CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Ster, Anja |
|---|---|
| Title | INTERPLAY OF NATIONAL AND LOCAL IDENTITIES- A CASE STUDY OF SLOVENIAN-CROATIAN BORDERLAND |
| Summary | In order to examine the identifications of the border communities, the present thesis focuses on the understandings of ethnic and national (self)identifications of people in the Upper Kolpa Valley in contrast to the national rhetorics articulated by the spokesmen and activists of nationalist politics. The ethnographic study of everyday ethnicity in the microenvironment of the Upper Kolpa Valley is mainly concerned with the effect of the new state border on the identifications of 'border people'. Therefore, the study concentrates on the question how the new border regime affected cross-border interactions, of cooperation and conflict, of populations on both sides of the respective borderland. It is argued that due to historical, geographical and economic determinants together with intense cross-border interactions people in the Upper Kolpa Valley do not perceive the border in the same way as do the politicians in the state centers. Their identifications do not fit into the fixed categorizations imposed by the state. However, these categories may become very influential in the light of today's decreasing of cross-border contacts. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/ster_anja.pdf |
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