1. Land in the common use in the 19th century : the case of the manor of Duino in the Karst regionNikita Peresin Meden, 2025, doctoral dissertation Abstract: Common land was, until land relief in 1848, mostly owned by the landlords and was managed and used by them and the village communities. This land generally comprised the less fertile and more remote areas, such as pastures and forests. The rights to use the latter were vital for the rural population, who depended in particular on common pasturage and wood, but also on leaves and other natural resources.
The dissertation focuses on the 19th century and the early 20th century, up to the First World War. Although the second half of the 18th century is also considered in the interests of a comprehensive study. The presentation and interpretation of the state and changes of the common lands in the provinces of Carniola and Gorizia-Gradisca is followed by an in-depth case study of the area of the manor of Duino and after 1848 of the District Governorship of Sežana. Here, research focuses primarily on the long- standing official and unofficial processes by which common land was divided into private ownership or individual use. After 1848, the latter became the property of the village communities or the newly formed political municipalities. The legal status of the land and the role of the main actors (communities, mayors, beneficiaries, authorities) in these processes are therefore examined. This emphasises the socio- economic role of common land rights, which ultimately led to overexploitation and violations of land use restrictions (i.e. afforestation laws). The dissertation offers an original study as well as an in-depth analysis and interpretation of archival material that has not yet been studied or published.
The problematic and unclear legal status of common land was the cause of numerous conflicts and controversies in the past, which were intensified by the existential importance of the land and peasant mentality. This situation was exacerbated in the 19th century, and was reflected in the various forms of legal status of common land or its shares after division. The use of common land was becoming even more restricted and the claims to the shares were all but obvious. Both use and entitlement were not free, as is often assumed. The beneficiaries paid and sometimes even overpaid for their rights. In the dissertation, we have outlined the various conditions for entitlement to common land or shares of common land, and interpreted the process of its division into private or common property. We have established that common land was divided into ownerships mainly from the mid-19th century onwards,
which was linked to the land relief during 1848. It should be noted that it was divided into individual use before, and also after the mid-19th century. However, it was later more difficult for the authorities to approve this kind of division, as it did not comply with land relief legislation. As a result, such divisions eventually took place unofficially. Administrative reorganisations in the 19th century brought even more confusion to the process. The issue of unclear status accompanied and conditioned development on common land in the past, and it is legislation at state and local levels that has played and continues to play the greatest role in the management of common land. Keywords: common land, Karst, microhistory, land use, privatization of land, 19th century, community, rights of the commoner, duties of the commoner, dissertations Published in RUNG: 11.06.2025; Views: 387; Downloads: 3
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2. Gospodarski odnosi med mestom Trst in kraškim zaledjem: primer Senožeč : predavanje na panelu Kulturne, družbene in gospodarske povezave med mestom in podeželjem v 19. in 20. stoletju, v okviru konference èStoria, International History Festival, Gorica, Italija, 1. junij 2025Nikita Peresin Meden, 2025, unpublished conference contribution Abstract: Predstavitev poudarja raznolikost gospodarskih odnosov med lokalnim prebivalstvom Senožeč in mestom Trst, ki so bili plodoviti vsaj od 14. stoletja dalje. Fokus je na mlekarstvu, ki se je, vpričo teh povezav, v kraju pospešeno razvijalo v prvi polovici 20. stoletja. Raziskava tega primera je potekala v okviru projekta