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Mapping spatial identities - vernacular regions of Dalmatian interior

Besides the formal geographic knowledge resulting from scientific methodology, there is also a significantly wider informal aspect of knowledge about space. It results from imagination and images conditioned by a society’s or an individual’s subjective notions and impressions about the spatial facts and processes expressed in the contemporary informal and non-scientific discourses. Subjective notions of space and affiliations to it are an integral part of an individual’s mental maps and are closely related to his/her sense of identity and affiliation to space. Such spatials identites manifests as multi- layered, from national and supranational to local layers, with perceptive regions being an important part of an individual’s sense of place. In relation to the construction of spatial identities, one of the most important concepts is vernacular region, a concept of perceptive region based solely on inhabitants’ notion of region’s qualitative and quantitative spatial characteristics. Mapping spatial identities was based on content analysis of a media subject, in this case a regional newspaper, as a source of informal geographic knowledge, in order to construct a cartographic approximation (imaginative map) of vernacular regions of the Dalmatian hinterland. The applied methodology is based on detecting and categorizing geographic names and similar determinants and using them as references to spatially define and map of vernacular regions.

spatial identities, vernacular regions, Dalmatia, Croatia

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