Identity and Multicultural Politics - 6th International Symposium of the International Network for Alternative Academia

Identity claims and social identity formations have become more prevalent, fluid and less fixed throughout societies. People in their local, regional, national and even international contexts are systematically making claims about group identities, which have consequences for politics, social relations and a cultural sense of belonging. In the past decades, important changes have been witnessed in legal procedures, constitutions and cultural normative frameworks that have produced formal legitimation for recognition claims based on identity, as well as political backlashes against these initiatives. What are the lessons to be learned from these complex processes and the considerations to be had for envisioning and contributing to a future politics of recognition?

Conference Themes: 
1. New Challenges for a Contemporary Politics of Recognition 

• Policy and Normative Transformations Pushed by Identity Based Social Movements
• Social Realities Lived and Cultural Changes Enacted under Multicultural Policies
• Multicultural Backlashes

2. Talking Back: Contemporary Identity Formations

• Exploring New Identity Formations  
• Context and Politics
• Contestation and Conciliations

3. Nationalism & Inclusion

• Re-emerging Nationalisms and the Politics of Inclusion   
• Migration and Subject Positions   
• Territory, Home and Rootedness   

4. Art, Contestation & Aesthetic Critique

• Aesthetic Expressions of Identity Construction   
• New Voices and New Critiques 
• Unsettling Stable Forms of Identity  

5. Multicultural Interlacing & Contemporary Life

• History and Multiplicity 
• Image and Representations
• Horizons  

6. New Bonds for Self & Other

• Self and Other Intertwined
• Bewildered Self
• Self in the Other & Other in the Self  

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