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Identity politics and the need for a tomorrow

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Victoria Margree

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Recent years have witnessed a general backlash against \nidentity politics, both in the academy and the public \nsphere. This paper recognises the problems in identity \npolitics as arising from an apparent difficulty in \nconceptualising identity separately from notions \nof fixity and exclusion. It argues that politicised identities \ncould, instead, be premised upon an explicit affirmation \nof the provisionality of political identity that is oriented \nto a “tomorrow “ in which the identity will no longer \nbe required.

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Recent years have witnessed a general backlash against \nidentity politics, both in the academy and the public \nsphere. This paper recognises the problems in identity \npolitics as arising from an apparent difficulty in \nconceptualising identity separately from notions \nof fixity and exclusion. It argues that politicised identities \ncould, instead, be premised upon an explicit affirmation \nof the provisionality of political identity that is oriented \nto a “tomorrow “ in which the identity will no longer \nbe required.

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Recent years have witnessed a general backlash against \nidentity politics, both in the academy and the public \nsphere. This paper recognises the problems in identity \npolitics as arising from an apparent difficulty in \nconceptualising identity separately from notions \nof fixity and exclusion. It argues that politicised identities \ncould, instead, be premised upon an explicit affirmation \nof the provisionality of political identity that is oriented \nto a “tomorrow “ in which the identity will no longer \nbe required.

Key concepts: Politics, Identity (music), Backlash, Identity politics, Sociology, Public sphere, Identity formation, Political science

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