Traditiones

Ours, Yours, Theirs, No One's? The Heritage of Multicultural Areas

2025-08-25T11:53:11+02:00

The introductory article examines the processes of creating, using, and interpreting heritage in diverse multicultural settings. Special attention is given to exploring the creative and performative power of heritage in minority, linguistically diverse, post-imperial, post-socialist, and other multicultural environments, where heritage functions as a dynamic field of negotiation, contestation, and connection.

Whose Heritage? Examples of Contested and Shared Cultures of Remembrance and Heritage Questions in the Multicultural Formerly Habsburg Cities of Rijeka and Maribor

2025-03-03T12:06:02+01:00

To whom do material and immaterial heritage belong? Can remembrance cultures be inclusive instead of cancelling each other out? This article explores possible answers to these questions in two historically multicultural cities, Rijeka/Fiume/Reka and Maribor/Marburg, in relation to their heritage of the Late Habsburg period. Drawing on original sources and recent literature in various languages, public attempts at narrating the Habsburg past through exhibitions, monuments and the like are examined.

All the Colours of a Historic Facade: Dissonant Heritage Narratives about the Restoration of a Heritage Building in Multicultural Northern Istria

2025-03-03T12:25:50+01:00

Heritage dissonances in contested territories are a challenge for the conservation of built heritage as they embody diverging values of the numerous communities. The restoration of the “Venetian House” in Piran (Slovenia) in 2016 provides an eloquent example through which we can also observe the impact of population changes on the dynamics of (mis)recognition in heritage and highlight the potential of participatory practice in such conservation.

The Burden of Transgenerational Memories and Silences on the Third Generation: The Case of the Slovenian-Italian Border

2025-05-22T12:45:41+02:00

The article explores how the collective and individual memories of major traumatic events in the area of the Slovenian-Italian border have impacted the identities, memories, and the living of the third youngest generation of the Slovenian and Italian national minorities. The article discusses the fieldwork findings collected in the Slovenian-Italian border region during two focus groups. Today’s generation wishes to break through a divisive legacy of the borderland past.

Exploring Multicultural Dynamics in Slavic Polesia: Ethnology and Dialectology at the Crossroads

2025-05-13T12:09:36+02:00

The paper explores the history, current state, and significance of studying the Polesian ethnocultural region, with emphasis on Ukrainian Polesia. It outlines the region’s archaic specificity and its diffuse ethnocultural field. The research relies on dialectological and typological methods, with an ethnolinguistic approach to semantic and structural unity in folklore. It has demonstrated the cultural, linguistic, ethnic, and other forms of elusiveness that complicate the representation of Polesia as a unified entity, thereby framing it instead as a multicultural and heterogeneous region.

Albanian Hidden Heritage in Slovenia: Some Notes on Music-Making in Between the Centre and Periphery

2025-01-17T13:50:27+01:00

Focusing on Albanian communities’ overlooked musical heritage in post-Yugoslav Slovenia, this paper analyses how and why the dominant framing of Albanians has reinforced the assumption of the absence of the Albanian heritage. By comparing central and peripheral settings in examining the ambivalence towards this heritage in Kočevje and the recent process of heritagisation in Ljubljana, we challenge the notion that minority cultural recognition occurs uniformly across national space.