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Tired of Life: Suicides in the Province of Istria during Italian Administration between the Two World Wars
U Älanku se kroz tiskana vrela te arhivsku (Državni arhiv u Pazinu) i novinsku
graÄu (Hrvatski list, LāAzione, PuÄki prijatelj, Istarska rijeÄ) predstavljaju i
raÅ”Älanjuju statistike samoubojstava na podruÄju Istarske provincije izmeÄu 1924.,
kada zapoÄinje službeno evidentiranje, i 1940. godine. Podaci su komparirani s prosjekom
Kraljevine Italije te susjednom trÅ”Äanskom i rijeÄkom provincijom, koje su zajedno
s Istrom (i Goricom) Äinile regiju Julijsku krajinu (Venezia Giulia), a koja je
bilježila najviÅ”e stope suicida na državnoj razini za Äitavoga meÄuratnog razdoblja.
Brojni novinski Älanci, posebice list LāAzione, koji je opÅ”irno i Äesto pisao i izvjeÅ”tavao
o pojedinim sluÄajevima suicida, te izvjeÅ”taji kvesture omoguÄili su donoÅ”enje okvirnih
zakljuÄaka, unutar podruÄja povijesne znanosti, o najzastupljenijim dobnim, spolnim
i socijalnim skupinama Istrana koji su si uskratili život kao i o njihovim motivima te
sredstvima kojima su ga poÄinili. Od kraja 20-ih godina dolazi do promjene u medijskom
faÅ”istiÄkom diskursu te pojam suicida postaje predmetom cenzure kao nepoželjan
element u izravnoj opreci s Duceovom vizijom demografske politike i veliÄine talijanske
nacije i talijanskog duha.The paper presents and analyses ā on the basis of printed sources, archival material
(State Archives in Pazin) and newspapers (Hrvatski list, LāAzione, PuÄki prijatelj,
Istarska rijeÄ) ā statistical data concerning suicide cases in the Province of Istria registered
in the period between 1924 (beginning of official record keeping) and 1940. The
data have been compared with the average in the Kingdom of Italy, and the neighbouring
provinces of Trieste and Rijeka; which ā together with Istria (and Gorizia) ā formed
the Venezia Giulia region, where the highest suicide rates ā at state level ā were recorded
for the entire interwar period. Many articles, in particular the ones published in the
newspaper LāAzione, which frequently and in detail informed about individual suicide
cases, as well as police reports, have facilitated judgement forming in the domain
of historical sciences regarding the most-represented age, sex and social groups of the
Istrians who ended their own lives, as well as concerning their motives and the means
used. Towards the end of the 1920s, the fascist discourse present in the media changed,
so that the term suicide became a subject of censure as an unwanted element directly
opposed to Duceās vision of demography-related policy and the greatness of Italian nation
and Italian spirit
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