Understanding the border
On October 17th 2024 the book Capire il confine: Gorizia e Nova gorica: Lo sguardo di un’antropologa indaga la frontiera (Understanding the border: Gorizia and Nova Gorica: The view of an anthropologist, a border researcher) was presented at the Bookstore Caffe Maks in Nova Gorica. In the book the author Giustina Selvelli Butkovič examines borders, boundaries and margins that are constantly changing, contested, and ambiguous. The book focuses on the processes of bordering and debording in the Gorizia region due to the border-line established in 1947, which led to the construction of Nova Gorica, set literally on the border. The author interweaves an autobiographical narrative with an autoethnographic multicultural post-imperial and post-Yugoslav condensed history. The discussion was moderated by Špela Ledinek Lozej.
