Domination can be directed at individuals through their group or collective identity.

Evidence

And while a dominated agent, ultimately, will always have to be an individual person or persons, domination may be often be targeted on a group or on a corporate agent: it will constitute domination of individual people but in a collective identity or capacity or aspiration. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 280

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to solidarity literature: domination through collective identity implies group-based responses to it, though Pettit does not develop that here. — connects to: Dominant groups treat subjugated groups’ potential self-determination as a threat to their own domination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1504; Administered needs cause individuals to identify with and submit to domination — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 39; Identity’s political meaning derives from domination structures, not attachments themselves — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2145 (+1 more)

Broader Connections