Identity’s political meaning derives from domination structures, not attachments themselves
Evidence
The colonial racial supremacy currently enjoyed by Israeli Jews over their fellow Palestinian citizens and subjects is, indeed, lived through identification with what are – with a certain deliberate ambiguity – overlapping religious, ethnic, and cultural attachments. But the structures of domination in which identity and difference operate to ensure Jewish supremacy give those identifications their political meaning. Absent the material means to reproduce those structures, the meaning of Jewish identity might cease to entail a system of domination that is, for many Jews, in contradiction with their ethical traditions. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 2145
Categorization
- XREF: Pushes back on the reader’s professed-conviction-vs-bias divergence question: professed religious/ethical conviction and measured bias can diverge because structure, not conviction, assigns political meaning. — connects to: Identity construction of self and other is a political contest over power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 838; Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2696; Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given (+7 more)
- recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
Broader Connections
- Identity construction of self and other is a political contest over power
#corroborates(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 838 - Identity is a political claim to belonging, not a fixed trait
#corroborates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2696 - Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given
#corroborates(0.72) - Threatened privilege, not disadvantage, can also trigger politicized collective identity
#corroborates(0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4441