Old Boundaries and New Cultural Landscapes of a Multiethnic City in Modern-Day Macedonia
Old Boundaries and New Cultural Landscapes of a Multiethnic City in Modern-Day Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: In the context of Macedonian and Albanian ethnonational discourses functioning in North Macedonia that constitute a significant component of the system of the city’s symbols and semantics, we come upon confrontational strategies between the Slavic and non-Slavic entities that function in the cultural area of Skopje. On the one hand, these confrontational strategies determine the polemic nature of urban space, understood as both material cultural space established on the basis of places of memory and cultural artefacts, and, on the other hand, they are a product of space as an area of activity of actors and social and political networks, often used to construct incoherent self-defining processes within the space defined by the influence of ethnocultural processes.

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