RE-THINKING THE IDENTITIES - THE MEDITERRANEAN
RE-THINKING THE IDENTITIES - THE MEDITERRANEAN

Summary/Abstract: Identity is defined as a concept that takes into consideration the issues of the complete entirety of the accepted and marked practices, beliefs and commonly focused continuity in time and space. Cultural identity helps us recognise and “describe” ourselves in our own distinctiveness in regard to the manner of existence of the “others”. The contemporary identity policies (including the one of Western Europe) serve the demonstration of power that manipulates, labels and discriminates even when it advocates equality of the identities. In the overall discourse of its stratified and controversial existence through centuries, the Mediterranean, the South and its civilisation circle is a victim of such policies that create stereotypes, divide and assess its quality through the arrogance of wealth and the order of civic culture.

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