„Innovative identities“? The issue of cultural and linguistic fragmentation in Montagna Friulana (north eastern Italy)

• Authors: Igor Jelen , Ernst Steinicke , Erica Specogna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The current globalization realty is characterized by the constant coming up of new identities, that are appearing at any scale, almost as a side-effect of parallel phenomena signifying increasingly cultural indeterminateness. This paper argues that this phenomenon is connected to a condition of periphericity, namely to a sense of vulnerability that arise outside the umbrella once provided by modern state; furthermore this paper argues that this phenomenon is indifferently affecting any culture, not considering ethnic and linguistic derivation. Such situation figures out a sort of paradox of the globalization, which, while extending the hegemony of a uniform code, would induce per reaction the flourishing of local cultures, sometimes evidencing a self-referential character, other times configuring the main stain for a new territorial consciousness.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• Journal: Journal of Geography, Politics and Society
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 25-38

Dates

published

2016-12-06

Contributors

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Igor Jelen

• University of Trieste

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Ernst Steinicke

• University of Innsbruck

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Erica Specogna

• University of Trieste