THE IDENTITY OF THE BELARUSIANS: DECONSTRUCTIVIST AND CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES
The Identity of the Belarusians: Deconstructivist and Constructivist Approaches

Summary/Abstract: The necessity of an adequate understanding of the Belarusian identity, which is vividly contradictory and imperceptible, reveals the scantiness of the positivist approach to it as a primordial and constant phenomenon. Derrida's metaphor of the Tower of Babel as a constantly constructed and deconstructed event being applied to the Belarusian identity provides as opportunity for as alternate vision of it as pluralistic, relational, fluid and not final. Three models of construction of the Belarusian identity are put forward against this background: the traditional and ethnic one; and the model of national identity; and the state identity.

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