Collective identities erode rather than vanish, losing their former social and explanatory stability.
Evidence
Now as I tried to say previously, the great collective social identities rise and fall, and it is almost as difficult to know whether they are more dangerous when they are falling than when they are rising. … These great collective social identities have not disappeared. Their purchase and efficacy in the real world that we all occupy is ever present. But the fact is that none of them is, any longer, in either the social, historical, or epistemological place where they were in our conceptualizations of the world in the recent past. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 191
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the frameworks of imagined communities and hegemonic struggle the reader is building toward in the Islamophobia readings: identities as contested, unstable constructs.
Related
- Modern historical processes like industrialization and nation-state dominance stabilized collective identities (similarity 0.83)
- Class has lost its status as a master concept explaining identity. (similarity 0.82)
- Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another (similarity 0.81)
- Identity must be theorized as simultaneously fixed by and escaping meaning. (similarity 0.81)
- Collective identities like class, race, nation and gender positioned the individual self (similarity 0.80)
- Community essentialism is a fantasy masking the hybrid constitution of migrant groups (similarity 0.78)