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The role of culture in creation of regional and a common European cultural Identity – Istrian Case Study

This paper explores the processes of imagining the nation and the construction of identity in the competing narratives of the Istrian history, space and culture as the key references of identities derived from the transcultural contact zone at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Central Europe and Balkans. The author showed how the intellectual elites of this liminal borderland made a use of culture for the nation- and region- building. The research was focused on the articulation of the regional cultural identity, narrated in the work of the Istrian polyhistor Mijo Mirković (1898-1963), who used the elements of traditional culture to (re)construct the local identity, seriously endangered in the period of fascism. His work also provides a model for understanding the transition from the pre-industrial oral culture into an unstable modernity which seized Istria in the most barbarous of manners employing the imperial and colonizing trespassing practice, the untypical ideological blend of a mass consumer culture and aggressive interventions of totalitarian ideologies into identity. The author also explored contemporary models of creative use of culture in creation of regional and a common European identity.

regional culture, European identity, Istria, Mijo Mirković

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