Identity [electronic resource] : Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition
Francis Fukuyama2018
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Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation,
religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken
broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges.
The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses,
and the return of open white supremacy to our politics.
In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a
state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years
later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of
political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies
threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist
nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually
defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group
and exclude large ...
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Author:
Francis Fukuyama, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Profile Books, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781782834137
Language:
English
BRN:
434748
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