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Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die indonesischen Fernsehwerbungen, die während der Neuen Ordnung (1993-1998) und der Nach-Neuen Ordnung (1999-2005) produziert und ausgestrahlt wurden. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Tatsache zu untersuchen, dass es ein Wechselspiel gibt zwischen dem Werbetext und dem sozio-politischen Kontext, in dem der Text steht. Die genaue Untersuchung dieser Fernsehwerbungen hat dargelegt, dass die sozio-politische Transition in Indonesien einen Spalt geöffnet hat, in dem dominante und hegemoniale Diskurse in Bezug auf Geschlecht, Ethik/Rasse, Klasse und Nationalität wiederholt, verhandelt und herausgefordert werden.

Presents the text of a conversation between French political thinkers Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, & Alain Finkielkraut on why modern democracies tend to forget their political nature & move toward an identity politics that has the potential to undermine liberal democracy. Manent suggests that the function of protecting individual rights has begun to hamper collective governance. Gauchet & Finkielkraut, respectively, discuss the impact of the "primacy of wealth-seeking individualism" on democracy & how identities use the language of rights to advance their claims. Other matters explored include the replacement of political communities by identities & minorities; utopian visions of society's emancipation from the political; the current call for universal reconciliation in cultural relativism; "identitarianism" as a way public space is organized in societies; the weakening of the national framework; & the consequences of the abolition of formalism inherent in multiculturalism, identities, & individualism. Consideration is given to the current situation in Europe & how European-style political utopianism differs from the American vision of its national destiny. J. Lindroth

Theoretical underpinnings of the 19th-century concepts of class & nationalism & their relation to 20th-century identity politics are discussed. In the 19th century, class competed with nationalism as a political form, but class has been replaced at the end of the 20th century by reference to identities such as ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. Proponents of identity politics now reject class as an organizing principle, but embrace nationalism because of its past success. However, this position is dangerous because it (1) subverts civil society when identity groups compete with one another, (2) means the abandonment of the Enlightenment ideal of a common humanity on which the socialist politics of class was based, & (3) favors the economic & political elite. 6 References. M. Pflum

Der britische Kulturtheoretiker Stuart Hall bietet einen Verständnisrahmen für Debatten über kulturelle Identität von und in Einwanderungsgesellschaften, über Rassismus, sowie Fragen des Multikulturellen und Postkolonialen. Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals eine ausführliche und kritische deutschsprachige Auseinandersetzung vor. Halls spannungsvolle Gratwanderung zwischen Antirassismus und Multikulturalismus wird aus verstreuten Aufsätzen, Vorträgen und Interviews herausgearbeitet und in Bezug zu Dekonstruktion, postkolonialer Theorie und historischer Konjunktur gesetzt. Warum ist die Frage der Identität nie eindeutig zu beantworten? Wie kann dennoch identitätsstiftende Praxis aussehen?

Identity politics has been critiqued in various ways. One central problem — the Reinforcement Problem — claims that identity politics reinforces groups rooted in oppression, thereby undermining its own liberatory aims. Here I consider two versions of the problem — one psychological and one metaphysical. I defang the first by drawing on work in social psychology. I then argue that careful consideration of the metaphysics of social groups and of the practice of identity politics provides resources to dissolve the second version. Identity politics involves the creation or transformation of groups in ways that do not succumb to the metaphysical Reinforcement Problem.

Sociology has begun to question how new genetic sciences affect older ways of constructing and contesting social identity, including forms of identity politics that have brought women and minorities significant gains. This article presents US debates on genetics, identity politics, and race in order to theorize emergent transformations in light of the genomic revolution. Examining recent developments in the realms of pharmaceuticals and ancestry estimation, I argue that traditional forms of identity politics are still actively at work, though they are being marketized in novel ways. This article combines theories of racialization and medicalization to detail how genomics ushers in a subtle new version of identity politics: a pharmaceuticalized citizenship wherein health rights and political participation are co-envisioned in individualistic molecular terms.