The relationship between identity recognition politics and citizenship project in Western liberal democracies

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1 political sociology/faculty of law and political science/university of tehran

2 political science,faculty of law and political science/Tehran University

10.30465/cps.2024.46812.3272

Abstract

Identity politics is one of the political concepts that has had a high frequency in social science in the last few decades and is mainly used to describe what are called new social movements(NSM) or identity-based social movements. A model that interprets politics from the perspective of concepts such as social justice, marginalization and intersectionality. Since the middle of the 20th century, formed identity politics in Western liberal democracies which identify around many identity categories such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, etc. has changed the process of universal recognition people towards the recognition of specific groups, and this is in contrast with the issue of citizenship and the national, which is more than anything based on the concept of the commonality. By adopting the agenda of supporting a plurality of marginalized identity groups and emphasizing the different lived experiences of each of them, identity politics can lead to the creation of increasing and unmanageable fragmentation and divisions in the political structures of liberal societies. By weakening the citizenship project, the possibility of defining a common concept of "us" and the formation of public good can face serious problems. In the end, it seems that despite the efforts to expand the inclusion of pluralism towards the groups that have been marginalized and excluded, the politics of recognition has moved in the direction of abolishing modern liberalism in favor of group solidarity.

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Contemporary Political Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 05 May 2024

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