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Who You are and Who You Want to Be: Exploring Symbolic, Spatial and Cultural Levels of Identity in Contemporary Serbia/Belgrade

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  • Laurent Tournois
  • Gordana Djeric

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This study focuses on the attitudes of Serbian citizens towards individual, local, national, regional, and supranational identity self-categorizations. Several layers of identification, grounded in history, politics, economics, spatial, and socio-cultural aspects of life are considered. The article aims to broaden and deepen the understanding what citizenship means for inhabitants that have faced important discontinuities since the break-up of Yugoslavia. 466 permanent Belgrade residents were surveyed. The results of the research show that national identity dominates, while being recognized as a human being plays a crucial role in addition to the identification with the city. The European identity and, to some extent, cosmopolitanism, are of much less importance. Participants also expressed very little nostalgic emotional attachment to the Yugoslav identity.

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  • Laurent Tournois & Gordana Djeric, 2021. "Who You are and Who You Want to Be: Exploring Symbolic, Spatial and Cultural Levels of Identity in Contemporary Serbia/Belgrade," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(5), pages 709-731, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjsbxx:v:23:y:2021:i:5:p:709-731
    DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935072
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