Identity Politics

Articles

• Italy: Call for freedom for migrant women
  5 October 2010, by siawi2
  We are again facing the death of a woman, and the severe wounding of another, at the hands of a relative. We are again facing femicide and violence in the name and on behalf of the sense of male ownership of female lives. We are again facing  (...)
• THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY, LEFT AND RIGHT
  9 April 2019, by siawi3

  Faced with a left often indifferent to their plight, black people, women, gay people and others transformed the political landscape by placing their own experiences of oppression at the heart of new social movements. But what began as struggles against oppression and for social change transformed over time into demands for cultural recognition by myriad social groups. The social movements of the 1960s gave way to the identity politics of the 21^st century. The nadir of this process came with the demand that white people, too, be culturally ‘recognised’.

• UK: Schools of Incendiary Thought
  30 November 2009, by siawi2

  Faith schools that may be promoting extremist ideas must be closely monitored – and should certainly not receive public funds

• France : Quelle base légale pour une interdiction du voile intégral ?
  27 novembre 2009, par siawi2

  Laïcité ou défense de la dignité humaine : plusieurs pistes se dessinent pour servir de base à une éventuelle interdiction de la burqa.

• U.K.: November 21, 2009 a successful day against Sharia and religious laws
  27 November 2009, by siawi2

  Several hundred joined a rally in London’s Hyde Park organised by One Law for All to show their opposition to Sharia and religious-based laws in Britain and elsewhere and to demand universal rights and secularism.

• La diversité ne réduit pas les inégalités
  6 November 2009, by siawi2

  Le débat sur la diversité masque l’accroissement des inégalités économiques

• Women speak on secularism from . . . Lahore, Pakistan, Farida Shaheed (2008)
  3 December 2012, by siawi

  A video recording of Farida Shaheed that was conducted by Marieme Helie Lucas in winter of 2008. This is part of wider a series of video interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights being compiled at siawi.org

• Algérie/France: 52 imams algériens envoyés en France
  27 May 2010, by siawi2
  Cinquante-deux imams algériens seront envoyés en France cette année pour des missions d’orientation, d’éducation et de culture au profit de la communauté musulmane, a annoncé aujourd’hui à Alger, le ministre algérien des Affaires religieuses  (...)
• Amnesty: working against oblivion?
  26 May 2010, by siawi2
  by Gita Sahgal
  Human rights groups cannot tell the story of the times in which we live. There is a void, where there should be analysis of the organizational forms and ideological links of western Islamists
  Salman Rushdie has said, ‘When people  (...)
• France: Quelle culture républicaine face au communautarisme ?
  25 May 2010, by siawi2
  TABLE RONDE AVEC : HENRI PENA-RUIZ, philosophe spécialiste des questions de laïcité, professeur en khâgne au lycée Fénelon (Paris) ; MICHEL WIEVIORKA, sociologue, directeur d’études à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).
  Quelle  (...)

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