Identity in the Time of World Order Transformation: Discourses and Narratives
Authors: Prokhorenko I. 
Published: January 2024

A roundtable titled ‘Identity in the Time of World Order Transformation: Discourses and Narratives’ was held on the 2nd of December 2023, at the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. It was a part of the All-Russian conference with international participation ‘Political Science in a Changing World: New Practices and Theoretical Research’ organized by the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA). At RPSA, the event was arranged by the Research Committee on political identity. The roundtable moderator was Semenenko I.S., Corresponding Member of the RAS, Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Head of Centre for Comparative Socioeconomic and Political Studies, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of IMEMO, RAS, RPSA Research Committee on political identity coordinator, supervisor of Identity Research Network; the co-moderator was Fadeeva L.A., Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Professor, Department of Political Science, Perm State University. The key trends, problems and achievements regarding identity studies in Russia and abroad, new discourses and narratives in political science and public policy, especially ones relevant to Russia, were analyzed. The discussion focused on the problems of political identity and identity politics in terms of a forming polycentric world, identity dimension of archaization discourses, neotraditionalism, Balkanization, manifesting identity conflicts, identity securitization and ethnopolitical conflicts. The speakers were as follows: Semenenko I.S.; Fadeeva L.A.; staff members of Sector for Analysis of Political Change and Identity, Department for Comparative Political Studies, Centre for Comparative Socioeconomic and Political Studies, IMEMO – Cand. Sci. (Chem.), Leading Researcher Lapkin V.V, Doct. Sci. (Philos.), Senior Researcher Kamkin A.K., Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Researcher Popadeva T.I., Junior Researcher Khaynatskaya T.I.; staff of Sector for International Organizations and Global Political Governance, Department for International Political Problems, IMEMO – Doct. Sci. (Polit.), Head of the Sector Prokhorenko I.L., Senior Research Assistant Shpak M.A.; staff of Department of Public Policy and Public Administration, Kuban State University (Krasnodar) – Doct. Sci. (Philos.), Professor Morozova E.V., Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Associate Professor Bashmakov I.S.; Kalashnikova S.K., postgraduate student St Petersburg University, Junior Researher, Center for Science, Education and Information Programs, INION RAN; Pogodina M.Ya., Research Assistant, Faculty of Political Science, St Petersburg University, Junior Researher, Center for Science, Education and Information Programs, INION RAN; Romanova A.H., Doct. Sci. (Philos.), Director of Institute for Research on the Problems of the South of Russia and the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan State University named after V.N. Tatishchev (Astrakhan); Sagitova L.V., Doct. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Leading Researcher, Department of Ethnology, Sh. Marjani Institute of History, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (Kazan); Sargsyan O.L., Cand. Sci. (Philos.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Political Science, Institute of Law and Politics, Russian-Armenian University (the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan). The review of the roundtable materials was compiled by Prokhorenko I.L., Doct. Sci. (Polit.), Head of the Sector for International Organizations and Global Political Governance, Department for International Political Problems, IMEMO (irinapr@imemo.ru, ORCID: 0000-0002-8090-7934).