Contributors include Jonathan Boyarin and Judith Butler. Beyond "Identity" PDF Beyond ''identity'' Actions under identity are governed by particularistic self-understanding instead of putatively universal self-interest. Brubaker Cooper - Beyond Identity | PDF | Identity (Social Science If real contributions of constructivist social analysis is to be taken seriously, it should not, argues BnC, take bounded groupess as an axiomatic given. "Beyond "identity"." Theory and Society 29 (1): 1-47. Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper. Theory and Society is a forum for the international community of scholars He notes how constructivist arguments have particular influence in the US, where the self and other-identitied groups are not primordial but historically produced. What accounts for their identity centrality ? He argues that analysts of these categories should try to *account* for the process of reification. Research output: Contribution to journal Article peer-review. BnC astutely points certain contradictions in this approach. Identity is considered a source of both cohesion and violence, and can alternately represent sameness or difference, be an imposition or a choice, singular or fractured, and static or fluid. volume29,pages 147 (2000)Cite this article. Brubaker, Rogers and Frederick Cooper (2000) 'Beyond "Identity" ' , Theory and Society 29(1): 1-47 . 1-47 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3108478 Accessed: 02/08/2009 20:15 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at Beyond "identity" - University of Michigan Certain of our traits are thought more central to who we are: they comprise our individual identity . By uncritically adopting categories of practice as categories of analysis, we are in fact reinforcing such reifications. First published in 1996, with later editions (2004 and 2008) updated to include new material, including postmodern theories of identity. As P. Bourdieu writes, The fact that struggles over identity [] concern the imposition of perceptions and categories of perception helps to explain the decisive place which, like the strategy of the manifesto in artistic movements, the dialectic of manifestation or demonstration holds in all regionalists or nationalist movements.1 As a matter of fact, both of these strategies imply the identity notion understood as a process, widely represented in theories of identity. The Variability of Belonging: A Reply to Rogers Brubaker So in principle we can separate identity talk from hard notions of identity but in practice this seems impossible.

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