Living with the new politics of identity
Multiple Identities
Authors/Editors:
Vincent Cable
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In his 1994 Demos pamphlet The world’s new fissures, Vince Cable argued that the traditional political dichotomy of Left versus Right was disappearing. Written in the aftermath of the Cold War, he highlighted a new ‘politics of identity’ which had emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in London, which have produced deep soul searching about the fundamentals of identity, Cable revisits his earlier pamphlet. A decade on, his original argument has been largely vindicated. Surveying political movements across the globe, he finds few countries unaffected by the new ‘politics of identity’.
Authors/Editors:
Vincent Cable
Download the full text as a PDF (462 KB)Read the press release
In his 1994 Demos pamphlet The world’s new fissures, Vince Cable argued that the traditional political dichotomy of Left versus Right was disappearing. Written in the aftermath of the Cold War, he highlighted a new ‘politics of identity’ which had emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the aftermath of terrorist attacks in London, which have produced deep soul searching about the fundamentals of identity, Cable revisits his earlier pamphlet. A decade on, his original argument has been largely vindicated. Surveying political movements across the globe, he finds few countries unaffected by the new ‘politics of identity’.
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