Naslov
Austro-Hungarian Heritage and Tourism Discourses in Pula, Croatia

Autori
Iveković Martinis, Anja ; Sujoldžić , Anita

Izvornik
Journal of tourism and cultural change (1476-6825) 19 (2021), 1; 1-18

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
tourism ; Pula (Croatia) ; cultural heritage ; Austro-Hungarian Empire ; Europe ; ‘nesting orientalisms’

Sažetak
The paper analyses visual and textual representations of Austro-Hungarian heritage on the website of the tourist board of the town of Pula (Croatia), in the north-eastern Adriatic region of Istria, and the role of this heritage as a symbolic resource for constructing a tourist-oriented urban identity. Analysing the way heritage is represented and mobilised in tourist-oriented discourses can reveal certain ideological positions related to local, regional or broader political, social and cultural values and identifications. In spite of a strong tendency in the dominant narrative of Croatian national history of representing Austria-Hungary as a despotic empire which suppressed the rights of newly self-conscious nations, this period is now being re-evaluated in a more positive light. Results show that this heritage is mainly associated with ideas of ‘Europeanness’, ‘cosmopolitanism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘urbanity’, with a distinctive lack of references to the political conflict and socioeconomic issues of the period. This is interpreted in the context of a post-socialist re-orientation toward Western Europe and a ‘nesting orientalist’ distancing from the negatively connoted Balkans and (South-) Eastern Europe.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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