Visuomenės subkultūralizacija ir alternatyvaus pilietiškumo raida
Subculturalization of society and the problem of development of alternative citizenship

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of alternative citizenship in the sphere of policy on the basis of subcultural and community analysis. People without feeling of strong essence haven’t motivation for missionary actions and prefer creative construction of their identities and symbolical worlds. However, they also need to resist unification, routine, total ideologies and permanent national identities. They change their identities and need intercultural communication skills and attitudes, advocate public interests, debate them, compete with other subcultures. Modern Lithuanian philosophers as well as world philosophical movement prepare conditions for social, cultural legitimizing of the Other. First of all it is the ethnic, gender and subcultural Other. Legitimation of subcultural public interests and their needs could be interpreted not only in the horizon of cultural diversity, but also as a plurality of citizenship and policy. Different ideologies, parties, political and local communities, types of interests, NGO, imagined communities, subcultures develop various public demands, identity needs, a diversity of world feelings and interpretations. This means that modern society contributes to alternative civic activities, and modern public intellectuals prepare discourses on it. The Other’s civic expressions destroy the routine, the mainstream discourses. The Other today is the representative of the subculture alternative and independent community or just a transgressive subject. Unfortunately, many of representatives of state government, local municipalities, traditional parties try to neglect or forbid the activities to increase Otherness. However, the modern economic, cultural process of subculturalization presupposes development or even production of Otherness. It is the reason to call the citizenship of the Other as an alternative citizenship.

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