No. XXXVI (2005)
Articles

The Challenge of Plural Identity

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  • Bojan Jovanović
Bojan Jovanović
Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0536071J

Published 01.12.2005

Keywords

  • identity,
  • collective existence,
  • plural identity,
  • plural reality,
  • shared identity

How to Cite

Jovanović, B. (2005). The Challenge of Plural Identity. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (XXXVI), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0536071J

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Abstract

The complexity of collective existence is expressed through an awareness of its real identity, which then entails an appropriate attitude towards its own negativity. Within the hierarchically structured identity, different levels of its generality make it possible to consider them as factors of a plural reality. If negativity is raised to consciousness, then its dark side is dismantled. Thus, instead of being a factor of conflict, negativity becomes an element of complementariness and a factor in the construction of a shared identity at a higher level of generality.
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