A Design Research on
Visual Identity Politics in an age of Cultural Diversity
POST-
power

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Identity politics

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Identity Politics (Visual)

'behoud van eigen identiteit'classificatory systems of differenceDe VolkskrantDutch politicsPascal Kortewegpillarization/verzuilingpowerStuart HallThe Netherlands

Visual identity politics: how identity relates to power and how this relationship is seen in images, media and narratives.

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Stereotypes

Stereotyping

abnormaldifferenceexclusionfantasyimaginationinequalitynaturepowerRichard DyersimplifyingstereotypeStuart Hall

Stereotyping reduces people to a few, simple, essential characteristics which are represented as fixed by Nature —Stuart Hall

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Representation&Semiotics

John Berger’s Ways of Seeing #2 (1972)

artBBCbeing availableEuropean perspectiveeye of the beholdergenderJohn Bergermakedmale gazenudeobjectificationoil paintingpassivenesspowersexualsexualisingshamesubmissionUnited Kingdomwestern
Ways of Seeing #2 by John Berger

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Race-ism

The construct of race

Racism (institutional, systemic, scientific)

'people'burgerschap/citizenshipCharles V. HamiltonCLR Jamescolorembedded into cultural DNAEric WilliamsethnicitygenealogyHans Spekmanhierarchyinstitutional racismInstitutionalized RacismInternalized RacismInterpersonal RacismJay SmoothMarokkanennationalitypowerraceRace ConversationRace Forwardscientific racismslaveryStokely CarmichaelStructural RacismsubcultureTa-Nehisi CoatesWildersZihni Özdil

…“race is the child of racism, not the father. And the naming of “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy.” 
—Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the world and me, 2015

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Encyclopedia of —isms

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Intersectionality

axis of differenceclassificationGloria WekkeridentitypowerRachel Dolezal

Intersectionality is ‘a mode of thinking that intersects identities and systems of social oppression and domination’.

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