Heterogene temporalnosti otočana: primjer Grada Hvara

This paper revisits the cultural stereotype of a sharp binary division between “summer” and “winter” temporalities in an island town in Croatia (Hvar). It highlights the existence of parallel and competing temporalities that generate heterogeneous social and individual rhythms. The overarching rhythm of summer tourism, which divides the year into “summer” (roughly between May and October) and “winter” (roughly between November and April), conceals other temporalities, both in the sense of how locals perceive and organise their temporal rhythms and in the sense of how they experience them. The article discusses these heterogeneous temporalities and how they orchestrate the locals’ lives, how they criss-cross and relate to one another, and how they transition into one another. Attention is directed to individual meanings and preferences, experiences, and resistance to the overwhelming rule of the rhythm of tourism.U članku se preispituje oštra binarna podjela između “ljetne” i “zimske” temporalnosti u jednom mediteranskom gradiću, Hvaru. Uočene su paralelne i sukobljene temporalnosti, koje stvaraju heterogene društvene i individualne ritmove svakodnevnoga života. Dominantni ritam ljetnog turizma, koji dijeli godinu na “ljeto” (otprilike između svibnja i listopada) i “zimu” (otprilike između studenoga i travnja), prikriva mnoštvo temporalnosti, i u smislu u kojemu lokalni stanovnici percipiraju i organiziraju temporalne ritmove i u smislu kako ih prakticiraju. Članak razmatra te heterogene temporalnosti i kako one upravljaju životima lokalnoga stanovništva, kako se prelamaju i odnose jedne prema drugima, kako prelaze jedna u drugu. Pažnja se posvećuje individualnim značenjima i sklonostima, iskustvima i otporima stanovnika dominaciji ritma turizma

“Durable Solutions,” Transnationalism, and Homemaking among Croatian and Bosnian Former Refugees

This article proposes that the UNHCR-supported “durable solution” programs for former refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from Croatia were at odds with the actual exilic experiences of former refugees. It introduce homemaking as an essential aspect of a successful durable solution and proposes supplementing the usual ethno-politicized understandings of home in the specific context with analyses of the process of homemaking at different scales—house (dwelling), community (the wider space of settlement containing natural, cultural, social, and economic aspects) and nation. The article also argues that repatriation and local integration in the country of first asylum—two allegedly distinct and opposite solutions to refugee crises—should be viewed as intertwined processes within a broader transnational context. It is concluded that their combination brought a durable solution to refugee predicaments in the specific case.Cet article propose que les programmes de «solutions durables» soutenus par le HCR pour les anciens réfugiés originaires de la Bosnie-Herzégovine et de la Croatie ne s’accordaient pas aux expériences vécues de ces réfugiés. Il introduit la notion d’établissement de domicile comme un élément essentiel d’une solution qui puisse réussir et propose de supplémenter les conceptions ethnopoliticisées habituelles concernant l’idée d’un domicile que l’on trouve dans ce contexte particulier avec des analyses du processus d’établir un domicile sur des échelles variées, notamment celle du domicile en soi (lieu d’habitation), celle de la communauté plus large dans laquelle l’installation a lieu, contenant des éléments naturels, culturels, sociaux et économiques, et celle de la nation. L’article soutient aussi que le rapatriement et l’intégration locale dans le pays de premier asile, deux solutions aux crises de réfugiés qui ont été conçues comme distinctes et en opposition, devraient être considérées comme des processus complémentaires et interdépendants dans un contexte transnational plus général. Pour conclure, l’article avance que leur application simultanée avait apporté une solution durable à des problématiques de réfugiés dans le cas particulier dont il est question

Sigurnosni krajolik i (ne)vidljivost izbjeglica: upravljanje izbjegličkim tokom kroz Hrvatsku

