Naslov
A story about heart-shaped islet Galešnjak, Croatia: landscape preservation at threshold

Autori
Kale, Jadran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts "ISLANDS: NATURE AND CULTURE" / Čuka, Anica ; Oroz, Tomislav ; Klarin, Tomislav - Zadar : Sveučilište u Zadru, 2022, 29-29

ISBN
978-953-331-384-9

Skup
18th Islands of the World Conference

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 13.06.2022. - 17.06.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cultural landscape, conservation, local community, creative resource

Sažetak
Galešnjak is an islet near Biograd widely reproduced in tourist publications as Love Island due to its resemblance to a heart symbol. Its sudden fame, enforced by drone and satellite photog- raphy, marked a technological change between the epoch of state-reserved graphical tools to user- centred devices with a new kind of aesthetic preference in panoramic and landscape perception. Emblematic or symmetric structures viewed from above are a regular part of an everyday observer’s experience, transforming the observed terrain adapted and selected for pictorial presentations. Here we shall present a number of Eastern Adriatic island landscapes where changing aesthetic im- pulses made ground for certain field restructuring. Concerning landscape protection, it could be ar- gued that mass aesthetic preferences interlaced with conservation transformation from object protection to practice safeguarding, resulting in enhanced legal perspectives of local communities and their collective intellectual rights in cultivation. Specific island impacts can be observed, with insular landscapes especially prone to market forces in a predominantly tourism economy. Various indigenous reactions simultaneously degrade and uphold different resource capabilities of creative communities, mostly of local nature. The change of photographic perspective, which produced phenomena like Love Island, Fingerprint Is- land, and others, indicates perceptive clues that decisively belong to a mass cultivation domain. It somewhat paradoxically brings consumers to commoners’ doorsteps away from mass tourism fa- cilities and opens unique market opportunities. Using ethnographic methodology and inclusive and participant research strategies, we con- clude our presentation with preservation perspectives. As elsewhere, islands offer an opportunity to outline broader social and cultural processes in a more closed environment. Therefore we propose a close inspection of regulatory change, discussed from the 1980s onwards and articulated in various spheres of legal expertise. A heart-shaped islet of simple limestone composition bears a perceptive future for cultivated landscapes to be consumed in their products and a versatile emblem in the in- ternet age.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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