PACS 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Identity Politics, Nationstates
30 Mar 2017
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The politics of identity and the challenge of unity deng. The politics of identity: the various ways that identities are constructed and contested from the interpersonal to the international levels. Nation-states in africa struggle to create a unified national identity out of competing sub- national, local, and regional identities. Deng argues that the struggle to balancing legal and political aspects of the state with social elements of identity is an essential part of maintaining civil peace. There are two sets of discrepancies in the identity debate: The degree to which the subjective factors of self-identification match the objective elements of the claimed identity (physical or genetic factors) The degree to which exclusive individual or group identities are reflected or represented in the definition of the collective national identity framework. Themes regarding identity as a factor in conflict: Subjective identification is genetically related and associated with ethnicity or race.
