“We Are Jewish and We Want to Help You”: Righteous Cross-Group Solidarity Toward Muslim Refugees in Vienna

The Berlin Wall came down on 9 November 1989 and marked the end of the Cold War. As old antagonisms thawed a new landscape emerged of unification and tolerance. Censorship was no longer the principal means of ensuring group solidarity. The crumbling bricks brought not only freedom of movement but freedom of thought. Now, nearly thirty years later, globalisation has created a new balance of power, disrupting borders and economies across the world. The groups that thought they were in power no longer have much of a say and are anxious about their future. As protest grows, we are beginning to see that the old antagonisms have not disappeared but are, in fact, resurfacing. This article will start by looking at the dissembling of a marriage in which the wall that had peacefully maintained coexistence disintegrates and leads to a psychic development that uncannily mirrors that of populism today. The individual vignette leads to a broader psychological understanding of the totalitarian dynamic that underlies populism and threatens once again to imprison us within its walls.

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Addressing Military Sexual Violence by Proposing a Social Media Influencer Model

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x21994065 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0306624X2199406

Author(s):

Roberto Cancio

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Social Media ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Military Leaders ◽

Group Solidarity ◽

Central Values ◽

Reference Sections ◽

Media Intervention ◽

Present Systematic Review

Military sexual violence (MSV) is a prevalent issue that uniquely affects mission readiness. Although research on MSV and social media is growing, examinations of possible interventions like those employing social media in this population are scant. Given the growing interest in targeting MSV, the present systematic review was conducted. The PRISMA framework was used to conduct a systematic review of MSV and social media ( N = 71). Queries were limited to articles published between 2010 and 2020. SAGE Journals, PubMed, and JSTOR were utilized. Terms and potential combinations were entered into the databases in varying Boolean combinations. Additional recorders were identified for inclusion via the reference sections of relevant records. After removing duplicates from the query results, we selected records of suspected relevance by title and screened abstracts. Finally, articles with relevant abstracts were reviewed thoroughly to determine whether they met inclusion criteria for the review. The employments of military leaders in a social media intervention puts into practice the military’s central values and development of its leadership core. This intervention promotes group solidarity while maximizing conversations around meaningful messages. Findings in this review suggest military leaders could feasibly employ a cost-effective global intervention using social media, as a tool to help actively address MSV.

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Working Less, Not More in a Workfare Programme: Group Solidarity, Informal Norms and Alternative Value Systems Amongst Activated Participants

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279421000301 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

LASSE SCHMIDT HANSEN ◽

MATHIAS HERUP NIELSEN

Keyword(s):

Lived Experiences ◽

Political Rhetoric ◽

Welfare Recipients ◽

Value Systems ◽

The Political ◽

Modus Operandi ◽

Apparent Paradox ◽

Group Solidarity ◽

Manual Labour ◽

Informal Regulation

Abstract This article uses extensive ethnographic methods to explore the lived reality of a Danish workfare programme. The programme requires social assistance recipients to perform manual labour for their benefits at municipal work sites. The contrast between the political rhetoric that justifies the workfare programme and the lived reality of it is striking. While the programme is justified as a means to put the passive unemployed to work, there is a norm of working less, not more at the site. The participants spend most of their time waiting or conducting seemingly meaningless work assignments. However, over time, the majority of the participants begin to embrace this modus operandi at the site. This article answers this apparent paradox by turning to concepts from the anthropology of industrial work. Such concepts allow us to analyse how camaraderie exists amongst participants as well as work supervisors at the site. Particularly, the camaraderie is based on group solidarity, an informal regulation of work efficiency and an alternative system of value. Hereby, the article adds to previous findings on the ‘lived experiences’ of welfare recipients.

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PENERIMAAN DAN PENOLAKAN ISLAM NUSANTARA DI KALANGAN ULAMA KOTA PALEMBANG

Khazanah : Jurnal Sejarah dan Kebudayaan Islam ◽

10.15548/khazanah.v10i2.369 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 187-196

Author(s):

Muhamad Harun

Keyword(s):

Group Solidarity ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Descriptive Approach

This article takes a focus on the acceptance and rejection of Nusantara Islam among the Ulama of Palembang City. The background of this article is the socio-religious phenomenon seen in the Ulama of Palembang City showing different variants and expressions in addressing the term of Islam in Nusantara. A qualitative descriptive approach is used to answer the two questions raised in this article. First, what is the motive for the rejection of Nusantara Islam among the ulama of Palembang City, and second, what is the motive for the acceptance of Nusantara Islam among the ulama of Palembang City? The author found that knowledge, experience, and interests were motives for the rejection of Nusantara Islam among the old Palembang. Meanwhile, the motives for acceptance of Nusantara Islam among the Palembang Ulama include incentives, group solidarity, learning, and compulsion.

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An Ethic of Care: A Valuable Political Tool?

Politics ◽

10.1111/1467-9256.00029 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 17-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Janice McLaughlin

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Political Action ◽

Ethic Of Care ◽

Group Solidarity ◽

The Public ◽

Moral Position ◽

The Public Sphere

Since Gilligan first interpreted women's moral position as an ethic of care, feminists have wondered what this means for political action. While some view it as a way of introducing forms of understanding and appreciation which are missing in the public sphere, others have worried about the universalisation and romanticization of women's abilities which it appears to contain. This paper argues that interpretations of an ethic of care which are situated in resistance and which conceptualise its abilities as the skills of subordinated groups can hold out visions of group solidarity of benefit to politics.

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Ethnicity, Democratization, and Political Dramas: Insights into Ethnic Politics in Mauritania

African Issues ◽

10.1017/s1548450500006168 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 29 (1-2) ◽

pp. 26-30

Author(s):

Cédric Jourde

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Differences ◽

Ethnic Politics ◽

Party Politics ◽

Ethnic Violence ◽

Political Regime ◽

Ethnic Communities ◽

Political Arena ◽

Group Solidarity ◽

Ethnic Tensions ◽

Political Struggles

Since the establishment of party politics in colonial Mauritania, and especially since independence in 1960, the Mauritanian political arena has been marked by ethnic tensions. The best example is certainly the ethnic violence that occurred at the end of the 1980s between the Arab-Berbers (Bidhan) and the “Black Africans.” But in Mauritania, as in other countries marked by ethnic tensions and conflicts, it would be an analytical mistake to overlook other forms of group solidarity and other forms of conflict. Often, tensions based on ethnic differences unfold in conjunction with political struggles within ethnic communities, with accommodation across ethnic boundaries, and with debates about the type of political regime. These dynamics must be taken into account if we are to understand the significance of ethnicity as a political variable.

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