CANCELLED - BISA 2020 conference

Identity, Performativity and Representation

Jun 18, 2020, 12:00 PM

1h 30m

Carilol

Panel Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Description

This panel brings together papers grappling with questions of identity and difference in international politics. This theme will be engaged across the panel in relation to cases of terrorism, foreign policy, populism and nationalism.

Subcontributions

• Between identity and difference: Western citizens, ISIS fighters, and the Ambiguities of Constructing Difference
• Performative security discourse: The construction of identity, foreign policy, security, and the ‘international’ by ‘isolationism’ during US involvement in Vietnam
• The endless quest for authenticity: populism, political performances and transgression as a performative strategy
• Traces of Red, Spectres of Yellow: Catalan and Spanish Identities through a Deconstructive Look