scholarly journals The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852110083
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Lewicki
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Care Homes ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Privileged Access

The Christian Caritas and Diakonie are Germany’s largest welfare providers. They currently recruit abroad and in refugee shelters to fill staffing shortages in care. Yet, they also seek to preserve their organisations’ Christian identity. Drawing on interviews with facility managers, my research explores how these initiatives shape institutional life in care homes. Specifically, I examine meanings attributed to conversion, notably in relation to Muslim staff. My analysis shows that Christians, nominal (‘by heritage’) or observant, are seen to ‘naturally embody’ care ethics and have privileged access to permanent contracts and leadership positions. The churches’ politics of identity, I argue, racialises affiliation with Christianity into a category of belonging naturally inhabited by some, and only potentially – and always debatably – attainable for others. The analysis feeds into controversies about conversion in the sociology of race and extends scholarship on identity politics beyond its usual focus on minority or far-right activism.

Keniscayaan Politik Identitas Dari Suatu Bangsa dan Agama

ADALAH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahrotunnimah Zahrotunnimah
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
The Future

Abstract:The discussion of this simple article was inspired by a book entitled The Politics of Identity and the Future of Our Pluralism. The problem in this book is whether the identity politics in Indonesia will jeopardize the nationalist position and pluralism in Indonesia in the future? If dangerous in what form? How to handle it? The source of this book relies on the opinion of L. A Kauffman who first explained the nature of identity politics, and who first introduced the term political identity which is still unknown. However, in this book explained substantively, identity politics is associated with the interests of members of a social group who feel blackmailed and feel alienated by large currents in a nation or state.Keywords: Identity Politics, Nation, ReligionAbstrak:Pembahasan artikel sederhana ini terinspirasi dari buku berjudul Politik Identitas dan Masa Depan Pluralisme Kita. Permasalahan dalam buku ini adalah apakah poitik identitas di Indonesia ini akan membahayakan posisi nasionalis dan pluralisme di Indonesia di masa yang akan datang? Jika berbahaya dalam bentuk apa? Bagaimana cara mengatasinya? Sumber buku ini bersandarkan pada pendapat L. A Kauffman yang pertama kali menjelaskan tentang hakekat politik identitas, dan siapa yang pertama kali memperkenalkan istilah politik identitas yang masih belum diketahui sampai saat ini. Tetapi, didalam buku ini dijelaskan secara substansif, politik identitas dikaitkan dengan kepentingan anggota-anggota sebuah kelompok sosial yang merasa diperas dan merasa tersingkir oleh arus besar dalam sebuah bangsa atau negara. Kata Kunci: Politik Identitas, Bangsa, Agama   

Identity Politics and the Welfare State

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Wolfe ◽  
Jytte Klausen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Deep Sense ◽  
The Welfare State

Motivated by a deep sense that injustice and inequality are wrong, liberals and reformers in the Western political tradition have focused their energies on policies and programs which seek inclusion: extending the suffrage to those without property; seeking to treat women the same as men, and blacks the same as whites; trying to ensure that as few as possible are excluded from economic opportunity due to lack of resources. Under current conditions, such demands for inclusion take two primary forms, especially in the United States. One is a commitment to using the state to equalize the life chances of individuals. The other is a call for treating groups which have experienced discrimination with full respect. The former leads to the welfare state, while the latter is produced by, and in turn produces, what is commonly called identity politics, the politics of recognition, or the politics of presence.

Democracy and Recognition

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Craig Browne ◽  
Andrew P. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Nancy Fraser

This chapter focuses on Taylor’s account of the politics of recognition and the broad debates that his essay on multiculturalism stimulated. Taylor was responding to the new politics of identity and the contestation over the implications of cultural diversity, especially in multicultural societies like Canada and Australia. Taylor is shown to bring his own theoretical framework to bear on these topics and to emphasize the cultural underpinnings of identity politics in the values of equal respect and equal dignity. Taylor’s highlighting the broad background experiences of democratic forms of social association is somewhat similar, we argue, to that of Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy and democratisation. Taylor’s reworking of aspects of Tocqueville’s diagnoses of modern society’s potential for ‘democratic despotism’ and the paradoxes of individualism are evaluated. Whilst acknowledging the significance of Taylor’s contributions to theories of recognition and democracy, the critical responses to Taylor’s accounts are outlined and his conceptions are compared with later discussions of these themes, particularly those by Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth. Taylor’s updating of his perspective on recognition and recent analysis of current tendencies for ‘democratic exclusion’ and their remedies are assessed.

