Cultural Identity Politics in the (Post-)Transitional Societies

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Cultural Identity Politics in the (Post-)Transitional Societies and maintenance of a stable identity within global culture or multiculture, we cannot be sure how we can create an identity perspective. The fact is that we from the East European region have managed, to a significant extent, to heal the wounds caused by the turbulent and tragic events of the recent past and we partly declaratively and partly effectively have entered the process of stabilization and association through Euro-Atlantic integration. This is happening in the context of the absolute domination of the mass media and advanced technologies where we are all in a position to be included, interactive and participative and to individualize our choices. However, it does not make one an individual who undeniably marks his or her place in the world with clear social, political and cultural choices or values which might be defined as identity and which would have its own sustainability in that perspective. Dominant definitions of global culture hide the apparent paradox: that global culture presumes increased interconnectedness, blurring of the boundaries, overlapping cultures, development of transnational cultural identity, unification and cultural homogenization, as well as protection of differences, plurality and differentiation. We could assume that the global culture we should build and be part of should be based neither on a state of opposition and conflict, nor on the principle of exclusion and replacement nor on the drowning of all cultures in some huge “swimming pool” where particularities will be blanched and flattened so that they disappear or are lost in the crazy mixture. Instead, it should presume a constant state of interplay of differences, of close encounters, of interconnectedness, encroachments, overflows, interferences of things, like in Sloterdijkian foam, where everything, including identity, is in a state of floating free, with unstable liaisons and unexpected couplings of “incalculable choreographies”, as Derrida would say (McDonald, 1982). References Funcke, Bettina (2005) Interview with Peter Sloterdijk, Against Gravity (online). Available at: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/127777/against_gravity/ (15 February 2005). Groys, Boris (2006) Učiniti stvari vidljivima, Zagreb: Muzej suvremene umjetnosti. McDonald, Christie (1982) Interview with Jacques Derrida, Choreographies (online). Available at: http://www.mediafire.com/tguylzdwmyo (1 July 2010). Švob-Đokić, Nada (2011) “Cultural Identities in Southeast Europe: A post-transitional perspective”, paper presented at the conference Questioning Transitional Dynamics in Redefining Cultural Identities in SEE, Ljubljana, January 2011. 166
Report on the conference “Questioning Transitional Dynamics in Re-defining Cultural Identities in Southeastern Europe” 15-16 January 2011, Ljubljana, Slovenia The conference entitled “Questioning Transitional Dynamics in Re-defining Cultural Identities in Southeastern Europe” was held on 15 and 16 January 2011 in the CityHotel in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The conference was organized by the Peace Institute as part of the project financed by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana on behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. Together with the Peace Institute, the partners of the project are the Institute for International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia, the University of Vienna, Austria, and the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. The event gathered together 30 participants from partner and other research institutions in Southeastern Europe, and provided an excellent platform for an intense discussion of the case studies prepared by the project partners for this conference. The conference was opened with a welcome speech by Lev Kreft, the director of the Peace Institute, who highlighted the changing nature of cultural identities in the Southeast European region. Following his speech the conference work began with the first panel that was devoted to “Identity construction in an economic and historical perspective”, chaired by Aldo Milohnić from the Peace Institute. The first speakers were Andrea Komlosy and Hannes Hofbauer from the University of Vienna who presented their paper entitled “Identity construction in the Balkan region – Austrian interests and involvements in a historical perspective”. Their presentation consisted of two parts: in the first part Hannes Hofbauer gave a historical outline of Austrian involvement in the Balkan region, while in the second part Andrea Komlosy gave further insights that 167
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