ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to demonstrate the breadth of political identification among ordinary citizens, on the basis of the observation of public discussion in Ni during the first six months of 2011. It describes the political events that occurred at the time of fieldwork in early 2011, relying on electronic and mass media sources in order to provide the kind of background information necessary to contextualize the subsequent words of my informants. The analyses of this chapter continue with a brief discussion of scholarly debates surrounding the idea of a Divided Serbia, using this debate as a point of reference for my own findings. The chapter characterizes the Serbian public sphere, accessed through political discussion in the city of Ni, as divisible into four coherent publics. This appears to support Obradovi-Wochnik's assertion that most Serbs adhere to neither the liberal nor the nationalist pole that are emphasized in scholarship and media discourse. Jelena Obradovi-Wochnik takes on the Divided Serbia's narrative directly.
