Heroes we love? Monuments to the National liberation movement in Istria between memories, care, and collective silence
Heroes we love? Monuments to the National liberation movement in Istria between memories, care, and collective silence
Author(s): Katja Hrobat Virloget, Neža Čebron LipovecSubject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Politics of History/Memory, Politics and Identity
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: monuments; heroes; WW II; northern Istria; conflicting memories; silence; Slovenes; Italians;
Summary/Abstract: Monuments to the WW II liberation struggle in the border region between Slovenia and Italy, namely Istria, are the mirrors of conflicting memories at the international and regional level between the two countries and ethnicities, living in the region. As material sites of official memory at the same time, monuments reflect tensions with the individual memories and persistent collective silence decades after the fall of the official memory of the previous Yugoslavian system.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 45-71
- Page Count: 27
- Language: English