A tendency for people of a particular religion, ethnic group, social background, etc., to form exclusive political alliances, moving away from traditional broad-based party politics.
‘The magazine also features an essay on New Zealand film Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro, and its promotion of identity politics.’
‘They have joined new social movements and have chosen identity politics rather than partisan politics.’
‘In the process, women get caught up in nationalist politics in different ways, and identity politics come to impact on gender relations.’
‘The progressive establishment is critical of people who openly discuss questions of race, culture and identity politics.’
‘There are a few folks in various splinter groups practicing identity politics.’
‘They have been annexed to any number of political currents, particularly around identity politics.’
‘In a recent article in the New York Review of Books, Barenboim attacks the current fashion for identity politics and cultural nationalism.’
‘For those interested in identity politics, there were sessions on black liberation and feminism.’
‘Why, he asks, are the identity politics of gender or race not vulnerable to the same sort of anti-essentialist critique?’
‘Yet identity politics disallows political analysis or criticism of identities which are profoundly political.’
‘It was identity politics, the politics of the special interest groups, of the disadvantaged groups.’
‘The scripts of political mobilisation and identity politics do not cease even in the face of a common suffering.’
‘Third, it sent a message about the importance of what might be called identity politics or the politics of behaviour.’
‘Discussion increasingly focuses on identity politics and the question of differences between women as well as between women and men.’
‘It is one short step from parochial affiliations to local mafias that rely on clanship, clientalism, and identity politics.’
‘Our party opposes the various strains of identity politics and stands firmly in support of integration and the unity of all working people.’
‘Doing so with identity politics or cultural differences is a loser's game.’
‘This was neither social democracy nor the Old or New Left, neither identity politics nor vanguardism.’
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