On the place of identity, diversity and solidarity in modern cultural policy: problems of articulation of concepts

The article provides an analysis of the concepts of identity and solidarity within the context of socio-cultural diversity. The research focuses on the relevance of elaborating the conceptual foundations of cultural policy and the problematic aspects of their formation and articulation, as well as the difficulties of their proper transfer to the sphere of cultural practices. In this context, the thesis of identity and solidarity as antagonist concepts and phenomena is critically examined. The analysis of their interrelationship reveals that identity is not a static formation, but a complex, fundamentally dynamic phenomenon, characterized by mobility, variability and multiplicity of manifestations. The process of constant redefinition of identities, represented by the identification properties of the cultural subject, occurs in the contemporary socio-cultural environment. This identities' range does not contradict the situational unification of people into communities based on progressive aspirations, i.e., solidarity. On the contrary, the variability, multiplicity, and dynamics of identities act as the optimal condition for the creation of states of solidarity in society, within which specific identification processes also arise. The above-mentioned foundations determine the mission for the cultural elite to search for development vectors, which designs the content of cultural policy: elaboration of optimal technologies to handle the interrelated identity states and solidarization processes in accordance with the cultural-and-political guidelines.