
Imagined identities
Imagined communities, called thus by Benedict Anderson, revealed the principle of nation-building, namely inculcating an image of a translocal community to which people belong. They also bring to light the creative character of imagination, which was able to connect the abstract categories of nation, state and homeland with some specific area. At the same time they put in motion an identity narrative, necessary to unite the nation, which, after all, is a kind of “narrated community”, to borrow a phrase from Maria Janion.
In today’s fluid times a human being is looking for a place and a place is looking for a human being; people want to feel at home in a space but spaces influence entire communities. This creates the need to imagine certain possible multilayered identities – for a place, for people, for a collective. For some new kind of individuality.
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1Editorial
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Imagined Identities
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4Imagined geography
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20Identity is a matrioshka: the sum of encounters and stories
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27The translator’s gloss
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30Yugoslav and post‑Yugoslav maps
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44Bila jednom jedna zemlja…
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64A transmigrant’s identity
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78Three models of cultural memory: Kraków, Katowice, Wrocław
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88In search of the Jewish style. Archaeology of the Lviv modernism
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102Viribus unitis. About Kaiserlicher und Königlicher Marinefriedhof in Pula and other things
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Professor Robert Traba talks to Magdalena Petryna
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132Sibiu – city of cultures Online
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European Capitals of Culture
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146Sibiu – the European “self”
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150Bunkers with art Online
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Reflections, Impressions, Opinions
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160Constructing history
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166Cultural heritage as seen by contemporary Russians
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174If you are reading this text, it means you are looking at it
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By Myself
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180A Triestine triptych (2)
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