O vytváraní vlastnej osobnosti v tvorbe európskeho občianstva, prípadová štúdia Neo-občan
Of the Construction of Self in the Construction of an European Citizenship, a Case Study of the Neocountrymen

Summary/Abstract: Since the 1970s, neo-countrymen represent a population that constitutes itself as “marginal”, according to the criteria of “marginality” defined by Barel in 1982. In popular language they are also sometimes described as being in the situation of retreat or withdrawal from the society. Through their rediscovery of the countryman lifestyle and the reconstruction of the peculiar forms of solidarity, both through construction of their housing environment and the elaboration of communitarian activities, we observe that they rediscover the meaning of the social link lying in the heart of the citizenship. Effectively, it is by the social link that the citizenship itself is defined; nevertheless, in the case of the neocountrymen its meaning is not identical as for the legislators and the majority of the population. In that case, the citizen participation of these individuals seems non-existent or seriously compromised because they are perceived to be refusing the collectivity; they are seen in favour of marginality, implicitly favouring specific country or region – a situation that Geertz characterises as the “local” versus “global” (1986), in this case the State and the nation.

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