Identity claims to territory arrive as retrospective legitimation

Evidence

Identity will be achieved when communities attempt to legitimate their right to possession of a territory through myth or the revealed word. Such an assertion can predate its actual accomplishment by quite sorne time. Thus, an often and long contested legitimacy will have rnultiple forms that later will delineate the afflicted or soothing dimensions of exile or errantry. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to how ‘strategic’ identity claims are retrospective constructions of lineage — the temporal gap between claim and accomplishment matters for whether essentialist identity is ever genuinely held or always already ironic. — connects to: Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it; Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land #exemplifies (0.95)
• Sacralizing territory lets political claims override demographic and geographic facts #corroborates (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 561
• Globalized production erodes the territorial basis of authenticity claims #qualifies (0.80) — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 274
• Identity arises from action and struggle rather than preceding politics #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 121
• Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other #complicates (0.75)
• Identity forms only within collectivities rooted in historical circumstances #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4119
• Identity is constituted within representation rather than pre-existing it #complicates (0.70)