eprintid: 2974
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2015-12-16 13:15:30
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creators_name: Sincic, Mateja
creators_id: mateja.sincic@imtlucca.it
title: Contemporary (re)appropriations of anti-fascist
heritage in Croatia: Rijeka as a case-study
ispublished: pub
subjects: DR
subjects: NA
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
pres_type: paper
abstract: 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 (Pavlaković 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.
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: Balkan architectural biennale 2015
pagerange: 144-157
event_title: Balkan architectural biennale 2015
event_location: Belgrade, Serbia
event_dates: 7-14 December 2015
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-86-916755-1-6
book_title: Capital A
citation:   Sincic, Mateja  Contemporary (re)appropriations of anti-fascist heritage in Croatia: Rijeka as a case-study.  In: Balkan architectural biennale 2015, 7-14 December 2015, Belgrade, Serbia pp. 144-157.  ISBN 978-86-916755-1-6.      (2015)