See identity politics in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for identity politics meaning in English (7.3kB)
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "identity politics (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant transliterations",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Politics",
"orig": "en:Politics",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985 August 24, Paulla Ebron, Myrna James, Helen Moores, Rachel Tallen, Frances White, Elise Young, “Confronting Racism and Anti-Semitism”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 4",
"text": "Both of you spoke from a perspective that some have called identity politics. This approach began as a way for black women to create space for themselves in feminist and black movements by asserting their identity. It has evolved into a framework that recognizes difference but builds barriers rather than bridges among us by not also discussing ways we learn from each other or ways we are connected.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Richard Dyer, White, page 8",
"text": "The history of identity politics has however been marked by the increasingly strong and heard voices of, for instance, non-white and working-class women, lesbians and gay men, who do not entirely recognise themselves in these ‘As a…’ claims.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9",
"text": "There are those who contest the very idea of identity politics or try to reduce it to a minimum. They would prefer that rights be derived wholly from function and reason. Then, there are those who like some identities but not others. Ranged against them, as it were, are the identity politicians, who insist that all problems are derived from identity and should be solved by the criteria of identity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity."
],
"id": "en-identity_politics-en-noun-kwKbM2e3",
"links": [
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"Politics",
"politics"
],
[
"self-interest",
"self-interest"
],
[
"perspective",
"perspective"
],
[
"ethnicity",
"ethnicity"
],
[
"race",
"race"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"gender",
"gender"
],
[
"sexual orientation",
"sexual orientation"
],
[
"gender identity",
"gender identity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(politics) Politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "identitarian"
},
{
"word": "identity politician"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "identitarian polititics"
},
{
"word": "idpol"
},
{
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
],
"word": "IDPOL"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"politics"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shēnfèn zhèngzhì",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "身份政治"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "identitetspolitik"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "identiteitspolitiek"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identeca politiko"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identec-politiko"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "politiko de identeco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identiteettipolitiikka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "politique identitaire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Identitätspolitik"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gruppeninteressenpolitik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "merkimiðapólitík"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "identitetspolitikk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "identitetspolitikk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polityka tożsamości"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "politika identitete"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "identitetspolitik"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "การเมืองเรื่องอัตลักษณ์"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "การเมืองอัตลักษณ์"
}
]
}
],
"word": "identity politics"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "identity politics (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "identitarian"
},
{
"word": "identity politician"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Politics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1985 August 24, Paulla Ebron, Myrna James, Helen Moores, Rachel Tallen, Frances White, Elise Young, “Confronting Racism and Anti-Semitism”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 4",
"text": "Both of you spoke from a perspective that some have called identity politics. This approach began as a way for black women to create space for themselves in feminist and black movements by asserting their identity. It has evolved into a framework that recognizes difference but builds barriers rather than bridges among us by not also discussing ways we learn from each other or ways we are connected.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1997, Richard Dyer, White, page 8",
"text": "The history of identity politics has however been marked by the increasingly strong and heard voices of, for instance, non-white and working-class women, lesbians and gay men, who do not entirely recognise themselves in these ‘As a…’ claims.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9",
"text": "There are those who contest the very idea of identity politics or try to reduce it to a minimum. They would prefer that rights be derived wholly from function and reason. Then, there are those who like some identities but not others. Ranged against them, as it were, are the identity politicians, who insist that all problems are derived from identity and should be solved by the criteria of identity.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 March 8, Andrew Anthony, “Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama review – a defence of liberalism… from a former neocon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "The pursuit of individual autonomy or “self-actualisation”, for example, has become mired in an identity politics that subsumes the individual into rigidly defined groupings based on ethnicity, gender or sexuality.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity."
],
"links": [
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"Politics",
"politics"
],
[
"self-interest",
"self-interest"
],
[
"perspective",
"perspective"
],
[
"ethnicity",
"ethnicity"
],
[
"race",
"race"
],
[
"religion",
"religion"
],
[
"gender",
"gender"
],
[
"sexual orientation",
"sexual orientation"
],
[
"gender identity",
"gender identity"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(politics) Politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings, such as ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "identitarian polititics"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"politics"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "idpol"
},
{
"tags": [
"abbreviation"
],
"word": "IDPOL"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shēnfèn zhèngzhì",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "身份政治"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "identitetspolitik"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "identiteitspolitiek"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identeca politiko"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identec-politiko"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "politiko de identeco"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "identiteettipolitiikka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "politique identitaire"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Identitätspolitik"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gruppeninteressenpolitik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "merkimiðapólitík"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "identitetspolitikk"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "identitetspolitikk"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "polityka tożsamości"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "politika identitete"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "identitetspolitik"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "การเมืองเรื่องอัตลักษณ์"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "politics focusing on the self-interest and perspectives of people in various groupings",
"word": "การเมืองอัตลักษณ์"
}
],
"word": "identity politics"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.