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Identity Politics

Citational Justice

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The ABR Podcast
‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’ by Mark Finnane | The ABR Podcast #220

This week on The ABR Podcast, historian Mark Finnane asks: ‘who gets the right to speak on matters of research within a tradition of empirical scholarship?’ Mark Finnane is a Professor of History at Griffith University and has published widely on Australian and Irish history. Listen to Mark Finnane’s ‘Citational Justice: A revolution in research practice?’, published in the January-February issue of ABR.

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Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher et al.

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August 2024, no. 467
Zora Simic reviews ‘Personal Politics: Sexuality, gender and the remaking of citizenship in Australia’ by Leigh Boucher et al.

The slogan the ‘personal is political’ is now so well-worn that it has congealed into cliché, though the notion itself can still produce a backlash if we take regular diatribes against ‘identity politics’ as a measure. In such rants, it is as though only some of us possess an identity that we mobilise around politically, whether under the LGBTQI+ umbrella, as First Nations peoples, as part of ethnic communities, or as ‘women’, the world’s largest special interest group. Given that critics of ‘identity politics’ tend to be socially conservative, the targets of their reductive invectives are presumed to lean to the left politically.

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The spectre of tribalism

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March 2024, no. 462
‘The spectre of tribalism: Reflections on Israel, AIDS and identity politics’ by Dennis Altman

Last year I turned eighty. Vacillating between denial and celebration, I decided, with some trepidation, on the latter. It was thirty years since I had last had a big birthday party: this one needed to be special. I consoled myself that, old as I am, I am still younger than the president of the United States, Mick Jagger, and the pope.

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