Abstract
ABSTRACT This article examines Istrianism as a form of regional cultural identity. In doing so, it regards Istria as an important transnational borderland and investigates the historical circumstances that underlie the manifest multiculturalism of the region. It focuses on an analysis of key socio-historical circumstances that conditioned the cultural heterogeneity of the region, exploring the impact Habsburg heritage in particular had on current socio-cultural policies and interactions. It examines the Istrian peninsula as part of the Austrian Riviera to determine the effects the polyphonic state structure of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had, probing whether this multicultural legacy is connected to the sustained cultural hybridity of Istria today. The present-day IDS party is examined in terms of its relationship to this past. This paper posits the Austrian Littoral as a tolerant, multi-ethnic space where notions of belonging and cultural identity became purposely intertwined, producing a distinct form of citizenship that was not defined by political ordinance alone, but rather by human agency and the immediacy of basic day to day interactions.
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