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6.3 wwii-Related Memorial Practices and Dark Tourism
Figure 6.7 Map of Important w w i i-Related Memorial Sites in the Second Yugoslavia
(Ðurić, n.d., p. 104)
identified in Croatia since the 1990s where an extreme right-wing ide-
ology has been revitalised (Pavlaković & Perak, 2017);³⁶ Lebhaft (2013;
2016) describes this also in the damnatio memoriae context. However,
this is not completely in line with the claims of Misztal (2003, p. 17) or
Wolff (2006, p. 115) about intergenerational transfers of memory prac-
tices, or the claims of Halbwachs (1992) and Confino (1997), stating that
heritage and traditions unify people. This shift in attitude to the memory
of wwi i and socialism is more of a consequence of the developing post-
socialist democracy, heterogeneity, perhaps even stratification of society
and awakened post-wwi i frustrations. The practices of the above-men-
tioned areas (Istria, Gorski Kotar and Zagorje) are closer to the Slovenian
ones, where wwi i-related heritage is much more preserved and in many
³⁶ More about w w i i-related heritage and the changed attitude towards it in the post-
Yugoslav states can be found in Ðurić (2015), Putnik (2016) and Arnaud (2016).
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Figure 6.7 Map of Important w w i i-Related Memorial Sites in the Second Yugoslavia
(Ðurić, n.d., p. 104)
identified in Croatia since the 1990s where an extreme right-wing ide-
ology has been revitalised (Pavlaković & Perak, 2017);³⁶ Lebhaft (2013;
2016) describes this also in the damnatio memoriae context. However,
this is not completely in line with the claims of Misztal (2003, p. 17) or
Wolff (2006, p. 115) about intergenerational transfers of memory prac-
tices, or the claims of Halbwachs (1992) and Confino (1997), stating that
heritage and traditions unify people. This shift in attitude to the memory
of wwi i and socialism is more of a consequence of the developing post-
socialist democracy, heterogeneity, perhaps even stratification of society
and awakened post-wwi i frustrations. The practices of the above-men-
tioned areas (Istria, Gorski Kotar and Zagorje) are closer to the Slovenian
ones, where wwi i-related heritage is much more preserved and in many
³⁶ More about w w i i-related heritage and the changed attitude towards it in the post-
Yugoslav states can be found in Ðurić (2015), Putnik (2016) and Arnaud (2016).
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