Muzej prevozništva in tovorništva, ki ga izvaja Občina Divača s pomočjo sredstev Ministrstva za kulturo RS. Na gospodarsko zgodovino Senožeč, ležečih ob cesarski cesti Dunaj-Trst, je imel najpomembnejši vpliv promet. Veliko agrarnih in neagrarnih dejavnosti je bilo vezanih in je doživljalo razcvet prav zaradi prevozništva. Južna železnica je zaobšla kraj, prevzela velik del tovora ter tako povzročila postopno upadanje prevozništva in obrti, ki so bile vezane nanj. Senožečani so v Trst izvažali širok nabor pridelkov in produktov, med katerimi gre izpostaviti seno, les, pivo in naposled mleko. Dejavnost mlekarstva pa v Senožečah doslej še ni bila raziskana, potemtakem iz izsledki slonijo izključno na arhivskih virih. Ob koncu 19. stoletja je senožeškemu županu uspelo ustanoviti zadružno mlekarno. To je v obdobju prve polovice 20. stoletja zadruga dajala v najem tržaškim ali pa domačim "mlekarjem" ali bolje rečeno poslovnežem, ki pa so morali imeti dovoljenje za opravljanje mlekarske obrti. Mlekarno so v letih 1927/28 modernizirali. Že v prvem desetletju 20. stoletja je zadrugi uspelo dobavljati mleko tržaškim bolnišnicam, ki so bile glavni odjemalec mleka tudi v medvojnem obdobju. Zadruga je za zagotovitev svojih odjemalcev skrbela za kakovost oddanega mleka tudi s posebnimi pravili in kaznimi. Tržačani se ne pojavljajo le kot porabniki mleka, temveč tudi kot najemniki, ki so bili aktivno vključeni v delovanje mlekarne. Mlekarna predstavlja primer uspešnega gospodarskega sodelovanja zaledja z mestom. Keywords: Trst, Senožeče, Kras, mlekarstvo, kmetijstvo, zgodovina, 20. stoletje Published in RUNG: 03.06.2025; Views: 668; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
3. Dolenčev zbornik 2025 : o Muzeju prevozništva in tovorništva ter (pra)zgodovini kraške kulturne krajineAnu Kahuna, 2025, professional monograph Abstract: Prvi vsebinski del zbornika se nanaša na projekt Muzej tovorništva in prevozništva, v katerem avtor in avtorice prispevkov spregovorijo o procesu pridobivanja sredstev, o izvedbi dosedanjega dela, utemeljujejo vizijo obnove mitnice ter pojasnijo vsebinski oris muzejske postavitve. V drugem delu zbornika avtorji in avtorice predstavijo svoje raziskave vezane na arheološko preteklost Tabora pri Vrabčah, jamski turizem skozi čas, kraško zidovje v okolici Rodika in na družbeno vlogo ohranjanja suhih zidov in kulturne krajine. Keywords: Senožeče, Muzej tovorništva in prevozništva, Kras, kulturna krajina, suhi zid, zgodovina, arheologija, jamski turizem, Divača Published in RUNG: 14.04.2025; Views: 575; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
4. Kulturna kraška krajina : od arheoloških ostankov, preko suhih zidov v notranjost jamNikita Peresin Meden, 2025, preface, editorial, afterword Keywords: Kras, suhi zid, arheologija, zgodovina, jamski turizem, Senožeče, Divača Published in RUNG: 14.04.2025; Views: 486; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
5. Muzej prevozništva in tovorništva v Senožečah : utemeljitev in vizija obnove mitnice ter vsebinski oris muzejske postavitveNikita Peresin Meden, Aleksander Panjek, Ines Beguš, 2025, independent professional component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: Prenova stavb na območju mitnice v Senožečah predstavlja izhodiščni pogoj za sodoben razvoj kraja na participativni osnovi v skladu z najnovejšimi pojmovanji trajnostnega razvoja lokalnih skupnosti. Prijavna projektna dokumentacija
za »Muzej prevozništva in tovorništva« je med drugim vsebovala prilogo, v kateri
sta bili predstavljeni utemeljitev in vizija obnove mitnice ter muzejsko-turističnih vsebin. V slednji so med drugim navedene ključne značilnosti iz krajevne zgodovine, ki so pomembne za pojasnitev vsebin in postavitve muzeja. Izpostavljena
sta lokalni in nacionalni pomen ter cilj muzeja, ki je valorizirati in predstaviti zanimivo
in svojevrstno zgodovino kraja ter gospodarskih dejavnosti, ki so vplivale na njegov razvoj in z njim soobstajale stoletja. Poudarek je na najbolj razširjenih gospodarskih dejavnostih tega prostora in obenem slovenskega podeželja, to je na tovorništvu in prevozništvu, ki sta vplivala na razvoj kraja in razcvet drugih,
nanju vezanih dejavnosti. Keywords: mitnice, idejni razvoj muzeja, gospodarska zgodovina, razvoj podeželja, evropska sredstva Published in RUNG: 14.04.2025; Views: 395; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
