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Identity Politics: Mobilizing Collective Action for Social Change UVA Speaks
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On this UVA Speaks podcast, Denise Walsh, Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender, & Sexuality in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, describes identity politics. She discusses the tendency of people to organize in collective solidarity and their actions to change social values or public policies, like in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Institutions can, Walsh says, produce and deliberately craft identities to ensure that one group has more opportunities and power than others. She explains that as long as discrimination exists based on characteristics shared by a group of people, there will be identity politics.
Transcripts of the audio broadcast can be found here.
Denise Walsh is an Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender, & Sexuality at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her research investigates how democracies can be made more inclusive and just.
Walsh's current book project, Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash, focuses on the so-called "burka ban" in France, the legalization of polygyny in South Africa, and the marrying out rule for Indigenous women in Canada.
On this UVA Speaks podcast, Denise Walsh, Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender, & Sexuality in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, describes identity politics. She discusses the tendency of people to organize in collective solidarity and their actions to change social values or public policies, like in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Institutions can, Walsh says, produce and deliberately craft identities to ensure that one group has more opportunities and power than others. She explains that as long as discrimination exists based on characteristics shared by a group of people, there will be identity politics.
Transcripts of the audio broadcast can be found here.
Denise Walsh is an Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender, & Sexuality at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Her research investigates how democracies can be made more inclusive and just.
Walsh's current book project, Culture and Women's Rights Don't Clash, focuses on the so-called "burka ban" in France, the legalization of polygyny in South Africa, and the marrying out rule for Indigenous women in Canada.
24 min