From Inclusion to Sustainability. A Political Journey beyond Identity Rights

Abstract

This article discusses two political approaches to marginalization, the one based on inclusion (identification paradigm) and the other based on a politics of diffraction and fragmentation (dis-identification paradigm). By drawing on the experience of everyday utopias, explored by Davina Cooper, and the concept of figuration, elaborated on by Donna Haraway, the article makes the claim that a politics of diffraction is far more effective than the implementation of top-down, exclusively state-based inclusive policies.

Keywords: legal rights, looping effect, queer theory, feminism