Naslov
Remember Vukovar: Memory, Sense of Place, and the National Tradition in Croatia

Autori
Kardov, Kruno

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value transformation, education, media

Mjesto i datum
Trondheim, Norveška, 03.09.2004. - 04.09.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
collective memory; place; space; social identity; Croatian national tradition; battle of Vukovar

Sažetak
The war has brought significant changes in the Croatian society including the very foundation of the Croatian state. In this paper author discusses deeper processes related to this change by analysing the construction of the central place of the Croatian national identity. The city of Vukovar, as is argued, became the symbol of the birth of Croatian state and of the sacrifice of the Croatian people. By creating “ place of memory” within the national space, that is by territorialization and localization of memory, a stable order was built in which a precise social and geographical location is assigned to war. This new order which superseded the state of emergency at the national level is still under constant threat of dissolution at the local level for inside the place of Vukovar the national narratives do not have the same stabilizing and ordering power. The combination of pre-war ethnic spatial population arrangement and post-war identities gave rise to very specific problems related to the sense of place and to the war memories among the citizens of Vukovar. In this context, newly created places act as other-oriented places and memories act as counter-memories.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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