"Tapija and the Politics of Communal Care"

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dc.contributor.advisorOTHON ALEXANDRAKIS
dc.contributor.authorLea Alilovic
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T11:13:34Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T11:13:34Z
dc.date.copyright2024-08-20
dc.date.issued2024-11-07
dc.date.updated2024-11-07T11:13:33Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocial Anthropology
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the contemporary movements, processes, and experiences of neoliberal dispossession in Pula, Croatia, focusing on the city's growing economic dependency on tourism. Central to this study is the local phenomenon of tapija, a term that describes pervasive feelings of melancholy and boredom ingrained in the city's fabric. The dissertation investigates the question, “What does tapija as a feeling do?” and argues that tapija is not merely a reflection of apathy or inertia but a complex and multifaceted sensation. Drawing on Ann Cvetkovich’s (2012) concept of depression as a public feeling, the study examines how tapija can be understood as a way to engage with negative emotions as part of daily practice, cultural production, and political activism. The dissertation also reflects on how Pula's increasing touristification parallels processes of deterritorialization, where tourism acts as a force of dispossession, affecting the city's sense of place, livelihood, and stability. Using Laurence Ralph’s (2014) concept of social injury, the study considers how the wounds of social change manifest not physically but through changes in city space, heritage, and infrastructure. The work highlights how the experience and expression of tapija represent individual and collective responses to these socio-economic pressures, offering glimpses of concern and care for the community. Through examples such as complaints, small talk, graffiti, and walking paths, the dissertation demonstrates how locals inscribe and re-inscribe their connection to place, creating informal spaces to resist and navigate the injurious forces of tourism and economic change.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42482
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectCultural anthropology
dc.subjectEast European studies
dc.subject.keywordsTapija
dc.subject.keywordstourism
dc.subject.keywordsaffect theory
dc.subject.keywordspublic feelings
dc.subject.keywordstemporality
dc.subject.keywordscityscape
dc.subject.keywordsdispossession
dc.subject.keywordsdeterritorialization
dc.subject.keywordscare
dc.subject.keywordsecologies of care
dc.subject.keywordscommunal care
dc.subject.keywordsconcern
dc.subject.keywordsmelancholy
dc.subject.keywordsnostalgia
dc.subject.keywordspost-socialist
dc.subject.keywordsneoliberalism
dc.subject.keywordswalking
dc.subject.keywordsethnography
dc.subject.keywordsshort-term rentals
dc.subject.keywordsvacation rentals
dc.subject.keywordsindustrial memory
dc.subject.keywordsmilitary memory
dc.subject.keywordsYugoslavia
dc.subject.keywordsYugonostalgia
dc.subject.keywordsCroatia
dc.subject.keywordsIstria
dc.subject.keywordsPula
dc.subject.keywordsIstrijanstvo
dc.subject.keywordsIstrianness
dc.subject.keywordsPuležani
dc.subject.keywordsUljanik
dc.subject.keywordssocial injury
dc.subject.keywordsinjurious forces
dc.subject.keywordsfacades
dc.subject.keywordsruins
dc.subject.keywordshistorical ethnography
dc.subject.keywordsgossip
dc.subject.keywordsstorytelling
dc.subject.keywordssmall talk
dc.subject.keywordscomplaint
dc.subject.keywordsgraffiti
dc.subject.keywordsCroatian graffiti
dc.subject.keywordsmonitoring
dc.subject.keywordswitnessing
dc.subject.keywordsCOVID-19 fieldwork
dc.subject.keywordstouristification
dc.subject.keywordsapartmentization
dc.subject.keywordsapartmanizacija
dc.subject.keywordshotelization
dc.subject.keywordsinfrastructure
dc.subject.keywordsplace making
dc.title"Tapija and the Politics of Communal Care"
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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