Denmark: The Rise of Fascism and the Decline of the Nordic Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Balorda
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
The Welfare State

Contrary to its conventional image as a social-democratic paragon, the Danish welfare state has, in recent decades, been undergoing significant changes as a response to the intrusion into the social sphere by self-regulating markets and a final departure from Keynesian politics of universalism and solidarity. This article examines the evident decline of the Nordic model as a result of neoliberal globalisation and establishes an association between the erosion of the welfare state and the emergence of fascist political sentiment in Denmark. An analysis of the Danish People's party and its growing public support among the disenfranchised working class communities in Denmark demonstrates how those overlooked by the free market and unrepresented by the liberal left become increasingly more receptive to the proposed social agendas of the far right campaigns.

scholarly journals POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND THE CASE OF AHOK’S RELIGION BLASPHEMY IN THE 2017 DKI JAKARTA ELECTION

2020 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Syairal Fahmy Dalimunthe ◽  
I Wayan Ardika ◽  
I Nyoman Darma Putra ◽  
I Gst. Bagus Suka Arjawa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
Religion And Ethnicity ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Political Battle

Identity politics are often used in political contestation. Primordialism in similar religious and ethnic contexts creates the division and color of whose groups and supports whom. The purpose of this study is to understand and explain the politicization of religion and ethnicity in the DKI Jakarta 2017 elections. This study uses a cultural study approach with interpretive analysis techniques. The case of blasphemy by Ahok triggered the politicization of religion and ethnicity in the 2017 DKI Jakarta elections. Mass mobilization in the form of boycotts and the use of holy verses in choosing leaders was very massive carried out during the campaign period to increase the electoral effect. Identity is no longer purely a social movement to fight for a positive change, but rather a tool for the political elite to compartmentalize the masses in an effort to achieve their group goals. The identity politics that was triggered by the case of blasphemy by Ahok created a process of group exclusivity towards other groups on the basis of religion and ethnicity in winning a political battle.  Keywords: Identity politics, blasphemy of religion, Ahok, primordialism

Rising populism will hinder EU governance

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Eu Governance ◽  
Five Star Movement ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Populist Movements

Subject Populism across Europe. Significance The March 4 Italian elections delivered large gains in support for the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League. These two parties are now trying to reorient politics as a competition between different forms of ‘populism’. Impacts Increasing political fragmentation will make it harder for national governments to undertake sustained reform efforts. Established parties may be tempted to adopt populist rhetoric, shifting the terms of debates on issues such as immigration. Populist movements tend to embrace Eurosceptical positions even when they do not engage in identity politics.

scholarly journals IDENTITY POLITICS AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SUNDANESE AND JAVANESE IN INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Haryono Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Diverse Society ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Symbolic Interactions

Indonesia has a large area and a diverse society. Cultural diversity and social identity based on ethnicity. The analysis of this research uses a literature study approach from the results of research and journals discussing the politics of identity between Javanese and Sundanese. The results of the analysis found that, first, the politics of the Perang Bubat that occurred between Javanese and Sundanese, which has had an influence on Javanese and Sundanese society to this day. Second, the Perang Bubat can be used as a symbolic inetaraksi between Javanese and Sundanese in giving meaning to the Perang Bubat.

scholarly journals ISLAM AND MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN NORWAY

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Leirvik Oddbjørn
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
The Way

In this paper the author describes and analyzes central features of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations in Norway. By close observation of the tension between interreligious solidarity and aggressive identity politics, the author highlights some central features of the trust-building Christian-Muslim dialogue in Norway. He also notes how anti-Islamic sentiments in part of the majority population are reflected in radicalization among some Muslim youths. However, the situation in general is described in more optimistic terms. He also identifies two examples showing that the majority of the Muslim population seem to endorse strong values evident in society in general– such as the welfare state and gender equality. Finally, the author poses the question pertaining to the way in which Christians and Muslims may adopt a unified stance against extremism.

scholarly journals Aspects of the construction of a politicised female identity in South African fashion photography

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Nirma Dolly Madhoo-Chipps
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
South African ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Fashion Photography ◽  
Fashion Theory

This dissertation questions and expands currently held notions of traditional fashion identities in South African fashion photography. The impetus for this study stems from observations of a relatively low level of political engagement in local fashion photography as compared to other areas of art and design which seem very enunciative of a politics of identity. Investigation of identity politics in South African fashion photography was informed by a staged investigation. Firstly, accounts of a literature review of fashion theory and key theories of identity allow entrenched constructions of fashion representations to be seen as restrictively politicised. Primary investigation of expert fashion views followed. The concepts of hybridity and fluidity in theories of identity were central to the discovery of alternative politicised fashion identities

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