Place-based identity politics replace class politics and revive geopolitics.
Evidence
By enhancing links between place and the social sense of personal and communal identity, this facet of modernism was bound, to some degree, to entail the aestheticization of local, regional, or national politics. Loyalties to place then take precedence over loyalties to class, spatializing political action. … At the end of the process lies the restoration of the Hegelian notion of the state and the resurrection of geopolitics. Marx, of course, had restored historical time (and class relations) to primacy of place in social theory, in part as a reaction to Hegel’s spatialized conception of the ‘ethical state’ as the end-point of a teleological history. … If ‘this modern state imposes itself as the stable centre - definitively - of [national] societies and spaces,’ then geopolitical argument has to resort, as has in fact always been the case, to aesthetic rather than to social values in its search for legitimacy. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1725
Categorization
- XREF: Vertical connection to Jameson’s periodization: this describes the mechanism by which spatial loyalty displaces class analysis, core to the rival-periodization comparison. — connects to: Space homogenization clashes with place-based identity, fueling political antagonism — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1628; Cultural identity has replaced ideology as the defining basis of state alignment; Post-Cold War politics reconfigured itself along cultural identity lines. (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Cultural identity has replaced ideology as the defining basis of state alignment
#expands(0.85) - Post-Cold War politics reconfigured itself along cultural identity lines.
#expands(0.85) - Postmodern thought replaces class-based ideology with group-based consciousness.
#expands(0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 699 - Cultural identity shifts can outstrip and outlast political revolutions.
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