La identidad vasca y la dimensión transfronteriza

Ayestarán Etxeberria, Sabino

Publication year:

2001

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-934-7

ISSN:

1137-442X

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Summary

Three topics are outlined in this article: 1) The process of social identification. There are different forms of social identification, but the issue outlined in this section is the following: How we can identify with a social group and maintain, at the same time, our individual autonomy? 2) Basque identity. Two aspects of Basque identity are distinguished: the subjective and the objective. The subjective aspect refers to the process of national identification, as analysed in the previous paragraph. The objective aspect refers to external recognition of a national group as a group that is different from other national groups. 3) How does the transborder situation and, especially, the creation of a space that cancels this transborder situation affect Basque identity?