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        Making of Political Identities

        Ernesto Laclau

        Verso 1994

        ISBN 9780860916635

      2. A selection of essays by leading theorists writing on the question of identity as a political construct and its possible emancipatory potential. Part 1 covers the theoretical aspects of identity formation and Part 2 includes case studies such as apartheid in South Africa, the Palestine question, ethnic tensions in the former Yugoslavia, etc. See Renata Salecl, The Crisis of Identity and the Struggle for New Hegemony in the Former Yugoslavia, Slavoj Žižek Identity and its Vicissitudes, and Aletta J. Norval, Social Ambiguity and the Crisis of Apartheid.

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