Why is identity politics getting increasingly rabid?
According to Bauman, “the search for identity is the ongoing struggle to arrest or slow down the flow, to solidify the fluid, to give form to the formless.”
Fashioning an ironclad identity and clinging to it for dear life is one of those biographical solutions to systemic contradictions that are so popular these days.
The breakdown of the larger national communities has resulted in the reemergence of the smaller tribal and sectarian ones that had earlier been suppressed.
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