Principle of Utis Possidetis and challenges of sitting at the frontier in Africa: The Yoruba in the Old Ilorin province and the politics of identity and belonging in post-colonial... by L. Saka, L. Amusan

“…To this end, this study examined how frontier communities experience and navigate the complexity of identity politics and belonging using Ilorin as a point of reference. …”
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Les formes de la peur en ville : LGBTphobie et défiance des quartiers urbains by Martina Klett-Davies

“…Sexuality, class, ethnicity and space are rarely considered in combination in identity politics. This paper highlights and discusses the tensions and ambivalences between and within the intersections of class and ethnicity, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people’s perceptions and fear of LGBT phobia in six small and medium sized cities across Europe. 155 in-depth interview reports were analysed that formed part of an EU research project that examines homo- and transphobia experiences. …”
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Mémoire: on Music and Deconstruction by Alan Street

“…However, the  political consequences embodied in such modes of enquiry were largely displaced within a loosely defined 'New Musicology' throughout the 1990s as the effects of alterity became realigned with a critical programme based on individualised identity politics. The ramifications of difference continue to inform critical debate regarding the nature of musical unity (for instance, in the work of Agawu, Chua, Dubiel, Korsyn, Kramer, Morgan and others). …”
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‘We the People’: Demarcating the Demos in Populist Mobilization—The Case of the Italian Lega by Oliver Schmidtke

“…This case study allows the author to make a generalizable hypothesis about the nature of identity politics promoted by populist actors and the way in which the invocation of the ‘people’ and their alleged enemies is a pivotal political narrative that opens and restricts opportunities for political mobilization. …”
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Adscripciones identificatorias, maras y pandillas: ¿vidas sociales deterioradas? by Alfredo Nateras

“…The objective of this writing is a reflection on what Hobsbawn calls “identity politics”, about one of the most enigmatic actors and social subjects in the phenomenal world and social space, that provide a face and nuance to the unsuspected. …”
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“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway by Andreescu Raluca

“…At the same time, my paper highlights the impact of the Wellton 26 case on the (re)negotiation of identity politics and death politics at the US-Mexican border.…”
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(Non-)Politicized Ageism: Exploring the Multiple Identities of Older Activists by Daniel Blanche-T., Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

“…Whereas perceptions of widespread ageist stereotypes against older adults abound in this group, they omit to view the movement through an old-age identity politics lens. Furthermore, they reproduce ageist attitudes against age peers refraining from active involvement. …”
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White Atmospheres: Choreographing Racial Materialities in Academic Space by Ben Spatz

“…In the gap between “identity politics” and a richer critical politics of identity lies the difference between a discursive public sphere of agonistic conflict and one of potentially transformative relationality. …”
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Women Hip-Hop Artists and Womanist Theology by Angela M. Mosley

“…Applying the principles of Womanism, Black female Hip-Hop artists negotiate cultural identity politics as activists to innovatively expand thought on gender performance and produce a fusion of contemporary Blackness for the 21st century. …”
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Altruism As a Motive For Implementing Community Welfare Programs Through Islamic Philanthropic Funds: Case Study of Baitul Maal Hidayatullah Empowerment Actors by Annisa Qurrota A'yun, Haryani Saptaningtyas, Widiyanto Widiyanto

“…This paper will discuss the altruistic motives of actors implementing social welfare programs originating from the utilization of Islamic philanthropic funds during the issue of identity politics in Indonesia. This study is based on the motives that actors should have in implementing social welfare programs that utilize Islamic religious, philanthropic funds that uphold fair welfare. …”
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Reclaiming Romani-ness by Ioanida Costache

“…Drawing on theories of identity postulated by cultural theorists, scholars of gender identity, and critical race theorists, I explore issues of identity politics and “Otherness” as they pertain to Romani identity, history and activism. …”
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Exhibiting intangible heritage in a museum by Sandra Bornand, Cécile Leguy

“…In these times of identity politics and political tension, conceiving of an exhibition with the theme Voices of Africa required us to dismantle any notion of what is essential to culture, and we did this by means of exhibition designs that were intended to make people to think. …”
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The Alevi and questions of identity, including violence and insider/outsider perspectives by Tina Hamrin-Dahl

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Fourier and Agriculture by Joan Roelofs

“…His works are a “whole earth catalog” of solutions to today's most intractable problems, such as agricultural labor in a democracy, environmental degradation, consumerism, loneliness, the decline of the family, the gradual disappearance of nutritious meals (and shared mealtimes), eldercare, boredom at work, unemployment, and the fragmentation of communities by “identity” politics. In 19th-century United States, Fourierist and Owenite communitarian models for settling the country were taken very seriously by intellectuals, and more than 100 communities existed. …”
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Monisme Identitas Etnik dan Reliji di Mataram Lombok Nusa Tenggara Barat by Abdulloh Fuadi

“…Several notes related to this discourse are as follows: (1) Increasing conflict escalation occurs during the Reformation era. Identity politics emerge and strengthen. In several conflicts at Mataram, the ethnic and religious identity is thickening. (2) There is a complexity between democracy and diversity. …”
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‘Om weer mens te word’: identiteit, onreg, skuld en restitusie in die RSG-vertelreeks Almal het ’n storie by Hein Willemse

“…To put these matters in overall perspective the identity politics of the Afrikaans language, a background history of the radio station and the series sponsor, an Afrikaans cultural association, and their recent strategic changes will introduce the paper along with an abbreviated overview of restitution as formulated in Elazar Barkan’s The Guilt of Nations: Resititution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (2000).…”
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Teaching the Study of Muslim Minorities in Higher Education in the United Kingdom by Tahir Abbas

“…These three events compounded matters in relation to identity politics, Islamism, and international political economy. …”
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Conceiving global culture: Frantz Fanon and the politics of identity by Chika Mba

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Valuing queer identity in Monster High doll fandom by Sara Mariel Austin

“…These fan practices both queer the dolls' identity politics and create communities of interest that act as safe spaces for expressing queer identity and generating fan activism. …”
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Limits of political clientelism: elites’ struggles in Kuwait fragmenting politics by Rivka Azoulay, Claire Beaugrand

“…Focusing on the rivalry between former PM Nasser al-Muhammad and the powerful Ahmad al-Fahd that was played out in the open, the article analyses their strategies of co-opting contending actors in parliament and society in order to build alliances mixing sectarian and identity politics with clientelist logic. Played against the background of another fundamental trend in Kuwait, i.e. the rise of a younger generation of citizens — especially among the Bedouins — in search of new modes of politics and better access to state resources, these patronage techniques and the use of political money are proving less and less effective as scandals affect the royals’ aura of respectability. …”
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