Our identities, whether ascribed or chosen, shape how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. When identities are shared, communities can be built around them, and communities likewise construct and reinforce these identities. Such communities allow for the creation of interest groups, societal cleavages, ideological doctrines, that act as loci of power, shaping both the structure of our social world, and our subjective understandings within it.

In recent years, these dynamics have become especially visible. The left has shifted from traditional class politics toward identity-based movements, while the right increasingly evokes narratives of nativism, immigration, and cultural ‘war’. Across borders, identity-based communities have both divided and connected societies, fuelling nationalism on one hand and inspiring cross-national solidarity on the other, from Gen Z climate activism to global LGBTQ+ rights movements.

Social & Political Review, Volume XXXVI, invites submissions from undergraduate Trinity students that explore Identity, Communities, and Power. We welcome work from political science, sociology, and related disciplines that investigate how identities form, how communities mobilise, and how power is produced, resisted, and transformed.

If you have any questions, please contact the editorial team at spr.trinity@gmail.com