TY  - CONF
N2  - The year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of victory over fascism but still the
relationship towards anti-fascist heritage in Croatia remains a highly debated subject.
During the violent disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia, the destruction of anti-fascist
heritage in Croatia was used as yet another tool of warfare. From around six thousand
anti-fascist monuments and memorials, more than half were destroyed either through
administrative removals or direct military targeting (Pavlakovi? 2014).
Heritage that ?survived?, not fitting the newly-created nationalistic ideology, has been
systemically marginalized and gradually erased from the official memory discourse.
Moreover, anti-fascism was progressively identified with the post-war communist
regime and thus criminalized by the dominant memory entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, in
the past few years, such selective articulations of collective memory have been
challenged by several bottom-up artistic initiatives re-evaluating the cultural legacy of
the Yugoslav anti-fascist struggle. The present paper wants to focus on the specific case-study of the city of Rijeka,
traditionally recognized as the ?red city?, and bring forward several examples which,through different artistic interactions with antifascist heritage, interrogate contemporary
hegemonic politics of spatiality. More broadly, the paper aims at questioning the
necessity of the relationship towards anti-fascist values and the extent to which antifascist
heritage still belongs to the domain of the collective.
SP  - 144
SN  - 978-86-916755-1-6
PB  - Balkan architectural biennale 2015
M2  - Belgrade, Serbia
A1  - Sincic, Mateja
UR  - http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2974/
Y1  - 2015///
TI  - Contemporary (re)appropriations of anti-fascist
heritage in Croatia: Rijeka as a case-study
AV  - none
EP  - 157
T2  - Balkan architectural biennale 2015
ID  - eprints2974
ER  -