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Identity Politics: an Actual Response to the Challenges of the Modern Time or the Collapse of the Concept? Historical and Legal Points of View

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The purpose of the study is to analyze the role of the application of law in the historical formation and development of identity politics as a set of norms and rules of behavior of a community of people. The research methodology is based on the analysis of the world law enforcement practice of regulating identity politics taking into account the development of public doctrinal concepts in certain historical periods. The study suggests that in modern conditions the breadth of coverage of this concept levels its essence as defining self-identifications to one degree or another inevitably contradict others.

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Iskandar Mukhametgaliyev has been supported by the Kazan Federal University Strategic Academic Leadership Program.

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  1. Department of General Subjects, Humanitarian and Technical Academy, Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

    Konstantin Sokolovskiy

  2. Department of State Legal Disciplines, Pacific State University, Khabarovsk, Russian Federation

    Valery Stepenko

  3. Department of Criminal Procedure and Judicial Activity, Yelabuga Institute, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Yelabuga, Russian Federation

    Iskandar Mukhametgaliyev

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Sokolovskiy, K., Stepenko, V. & Mukhametgaliyev, I. Identity Politics: an Actual Response to the Challenges of the Modern Time or the Collapse of the Concept? Historical and Legal Points of View. Public Organiz Rev 23, 1069–1082 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-022-00609-w

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