RT Article
T1 The politics of invasion and alliance
JF Koers
VO 66
IS 3
SP 177
OP 196
A1 Heyns, M. F.
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1936631849
AB What should the political priority and relation be between cultural membership, economic concerns and being a citizen of a state? I argue that individualism, economism, and nationalism all harbour the danger of hierarchising these goals with the consequential invasion or even exclusion of one another. I describe both ethnic and state nationalists as using identity to monopolise political concerns. But state or cultural identity is also colonised or marginalised by either individualist or economistic politics. As alternative to invasion politics, I firstly propose that humans should be seen as negotiating with their embedding communities a plurality of identities that reflect a variety of transcendental ways of being human. These identities should then be acknowledged as equal ingredients in the empowerment and make-up of a blossoming human life. The variety of identities should therefore be developed in alliance with each other instead of being the victim of a strategy of mutual invasion or exclusion.
K1 State And Ethnic Nationalism
K1 Politics Of Recognition
K1 Multiculturalism
K1 Identity
K1 Economic Interests
K1 Classical Liberalism
DO 10.4102/koers.v66i3.395