Naslov
When the Island Fails to Perceive Its Own East…

Autori
Perinić Lewis, Ana

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

Izvornik
2011 RHSS: The Zone and Zones - Radical Spatiality in Our Times / Organizing Comittee - Zadar : Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences 2011, 2011, 66-66

Skup
2nd International Conference Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences 2011, The Zone and Zones - Radical Spatiality in Our Times

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 01.09.2011. - 04.09.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
island/mainland; territoriality; Hvar; space of the Other; imaginary; boundaries

Sažetak
Due to its geographic specificities, the island perspective of space is different from the mainland one. It presents a double challenge due to island’s geographic specificity and perception of territoriality, which has always been questioned and inconsistent. Hvar is frequently described as "the sunniest Croatian island", "the heart of the Mediterranean" and "the Croatian Madeira", but these statements only refer to the western part of the island. Its eastern, rocky part is not considered as “Mediterranean” and its inhabitants are stereotyped as island highlanders, often as non-islanders. It carries the historical administrative name Plame and no permanent settlements existed here before the 14th century. From the 15th to the 18th century, when the settlers from the existing island towns and from the inland formed settlements under direction of the Republic of Venice and its political and legal systems that offered different privileges to settlers and old inhabitants, it became a space for the construction of Otherness. A set of assumptions about Others and space of the Other was created that can be traced back 500 years in time. A complex system of boundaries was constructed, imaginary, rather than physical. Laying of boundaries was based on the mental division of one’s own space and the space of the Other (Said, 1979) drawn from the point of view of the settlement and its differentiation from Others and their space, and on avoiding immediate neighborhood. Plame, established and defined by the Statute of the Hvar Medieval commune, ceased to exist in administrative and legal terms, but remains very alive in the island imagery, stereotypes and cartography of Otherness.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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