Undergraduate thesis attempts to illuminate the questions on the formation of identities and discourses of the Habsburg periphery during the occupation and subsequent annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. If the classical " empire studies " derive from the binary matrix of the relationship between the metropolis (Vienna) and the periphery (Bosnia and Herzegovina), the author tries to add another element, namely "Slovenian lands", which otherwise belong to the category of periphery. The research question focuses on how the inhabitants of this periphery saw and understood themselves when they came in contact with the new "colony" and, of course, how they perceived and described the people and the situation they found in the new "Bosnian periphery". The focus is therefore on forms of giving sense and attributing meaning. Based on various sources, with the help of a cultural-historical approach, understood primarily as a specific perspective on various subjects of study, the author tries to understand what kind of discourse (hegemonic, imperial, colonial, Yugoslav, Austrian…) developed between 1878 and 1918 and what kind of subjectivization he led to. The thesis shows that the South Slavic or. Slovene culture was not only a silent object of (German) hegemonic discourse, it was not only a collaborator of the Viennese center, but it was itself an active and self-initiated speaking subject. The core of the research represent resources from "below", this means that the object of interest are common people (individual soldiers, professors, writers) and their concrete, particular and always partial experience.
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