ABSTRACT
Although people rarely have problems talking about where they come from, they do seem to question where they belong. Making people belong to a wider context than just a local, social setting is perhaps not an entirely new way of articulating our social presence. Yet modern concepts of evenly constituted bodies like nation, religion or society fundamentally changed how people once thought of themselves with respect to others. One visible piece of evidence for this change and its problematic character is a plethora of academic works dedicated to identity, which conquered debates on people’s engagement with the social world. One of the many concrete outcomes of this development is an increased sensitivity to minority politics and ongoing research that ‘listens to history and cultivates details, accidents or minute deviations’ (Foucault 1977: 142–144).
