Abstract
Nationalism, it is widely agreed, is a phenomenon of modernity. What, then, are the implications of a shift toward postmodern culture for patterns of political identification? To address this question, I start by returning to first principles and theorize why people identify at all. I then highlight five important contemporary trends and their possible effects on identity, given this theory. I expect postmodern political identities to be more diffuse, diverse, instrumentally‐determined, context‐dependent, and less essentialized than those of modernity. I conclude that they may in fact be different enough from modern variants as to no longer warrant the appellation political identities.
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