identity politics
identity politics – sostantivo plurale
identitarian – aggettivo e sostantivo
identitarianism – sostantivo
I used to believe in identity politics because it told me: You and your experience matter.
“Identity politics”, like “populism”, is always something the other guy does.
What should be clear is that identitarianism isn’t necessarily political at all.
These are identitarian ideas and they are spreading quickly.
A voler dare una definizione spiccia di identity politics, o politica dell’identità, possiamo dire che essa si basa sull’appartenenza a un dato gruppo religioso o etnico o sociale invece che sulla comunanza di idee e punti di vista. Di conseguenza, le opinioni e le scelte politiche espresse sono dettate per esempio dall’essere cristiani o gay o bianchi e non sulle tradizionali ideologie socialiste o liberali o conservatrici. Il termine identity politics risale agli anni 1970 ma è da qualche anno al centro del dibattito in seguito alla frammentazione del panorama politico europeo. E se l’identity politics è solitamente associata alla sinistra, l’identitarian politics o identitarianism – la politica identitaria o identitarismo – va a braccetto con la destra, e con l’estrema destra in particolare. Gli identitari, o identitarians, hanno come obiettivo quello di promuovere gli interessi dei bianchi europei (ma il movimento ha seguaci anche in America del Nord, in Australia e in Nuova Zelanda) contro l’immigrazione e il multiculturalismo, percepiti come minacce.
Origini del termine
L’espressione identity politics compare per la prima volta in un saggio del 1973 del sociologo e romanziere Todd Gitlin, 1984 Revisited. L’aggettivo identitarian risale agli anni 1940, così come il sostantivo identitarianism, mentre l’uso di identitarian come sostantivo è degli anni 1990.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
identity politics – plural noun
identitarian – adjective and noun
identitarianism – noun
I used to believe in identity politics because it told me: You and your experience matter.
“Identity politics”, like “populism”, is always something the other guy does.
What should be clear is that identitarianism isn’t necessarily political at all.
These are identitarian ideas and they are spreading quickly.
Identity politics is a type of politics based on membership of a particular religious, racial or social group rather than broader groupings of people with the same political views. So in identity politics a person’s political views and choices might be based more on the fact that they are Christian, or gay, or feminist, or belong to a particular ethnic group than on more traditional divisions like socialist, liberal or conservative. The term has been around since the 1970s but has been the focus of greater attention recently with the fragmentation across Europe of traditional politics and political parties. While identity politics is associated more with the traditional left, identitarian politics or identitarianism has recently become strongly linked to the right, including the extreme right. Right-wing identitarians seek to promote the interests of white Europeans (and North Americans, Australians and New Zealanders) against what they see as the threats posed by immigration and multiculturalism.
Origin
The term identity politics was first used in 1973, in an essay by the sociologist and novelist Todd Gitlin in a book called 1984 Revisited. Identitarian is older, with the adjective first being used in the 1940s, along with the noun identitarianism. The noun use of identitarian is more recent, dating from the 1990s.
