Where the Wild Things Go: Tourism and Ethnic Longing in the Theatre of Rodolfo Santana by Vicky Unruh

“…As exemplified in two plays by Rodolfo Santana (Venezuela), artists deploy the tourist theme to critique culturalism, that is, to use the term coined by Arjun Appadurai, “identity politics at the level of the nation-state” (15). …”
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Othering and Selfing: Reading Gender Hierarchies and Social Categories in Michel Houellebecq's Novel Soumission by Wening Udasmoro

“…In literature, questions of the self and the other are frequently presented. The identity politics that gained prominence after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001 has occupied considerable space in this debate throughout the globe, including in France. …”
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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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Polityka tożsamościowa organizacji gejowsko-lesbijskich w Polsce a polityka „queer” by Rafał Majka

“…The article shows the ways in which identity politics cuts non-normative sexuality down to the conservative, heteronormative identity contours so as to include such a "normal,” "adapted” self (as a liberal subject) in the social and political status quo of the Polish (nation-)state. …”

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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Architecture of Peace in Ambon: Reading Dynamics of Peace After Ten Years of Conflict by Saidin Ernas

“…Third, in line with the positive development, the public still need to be reminded of radical religious ideas and identity politics that are harmful to the sustainability of peace.…”
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Latino Autobiography, the Aesthetic, and Political Criticism: The Case of <em>Hunger of Memory</em> by Isabel Durán

“…In a fierce defense of the aesthetic properties of the ethnic autobiography, Isabel Durán, “as an outsider” to the politics of “Chicano” critics working in the US (“I am Spanish, and live in Spain”), argues that certain politicized critical approaches to ethnic autobiography inside the US have insisted on an identity politics that reads ethnic or minority writing as “good” if and only if it is “obedient” to the critic’s political ideology, regardless of its aesthetic value as art. …”
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Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008 by Henk Erik Meier, Michael Mutz

“…Prevailing differences between East and West Germany document persistent socialization effects of former sport-centered identity politics. Among East Germans, sport is more important for general national pride, and sportive nationalism is much more equally distributed between various social groups (with regard to age, gender, education). …”
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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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Against the Oedipal Politics of Formation in Edna O’Brien’s <em>A Pagan Place</em>: “Women do not Count, Neither Shall they be Counted” by Shahriyar Mansouri

“…Socio-politically conscious narratives such as O’Brien’s A Pagan Place, however, functioned as not just social critiques, drawing on a culture of post-revolution stasis and neoconservative identity politics but also as vehicles for enabling a generation of oppressed women to voice their concerns and struggles with their feminine formation in a dominantly masculinized Society. …”
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Upholding Refugee Rights: Cessation, Transnationalism and Law’s Limitations in the Rwandan Case by Laura Parker

“…The Rwandan case study is grounded in theories of today’s membership-based nation-state paradigm, and questions whether re-inscribing refugees as primary agents of their own repatriation (with or without return) can bridge the divide inherent in the exclusionary citizenship-centric logic which ultimately structures the refugee rights system, and can adequately address problems rooted in complex identity politics. …”
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Muslim teachers’ experiences with race and racism in Quebec secondary schools by Naved Bakali

“…At varying points in Quebec’s recent history, political parties have gained prominence through employing identity politics, framing Muslims as a threatening ‘Other’. …”
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"Epistemic Disobedience": the de-colonial option and the meaning of identity in politics by Walter D. Mignolo

“…First, identity IN politics (rather than identity politics) is a necessary course of thought and action in view of the iron cage of modern (e.g., European from Ma­chiavelli on) political theory. …”
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Who’s Calling the Emergency? The Black Panthers, Securitisation and the Question of Identity by Peer Illner

“…Drawing on Black studies and on stigma theory, it suggests finally, that the Panthers’ abandonment of violence represented a shift from identity-politics to an engagement with structural positionality.…”
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hantoms of a bygone neighborhood life: spectral urbanism between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv by Roni Dorot, Daniel Monterescu

“…However, the voice of the repressed is commonly silenced by hegemonic narratives of self and nation and by identity politics in public discourse and academic scholarship. …”
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Derrida’s Umbrapolitics: Marrano “Living Together” by Agata Bielik-Robson

“…By referring to the generalized “Marrano experience” – the fate of those Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and, in consequence, became neither Jewish nor Christian – Derrida takes the Marrano as his paradigmatic political figure of a “rogue” (voyou) who escapes every identity politics. In Derrida’s project of “living together” (vivre ensemble), the Marrano stands for the non-participatory remnant of otherness which is not just the other of this or that particular tradition, but becomes a bearer of a new universalism, based not on the abstract notion of human nature but on the non-identity, a distance-from-identity or what Yirmijahu Yovel calls the “non-integral identity.”…”
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Defining the Indian: State definitions, perception of the other and community organization in southwestern Tlaxcala and Mexico by David Robichaux

“…Instead of centering on how that policy has caused massive re-identification, ethnicity and identity studies are equated with identity politics. By paying more attention to state than to local categories, anthropologists have ignored important social processes and have contributed to the Mexico´s twentieth century state building and forced identity change project. …”
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The Politics of History by Hieronymus Purwanta, Victor Novianto

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Slavery, the Hebrew Bible and the Development of Racial Theories in the Nineteenth Century by Kevin Burrell

“…The book of Genesis was a particular seedbed for identity politics as the origin stories of the Hebrew Bible were plundered in service of articulating a racial hierarchy which justified both the place of Europeans at the pinnacle of divine creation and the denigration, bestialization, and enslavement of Africans as the worst of human filiation. …”
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The Violence of Duality in Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro by Quan Manh Ha, Conor Hogan

“…In her dramatized indictment of both white supremacy and identity politics, American culture’s pathologized fascination with pigmentation drives the protagonist to solipsistic isolation, and ultimately, to suicide. …”
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