Pluralist fragmentation triggers a compensatory search for secure identity.

Evidence

But it is exactly at this point that we encounter the opposite reaction that can best be summed up as the search for personal or collective identity, the search for secure moorings in a shifting world. Place-identity, in this collage of superimposed spatial images that implode in upon us, becomes an important issue, because everyone occupies a space of individuation (a body, a room, a home, a shaping community, a nation), and how we individuate ourselves shapes identity. Furthermore, if no one ‘knows their place’ in this shifting collage world, then how can a secure social order be fashioned or sustained? — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1912

Categorization

• XREF: The identity-search reaction to fragmentation resonates with the politics of identity and place often tied to reactions against flexible accumulation’s rootlessness. — connects to: Fault line wars harden once-plural identities into polarized us-versus-them; Multiple identity memberships reduce intergroup loyalty polarization and tension

Broader Connections

• Fault line wars harden once-plural identities into polarized us-versus-them #exemplifies (0.90)
• Multiple identity memberships reduce intergroup loyalty polarization and tension #contradicts (0.85)