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dc.contributor.authorAL TAMIMI, Yussef
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-25T15:12:41Z
dc.date.available2018-01-25T15:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationSocial and legal studies, 2018, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 283-298en
dc.identifier.issn0964-6639
dc.identifier.issn1461-7390
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/50684
dc.descriptionFirst Published July 31, 2017en
dc.descriptionAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)en
dc.description.abstractIdentity is a central theme in contemporary politics, but legal academia lacks a rigorous analysis of this concept. The aim of this article is twofold: (i) firstly, it aims to reveal presumptions on identity in human rights law by mapping how the European Court of Human Rights approaches identity and (ii) secondly, it seeks to analyse these presumptions using theoretical insights on identity. By merging legal and theoretical analysis, this article contributes a reading of the Court’s case law which suggests that the tension between the political and apolitical is visible as a common thread in the Court’s use of identity. In case law concerning paternity, the Court appears to hold a specific view of what is presented as an unquestionable part of identity. This ostensibly pre-political notion of identity becomes untenable in cases where the nature of an identity feature, such as the headscarf, is contended or a minority has adopted a national identity that conflicts with the majoritarian national identity. The Court’s approach to identity in such cases reflects a paradox that is inherent to identity; identity is personal while simultaneously constituted and shaped by overarching power mechanisms.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen
dc.relation.ispartofSocial and legal studiesen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleHuman rights and the excess of identity : a legal and theoretical inquiry into the notion of identity in Strasbourg case lawen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0964663917722598
dc.identifier.volume27en
dc.identifier.startpage283en
dc.identifier.endpage298en
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dc.identifier.issue3en


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