Two escape routes from the paradigm of monistic authenticity

Post-Imperialist and Federal Perspectives on Plural and Complex Identities

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ID2187255
AuthorsDimitrios Karmis, Jocelyn Maclure (0000-0001-7620-821X)
Year2001
Volume24
Issue3
Pages361-385
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/713766448
OpenAlexW2109750314
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

Despite a recent explosion of works emphasizing the increasingly plural and complex character of identity, political and social elites' interpretations of identities have continued to be dominated by the paradigm of monistic authenticity. In the face of this resilience, theorists must say more about the formation, meaning and implications of plural and complex identities. They must provide social and political actors with a credible alternative language to make sense of the actual or potential plurality of their allegiances. This article aims at contributing to the task by relying on the complementary merits of two traditions that used to ignore each other: post-imperialism and federalism. First, we suggest that post-imperialism may provide a language for redefining communities and individual-community relationships in a pluralist way. Second, we argue that the language of federalism has a high - and neglected - potential to answer the political and normative questions raised by post-imperialism. Keywords: AuthenticityFederalismIdentity Cultural Political FederalMulticulturalismNationalismPluralism

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Federalism · Identity (music · Linguistics · Monism · Normative · Plural · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Systems and Governance

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