As they departed, a country hardened by war, occupation and deprivation became smaller than its parts, and the sole axis of identity was not the language Bustani mentioned, or a shared past, or a common culture, but immutable affiliations — sects and ethnicities, the politics of each seemingly foreordained.
In the case of identity politics, two claims stand out as plausibly "essentialist:" the first is the understanding of the subject that characterizes a single axis of identity as discrete and taking priority in representing the self as if being Asian-American, for example, were entirely separable from being a woman.
These traditional images have a long history and remain salient today in reductive views of the maternal as the central axis of female identity.
The language shook off its torpor and became a medium of modern expression and the axis of a collective identity, as old literary genres were revived, new forms of writing — from the novel to journalism — were embraced, and a modern vocabulary was introduced.
The Moken were at the mercy of a changing world, one in which there were no easy answers for their assimilation, but I sensed that no matter what the answers might prove to be, their lives would continue to rotate around the same axis – a fixed fulcrum of identity at the centre of their ever-shifting universe.
A scatter plot for MFR also showed good concordance over the whole MFR range (1.79 5.81) with a reduced major axis almost equal to the line of identity (Fig. 3a).
The intercalation of N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-ethane-1,2-diamine (tmeda) into C6Li derived from papyex, a partially oriented graphite foil, results in the co-presence of two ternary phases having out-of-plane (c-axis) identity periods of 11.5 and 9.1 Å.
Distal-less, dac, and hth specify broad domains of identity along the leg PD axis in D. melanogaster, T. castaneum, and other species.
The correlation coefficients indicate more dispersion at 4 and 24 hours and the dots appear above the line of identity and close to the Y axis.
And while identity remains the axis of politics here, many recoil at making any affiliation a prerequisite.
The epidermis also synthesizes retinoic acid, which is produced as a gradient across the proximal distal axis of the blastema to provide positional identity [11 13].
