Identity Politics and Social Pluralism: Political Sociology and Political Change in Tamil Nadu

Activism around sexuality and sexual politics has been increasing in the last two decades resulting in the production of both challenges and opportunities for the negotiation of sexual subjectivities, intimacy, and politics. However, some articulate a desire to untangle sexual politics from identity politics. My interlocutors define sexual politics as twofold: the strategic deployment of sexuality to affect social and political change, as well as activism with the goal of rethinking ideas and norms about sexuality. This chapter argues that the overwhelming urge to untangle sexual politics from identity politics is producing the desire for a new type of intimate politics characterized by mobility. This in turn is producing a type of migration that is tied to a quest for intimate privacy.

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NREGA and the Return of Identity Politics in Western Tamil Nadu, India

Forum for Development Studies ◽

10.1080/08039410.2011.569923 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 211-211

Author(s):

Pamela Price

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Tamil Nadu

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On Class and Identity Politics

Inference: International Review of Science ◽

10.37282/991819.17.56 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Alana Lentin ◽

Wolfgang Streeck

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Political Sociology

In political sociology, the poverty of the conclusions reached by venerable academics is the result of a failure to place a critical analysis of race at the heart of mainstream scholarship.

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Review: Alevis in Turkey

Kurdish Studies ◽

10.33182/ks.v3i1.393 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 82-90

Author(s):

Esin Çalışkan

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Political Sociology ◽

Nation Building ◽

State Building ◽

Nation State ◽

Building Projects ◽

Universal Language ◽

Modernist Discourse

This review analyses the recent contributions of Elise Massicard and Markus Dressler to Alevi studies. While Massicard employs methods of political sociology and transna-tional identity politics, Dressler is concerned with the intrinsic relation between the religious and the secular as well as the place of religion in nation-state building projects. Massicard argues that formulating Alevism is context and actor dependent and shaped simultaneously in its interaction with diverse actors, which she calls identity movement without an identity. The emphasis on the audience in defining Alevism might stem from the inadequacy of the universal language of religion to accommodate Alevi expression. Similarly, Dressler argues that the modern Alevi tradition was constructed at the intersection of Turkish nation building, modern religion discourse and Islamic apologetics and criticises the modernist discourse on religion such as the heterodoxy/orthodoxy binary for its insufficiency to capture the complexities of different contexts.

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Ethiopian premier faces challenges beyond his party

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db239193 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Political Change ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Content Type ◽

Political Actors ◽

Civic Nationalism

Subject Ethiopia's political outlook. Significance The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) voted to affirm the leadership of the young reformist team around Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at its eleventh Congress in October. Impacts The new leadership has questioned the EPRDF’s ideology of revolutionary democracy, but articulating a new direction may prove contentious. Tensions between pan-Ethiopian civic nationalism and local and ethnic identity politics may lead to potentially violent flashpoints. The different implications of political change across Ethiopia’s regions will prompt divergent stances among locally based political actors.

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Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia

Slavic Review ◽

10.1017/s003767790000989x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 882-902 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vasiliki P. Neofotistos

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Social Relations ◽

Political Change ◽

Social Economic ◽

Social Practices ◽

Social Value ◽

Republic Of Macedonia ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

The Republic

In this article, Vasiliki P. Neofotistos analyzes the reappropriation of the term Šiptar, a derogatory Macedonian term for Albanians, by male members of the Albanian community in the Republic of Macedonia. Neofotistos shows how the reappropriation of the ethnic slur reflects constellations of social value, that is to say, larger systems of meaning and action concerning who and what is valued in life, that have emerged with Macedonian independence. Albanian men tap into familiar divisions found in the larger Macedonian society and create meaningful forms of collectivity as they deal with rapid social, economic, and political change in the context of Macedonia's postsocialist transformation of social practices and ideals. This case study of Macedonia sheds light on the dynamics of social relations within socially marginalized groups.

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