6. Afforestation of common land in the Classical Karst : relations between the authorities, the local population, and the economic consequences of afforestationNikita Peresin Meden, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: The findings of environmental history are in the service of ecology and represent an important contribution to the understanding of the sustainable management of land. The aim of this article is to shed light on the relations between the local population and the authorities regarding the afforestation of common land in Komen in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, placing them in a broader Mediterranean context. The local population was not opposed to afforestation per se, but to the prohibition of usufruct on afforested land, which had major economic consequences for the local population. Authorities did not always take into consideration the annual agricultural processes, local customs, and natural resource needs in their afforestation decisions. The prohibition of usufruct was followed by a shortage of fodder and firewood, which led to forest violations to satisfy demands. Thus, afforestation has undermined the basis of agriculture. In addition, already afforested land remained under common ownership for a relatively long time. Keywords: common land, Karst, afforestation, Mediterranean, environmental history Published in RUNG: 03.12.2024; Views: 1528; Downloads: 9
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8. Taming the forest : embracing the complexity of art-sci research through microhistory, bioeconomics and intermedia artNikita Peresin Meden, Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: An ongoing collaborative project between art and science, Taming the Forest (2022) was implemented by a team of students, artists and researchers charting an interdisciplinary project among bioeconomics, environmental history, policy and artistic practice. In this article, the project acts as a case study for researching the conflicting narratives of history and economics about biodiversity in general, and specifically about forests. It shows how different blends of methodologies in artistic-cum-scientific research can become relevant for both realms, opening new creative pathways and pedagogical registers while repeatedly returning to a specific forest’s microhistory. Moreover, the article stresses the need for a new sensibility and complex knowledge, moving beyond an objective study and becoming attentive to different dimensions of research and its outputs that emerge through the introduction of artistic thinking and methodologies. This kind of transdisciplinary approach becomes necessary in order to tackle the manifold large-scale problems such as the climate and biodiversity crises, which call for both acting decisively and transforming radically, above all with regard to how humans perceive, relate to and manage nature. Keywords: biodiversity, climate crisis, environmental history, forest management, Karst, transdisciplinary, artistic thinking, artistic research Published in RUNG: 01.07.2024; Views: 1738; Downloads: 10
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10. Trg Senožeče: o dejavnikih gospodarskega vzpona, vrhunca in zatonaNikita Peresin Meden, 2022, review article Abstract: Rdečo nit prispevka predstavlja interpretacija dejavnikov, ki so vplivali na
gospodarski razvoj, vrhunec in propad trga. Trg Senožeče se je razvil poleg istoimenske
vasi. Krivulji gospodarske rasti trga in vasi Senožeče se opazno razlikujeta ter sta
v nekaterih časovnih intervalih celo obratno sorazmerni. Ker je skozi trg vodila
pomembna trgovska pot, je to ugodno vplivalo na njegov razvoj. Nastanek trga
postavljamo v obdobje od sredine 14. do sredine 15. st. V drugi polovici 16. in v prvih
desetletjih 17. st. je doživljal gospodarski vrhunec, ki mu je v prvi polovici 18. st. sledilo
postopno ugašanje tržišča. V 18. st. je vodilno mesto v gospodarski sferi prevzela vas,
v katero se je prenesla pomembna prometnica, ki je prej potekala skozi trg Keywords: Kras, Senožeče, trg, trgovina, gospodarstvo, novi vek, pozni srednji vek Published in RUNG: 16.08.2023; Views: 2249; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |