Slogans and graffiti

Postmemory among youth in the Italo-Slovenian borderland

Bibliographic Data

ID2278779
AuthorsAlessandra Miklavcic (0000-0002-3404-6694, McGill University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume35
Issue3
Pages440-453
Publication date2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00045.x
OpenAlexW1984561511
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited24

In this article, I look at the ways in which contested memories, imagined communities, and social ressentiment are embraced and filtered by Slovenian and Italian youth as postmemory and transformed into symbolic weapons that exclude, make demands, or simply provoke. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the Italo-Slovenian border area of Trieste, I analyze two settings in which these symbols are used: a soccer match between Slovenia and Italy played in the summer of 2002 at which a mysterious banner provoked diplomatic tensions and the everyday graffiti war waged on the walls of the city of Trieste. [political symbols, memories, youth, Italy, Slovenia, soccer match, graffiti

Archaeology · Art · Banner · Graffiti · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Symbolic · Visual arts · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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