Krisis 40 years

Krisis breekt uit: identiteit, politiek, cultuur

Authors

  • Gijs van Oenen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.40.1.36973

Keywords:

Politics, Identity, Culture, Foucault, Emancipation

Abstract

Identity politics, like Krisis, has its origins in the early 1980s. This coincides with Michel Foucault’s rejection of demands or claims of identity as ‘to be left to the police’. In a strange but perhaps inevitable twist of fate, identity politics has later one become affiliated precisely with policing, leading to political correctness in which identity claims are both mandatory and subject to politically motivated censure. While initially in the service of emancipation, identity has thus become weaponized, which reflects an important shift in political and cultural sensitivities between the 1980s and the 2010s.

Published

2020-12-11

How to Cite

van Oenen, Gijs. 2020. “Krisis Breekt Uit: Identiteit, Politiek, Cultuur”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 40 (1):26-35. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.40.1.36973.

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Krisis 40 years