New Frontiers for Identity Politics? The Potential and Pitfalls of Patient and Civic Identity in the Dutch Patients’ Health Movement

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Identity Management ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Civic Identity ◽

Main Task ◽

Discursive Practices ◽

Conflict Zone ◽

Hybrid War ◽

The One

The article discusses the problem of the identity of the population in the conflict zone in the Donbas. It is possible to speak about the existing civic identity if the person realizes his or her belonging to the state, whose citizen he or she is by status, all the attributes of statehood acquire valuable significance, and the “territory of life” shared with other fellow citizens is perceived as the Motherland. The authorities of the DPR and the LPR force citizens on their territory to abandon the identity of a citizen of Ukraine and to acquire the identity of their quasi-republics. For the success of the Ukrainian troops, it is important that the population of the territory where hostilities take place, identify themselves with Ukraine, consider themselves Ukrainians. This is the main task of identity politics. It is emphasized that in the conditions of a shortage of Ukrainian identity among the population in the area of hostilities, it is necessary to help stimulate the formation (strengthening) of such an identity. In identity politics identity management is important. In the conflict zone in the Donbas, civilian identities of the parties in hostile relations compete. It is argued that the desire to influence the identity of the residents of Donbass in order to form a certain identity among them is part of a hybrid war. If the residents in the combat zone have a shortage of Ukrainian identity, then it is necessary to promote the strengthening or formation of such an identity. Identity enforcement techniques can be propaganda, informational, economic, as well as violent, with the use of weapons. One of the methods of struggle for identity is the work of civil society structures, including volunteers. One of the means of implementation of identity politics is an appeal to historical memory. In the management of identity, discursive practices, events of a cultural, scientific, and sporting nature are important. Of great importance for determining identity is the line of demarcation, when the checkpoint divides the territory into “its” and “other”. The location of a person on the one or the other side of the roadblock improves the personality and relevant life practices. The conclusion is formulated that the success of the struggle for the identity of a Ukrainian citizen among the residents of Donbass will help resolve the armed conflict in the east of our country.

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Identity Politics in Managing the System Risks of Nation-Building: On the Example of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Baltic Journal of European Studies ◽

10.1515/bjes-2019-0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 99-114

Author(s):

Vladimir Dunaev ◽

Valentina Kurganskaya ◽

Mukhtarbek Shaikemelev

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Dynamic Balance ◽

Nation Building ◽

Point Of View ◽

Civic Identity ◽

Self Organization ◽

Checks And Balances ◽

The Republic ◽

Political Foundations

AbstractIn previous years, the evolution of nation-building politics in the Republic of Kazakhstan was characterized by an alternation of tactical schemes that actualized either the ethnocultural or civil-political foundations of statehood. At present, the emerging common Kazakhstani culture is becoming the basis for mutually agreed development of ethnocultural and civic identity as its own elements. In the system of common Kazakhstani culture, the civil and ethnocultural models of the nation are the poles or attractors of the process of self-organization of a single nationwide Kazakhstan identity. The optimal identity politics in the nation-building risk management in the conditions of modern Kazakhstan is to adopt the point of view of the whole set of identification models and to maintain the dynamic balance of conflicting identities through the mechanism of mutual checks and balances.

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Spanish Experience of Interethnic Relations and Foreign Migration Regulation

World Economy and International Relations ◽

10.20542/0131-2227-2015-59-12-80-89 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 59 (12) ◽

pp. 80-89

Author(s):

I. Prokhorenko

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Basque Country ◽

Civic Identity ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Russian Science ◽

Politics Of Identity ◽

Interethnic Relations ◽

Contemporary World ◽

Political Conflicts ◽

Regional Authorities

The article addresses social and political conflicts with a clearly defined ethnic component in the modern Spanish society. Assessing the experience of regulating interethnic and interterritorial relations between Spanish nationalities and regions, the mass immigration of diverse cultural backgrounds in the asymmetric State of Autonomies, the author examines competitive identity politics and public discourses on nation, nationalism and nation-building. Voiced by the central and subnational authorities, it frequently assumes a conflict character. This is especially customary for Catalonia, but also applies to the Basque Country and several other autonomous regions. Education and language policies are a sphere of clashing perceptions and a key priority for politics of identity involving central and regional authorities, political parties and civil society groups. The increasing phenomenon of the ethnicity politicization in the State of Autonomies complicates the formation of the civic (national) identity and enhances the potential of ethnopolitical conflicts in the country, where particularistic sentiments are sufficiently strong in the historical perspective, while the mass foreign migration introduces new interethnic and intercultural contradictions and challenges. The Spanish experience of interethnic and interterritorial relations regulation and of positive civic identity construction in the context of the federalizing State of Autonomies may be useful for the Russian Federation having some similar problems on the agenda and a continuously developing model of federal structure. Acknowledgements. This article was prepared with financial support of the Russian Science Foundation [grant no. 15-18-00021 “Regulating interethnic relations and managing ethnic and social conflicts in the contemporary world: the resource potential of civic identity (a comparative political analysis)”]. The research was conducted at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO).

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Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion: Violence, population movements and identity politics in post-2014 northern Iraq

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/1468796819858712 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 481-500 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Irene Costantini ◽

Dylan O’Driscoll

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Civic Identity ◽

Islamic State ◽

Kurdistan Region ◽

Population Movements ◽

Internally Displaced ◽

Northern Iraq ◽

Internally Displaced People ◽

Displaced People

This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices and narratives meant to include internally displaced people in a particularistic articulation of belonging rather than to ensure a substantive participation as Iraqi or Kurdistan Region of Iraq citizens. Rhetoric of citizenship in Iraq changes between civic and ethnosectarian belonging based on conflict dynamics and the competition for power, whilst remaining ethnosectarian in reality. Thus, internally displaced people and their citizenship have become entangled in wider ethnosectarian competition in Iraq, and narratives and practices of citizenship change to fit the objectives of these wider actors, mainly Baghdad and Erbil, rather than being based on inclusiveness and civic identity.

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