| Summary: | This paper puts debates over identity within non-territorial autonomy scholarship in conversation with those located within feminist thought. It is done for two reasons. First, it is suggested that the concern with identity-based claims has less to do with what identity is per se than with the types of politics produced. More than the by-now familiar criticism that claims to non-territorial autonomy assumes fixed notions of identity, the worry is motivated by the exclusionary and recriminating policies that such claims often give rise to. Second, looking at some feminist responses to this worry offers insights into how claims for non-territorial autonomy might continue to be made while avoiding such politics. The key to view these claims not as declarative statements about what identity is but as transitive negotiations that are part of the on-going process of collective identity-formation.
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