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As our dessert, Anastasia Kavada, Oliver Escobar & Andrea Cornwall discuss @hansasenbaum.bsky.social 's open access book ‘The Politics of Becoming’.

What is 'becoming' for collective identity? Are there perils to anonymity? Can identity be our connections to each other?

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“if I were writing The Politics of Presence today, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t put gender in one chapter, race in another, multiculturalism in yet another”, says Anne Phillips in an interview with @hansasenbaum.bsky.social

✨The Politics of Presence revisited ✨

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Incel identities have undergone a remarkable transformation from diversity to exclusion. To prevent identities from becoming undemocratic, it requires attention to moderation techniques and social norms, argues
@seejenspeak.bsky.social

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Who rules in the digital age, asks Rahel Süß in her fabulous article. Drawing inspiration from radical democratic scholarship, she reimagines a digital sovereign that enables ongoing identity construction and transformation.

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Iris Marion Young is wrongly identified with the politics of presence. Michaele Ferguson reads her work as part of the politics of becoming by focusing on structure rather than identity.

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Looking at hunger strikes as 'performances of death', Amanda Machin shows how they are a powerful political tool, but also an 'act of political becoming', giving life to new political subjects. ✨

Find the brilliant piece here 👇
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The Ranciérian concept of disidentification is purely discursive. To overcome this limitation, @moyalloyd.bsky.social puts forward a novel account of embodied disidentification, exemplified by the feminist Miss America protest of 1968.

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To grasp how political subjects change, we also need to understand identity deconstruction, argue Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça & Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques.

Read how it happened in the Brazilian June Journeys protests and why it is crucial for democracy. ✨

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In the intro, @hansasenbaum.bsky.social & I argue that the politics of presence needs to be combined with the freedom to self-define.
How can the politics of presence be developed through performativity?
How can democracy do justice to intersectionality?

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