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Uvodnik
Editorial

Zrinka Mileusnić
Univerza na Primorskem Fakulteta za humanistične študije, Koper, Slovenija
University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities, Koper, Slovenia
zrinka.mileusnic@fhs.upr.si

etošnjo prvo številko Studia universita- e open this year’s first issue of Studia
tis hereditati odpiramo s povabilom, naj universitatis hereditati with an invi-
Lčez znane disciplinarne meje pogledamo Wtation to look beyond familiar disci-
kot čez pragove med prostori, telesi, tehnikami plinary boundaries as thresholds between spaces,
in pomeni. Skupna nit prispevkov v tej številki bodies, techniques, and meanings. The common 9
ni tema v ednini, temveč način gledanja: kako iz thread running through the contributions in
materialnih sledi in diskurzivnih okvirov ustvar- this issue is not a single theme, but rather a way
jamo verodostojno, a tudi odgovorno vednost. of looking at things: how we create credible but
V prvem sklopu, katerega vsebino lahko also responsible knowledge from material traces
povzamemo kot Krajine spomina, prostora in and discursive frameworks.
pomena, nas Jan Cotič popelje na Titov trg v In the first section, which can be summarised
Kopru, kjer droben napis, vklesan v gotski pis- as ‘Landscapes of Memory, Space, and Meaning’,
avi, tekmuje z monumentalnostjo Pretorske Jan Cotič takes us to Titov trg in Koper, where
palače. Avtor pokaže, kako lahko premestitve, a small inscription carved in Gothic script com-
heraldične vrzeli in datacije odprejo povsem petes with the monumentality of the Praetorian
nova vprašanja o namenu ter začetnem mestu Palace. The author shows how relocations, heral-
spomenika. Epigrafika se tu bere kot urbanis- dic gaps, and dating can open entirely new ques-
tična mikrozgodovina, ki preizprašuje naše in- tions about the purpose and original location of
tuitivne hierarhije med »velikimi« in »majhni- the monument. Epigraphy is read here as an ur-
mi« znaki v prostoru. ban micro-history that questions our intuitive hi-
Iz istrskega lapidarija se z raziskavo Ilkur- erarchies between ‘big’ and ‘small’ signs in space.
ja Erdogana in Giuseppeja Reste prestavimo na From the Istrian lapidarium, Ilkur Erdogan
osrednje prizorišče postsovjetskih mest: na par- and Giuseppe Resta’s study takes us to the central
lamentarne trge. Avtorja sledi protestov pret- stage of post-Soviet cities: parliamentary squares.
vorita v kartografijo gostote, tokov in simbolnih The authors transform the traces of protests into
vozlišč, kjer se arhitektura kot materializira- a cartography of density, flows, and symbolic
na ideologija sreča z množico kot koreografijo nodes, where architecture as materialised ideolo-
političnega spomina. Dekomunizacija tu ni en- gy meets the crowd as a choreography of political
kraten akt, ampak dolgotrajen, tudi prostorski memory. Here, decommunisation is not a one-
proces, ki se vriše v tlorise, osi in praznine. time act, but a long-term, even spatial process
Mojca Ramšak pa nas povabi bliže: k oltar- that is inscribed in floor plans, axes, and voids.
ju, vonju in dotiku. Njen esej o kužnem oltar- Mojca Ramšak invites us closer: to the altar,
ju v Makolah je opomnik, da zgodovine bolezni to smell and touch. Her essay on the plague altar
nikoli niso zgolj statistike, temveč tudi sen- in Makole is a reminder that the history of dis-
zorični scenariji: kako so smrdele ulice in tka- ease is never just statistics, but also sensory expe-
nine, kako so dišala kadila in mazila, kako je riences: how the streets and fabrics smelled, how
skupnost v sliki in ritualu predelovala grozo epi- the incense and ointments smelled, and how the
demij. V senzorični zgodovini je miazma več kot community processed the horror of epidem-
https://doi.org/10.26493/2350-5443.13(1)9-11 © author/authors