The article analyses certain aspects of the exceptional migration process unfolding in Europe from the middle of September to the beginning of November, 2015. It focuses on analysis of managing that migration in Croatia through the presentation of the functioning of the reception (and transit) centre at Opatovac. A qualitative ethnographic and anthropological research approach has been applied. The ethnographic perspective offers a complex view of responses to the events, pointing out the paradoxes in refugee reception and transit migration management in Croatia. It is established that there are constant contradictions contained in the nexus of security and humanitarian demands in the migration process management, these largely coming to the fore because of a lack of international co-operation and a firm stance and common policy on the part of the EU. In that way, the EU has contributed to the deepening of the humanitarian migration crisis, but also demonstrated its deep value crisis.Rad analizira neke aspekte iznimnoga migracijskog procesa što se odvijao u Europi od polovine rujna do početka studenoga 2015. Usredotočuje se na analizu upravljanja tom migracijom u Hrvatskoj kroz prikaz funkcioniranja prihvatnoga centra za izbjeglice u Opatovcu. Primjenjuju se kvalitativno etnografsko istraživanje i antropološki pristup. Etnografska perspektiva nudi kompleksno viđenje odgovora na događaje, upućujući na paradokse u upravljanju migracijom u Hrvatskoj. Ustvrđuje se da je kontradiktornost sadržana u neksusu sigurnosnih i humanitarnih zahtjeva upravljanja migracijskim procesom stalno prisutna, a ponajviše dolazi do izražaja zbog međudržavne nesuradnje te jasnoga stava i zajedničke politike EU-a. Time je EU pridonio produbljivanju humanitarne migracijske krize, ali i izložio vlastitu duboku krizu vrijednosti

IN COMPANY WITH OFFENDERS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD: POLITY OF THE KINGDOM OF THE SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES 1918-1941

The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (hereafter SHS)/Yugoslavia existed for twenty three years, between 1918 and 1941. During that period it was characterized by the harsh use of the state repressive apparatus and latent political dubiousness. The author argues the reasons for such an environment, which he finds in unsolved national questions and an authoritarian political regime. The role of the king was considered crucial in keeping the regime authoritarian and the political structure of the Kingdom fragile. Understanding the polity of the Kingdom is decisive for an indepth overview of its breakup, which is also the goal of this paper. A circle point is made around empirical data out of the Polity IV project, which investigates changes of the world polity forms from 1800 to 2010

Former Austro – Hungarian officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes / Yugoslavia

The Serbian army personnel could not respond to the challenges presented in the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. A great number of officers from the former Austro-Hungarian Army were to be admitted but with prior verifications. The treatment of accepted officers in the new army was unfavourable and they were labelled as former Austro-Hungarian officers throughout their career. Due to such a treatment and working conditions, as well as some possible personal reasons many of them had left the army. Based on the data collected from the Official army gazette this paper aims to determine the number of former Austro-Hungarian officers who were accepted to the active forces of the army of the Kingdom of SHS, as well as the number of men who left this new army, whether resignation or retirement

IDENTIFIABILITY IN WARFARE: CROATIAN SOLDIERS\u27 MULTINATIONAL AMBIANCE OF SERVICE (1914-1918)

The importance of collective emotions in warfare is enormous. In conflicts individual emotions are often submitted by the collective ones. Soldiers are often bounded by emotions. The tie between nation (Homeland) and individuals is crucial to that process. What makes the bond tight is nationalism. Nationalism within a multiethnic state is especially complexed and it can lead to one’s disunification. This article argues the interconnections between individual and collective emotions within different political environments. The case study to this analysis is on Croatian soldiers during World War One (WWI), than a part of the multiethnic Austria-Hungarian Army. What makes the case more complex is the presence of various stresses in order to shift the Croatian soldiers’ concept of Homeland: Austria-Hungarian, Yugoslavian/Serbian, and Croatian. I suggest that the majority of Croatian soldiers, bounded by the sense of ‘duty and honor’, stayed loyal to Austria-Hungary, or at least, were not the pivots of the army’s disintegration. The question of their perception of Homeland is therefore important for understanding the influence of emotions on political relations