Identity and Global Politics: Empirical and Theoretical Elaborations

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: In Defense of Identity....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Deep Structure, Free-Floating Signifier, or Something in Between? Europe’s Alterity in Putin’s Russia....Pages 9-26
“The Power and the Passion”: Civilizational Identity and Alterity in the Wake of September 11....Pages 27-45
Engendering Social Transformations in the Postsocialist Czech Republic....Pages 47-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Studying Continuity and Change in South African Political Identity....Pages 63-81
“The Language of Respectability” and the (Re)Constitution of Muslim Selves in Colonial Bengal....Pages 83-101
The Trouble with the Évolués: French Republicanism, Colonial Subjectivity, and Identity....Pages 103-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Narrating Identity: Constructing the Congo During the 1960 Crisis....Pages 123-143
Agency, State—Society Relations, and the Construction of National Identity: Case Studies from the Transcaspian Region....Pages 145-167
Whose Identity?: Rhetorical Commonplaces in “American” Wartime Foreign Policy....Pages 169-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Tango, Touch, and Moving Multiplicities....Pages 191-203
Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity: Human Rights, Zimbabwe’s “Land Crisis” and South Africa’s “Quiet Diplomacy”....Pages 205-220
Mexican Identity Contested: Transnationalization of Political Economy and the Construction of Modernity....Pages 221-235
Conclusion: Revisiting the Four Dimensions of Identity....Pages 237-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-268