Dress as Symbolic Resistance in Asia by Mina Roces

“…The focus here is on how dress and fashion are marshalled for the performance of collective action, socio-political dissent, alternative politics and identity politics. …”
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Centripetal-Centrifugal Forces in the Tower of Babel Narrative (Gen 11:1–9) by Ludwig Noya, Bobby Kurnia Putrawan, Alisaid Prawiro Negoro

“…In so doing,  this article shows that the Tower of Babel narrative employs such a force to subvert the imperial propaganda of unification and advances its own agenda of identity politics.   https://doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2022/v35n2a5 …”
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MEASURING THE IDENTITY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND TRANSFORMATIVE POLITICS: A CRITICAL CASE OF THE JAKARTA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION 2017 by Theresia Octastefani

“…Extensive efforts to spread identity politics were carried out through various movements and actors. …”
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Žižek’s “Frankenstein”: Modernity, Anti-Enlightenment Critique and Debates on the Left by Jamil Khader

“…It is still urgent, Žižek correctly insists, to interrogate the ways in which identity politics and the human rights regime can be readily appropriated and commodified in late capitalism. …”
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Indonesian Chinese in the Netherlands and the legacies of violence in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia by Alexander van der Meer, Martijn Eickhoff

“…As opposed to other repatriates from Indonesia, who organized themselves into pressure groups and fought for a place in the national memory culture, the Indonesian Chinese in the Netherlands only formed strict socio-cultural associations and have generally stayed clear of identity politics. Usually, this divergence is attributed to the smooth integration and socio-economic success of the latter group, as well as to Chinese values, such as conflict avoidance. …”
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Sarajevo: Politics and Cultures of Remembrance and Ignorance by Adla Isanović

“…It elaborates on disputes which showed that culture is in the centre of identity politics and struggles (which can also take a fascist nationalist form, accept the colonizer’s perspective, etc.), on how commemorations ‘swallowed’ the past and present, but primarily contextualizes, historicizes and politicizes Sarajevo 2014 and its politics of visibility. …”
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Bilingual Humor, Authentic Aunties, and the Transnational Vernacular at Gezi Park by Perin Gurel

“…Focusing on posts shared on Facebook and Twitter by Turkish protestors and their supporters in the first two months of the protests, this article studies the complex linguistic and visual humor that developed around Gezi Park and relates it to the identity politics mobilized during the resistance. Exploring how the protestors projected themselves as both cosmopolitan (through the use of American mass culture and the English language) and locally rooted (through the use of auntie humor), the essay delineates how “America” can function in local Middle Eastern politics even in the absence of actual US intervention on the ground. …”
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Medical pluralism, boundary making, and tuberculosis in Lambaréné, Gabon by Anne Lia Cremers

“…To explain this, I introduce the concept of ‘conventional boundary making’ and then analyse it in the context of tuberculosis and in relation to theories of state power, Gabonese therapeutic identity politics, and structural violence.…”
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Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan: Literary and Artistic Interventions in the City of Casablanca by Katarzyna Pieprzak

“…Read comparatively, these projects shed light on two post-colonial generations of writers and artists, their claims to the colonial past, identity politics about cosmopolitanism in the present, and struggles over cultural capital for the future.…”
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Populism in world politics: a comparative cross-regional perspective by Hadiz, Vedi, Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…The article introduces a special issue on Populism in World Politics that seeks to understand general processes involved in the emergence of populist politics along with specific circumstances that affect how it is expressed in terms of identity politics, political strategies and shifting social bases.…”
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In-Group loyalty and the punishment of corruption by Solaz, H, De Vries, CE, de Geus, RA

“…Most importantly perhaps, they suggest that candidates can get away with corruption by engaging in identity politics.…”

Transnational Political Islam by Anas Malik

“…These developments are echoed in other clashes in Europe revolving around identity politics, such as the hijab issue in France. Western states are coping with the dual demands posed by integration and police work: seeking to integrate Muslims into European and American societies while simultaneously pursuing terrorist cells and networks. …”
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The medium of instruction in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: Kotebe Metropolitan University Case study. by Bekau Atnafu Taye

“…Due to language barriers, students who are speakers of Oromipha and other languages from the Eastern and Western parts of Ethiopia suffer passivity in the classroom because they do not speak Amharic although Amharic has been taught as a subject in all regional states of the country. Increased identity politics seems to have generated a negative attitude towards Amharic, Ethiopia's former official lingua franca. …”
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Mulata, Morisco, African Slave? by Urte Krass

“…The topic of absence, which the different empty pots and vessels emphasize, and the instabilities upon which Velázquez seems to emphatically insist allow an attempt to interrogate this painting through the lens of the complex identity politics surrounding the literary as well as real-life figure of the Morisco.…”
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THE PRACTICE OF POLITICAL IDENTITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW by Iradhad Taqwa Sihidi, Dedik Fitrah Suhermanto, Salahudin Salahudin, Muhammad Kamil, Ach. Apriyanto Romadhan

“…This research shows that the study of political identity has four dominant keywords that often appear, namely: Political Identity, identity, Politics, and Political Ideology. This means that these four topics are the main focus of attention written by most authors. …”
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Engaging with the Partition Canon: Gastro-political narratives in Anchita Ghatak’s translation of Sunanda Sikdar’s Dayamoyeer Katha into A Life Long Ago by Namrata Chowdhury

“…The paper examines the gastro-political notion of belonging and exclusion as it conceives the culinary language employed by Ghatak to surpass the local of the vernacular and through translation cement its position vis-à-vis national identity politics.…”
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Modality of Chinese Crossbreed Politicians in Local Democratization by Dian Festianto, Ignasius Usboko

“…The political practice shown by Chinese crossbreed politicians, on the one hand, strengthens identity politics but on the other hand, strengthens the political representation of minorities in the crossborder area of Indonesia and Timor Leste.…”
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Religion and Politics in Africa: The Future of “The Secular” by Jon Abbink

“…Its renewed presence in public spheres has also led to new understandings of what religion means and how it figures into both “world-making” and identity politics. This will prolong the challenges associated with the role and status of religion in the “secular state model” found in most African countries. …”
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The Multilingual City: 'The cases of Helsinki and Barcelona' by Peter A. Kraus

“…On the other hand, the politics of multilingualism is a politics that nationalizes the transnational: although the "hybridization" that is often associated with the dynamics of immigration may well change the parameters of identity politics, it apparently does not entail the waning of all cultural identities in a cosmopolitan pastiche of sorts. …”
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Alienated, Anxious, American: The Crisis of Coming of Age in Ralph Ellison’s 'Invisible Man' and the Late Harlem Bildungsroman by Tamlyn E. Avery

“…At the same time, the author illuminates the hypocrisies of racial and ideological identity politics in a post- Abolition American society. …”
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