HRVATSKA I NJEZINE REGIJE
CROATIA AND ITS REGIONS

Summary/Abstract: ln the paper "Croatia and Its Regions" the author expounds the thesis that regions are forms of re/territorialization of society at the end of (paleo)industrialism. From a practical point of view, they are unions of communes established for the purpose of successfully defending, on a local and regional level, those processes and elements of development that are necessary in the ecological and cultural reconstruction of the national territory. Thus looked upon, regions are not elements of government organization and they do not compete with the state in matters of sovereignty. On the contrary, they are the consequence of a strengthened ecological sUbjectivity. They emerge as alliances of communes, communal associations, unions of communes, in order to efficiently remove interference with development common to particular groups of communes. Based on the latter, regions can be formed transnationally. This means that certain ecological difficulties cannot be dealt with if and when unions of communes are not created throughout the whole area dominated by these difficulties, and not only within a territory bounded by one frontier. Following up the need to reconstruct the ecological and cultural particularity of its own territory, regions can find themselves in opposition to the state when the state has remained prisoner to the (paleo)industrial reductions, and thus acts indifferently regarding the quality of its own territory.

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