ANTH 425 Power and Change

13 October 2011

Identity politics: Micro and macro politics of race, class, gender

Read Dunk, Thomas (2002) "Hunting and the politics of identity in Ontario." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 13(1): 36-66. ABI/Inform, Proquest Research Library

- Dunk critically examines the use of cultural identity politics by white male hunting associations in their fight to challenge restrictions on hunting in Ontario

- what does he say is their argument and how does he critique it?

- OFAH and NOTO:

- use of "tribal slot" and "authentic tradition"

- use of sociobiology

- presentation of struggle as though between rich urban environmentalists and rural small-business people and workers

- Dunk’s analysis of these positions

- what approach does Dunk propose as an alternative to the culturalist identity politics used by OFAH?

 

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