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Identities of Coastal Towns: Koper, Izola, Piran, 1945-1995

Research activity

Code Science Field Subfield
6.06.00  Humanities  Culturology   

Code Science Field
S220  Social sciences  Cultural anthropology, ethnology 
Keywords
Identities, urban life-styles, collective memory, social uses of space, immigration, Istrian-ness
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (4)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  09175  PhD Bojan Baskar  Culturology  Head  1998 - 1999  434 
2.  12228  PhD Borut Brumen  Ethnology  Researcher  1999  194 
3.  18008  Lidija Katić    Researcher  1999 
4.  13175  PhD Irena Weber  Anthropology  Researcher  1999  175 
Organisations (1)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0433  ALMA MATER EUROPAEA - FAKULTETA ZA HUMANISTIČNI ŠTUDIJ, INSTITUTUM STUDIORUM HUMANITATIS, LJUBLJANA (Slovene)  Ljubljana  5606438000 
Abstract
The three Slovene coastal towns explored in the research project exeprienced the exodus of Italian population after 1945 and especially between 1953-1955. Towns were drastically depopulated and later repopulated in subsequent immigration waves, beginning primarily with rural Istrians (particularly from the immediate hinterland), then with population from peripheral regions of Slovenia and, last, with immigrants from southern republics of the Second Yugoslavia. Exodus and new immigrations, instauration of revolutionary social order, industrialisation and new town-planning interventions were reasons for disrupting the continuity of these towns and transforming them into multiethnic and multicultural agglomerates of mostly non-urbanites. The basic assumption is that current difficulties in establishing identities of the three towns are significantly generated by dramatic changes mentionned above. Local and state policies were not able to adequately respond to those problems, furthermore, research into these issues was not carried out (a significant reason of its absence was that the ''''population switch'''' in coastal towns was erased from the collective memory for decades).
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