Identitarian Research Articles

EXPRESS: From the Margins to the Mainstream: Entrepreneurial Theorization and the Spread of a New Collective Identity within a Mature Organizational Field

We study the effects of entrepreneurial theorization on the spread of a new collective identity within a mature organizational field. Mature fields are characterized by dominant logics, entrenched practices, and stable patterns of interaction, resulting in isomorphism and inertia. Yet, mature fields do change, often as a result of entrepreneurial activity. Whereas prior work has focused on the creation of “oppositional” niches within mature fields, we focus on an identity movement that transforms the core of a field. We do this within the context of the Canadian wine field, a field that remained stable from the end of Prohibition through the 1970s. For decades, large incumbents projected a European identity for their wines and gave these wines “faux” European names. In contrast, pioneering entrepreneurs projected a distinctly Canadian identity for their wines, an identity that was ultimately adopted by incumbents. In this way, domestic wine in Canada became tied to place rather than divorced from it. We show how entrepreneurial theorization of the “Canadian wine” identity by small producers and identity pioneers spread to the center of the field, and how the effects of theorization depended on the authenticity of these theorizers. We also suggest that an identity movement that engages incumbents rather than seeks to create an oppositional category is more likely to reach the center of a mature field.

Identity Movements and Identity Politics: Indian Constitutional Framework

Every society is, in some or the other way, a product of a region, ethnicity, gender, race, polity or any other social construct and therefore developing some form and shape of identity is but an essential eventuality. Here the concept of society is expanded to the totality of social phenomena and is recognized by common identity. Therefore, the severe partitions and divisions in India have led to the increase in the scenario of identity politics. Consider the concepts of Pluralism and Multiculturalism that has transformed into identity politics and defined certain groups by their race or ethnicity, where those identities became the catalyst for desiring political power. Identity formation is a process that involves the advancement of social identities based on various parameters including ethnicity and religion. There are ways in which identity creates divisions between heterogeneous groups. For instance, in present day Indian polity the factors like caste, language and even religion do not remain subtle but dominate the politics of the region. Further, this type of concentration on the issue creates a serious imbalance regarding the processes of development in Indian states dominated by the liberal politics. These minorities’ national, ethnic or religious rights are codified in the laws of various multi-national states, where the attention for the cultures of the ‘others’ is notably peripheral. Such considerations, regarding the nationalities and regarding cultural diversities, have social, political and economical consequences.

Being, seeing and recognizing oneself as a teacher who teaches Mathematics: (re)configuring Professional Identities from the perspective of Probabilistic Education

This article aims to understand how actions and practices based on studies on Probability Education contribute to the (re)configuration’s movement of the Professional Identity (PI) of Teachers who Teach Mathematics (TTM). The study is based on a qualitative and interpretative paradigm, relied on a Research-Training path developed in a study group with 11 TTM. To this end, we are based on a characterization of TTM’s PI, which points out a set of elements (macrodomains) that allow us to understand them in their ways of being, seeing and recognizing themselves as such. The results and discussion were based on the apprehension of four Meaning Cores, which indicate that the TTM’s PI were forged from the Learning Paths (re)constituted in the collective/collaborative context of the group and interwoven by elements of personal, emotional, moral and sociopolitical nature that emerged from the enterprise of teaching and learning Probability.

Un soin psychique sans Psyché ? Idéologies identitaires, psychophobie généralisée et pratiques en santé mentale

Psychiatric care practices have long been inspired by humanist conceptions of psychic life, which attribute an anthropological depth to the human being, and an intentionality to symptoms. However, in recent decades, there has been a shift towards a reeducational approach. We propose to link this evolution with the emergence in society of ideological identity movements, characterized by their psychophobia and distrust of unconscious psychic life. Drawing on psychoanalytical concepts, we examine the extent to which these ideologies are rooted in a two-dimensional anthropological conception: a human being without psychic depth or internal conflictuality, perfectly identified with his or her discourse. The unconscious is denounced as the source of discrimination. It must therefore be condemned and neutralized, in favor of an ideal of transparency, purity, and homogeneity. Secondly, we argue that this generalized psychophobia has inspired normative and reeducational practices in mental health over the past half-century. In particular, we look at psychoeducation for psychotic patients, the recovery approach to schizophrenia, and activist clinical practices whose political and ideological commitments are detrimental to neutrality and an unconditional acceptance of subjectivity. Finally, we recall how psychoanalysis provides mental health professionals with ethical benchmarks for thinking about their practices, against the temptation to totalize.

