The modern social conception of Slovene space

Ana Kučan

doi:10.3986/AGS37003

Authors

Ana Kučan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-0234

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS37003

Keywords:

landscape, landscape planning, landscape units, place-attachment, identity, social perception, social conception, symbolic landscape, Slovenia

Abstract

The thesis of the research assumes that national identity is bound to the environment, that is, to specific landscapes or even to an idealized landscape type. Means of communication within the socialization process shape the social perception of the national space or territory. The social conception of the national space therefore tends inevitably towards uniformity, regardless of its actual geographical diversity. Specific landscapes or places within the national space emerge as representative of the whole, usually appearing as symbolic places or as conceptualized landscape types composed of various and distinct landscape features that epitomize the national space. The results of the public opinion survey presented in this article confirm the findings of an analysis of pictorial presentations of landscapes in tourist and political propaganda. The results show that in the course of history, national identity is defined not only by symbolic places but also by special landscape types and that the popular conception of the national space does not exist as an absolute: It changes in different time periods and adopts various meanings among particular social strata or groups depending on the context of its use. The study confirmed the existence of a prototype, a motif that is no longer linked to a precisely specified place and thus loses the particularities of a concrete location. It is no longer linked to a specific geographic location and as such assumes the role of representative of the whole in the conception.

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