Identity politics and the problem of essentialism
The question of political collectives in a postmodern context
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essentialisme, feministisk teori, serialitet, postmodernisme, identitetspolitikResumé
Det centrale spørgsmål, der vil blive behandlet i denne artikel er, hvorvidt det er muligt at skabe politiske fællesskaber på baggrund af en postmoderne, anti-essentialistisk ontologi. Den postmoderne kritik af essentialisme gør kategorier så som kategorien ’kvinde’ dybt mistænkelige, men uden sådanne mobiliserende kategorier er kampen for ligestilling for kvinder vanskelig eller sågar umulig. Jeg analyserer Iris Marion Youngs forsøg på at løse dette problem ved hjælp af en teori om fællesskab som serialitet. Jeg konkluderer, at Youngs teori kun formår at fremstille en forskydning af essentialisme-problemet i stedet for en reel løsning på det.
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Young, Iris Marion. 1995. “Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective”. In Social postmodernism: Beyond identity politics (Nicholson, Linda; Seidman, Steven, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 187-216.
Fuss, Diana. 1990. “The ‘Risk of Essence”. In Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference. London: Routledge, pp. 1-23.
Grillo, Trina. 2013. “Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master's House”. In Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 16-30.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 1995. “Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience”. In Social postmodernism: Beyond identity politics (Nicholson, Linda; Seidman, Steven, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68-87.
Mouffe, Chantal. 2005. The Return of the Political. London: Verso.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. 2007. Existentialism is a Humanism. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
Sennott, Shannon L. 2011. “Gender Disorder as Gender Oppression: A Transfeminist Approach to Rethinking the Pathologization of Gender Non-Conformity”. In Women and Therapy. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Young, Iris Marion. 1995. “Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective”. In Social postmodernism: Beyond identity politics (Nicholson, Linda; Seidman, Steven, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 187-216.
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2020-04-02
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Nielsen, A.-S. S. (2020). Identity politics and the problem of essentialism: The question of political collectives in a postmodern context. Tidsskrift for Medier, Erkendelse Og Formidling, 8(1), 26–43. Hentet fra https://tidsskrift.dk/mef-journal/article/view/112636
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