Agonistic recognition as a remedy for identity backlash: insights from Israel and Turkey

While an extensive part of the conflict transformation literature stresses importance transforming identities parties through recognition, it fails to recognise propensity such transformations generate ontological insecurity and dissonance, consequently a possible backlash towards antagonistic identities. Drawing on agonistic thought, we develop conception premised non-finalism, pluralist multilogue disaggregated recognition. We suggest that these elements recognition may guard against development dissonance in processes. comparatively analyse connections tensions between insecurity/dissonance identity experienced during Israeli–Palestinian context Oslo Peace Process 1990s Turkey’s ‘rapprochement’ with Greece its EU accession process 2000s. also assess presence two Our contribution constitutes important step specification peace terms underlying processes developing empirical study actual