Explaining identity formation in Asia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6041262
AutoresAmy H Liu (0000-0001-5380-2849, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia), Joel Selway (0000-0002-2754-0408, Brigham Young University)
Año2021
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas6-17
Fecha de publicación2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Politics & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1943-0787 • E-ISSN: 1943-0779
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aspp.12564
OpenAlexW3131943803
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas34

What explains why some identities in a country become politically salient while others do not? This Special Issue crafts a research design to address two core assumptions in the literature on identity formation in select Asian countries. The first is that the area where ethnic groups reside is exogenously demarcated. Yet, the boundaries to any region are inherently political—for example, they can be endogenous to the same processes that drive identity formation. To address this, we take a novel approach by delineating regions exogenously by their cardinal directions in the country (e.g., north), and then, comparing among those regions to see which identities become salient and why. The second assumption is that there is always an alternative cleavage along which ethnic groups can coordinate. Yet, which cleavages are available and how ethnicity maps onto other cleavages (e.g., cross‐cutting) affects political identity. The articles in this Special Issue address this assumption by articulating and mapping a more complete set of cleavages. In doing so, the authors present a novel array of theories explaining the various stages along which identities fall, from absent to stunted, or from slow onset to fully solidified

Cleavage (geology · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Geography · Identity (music · Identity formation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salient · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies