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"Identitet" är ett begrepp som blivit allt viktigare inom politiken men vad betyder det egentligen, och vad händer när vi argumenterar och fattar beslut utifrån vilken grupp vi tillhör? Vilka tjänar på splittringen? Hur kommer det sig att många vänsterliberaler och högerpopulister trots allt verkar vara överens i frågan om identitetens betydelse? Och vad har tortillas med saken att göra?

P3 Dystopia dyker huvudstupa ner i vår snåriga, identitetspolitiska samtid.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Torill Kornfeldt

Medverkande

• Jan-Werner Müller - professor i statsvetenskap, Princeton University

• Sheri Berman - professor i statsvetenskap, Barnard College, Columbia University

• George Hutchinson - professor i amerikansk litteratur, Cornell University

• Jonna Bornemark - professor i filosofi, Södertörns högskola

• Mikael Klintman - professor i sociologi, Lunds Universitet

Klipp

• Gutfeld: Democrats still cling to identity-driven politics (Fox News, 2017)

• Donald Trump Pushes White Identity Politics But What About Everyone Else? (MSNBC, 2018)

• Trevor Philips on How Identity Politics Divides Us (Intelligence Squared, 2020)

• Against Identity Politics | Lecture by political scientist Francis Fukuyama (Radboud Reflects, 2019)

• Ungern ersätter judiska författare med antisemiter i skollitteraturen (SVT, 2020)

• Voices of LGBTQ Liberation! 1979 National March on Washington Part One (Lesbian Herstory Archive, 1979)

• H. Rap Brown & Stokely Carmichael in Oakland (KQED Archives, 1968)

• There are two kinds of identity politics. One is good. The other, very bad. | Jonathan Haidt (Big Think, 2018)

• Martin Luther King | ”I Have A Dream” Speech (1963)

• The Stream - Eating out, with a side of cultural appropriation (AlJazeera, 2017)

• Traveling Palestine in search of the best konafa (TRT World, 2017)

• Jonathan Pie’s Rant On Cultural Appropriation (BBC Three, 2018)

• Dr. Cornel West on Cultural Appropriation and Black Culture (The Joe Rogan Experience, 2019)

• Kwame Anthony Appiah on Identity, Stories, and Cosmopolitanism (Sean Carroll's Mindscape, 2020)

• Introducing Ancestry DNA (Ancestry, 2016)

• How to Argue with a Racist, with Adam Rutherford (BBC Radio 4, 2020)

• Kyle | Ancestry Stories (Ancestry, 2016)

• Remi Adekoya - Identity Crisis (Battle of Ideas, 2018)

• Owen Jones meets Jonathan Pie | 'Identity politics are used to shut down debate' (Owen Jones, 2018)

• Mannen som trollade medier och flygplanen som bytte kön (Medierna i P1, 2016)

• Steve Bannon argues Economic Populism trumps Identity Politics (Charlie Rose, 2017)

• Nadim Gemayel (Clip 2) - What Lebanese identity? (Y Chats, 2019)

• Lebanon protests: What is sectarianism and why is it a problem? (DW News 2019)

• Eric Hobsbawm: The Stories My Country Told Me (1996)

• Charles Lindbergh's - September 11, 1941 Des Moines Speech

• President Truman speaks on the Atomic Bomb. At Oak Ridge (British Movietone)

Artiklar

• The Blood Lust of Identity - Ian Buruma (NYROB, 2002)

• Boutique Faith - Jeremy Waldron (LRB, 2006)

• Unlike a Scotch Egg - Glen Newey (LRB, 2013)

• Democracy and disrespect - Jan-Werner Müller (PSC, 2019)

• What Is Great about Ourselves - Pankaj Mishra (LRB, 2017)

• Against Passion - James Meek (LRB, 2017)

• Speaking as a... - Jonathan Rauch (NYROB, 2017)

• The Identity Illusion - Stephen Holmes (NYROB, 2019)

• America’s Original Identity Politics - Sarah Churchwell (NYROB, 2019)

• Identity Politics and the Left - Eric Hobsbawn (NLR, 1996)

• Reading in an Age of Catastrophe - Edward Mendelson (NYROB, 2019)

• Exiting the Vampire Castle - Mark Fisher (The North Star, 2013)

• Rule-Breaking - Jan-Werner Müller writes about the problems of the Eurozone (LRB, 2015)

• Why identity politics benefits the right more than the left - Sheri Berman (The Guardian, 2018)

• Steve Bannon, Unrepentant - Robert Kuttner (The American Prospect, 2017)

• Research says there are ways to reduce racial bias. Calling people racist isn’t one of them - German Lopez (Vox, 2018)

• How America's identity politics went from inclusion to division - Amy Chua (The Guardian, 2018)

• What is Identity? - Anand Giridharadas (NYT, 2018)

• WHITE PAINTER LOSES ART SHOW OVER CULTURAL APPROPRIATION DEBATE - ALEXANDER NAZARYAN (Newsweek, 2017)

• Human Remains 629667 - Tom Stevenson (LRB, 2015)

Böcker

• Susan Faludi - In the Darkroom (2016)

• George Hutchinson - Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s (2018)

• Mikael Klintman, Thomas Lunderquist och Andreas Olsson - Gruppens grepp: Hur vi fördomsfulla flockvarelser kan lära oss leva tillsammans (2018)

Musik

• Cliff Martinez - Fire it up again

• Kid Loco - Theme from the Graffiti Artist

• Cliff Martinez - I got Time

• Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Awakening

• Martin D. Fowler - 1 Ships VII

• Hans Zimmer - Afraid of Time

• Marcus Bagalà - Frets: Problem after Problem

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Marcus Bagalà - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Wojciech Golczewski - Setting up

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Marcus Bagalà - You don't have to live like a refugee

• Robert Johnson - Crossroad

• Mighty Sparrow - Jean and Dinah

• Mac Quayle - 1.0_3-fucksociety.mp3

• Average White Band - Pick up the pieces

• DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem

• Marcus Bagalà - Frets: Too too

• Munir Bashir - The Art of Oud

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Franz Schubert - March no. 1

• Cliff Martinez - Dearest John

• Marcus Bagalà - Cascading Bells

• Vince Pope - Who are you?

• Helios - Even Today

• Cliff Martinez - I'm in the Pink

• Gary Lionelli - A good hand

• Dario Marianelli - Life on the Moors (feat. Jack Liebeck)

• Helios - Seeming

• Hans Zimmer - Rain

• Joe Strummer - Afro-Cuban Be-Bop