(356) Reframing The Bio-psychosocial Model. For Sexual Medicine

Abstract Introduction Most sexual medicine and sex therapy clinicians consider the biopsychosocial model the current gold standard for the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders. While paying lip service to that, both groups tend to focus on a couple aspects of the model overly exclusively, with insufficient awareness/attention to other contributing factors. Professionals tend to “stay in their lane,” but this can result in poorer patient care. Explicitly expanding the biopsychosocial model’s scope can help clinicians address “blind spots,” which can result in overlooking key etiological factors. Healthcare’s “medical model” perspective was upended with the publication of Engel’s (1977) “biopsychosocial model,” which emphasized multiple etiological determinants. The last decades since Engel have seen significant advances in our capacity to identify disorder’s biological causes through biomedical advances (imaging, etc.). Pharmaceutical marketing success has generated the greatest drug consumption in history, including drugs to improve sexual functioning. More people are living longer than ever with chronic disease and surviving cancer. Unfortunately, many of the ‘cures” result in iatrogenic sexual disorders because of their anti-sexual side effects. Explicitly recognizing that the prefix “bio’ represents both biological and biomedical will help enhance the re-recognition of the full range of organic factors in the diagnosis and successful treatment of sexual disorders. Doing so will lead to a greater appreciation of biomedical advances and improved recognition of iatrogenic causation for sex therapists and sexual medicine experts alike. Many sexual medicine specialists recognize psychosocial factors such as depression, anxiety, self-esteem, and satisfaction. But clinicians must also focus on specific cognitive and behavioral mechanisms and patterns (sexual scripts) that contribute to developing and maintaining sexual disorders. The need to explicitly incorporate “culture” within our sexuality model is best exemplified by current discussions surrounding gender and the continuing controversy about what constitutes “normal.” The various “identity movements’,” messaged tenants of the late 20th and early 21st century (amplified by social media), have raised international consciousness of additional psychosocial and cultural factors that should at least be considered when diagnosing and/or treating sexual disorders. There is a need for clinician sensitivity (especially in today’s world), which is enhanced by recognizing that despite culture’s complex, far-reaching constellation of factors, they must be incorporated when considering psychosocial factors. Objective Sexuality professionals need to recognize and accept an expanded view of the biopsychosocial model's scope. Methods Literature review. Results Limitations in how the biopsychosocial model is currently used may risk under-emphasizing the role of organic, behavioral, and cultural factors in sexual disorder etiology and treatment. Conclusions “Biopsychosocial” should be seen as an explicit “stand-in” for all predisposing, precipitating, and maintaining bio-medical/surgical, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and cultural factors determining the etiology and treatment of sexual disorders. Such an explicit expansion of the model will provide multidimensional clarity and understanding that will help the next generation of clinicians adopt a transdisciplinary perspective, not merely a multidisciplinary one. Disclosure No.

Confronting Japan's Anti‐Asian Racism: The Transformation of the Beheiren Movement's Identity during the Vietnam War

This study explores the Beheiren movement (also known as The Citizens' Alliance for Peace in Vietnam), Japan's first transnational anti‐war movement (1965–1974). It focuses on the transcultural formation and transformation of its movement identity during the Vietnam war. Initially, movement participants developed an ethnoracial consciousness toward the Vietnamese based on their perceptions of a common victimization by U.S. imperialism. Yet, Beheiren leaders' transcultural interactions with both Korean detainees in the Omura Detention Facility in Japan and members of the Black Power movement in the United States helped them to develop an antiracist consciousness toward fellow Asians beyond the context of the Vietnam war. While their interactions with Korean detainees forced them to examine Japan's internal structural oppressions against fellow Asians (e.g., Korean residents in Japan) and fellow Japanese (e.g., the Okinawans), their interactions with the Black Power movement raised their awareness of antiracism and Third‐Worldism. These interactions were necessary to transforming the movement's identity, resulting in a confrontation with its own anti‐Asian racism in the local cultural context of Japanese society as well as in the form of economic imperialism in Asia.

