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 Cover Image

Šetnja od Trga žrtava fašizma do Parka ponosa: semiotička analiza simboličkog preimenovanja ulica na zagrebačkoj Povorci ponosa kao prakse pamćenja
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

Author(s): Mislava Bertoša, Sandra Antulov
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Semiotics / Semiology, Semiology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku
Keywords: odonyms; renaming; linguistic landscapes; semiotics; memory; toponymic resistance;

Summary/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 practice that helps to construct and communicate collective memory of a marginalized. 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.

  • Issue Year: 52/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 139-161
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian