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"Collective identities are politically necessary, or at least useful, as banners for recruiting others and engaging opponents and the state. However, not every member fits or accepts the label in the same way or to the same degree. The Identity Dilemma provides eight diverse case studies of social movements to show the benefits, risks, and tradeoffs when a group develops a strong sense of collective identity. The editors and contributors to this pathbreaking volume examine how collective identities can provide powerful advantages but also generate conflicts. The various chapters help to develop our understanding of collective identity from how strategic identities are developed for protest groups to how stigmatized groups negotiate identity dilemmas. Ultimately, The Identity Dilemma contributes a new strategic approach to understanding social movements that highlights the choices and tensions that groups inevitably face in articulating their ideas and interests. Contributors include: Marian Barnes, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Umut Korkut, Elzbieta Korolczuk, John Nagle, Clare Saunders, Neil Stammers, Marisa Tramontano, Huub Van Baar, and the editors."--

"Social Identity Theory: Status and Identity in International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

This powerpoint presentation discusses identity fraud and what you can do to combat it.

Founded in 1980, the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) sought to establish biopolitics as a recognized field and to integrate biologically based research methods into mainstream political science. The association's founders established these goals to encourage a generation of scholars and promote the spread of biopolitical knowledge. There was early success when the American Political Science Association (APSA) recognized biopolitics as an organized section. However, this development did not leave an appreciable imprint on the political science profession and the experiment conjoining the two did not last long. The other goal of the founders, to integrate biologically based research methods into mainstream political science, faced more formidable obstacles and still faces challenges, though not without some progress.

The article considers paradoxical nature of identity that emerges from: 1)
the very concept of identity whose abstract generality unites various and
even opposite features; 2) the processual nature of reality that is easier
to express in the poetical metaphors or abstract principles than in
unambiguous conceptual networks; 3) the oppose relationship between being
and knowledge, mind and matter, subject and object, self and personality.
Entangled in the labyrinth which evade efforts to be conceptually defined,
the modern thinking of identity moves towards abandoning the idea of ?self?
on behalf of the ?ego? and towards the misapprehension of identity as being
identical. This corresponds to the ?time of the lost spirit? stretched
between the simultaneous need to find an identity and to give it up.

"Nobody identifies with the same group or in opposition to the same set of 'others' all the time; everybody has more than one answer to the question 'Who am I?' To understand Minorities: Community and Identity we need to take serious account of the process of identity shift, and to recognize the implications of multiple identity options." (author's abstract)

Abstract
For some sufficiently long-standing institutions, such as the English Crown, there is no single thread, whether specified in terms of constitutive rules or assigned functions, that would connect the stages of that institution. Elizabeth II and Egbert are not connected by an unbroken chain of primogeniture and they have importantly different powers and functions. Derek Parfit famously sought to illuminate his account of personal identity by comparing a person to a club. If Parfit could use our intuitions about clubs to help motivate his neo-Lockean account of personal identity over time, which resists the idea that personal identity requires a common psychological thread, then I argue that an adapted version of his account of identity might, in turn, be reapplied to clubs and other institutions, such as the Crown.