Strategic essentialism

Strategic essentialism - major concept in postcolonial theory, was introduced in the 1980s by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, refers to a political tactic in which minority groups, or ethnic groups mobilize on the basis of shared identity attributes to represent themselves. Article “Strategic essentialism” in English Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Catalan Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Strategic essentialism”, its content was written by 39 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 68 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 176 times in English Wikipedia and cited 194 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #73467 in March 2006
• Global: #92714 in March 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #390304 in March 2008
• Global: #602173 in March 2008

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		31.4287
2	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		25.5175
3	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		24.1561
4	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		23.8371
5	English (en) Strategic essentialism		23.5796
6	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		18.1926
7	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		2.6109
8	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		1.4434

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Strategic essentialism" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Strategic essentialism		278 831
2	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		8 204
3	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		3 505
4	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		1 843
5	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		663
6	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		651
7	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		211
8	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		85

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Strategic essentialism" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Strategic essentialism		1 053
2	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		19
3	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		14
4	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		14
5	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		14
6	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		13
7	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		12
8	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Strategic essentialism" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Strategic essentialism		39
2	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		6
3	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		6
4	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		5
5	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		5
6	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		3
7	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		3
8	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Strategic essentialism" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		0
2	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		0
3	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		0
4	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		0
5	English (en) Strategic essentialism		0
6	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		0
7	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		0
8	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Strategic essentialism" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Strategic essentialism		176
2	Catalan (ca) Essencialisme estratègic		10
3	Swedish (sv) Strategisk essentialism		4
4	Arabic (ar) الجوهرية الإستراتيجية		1
5	Czech (cs) Strategický esencialismus		1
6	Greek (el) Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία		1
7	Turkish (tr) Stratejik özcülük		1
8	Persian (fa) ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الجوهرية الإستراتيجية
ca	Catalan Essencialisme estratègic
cs	Czech Strategický esencialismus
el	Greek Στρατηγική ουσιοκρατία
en	English Strategic essentialism
fa	Persian ذات‌گرایی استراتژیک
sv	Swedish Strategisk essentialism
tr	Turkish Stratejik özcülük

Best Rank

English: #390304 03.2008

Global: #602173 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #73467 03.2006

Global: #92714 03.2019

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