ON CONVERGENCE IN ACADEMIC INVESTIGATIONS AND POLITICAL PRACTICES OF "IDENTITY POLITICS": FROM ESSENTIALISM TO THE IDENTIFICATION GOVERNANCE FOR POLITICAL COMMUNITIES
The article offers some interpretations of the IP and directions of research, according to the investigation of “identity politics” conceptual evolution. The author interprets the IP in governance manner as the concept of “identification governance for political communities”, concerning the identification issue in a multidisciplinary perspective. The concept as proposed is focused on analyzing priorities of state and government in public administration and political governance. These priorities tend to explore such components of identifications in political community governance, as cognitive, sociocultural, and discursive. These components are conductive in shaping of human identifications with societies and states; they determine decision- and policy-making. The author suggests that current vision of the role of “identifications” as represented in separate disciplines such as political science, public policy and administration is not enough to explore the meaning of IP or identifications for state, governance and politics. These disciplines and their visions of “identity politics” meaning are in need of another, complex and multilevel research perspective. This perspective as suggested might be achieved only through the combination of approaches to such issues as “governability” and “identification”. The author believes that primary attention given to identifications and their role in public sphere and administration is convenient point to develop of the IP concept towards the convergence of relevant approaches. This convergence is also to facilitate as suggested trough an emerging intellectual mode expressed in public and academic interest to investigate such themes as social integration, citizen’s role in political community and discourse of “nation-building”