Radical Right Popularism in Germany: AfD, Pegida and the Identitarian Movement

The current political climate appears to create accentuated divisions among various incompatible world views. In a globalized world, faster dissemination of information is much faster via social media and other sources like has never experienced before. A local incident may rapidly turned into an international crisis. For instance, a civil war in Syria now has deeply impacted the politics and social structures of many counties around the world. In this social environment tacking with various types of violent extremism and radical popularism have become increasingly challenging. These radical worldviews may be manifested in either end of the political spectrum, namely right or left, based on ethnicity or exploitation of religion. Following the terror attacks of 9/11 security services and public have focused on the threat posed by terrorist groups such as DAESH and Al-Qaeda. However, threats of violence also remain significant in the case of violent extreme right as well as left group. Challenges in tackling violent right-wind extremism is a complicated matter as they may not be seen as a significant security threat in the west. For example, despite a number of terror attacks carried by right supremacists in the USA, this group has not been listed as a terror group by the state. Also, the terror suspects are more likely to be described as mentally disturbed and disgruntled people should they be white. In other to counter violent extremism, whether based on ideology, ethnicity, or exploitation of religion, we need to systematically examine the root cause of such violent tendencies. In this regard, rising radical right popularism in the West calls for a comprehensive examination of this social movement.

(Mis)-understanding Nation and Identity: Re-imagining Sport in the Future of African Development

Athletics, its obsession and allure for economic empowerment (marathons,World Championships, Golden League track events) through skill and will,unlike any other sport in Kenya, has generated contestations in the emergenceof national identity. Thus the crisis in the body Athletics Kenya (AK), the Ministryfor Gender, Sports and Culture and among individual athletes in Kenyatoday is symbolic of the crisis of individuality, nationhood and identity in Africandevelopment. Since the ‘defection’ of Wilson Kipketer in 1998, Kenyanathletes have negotiated and have ‘run’ for citizenship in the Middle East,Europe and the United States. At stake is whether athletes, athletics, sportspolicy and the governing bodies are witnessing an evolution or devolution inautonomy especially when citizenship changes necessitate identity changes asis the case of the Qatar/Bahrain ‘defecting’ athletes. The paper presents thecase for this issue, while situating the practise of athletes ‘defecting’ within theglobal flows of movement and questions of identity.

The Changing Dynamics of Nationalism: A Reading of Select Fiction from Nepal

The monarchy, Nepali language, and Hinduism have been instrumental in the development of Nepali nationalism, and issues related to ethnicity, language, race, and region have been systematically ignored in the formation of the Nepali state. Likewise, the national literature of Nepal until the 1990s was dominated by writers from the Hindu upper caste who spoke primarily of and for the ruling class, often undermining the diversity of an otherwise heterogeneous nation. However, the political upheavals witnessed by Nepal in the 21st century have led to an upsurge of groups searching for ‘national identities’ on ethnic and regional grounds. This has also brought key changes to the literary landscape of Nepal, and contemporary writers have been increasingly drawn to the emerging new voices and identity movements aimed at questioning the prevalent notion of ‘inclusive nationalism’ with its central axis on the monarchical base and Parbatiya supremacy. Against the backdrop of a renewed debate on nationalism and the structure of the state in Nepal, this paper seeks to examine the changing dynamics of Nepali nationalism as encapsulated in contemporary fiction from Nepal. The paper examines the rising ethnocultural and regional nationalism in Nepal in two contemporary novels, Karnali Blues (2010) and The Wayward Daughter (2018), by two prominent Nepali writers, Buddhisagar Chapain and Shradha Ghale, respectively. Karnali Blues has been hailed as a pioneering work in introducing ‘new regionalism’ in the context of Nepali literature. It narrates the story of mid- and far-western Nepal and aptly captures the lives of groups belonging to the margins. Shradhe Ghale’s The Wayward Daughter focuses on a Janajati family and portrays a rich cross-section of Nepali society influenced by the lived realities of class and caste. The paper explores the diversity of life, region, and population in Nepal as depicted in both novels, thereby validating the necessity to understand Nepali nationalism in terms of region, class, religion, and ethnicity. This is also reflective of the changing narrative of Nepali nationalism.

IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENTS IN THE TOURISTIC CITY: The Marketing of Hate in Verona

AbstractVerona is known as the touristic city of Romeo and Juliet, but its position as a strategic node in the rising identitarian movement goes unnoticed to the thousands of tourists visiting the city every day. This article articulates the historical centre of Verona as a public space in which far‐right and populist right groups seek to construct an exclusionary territorial identity that draws on white supremacy, northern pride and Catholic fundamentalism, which manifest themselves in practices of bordering and territorialization. I argue that the city's perfectly preserved heritage and its assumed authenticity are not only utilized to construct the ideal protagonists of city life, but also that such territorial themes of defending the ‘native homeland’ and its traditions are marketed to the outside world by constructing a ‘model’ city for a growing transnational movement. In this study, which is based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and in‐depth interviews, I investigate the mechanisms through which certain historical centres are showcased to build an identitarian network through everyday practices of boundary‐drawing and the marketing of a territorial anti‐modernist nostalgia.

Interrogating “Marginality” in Bombay Cinema: An Exhaustive Historiography

Interrogating “Marginality” in Bombay Cinema: An Exhaustive Historiography

(492) The Sexual Tipping Point®: Why We Should Employ A “Biomedical-psychosocial & Cultural Model Versus, The Current “Bio-psychosocial” One

Abstract Introduction Healthcare professionals need to embrace the term “Biomedical-psychosocial & Cultural” to describe our model for understanding, diagnosing, and treating sexual disorders. The “Bio-psychosocial model,” widely accepted by mental health professionals, is progressively the predominant view of physicians generally. However, it is incomplete and represents an outdated over-reaction to the formerly exclusively held “Biomedical Model.” Additionally, the term “Cultural” should be added our model’s lexicon. Healthcare’s “biomedical” view of disease was upended with the publication of Engel’s (1977) “biopsychosocial model”, which emphasized multiple etiological determinants. Evidence gradually accumulated that a combined pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches were the most effective treatment for most conditions. Urologists were late to this realization, in part because of sildenafil’s successful launch (1998), which catalyzed urology’s ascendancy over other specialties (psychiatry, psychology, and gynecology) which traditionally managed sexual issues. The educational efforts of sexual medicine societies (ISSM, SMSNA, ISSWSH, etc.) in the early 21st century helped rebalance appreciation for multidisciplinary expertise and multidimensional understanding. Subsequently, most sexual medicine specialists have adopted a “bio-psychosocial model,” recognizing that sexual disorders always have a psychosocial component even when organicity is significant. But it is time to change terminology again, to incorporate “biomedical” and “cultural” to capture a better understanding of sexual disorder etiology and treatment. Why? The last 25 years have seen many significant advances in our capacity to identify biological causes/correlates (imaging, etc.) of sexual disorders. Additionally, pharmaceutical marketing success has generated the greatest levels of drug consumption in history, including drugs to improve sexual functioning. But there is an ever-increasing list of disease-treating drugs with anti-sexual side effects, which often cause/contribute to sexual disorders. Changing medication, dosing patterns or timing sometimes helps overcome negative side effects. Pro-sexual drugs (e.g., PDE5s) sometimes reverse side-effects. But iatrogenic factors’ role in sexual disorder(s) etiology is still not fully appreciated. Incorporating the term “Biomedical” back into our model’s lexicon will help enhance recognition of that reality. The need to incorporate the term “culture” within our sexuality models, is best exemplified by current discussions surrounding gender and the continuing controversy as to what constitutes “normal.” The various “identity movements,” advancements and their messaged tenants of the late 20th and early 21st century (amplified by social media), have resulted in raised international consciousness of additional psychosocial and cultural factors which should at least be considered when diagnosing and/or treating sexual disorders. The Sexual Tipping Point Model’s® (STP) dynamic framework provides for continuous and evolving evaluation which recognizes cultural context, while allowing for better formulation of needed clinical intervention(s) whether biomedical and/or psychosocial. Objective Advocating healthcare professionals adopt a “biomedical-psychosocial and cultural” model to better understand, diagnose and treat sexual disorders. Methods Literature review. Results “Bio-psychosocial” models may result in the risk of under-emphasizing biomedical and cultural factors’ role in sexual disorder etiology and treatment. Conclusions Healthcare professional nomenclature should employ “Biomedical-psychosocial & Cultural,” used by the STP as the phrase that best describes our model for understanding sexual response and for diagnosing and treating its disorders. The public could then be educated accordingly. Disclosure Any of the authors act as a consultant, employee or shareholder of an industry for: Merck, Palatin, Pfizer, Sprout.

Thicker than blood: political parties, partisanship, and the indigenous identity movement in Nepal

The Nepalese indigenous identity movement took the nation by storm during the tremulous politics of the 2000s and toppled the status quo, paving way for a series of legal changes in favour of Nepal’s many minority communities. However, the movement has suffered setbacks since 2010 as various minority communities have denounced many of its objectives, including its most prominent demand for ethnic/identity-based federalism. The study draws on empirical observations and in-depth interviews with 21 participants to examine these setbacks. The findings reveal that partisanship has played a significant role in discouraging the indigenous movement. Partisanship has an inimitable presence in many Nepalese people’s lives, as it provides emotional, ideological, and instrumental support and is a powerful source of self-esteem and self-identification. The indigenous movement, therefore, began to lose momentum when it pitched a strongly resistant partisan identity in direct opposition to the newly discovered/recovered indigenous identities.

Collective memory and trans history in the Italian context: Archival practices and the creation of the first trans archive in Italy

In recent years, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the relationship between history, memory, archiving and trans experiences. This body of work has shown how questioning the praxis of archiving from the vantage point of trans experiences has the potential to problematise cis-heteronormative assumptions around the body, time and space and to queer the epistemological premises around what constitutes archives and archival practices. In this article, we present the experience of the project ArchiviST* – Archivi Storia Trans (Trans History Archives) which aims to create the first archive exclusively dedicated to the history of trans lives and activism in contemporary Italy. The project has been promoted by Trans Identity Movement, the most influential and long-lived trans association in Italy. Since its birth in 1979, Trans Identity Movement informally collected a substantial documentary heritage concerning trans and LGBTQIA+ history as a political practice to preserve the counter-memories of its people and movements. The ArchiviST* project carries out the inventorying and digitising of the materials, together with the collection of original video-recorded interviews with pioneering activists of the trans movement. By presenting a reflection on the process of ‘reconstructing’ an archive in this context, we unpack and explore some of the key issues surrounding trans archiving and collective memories in the Italian context: what counts as collective memory? What types of relationships are established between trans memories and the documents present in the archive? What memories have (not) been told, and what voices and subjects have (not) emerged as protagonists? We encourage a reflexive attitude towards the practice of trans archiving to problematise established historiographical categories, such as time, private/public, political engagement, life history and memory and to recognise the ethical and methodological challenges that such a path poses to historiography and archive research in general.

Assamese Identity Issues: A Chapter Review of ‘India’s North-East: Identity Movements, State and Civil Society’

This commentary article discusses the chapter titled ‘Assam: Identity Movements and Insurgent Politics’ – ‘Assamese Identity Issues’ in Udayon Misra's book "India’s North East: Identity Movements, State and Civil Society" (2014), focusing on the Assam movement and its implications for Assamese identity. The author sheds light on how the movement was centered around the issues and questions between foreign migrants and indigenous people, highlighting the struggle for linguistic identity and the yearning for a unified homeland. The commentary also underscores the need for social and political cohesion, effective conflict management, and inclusive governance to ensure a peaceful resolution and foster the development of Assamese society. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the historical context, starting with rich debates spanning over many decades.

Conservative Movements and Identity Movements: An Analysis of Clashes in The Public Sphere in Contemporary Brazil

Conservative Movements and Identity Movements: An Analysis of Clashes in The Public Sphere in Contemporary Brazil

A Troll Religion

This study examines the role of internet trolls in contemporary culture. It argues that an digital culture primarily based in anonymity and defined by sadistic humor took two ideological turns. As many others have noted, troll culture has become associated with violent right-wing extremism. However, much less attention was given to Gnostic religious language and behaviors amongst internet trolls. To illustrate this change, we examine Andrew “weev” Auernheimer’s political and religious history to show that he was influenced by the Christian Identity movement, Miguel Serrano’s “Esoteric Hitlerism,” and other extremists. We then analyze the sense in which trolls have formed a community, believe the religious ideas they circulate, and how conversion occurs—how people are drawn from spaces primarily dedicated to humor into a violent esoteric ideology which I call Gnostic Neo-Nazism.

Radical conservatism and the Heideggerian right: Heidegger, de Benoist, Dugin

The paper studies the significance of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history for two key thinkers of contemporary radical conservatism and the Identitarian movement, Alain de Benoist and Aleksandr Dugin. Heidegger's often-overlooked affinities with the German “conservative revolution” of the Weimar period have in recent years been emphasized by an emerging radical-conservative “right-Heideggerian” orientation. I first discuss the later Heidegger's “being-historical” narrative of the culmination and end of the metaphysical foundations of Western modernity in the contemporary Nietzschean era of nihilism and of an emerging postmodern “other beginning” of Western thinking, focused on historical and cultural relativism and particularism. In Heidegger's work of the 1930s and 1940s, we find attempts to apply this historical narrative to interpreting contemporary geopolitical and ideological phenomena in ways that connect Heidegger to certain central ideas and concerns of the conservative revolutionaries, especially Carl Schmitt's geopolitical particularism. De Benoist, the key name of the French Nouvelle Droite and a founding figure of contemporary Identitarianism, is particularly inspired by Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche as the culmination of the “metaphysics of subjectivity” dominating Western modernity. For de Benoist, this modern metaphysics is the root of the “ideology of the Same” underlying the liberal universalism and individualism that he opposes in the name of a cultural ethnopluralism. De Benoist's Russian disciple Dugin bases the pluralistic geopolitics of his radical-conservative “fourth political theory” on the legacy of the conservative revolution, the key intellectual model of which Dugin discovers in Heidegger's notion of the “other beginning”.

‘Patriotism is not just a Man’s Thing’: Right-wing Extremist Gender Policies within the so-called Identitarian Movement

Taking an analysis of relevant statements and campaigns of the right-wing extremist group ‘Identitarian Movement’ in German-speaking countries as a starting point, this article will reconstruct their key narratives with regard to gender policy, and identify the discourses and forms of organization that are used to integrate women into the Identitarian context. An overview of the origins and characteristics of the Identitarians is followed by a classification of Identitarian gender policy into three phases: its beginning (2012–2015), its peak (2016–2018) and its demise (2019–2020). As can be seen, during the first years it had been necessary to negotiate fundamental questions of the group's gender concepts, whereas during the peak years the focus shifted to threat scenarios involving ‘our women’. At the same time, female activists started to find their own projects. Since 2019, however, the group has started to fall apart, women's issues have lost their appeal and women activists have been leaving. Notwithstanding this decline, the question still remains of what to make of the gender-political commitment of Identitarian women in the context of feminist debates.

Far-right conspiracy groups on fringe platforms: a longitudinal analysis of radicalization dynamics on Telegram

Societal crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, produce societal instability and create a fertile ground for radicalization. Extremists exploit such crises by distributing disinformation to amplify uncertainty and distrust among the public. Based on these developments, this study presents a longitudinal analysis of far-right communication on fringe platforms, demonstrating radicalization dynamics. Public Telegram communication of three movements active in Germany (QAnon, Identitarian Movement, Querdenken) was analyzed through a quantitative content analysis of 4500 messages posted to nine channels between March 2020 and February 2021. We study the movements' discourse using several indicators of radicalization dynamics. The increasing prevalence of conspiracy narratives, anti-elitism, political activism, and support for violence indicate radicalization dynamics in these movements’ online communication. However, these dynamics varied within the movements. It can be concluded that, when studying radicalization dynamics online, it is crucial to not just focus on one single indicator, but consider longitudinal changes across several indicators, ideally comparing different movements.