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Politički identitet i kolektivno pamćenje
Political Identity and Collective Memory

Author(s): Tijana Dokić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: collective memory; political identity; collective trauma; political hysteria; deliberative democracy

Summary/Abstract: Over the past few years there have been many discussions about deep conflicts that separate political identity of Serbian society. If in one political community can exist only one type of belonging and patriotism, how is it possible to overcome conflict between divided Serbian political identity. In this paper I assume that this division have its root in two separate ways of dealing with the past. The aim of this work is to understand current implications of the traumatic past for the political identity of Serbia, as well as to show the ways for overcoming subversive dynamics of collective memory.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 29-42
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian