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ON POLITICS OF IDENTITY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF A CONTROVERSIAL CONTEXT
Srđan Vrcan
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Sažetak
The analysis begins with the current shift in the political science paradigm, described as a turn from politics of interest to politics of identity which means from interpretations of political phenomena in terms of a search of optimalisation of interests to interpretations in terms of affirmation of meaning and recognition of identities. However, the analysis is focused upon a peculiar type of politics of identity which is not aiming at obtaining the recognition of the cultural distinction and the right to be different but has claims to stateness culminating in the request to build the state as one's own nation-state and assuming that realistic possibility to reproduce its particular culture and identity is given only when supported and promoted by the respective nation-state.
The second part of the analysis examines the problem of macro-social preconditions that actually may lead to an increase of constraints and pressures in favour of politics of identity as politics requesting a shift from social facticity to social imaginary, a "leap in faith", a new enchanting of the world and a shift from politics conceived of and practiced as having to do with the relative and affirming pluralism and openness to politics with a reference to the absolute. A number of problems opened in that way are explored projected to the contemporary social background characterized by introduction of capitalism "by design" and from above and more particularly as a capitalism of poverty and of the periphery but at the same time by a transition recession and crisis involving a crisis of the political as such.
Ključne riječi
politics of interest; politics of identity; nation-state; social inclusion and exclusion; granting and denying of human and civic rights; citizenship grounds; citizens' loyalty; patriotism; capitalism by design; transition crisis; sustainable and self-sustaining democracy
Hrčak ID:
50966
URI
Datum izdavanja:
16.6.2003.
Posjeta: 1.652 *