A sickness that demonstrates as an affective search for and an over-expression of identities
- The engineering of a collective identity as exercised by the state, in the case of crisis and loss of collective identity – Identity lifting. The exaggeratedly searched identity on an individual plan.
Image: Simple geometrical objects such as the cross and the open circle could obtain very different meanings and create a strong identification among different social groups.
Images: Karadjordje’s monument in Podgorica and Skenderbeg’s monument in Skopje
Vahida Ramujkic and Alessandro Floris
