of a problematic relation between nationality and citizenship. The hypothesis is examined in the context of the activation of the discourses of imperial legacies at the local level – in Croatian Istria in the 1990s – when they were employed as a counter-narrative to social and cultural homogenization which was propagated by the Croatian government.

Keywords

Istria; frontier; political identities; imperial legacies

Hrčak ID:

53530

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/53530

Publication date:

15.6.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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