Naslov
Other and/or Marginal: Coexistence of Identities in the Historical Borderlands of Croatia

Autori
Fuerst-Bjeliš, Borna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Globalization, Marginalization and Conflict

Urednik/ci
Fuerst-Bjeliš, Borna ; Leimgruber, Walter

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
Cham

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
89-99

ISBN
978-3-030-53217-8

Ključne riječi
Croatian borderlands, Early Modern Period, Marginalization, Vlach, Morlach

Sažetak
Borderlands, commonly understood as areas of divide, contact and/or conflict and coexistence of diversities, are above all places of their own, places of distinct borderlands (and regional) identities. By their nature, borderlands are the areas at the end or edge of some territory, or at its physical periphery and distant from the main developmental axes. In this regard, borderlands may experience many of the marginalization issues. They may represent geometrically as well as socially marginal places and peoples. The Early Modern Croatian borderlands were for centuries an area of constant warfare and insecurity which made it, apart from being the periphery, a marginal area burdened with lots of disadvantages. Most of the autochthonous, agricultural and sedentary population fled to more secure areas, while the depopulated (and largely devastated) borderlands became the destination of other cultural, mostly semi- nomad pastoral communities, named as Vlachs or Morlachs. The research was based on a qualitative approach and discourse analysis of the narrative and cartographic sources of the time. Analysis revealed that these communities were, due to their distinctive cultural and religious differences perceived as Others as well as marginal. They were people outside every official system and structure, and according to negative connotations of their characterisations – at the margins of societies. The analysis of the historical maps revealed that in the course of their centuries long presence and territorialisation in the borderlands, the perception of their otherness has been built into the spatial concepts of border regions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Geografija

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