Identity Politics

Decolonisation and Violence: What It Takes to Decolonise IR

Meindert Boersma • Apr 9 2022 • Essays

This essay seeks to understand what is envisioned for decolonizing IR. What does it take to realise this vision? Is it necessarily violent?

Why Is Identity Politics Failing to Curb Social Injustice?

Akshat Sogani • Apr 8 2022 • Essays

Why is identity politics failing? This essay examines the shortcomings of identity politics within caste-based politics in India and racial politics in the U.S.

Eligibilizing Certain Populations: Hindutva Politics Of UP Population Bill 2021

Dipanita Malik • Mar 4 2022 • Essays

The 2021 UP Population Bill enables the UP state to consolidate focus on Hindutva politics that deploys aggressive policing of women and their reproductive capacities.

The European Quality of Government Index: A Critical Analysis

Luc Aboubadra • Jan 10 2022 • Essays

The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such.

Performances of Justice? Interrogating Post-genocide Adjudication

Natalia Mrowczynska • Jan 10 2022 • Essays

Grassroots justice schemes are better equipped to deliver justice in the aftermath of genocide than top-down state-led adjudication mechanisms.

Bananas and Oranges of Christmas Past: Subject Formation under (Post)Socialism

Maria Persu • Dec 22 2021 • Essays

How may fruit consumption practices relate to ‘Romanian’ (post)socialist subject formation? Maria examines such facets of European consumer culture to elucidate power/resistance in the everyday.

From Environmental Scarcity to ‘Rage of the Rich’ – Causes of Conflict in Mali

Sarah M. El-Abd • Dec 21 2021 • Essays

Through a focus on historical and contemporary causes of conflict in Mali since the 1960s, it is better understood how it came about and what is keeping it alive today.

Socialism in India: Conflicting International Outlooks?

Saneet Chakradeo • Nov 24 2021 • Essays

Socialist ideology has developed and gained pertinence in Indian political thought: Two major diverging schools with differentiated international outlook exist.

Repression, Identity and the Promise of Eelam

Priavi Joshi • Oct 12 2021 • Essays

In the Sri Lankan civil war, Tamil women are motivated to join the LTTE due to the suffering caused by state repression – not as simple victims or emancipatory agents.

Around the World in 80 Stereotypes: Images of the MENA Region in Hollywood

Anna Roberts • Sep 21 2021 • Essays

This study of MENA representation in Hollywood (2001-2008) finds foreign-accented English and multilingualism were most often associated with negative motivations.

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