The Neoliberal Co-Optation of Identity Politics: Geo-Political Situatedness as a Decolonial Discussion Partner
Responding to the 2016 United States Presidential election, this piece contests that the popularly deployed phrase “identity politics” is not Identity Politics as articulated by Black feminists of the Combahee River Collective but is rather a neoliberal co-optation of Identity Politics. By situating...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Horizontes Decoloniales |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/decohori.5.1.0101 |
| Summary: | Responding to the 2016 United States Presidential election, this piece contests that the popularly deployed phrase “identity politics” is not Identity Politics as articulated by Black feminists of the Combahee River Collective but is rather a neoliberal co-optation of Identity Politics. By situating neoliberalism and the Black feminists that articulated Identity Politics as historical contemporaries, the piece argues that as the former spread to institutions like universities it co-opted, depoliticized, a-historicized, and misappropriated the latter. The piece concludes by offering “Geo-Political Situatedness” as a theoretical frame that undermines neoliberalism's co-optation of Identity Politics. Key words : Neoliberalism, Identity Politics, Black feminism, Combahee River Collective |
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| ISSN: | 2545-8728 2422-6343 |