Od 8.-10. prosinca 2015. održani su “Dani IEF-a” u Institutu za etnologiju i folkloristiku u Zagrebu. Dvije članice projekta sudjelovale su izlaganjima projektnih tema.
Valentina Gulin Zrnić: Kako znanstveno ukrotiti urbanu divljinu?
Što je to divlje u gradu? Od percepcije “divljih” (invazivnih) biljaka koje osvajaju napuštene/zapuštene prostore do različitih “divljih” (neformalnih, ilegalnih) praksi čini se da “urbana divljina” ima potencijal istraživačkog okulara za analizu kompleksnosti suvremenih urbanih prostora i aktivnosti. Polazeći od iskustva stečenog u umjetničkom projektu “8 fragmenata urbane divljine” u kojemu sam sudjelovala zajedno s umjetnicom Tonkom Malekovic, u izlaganju želim predstaviti urbanu divljinu kao znanstvenoistraživačku temu, odnosno propitati moguće definicije, analitičke okvire i pristupe istraživanju “urbane divljine” kao specifičnih urbanih prostora.
Jasna Čapo: ‘Returnee’ and ‘expatriate bubbles’: alternative modes of the search for community?
The presentation compares practices of Croatian return migrants, both of the migrants who return and of their descendants who were born in the countries of settlement and decide to settle in the country of their forebears. It evaluates their images of Croatia prior to return and settlement against their narratives about ‘real’ life and their practices in Croatia. Both groups engage in frequent transnational activities, linking them to people who live in the former countries of settlement. However, there are differences in their ways of integration and community-building locally. Returnees tend to create ‘returnee bubbles’ and might flirt with an idea of spatially fencing themselves off from the surrounding society. The ‘returnee bubbles’ have a parallel in ‘ethnic bubbles’ in which they lived in the countries of immigration. Both practices are contrasted to those of their children and grandchildren, the transnational generations or ‘second generation’, who settled in Croatia. Via internet fora, they tend to join other immigrants’ (‘expatriates’) networks, whereby they socialise with the people of the same ‘international outlook’ as themselves, no matter whether these people have Croatian background or not, or from which country they come. This empirical case study serves as a vehicle for posing general questions relevant to diaspora and return migration theory: ‘the teleology of return’, ‘ontological return’, and ‘homeland’.
Program i sažeci: Dani IEF-a
