Prisvajanje javnega prostora na Primorskem med 1943 in 1945

Abstract

The article examines the processes of ideologically marked interventions in the public space of the Primorska region during the period from the capitulation of the Kingdom of Italy in September 1943 to the end of the Second World War in Europe. In the chaotic situation following the dissolution of the Italian administrative and military apparatus in the region, various states and politico-military groups attempted to establish their authority in the area. Whatever their differences, they all had in common that they sought to assert their authority not only administratively and militarily, but also through the symbolic legitimation of their own claims to power. Such efforts inter alia involved processes of ideologically tinged transformation of public space, manifested in the demolition of monuments, the renaming of streets and squares, the writing of propagandistic public signs, etc. The cultural landscape thus became a space for the expression of competing ideologies and power claims. The article analyses the basic features of the spatial policies of thedifferent parties, as well as the background to the most important concrete spatial interventions.

Keywords

• second world war
• primorska region
• spatial politics
• cultural landscape
• propaganda