Retrospektive, letnik IX, številka 1

Borders, Spaces, and Ethnic Maps in South East Europe (An Overview)

Srđan Radović

DOI 10.64651/retrospektive.2026.9.1.1 📋

Prejeto: 15. oktobra 2025 | Sprejeto: 13. aprila 2026 | Objavljeno: 15. junija 2026

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Članek podaja pregled in razpravo o etničnem oziroma etnografskem kartografiranju v Jugovzhodni Evropi — podrobneje pa na območju nekdanje Jugoslavije — v 19. in 20. stoletju. Obravnava kontekst, prakse in diskurze, ki so v različnih obdobjih ter političnih in zgodovinskih okoliščinah oblikovali kartografsko (re)prezentacijo etničnosti. Čeprav so etnični zemljevidi — in njihovi ustvarjalci — pogosto zatrjevali, da kartografsko prikazujejo objektivne in empirične podatke o prostorski razporeditvi določenih etničnih skupin, so se le redko uspeli izogniti neizogibnemu političnemu kontekstu, ki je običajno določal njihov nastanek. Kronološki pregled nekaterih teh etnokartografskih praks v Jugovzhodni Evropi do konca 20. stoletja pokaže, da so bile eden od dejavnikov opredeljevanja prostora, etničnosti in narodnosti, ne pa zgolj orodje za nevtralno predstavitev teh istih kategorij. Eden od političnih kontekstov, ki določajo nastanek teh zemljevidov — razmejevanje meja in mejne prakse nasploh — je morda tudi najbolj očiten pri obravnavi balkanskega in postjugoslovanskega prostora.

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Kontakti avtorjev

Kornelija Ajlec, dr.
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History

Kenan Çayır, dr.
İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of Sociology

Zvezdana Kovač
European Fund for the Balkans

Kriton Kuci, dr.
Department of Political Science and International Relations Faculty of Law and Humanities, Mediterranean University of Albania

Angelos Palikidis
Professor of History Didactics
Department of Humanities, School of Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace

Srđan Radović, dr.
Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Božo Repe, dr.
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of History

Vassiliki Sakka, dr.
Association for History Education in Greece

Abstract (Izvleček članka v angleščini)

Ethnic/ethnographic maps produced by Balkan authors, much like those created in the larger European states, fixed “our” natives in their/our places, thereby spatially situating an imagined identity and territory, and linking that identity to the aim of claiming legitimacy over a particular geographical space. We should remember that the making of maps, across different periods, is usually not a matter of presentation but of representation, and that maps must be understood as “contingent and contradictory representations, that is, maps as social constructions”; or, as John Brian Harley argued, mapmaking “is never merely the drawing of maps: it is the making of worlds.”

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