Meje identitete

slovenian

2015

state    nationalism 

Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The text, referring to Étienne Balibar critically reflects the notion of the state as the nationstate (with all its postulates: nationalism, borders, citizenship and with one dominant national (national-ethnic) identity and all the others that adapt to it) as the last, the best and the only possible form of the formation of society. In a situation where the national (if not ethnic) identity became the prototype of the identity as such, theoretical discourse is often confused and goes either in blindly defending the concept of nationalism and nation (national citizenship, identity, tradition, culture and social policies in the national context) or in another extreme of %overcoming the borders of the national% through supranational institutions or transnational processes that are formulated exclusively on the basis of the vulgar exploitative global "new market economy", ecological unawareness or internationalization of cultural models. In the text I proceed on the basis that none of these methods is good and I claim, relying on Jacques Ranciere, that the real process of emancipation is generated not in the consolidation of identity but just on its borders.

12.05.2016