Identidades colectivas en el horizonte 2050: ¿Consenso o disenso? El ejemplo del servicio militar.

Abstract

Collective identities and in particular national identities have been one of the main tools with which societies have been homogenized throughout the contemporary age, as religious identities did at other times. The emergence of nation-states and the propagation of nationalist ideologies allowed societies to become culturally very compact. Currently, societies are enormously diverse. This is a product of globalization process, the mobility of individuals, the net universalization, the new information society, the generalization of ICTs and the emergence of an identity market in which individuals can choose their identity ascription in a completely free way, among those to which they can have access. The lack of homogeneity of current society produces tensions that can only be overcome with the creation of new consensuses that order their plurality, establishing at the same time limits and guarantees for the free development of individuals. Currently some governments are raising old recipes to overcome these crises