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The purpose of the article is to offer "raw data" for a future semiotic study of the texts about each micronation. | The purpose of the article is to offer "raw data" for a future semiotic study of the texts about each micronation. | ||
(By Renato Ongania)<ref> | (By Renato Ongania)<ref>Degree on Public Relations and Corporate Communication. Student at the Master Degree on Semiotics at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, academic year 2021/2022.</ref> | ||
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A review of the bibliography available in the context of micronations has determined the centrality of the work of Graziano Graziani (Atlante delle micronazioni, Quodlibet Compagnia Extra, 2015), in the December 2020 version for Kindle. | |||
Although the atlas directs the reader to a good selection of micronations, it is based on concepts defined with a certain approximation. | |||
In the introduction Graziani writes: <blockquote>"This Atlas collects the stories and maps of tiny countries that no one has ever recognized: the micronations. What kind of political entity are we talking about? According to Wikipedia, a micronation is "an entity created by a person, or by a small number of people, which claims to be considered as an independent nation or state, but which is nevertheless not recognized by governments and major international organizations". What makes it different, then, from an unrecognized secession like Somaliland or Transnistria, or from the principle of self-determination of peoples? The fact that there are no peoples to be self-determined, first of all, because micronations involve a limited number of people; their generally very limited territorial extension; sometimes, their eccentric nature."<ref>Graziani, Graziano. Atlante delle micronazioni (Compagnia Extra) (Italian Edition) (p.7). Quodlibet. Kindle edition, 2020. </ref></blockquote>The definition of micronation offered by Wikipedia and taken up by Graziani presents an element that characterizes the entity called "micronation" which is completely misleading. In particular, the Wikipedia's authors attribute to the creators / founders of a micronation the claim to be considered as an independent nation or state; in this perspective the creator of a micronation, or more properly the authors / founders, are pre-judged as disconnected from reality or "not in harmony" with the institutions, or even "anti-" subjects. A quick analysis of the texts and metatexts contained in the micronation websites and more in the narrative storytelling of the micronation, disproves much of this connotation. This makes Wikipedia's definition of micronation a gross, incomplete and partly false simplification. As it will be possible to analyze through a semiotic gaze, the true goal of this article, not all micronations claim to be considered as "independent nations or states" - there is certainly a need to appear such, a simulation, but even here it would be reductive to dismiss the phenomenon as a mere microscopic simulation of a state. There is so much more. | |||
''So what is a micronation?'' | |||
Perhaps the most useful approach to approximating the concept of micronation is to first introduce another concept, the Legal Fiction. Here is the starting point: | |||
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