Representability and Relationality by Fulvia Sarnelli

“…I first consider Hwang’s parody of identity politics and his staging of the racialization of bodies in contemporary “postracial” American society. …”
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Changes in Understanding of Iranian Intellectual from the Tradition of Crisis, Tradition and Intellectual Self-awareness by Seyd Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat

“…Although intellectuality requires Iranian intellectuals critically scrutinize and contemplate on tradition as one of the most influential factors of Iranian identity, politics and power and provide a situation for its proliferation but in practice it did not happen. …”
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Ruptures and Their Afterlife: A Cultural Critique of Trauma by Orkideh Behrouzan

“…These narratives of rupture show how generations are constructed and negotiated, not temporally, but based on the political and emotional stakes of how, and what, one remembers, thereby informing the identity politics of young Iranians and generating new socialities and cultural forms. …”
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From Desecularization to Sacralization of the Political Language: Religion and Historiosophy in Vladimir Putin’s Preparations for War by Marcin Składanowski, Cezary Smuniewski

“… This article aims to analyze religious and mystical elements contained in Putin’s public statements by referring to selected examples characteristic of contemporary Russian identity politics. In order to demonstrate the importance of religious and mystical threads in Putin’s speeches, we chose five specific cases. …”
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Afrikaanse vryheidsliedjies as herkonstruksie van Afrikaneridentiteit: ’n ideologies-kritiese perspektief by L. Lambrechts, M. Viljoen

“…It illustrates that although more than a decade has passed since democratisation, identity politics are still an important South African topic and renegotiation therefore continues. …”
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Descriptive representation and political participation: exploring Croatia's non-dominant groups electoral turnout by Timofey Agarin, Petr Čermák

“…Analyses of the political mobilisation of non-dominant groups in regions previously affected by conflict offer evidence that their ethno-political mobilisation reflects the continuous importance of identity-politics in the context of highly ethnicised institutions ensuring political representation at national and municipal levels. …”
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Maurice Echeverría’s Labios: A Disenchanted Story about Lesbians in Guatemala’s Postwar Reality by Yajaira M. Padilla

“…This visibility is an expression of the complex social reality of sexual minorities in postwar Guatemala, one marked by global or cosmopolitan discourses of gay and lesbian identity politics as well as queer modes of self-definition that challenge those same dominant discourses.…”
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Himalayan Youth Resist through Art: Debunking “Development” in Kinnaur by Pramiti Negi, Hanna Werner

“…Against the backdrop of current debates on environmentalism, identity politics, and political aesthetics, the primary aim of this essay is to situate the selected artifacts in relation to the campaign and give their creators a voice—or an image. …”
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Ecomusicology: A Study of Richard Powers’ The Time of Our Singing, The Echo Maker and Orfeo by Ayesha Khalid, Amra Raza

“…Powers addresses issues like racial discrimination, identity politics, and capitalist ventures that are all linked together through a world of human and nonhuman music.…”
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The Poor in Society, Resurrection from Social Death, and Latin American Liberation Theology by Jung Mo Sung

“…Does Latin American liberation theology, with its option for the poor, still have something to contribute in a global scenario marked by neoliberal globalization and the discussion of identity politics? Based on the practices of Father Júlio Lancelotti against aporophobia (phobia against the poor) and the hostile architecture in Brazil, this article discusses the notion of the priority of orthopraxis over orthodoxy, the process of reordering the place of the poor in society and in the state budgets, and the notion of liberation practices and criticizes the process of dehumanization in neoliberal culture, in which personal identity and belonging to a community are marked by the pattern of consumption and wealth. …”
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Dissenting Differently: Solidarities and Tensions between Student Organizing and Trans-Kothi-Hijra Activism in Eastern India by Aniruddha Dutta

“…The article examines how these alliances disrupt hegemonic forms of leftist and LGBT activism, challenging both the primacy of class in leftist political organizing and single-axis identity politics based solely on gender or sexuality. …”
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Identities in Extended Afrikaans Speech Communities by Anne-Marie Beukes, Marné Pienaar

“…Neville Alexander’s work is drawn upon in which he argues that identity politics in South Africa is often cladded in ornamental rainbow imagery leaving many communities in a crisis of identity. …”
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La lettre de suicide du Premier Ministre ‘Abd al-Muḥsin al-Sa‘dūn by Aline Schlaepfer

“…A close reading of the Prime Minister’s political and personal trajectory – between his Ottoman Turkish socio-political background and the mounting tensions with Southern Iraqi Shi‘ite leadership – exposes complex issues of identity politics behind claims of Arabness. The legacy of the Turkish language: amnesia or indifference?…”
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Z-Propaganda and Semiotic Resistance: Contesting Russia’s War Symbols in Moldova and Beyond by Marandici Ion

“…Finally, the in-depth analysis of the identity politics accompanying the symbolic ban in Moldova reveals how competing definitions of nationhood lead to divergent assessments of Russia’s war narratives. …”
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Turkey and the Balkans: bringing the Europeanisation/de-Europeanisation nexus into question by Alpan, Başak, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…The overall claim is that religion, ethnicity and kin politics as indispensable components of identity politics, have the capacity to transform Turkey’s foreign policy attitudes as well as the orientations of the Balkan countries and the impact of the processes of Europeanization and de-Europeanization on the relationship between Turkey and the Balkans needs to be included into the analysis.…”

Was the 2019 Indian election won by digital media? by Neyazi, TA, Schroeder, R

“…Research on the reasons for the unexpected outcome of the 2019 national election in India can be divided into two strands: one strand examines the election without recourse to media, arguing that the appeals by parties to different segments of the population, referred to as identity politics, swayed voters. The other strand has made the case that media campaigns, and digital media in particular, were decisive in shaping the electoral outcome. …”

Ethnography, diversity and urban space by Berg, M, Sigona, N

“…It places the 'diversity turn' within studies of migration and multiculture historically and discusses the implications of concepts such as 'diversity' and more recently 'super-diversity' for scholarship, policy and identity politics. It argues that diversity is a helpful concept for studies of migration and multiculture because it avoids the essentialism and bias towards ethnic affiliation often characterising studies within the multiculturalism framework, while being more grounded locally than studies within the transnationalism framework. …”

The Writer in Exile: by Rebecca Haque

“…In Brookner’s fiction, exile is a psychological state of being not restricted by notions of national identity politics. Brookner recreates the difficult patterns of personal survival and provides a unique perspective on cultural dislocation. …”
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IDENTITAS KAUM SAMIN PASCA KOLONIA PERGULATAN NEGARA, AGAMA, DAN ADAT DALAM PRO-KONTRA PEMBANGUNAN PABRIK SEMEN DI SUKOLILO, PATI, JAWA TENGAH by Munawir Aziz

“…Using Gayatri sivak’s theory of “subalternity”, this article explains identity politics of the post-colonial Samin Movement.…”
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Ethiopian citizenship: The Nexus between indigeneity and Ethnicity in post-1991 by Shumet Amare Zeleke

“…However, nowadays, Ethiopia encounters sporadic ethnic conflicts, all-out civil war, and massive displacement due to the indigeneity dichotomy, where politicizing indigeneity as an expression of identity politics poses such problems. Politicizing indigeneity creates a double whammy of discrimination against individuals or groups labeled non-indigenous and Ethiopia has experienced acute social disintegration. …”
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