Interpreting identity impressions through community making: From Brussels’ autonomous collective through the ethnic Albanian triangle

This paper, as part of a study explores the reinvention of identity and culture through community making, specifically in the process of creation and way of functioning of autonomous temporal groups and intentional communities through socio-cultural spaces. The analysis makes use of a network of fou...

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Main Author: Trime Halili
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2022-06-01
Series:Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
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Online Access:https://studiaethnologicapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/Trime_Halili_43-59.pdf
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Summary:This paper, as part of a study explores the reinvention of identity and culture through community making, specifically in the process of creation and way of functioning of autonomous temporal groups and intentional communities through socio-cultural spaces. The analysis makes use of a network of four different organized communities from Western and South-Eastern Europe, namely Toestand (Brussels, Belgium), Termokiss (Prishtina, Kosova), Space Tetova (Tetova, North Macedonia), with a specific focus on the performance of the project − event Uzina (Tirana, Albania). Through an ethnographic approach, based on active participant observation and interviews that are shown below, this research is an attempt to engage the participating members of the different groups in the construction of the thorough insight of the research. The patterns of intercultural contact and reflexive behaviors in this collective’s endeavors, accentuate the complexity of relationships that arise in the course of the collaboration of the network and wider, revealing the ‘agonistic’ dynamics of Self and Other, West and East, unity and diversity, giver and receiver, hierarchy and equality, global and local, concentrating on new social movements and contemporary identity practices in Europe.
ISSN:1803-9812
2336-6699