scholarly journals Does the concept of genetic ancestry reinforce racism?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Stefan Burmeister
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Genetic Ancestry ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Identity Discourses ◽  
Problematic Identity

Genetic ancestry is seen as an alternative to the problematic concept of race and is positioned against abusive racist and nationalist perspectives. The concept of genetic ancestry is nevertheless not free of racial categorizations. Increasingly, it is becoming an integral part of identity politics. Genetic ancestry is promoted as a way to give identity and visibility to marginalized groups but is also rejected as a form of biocolonialism. In xenophobic and racist discourses of right-wing groups, the concept has found fertile ground. The field of genetics is partly to blame for this since it opens the door to problematic identity discourses through a careless use of archaeological, ethnic, and genetic categories.

Gothic Comedy

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Catherine Spooner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Romantic Comedy ◽  
Significant Function ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
The Family ◽  
Twenty First Century

Comedy has become an increasingly prevalent feature of Gothic in the twenty-first century, and thus Gothic comedy can be found across a multitude of media. This chapter surveys the kinds of comedy that appear in contemporary Gothic (such as sitcom, stand-up, romantic comedy, mock-documentary) and argues that, in the twenty-first century, Gothic comedy often functions to travesty culturally significant concepts of family, domesticity and childhood in the light of a liberal identity politics. Beginning with twentieth-century precedents such as television sitcom The Addams Family (1964–6) and Edward Gorey’s illustrations, the chapter analyses a range of contemporary texts including The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017), Corpse Bride (2005), Ruby Gloom (2006–8),Hotel Transylvania (2012) and What We Do in the Shadows (2014). It concludes that far from being frivolous or disposable, contemporary Gothic comedy forms a politically significant function in its tendency to undermine right-wing ideologies of the family and promote a celebratory politics of difference and inclusion.

Language, Citizenship, and the “Model Minority Myth”

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-241
Author(s):  
Zevi Gutfreund
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The Self ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Language Minorities

Noting that the image of Japanese Americans as a “model minority” reflected a conservative vision of citizenship that excluded other racial and foreign language minorities from civic participation, this article traces the careers of California’s two most prominent Nisei of the postwar period, Judge John Aiso and Senator S. I. Hayakawa. Both of them established careers based on language arts. Although Aiso had experienced a multiculturalist background and Hayakawa an assimilationist education, both voiced right-wing opposition to bilingual education and racial identity politics by citing the self-achievements of Japanese Americans.

scholarly journals How Labor Market Inequality Transforms Mass Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-355
Author(s):  
Silja Häusermann ◽  
Achim Kemmerling ◽  
David Rueda
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
Labor Market Inequality

AbstractWhy do left parties lose vote shares in times of economic crisis and hardship? Why do right-wing governments implement seemingly left-wing policies, such as labor market activation? Why is representation becoming more and more unequal? And why do workers vote for right-wing populist parties? Several political science theories propose meaningful and important answers to these key questions for comparative politics, focusing on identity politics, programmatic convergence of parties or exogenous constraints. However, there is an additional and distinct approach to all of the questions above, which emphasizes socio-structural transformations in the labor market: most of the processes above can be understood with reference to increasing labor market inequality and its political implications. The relevance and explanatory power of labor market inequality for mass politics have not been fully acknowledged in comparative political science and this is the reason for this symposium. Labor market inequality affects political preferences and behavior, electoral politics, representation, and government strategies. The main purpose of our symposium is to make broader comparative politics research aware of the crucial structural changes that labor markets have undergone in the advanced capitalist democracies of the OECD, and of the tremendous implications these changes have had for politics.

scholarly journals Information disorder, the Triumvirate, and COVID-19: How media outlets, foreign state intrusion, and the far-right diaspora drive the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-45
Author(s):  
Aman Bajwa
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Information Operations ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Vaccine Debate

Information disorder has become an increasing concern in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election. With the state of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly evolving in all facets, the vaccination debate has become increasingly polarized and subjected to a form of politics based around identity markers such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, and ideology. At the forefront of this is the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement that has gained mainstream attention, leading to conflict with pro-vaccinationists. This has paved the way for exploitation by subversive elements such as, foreign state-backed disinformation campaigns, alternative news outlets, and right-wing influencers who spread false and misleading information, or disinformation, on COVID-19 in order to promote polarization of the vaccine debate through identity politics. Disinformation spread sows confusion and disorder, leading to the erosion of social cohesion as well as the potential for real-world conflict and violence. As a result, the article below will generate further understanding of the modern-day spread of disinformation, the strategies and tactics utilized by state and non-state actors, the effects of its exposure, and the social-psychological processes involved in its spread and resonance. Furthermore, in countering this phenomenon, this article recommends a collaborative framework involving emphasis on critical media literacy skills, citizen participation, and development of counter-offensive capabilities towards state-backed information operations.

scholarly journals MENGUATNYA POLITIK IDENTITAS DI INDONESIA BAIK KARENA FAKTOR AGAMA, SOSIAL, DAN ETNIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Widya Wati
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
New Period

AbstrakArtikel ini menjelaskan tentang beberapa identitas nasional  yang memiliki gambaran yang membahas tentang poliik dan etnis. Pembahasan ini fokus pada dasar membedakan jurnal ini dengan sekripi atau karya tulis yang sepadan. Sekripsi atau jurnal yang membahas tentang identitas poitik banyak yang ikut serta dalam agama dan sekelompok marginal walaupun juga banyak terdapat masalah identitas politik dan etnis yang memiliki tekanan yang lebih pada identitas politik. Pada era reformasi , terdapat partisipasi puplik yang semakin meluas dan bebas,di dalam penguatan identitas politik terdapat masalah baru yang hadir. Identitas politik di Indonesia menjadi lebih kuat dan menjadi pilar atas bergulirnya demokratisasi. setelah selesai mengkaji dan juga menganalisis data, maka dari itu jurnal ini telah berhasil dalam mendapatkan hal-hal yang saling berkesinambungan dengan adanya penguat dalam identitas politik dan etnis di Indonesia setelah adanya periode baru yang kontribusi antara beberapa pihak memiliki pengaruh, yang terdiri dari kekuatan modal sosial yang telah di miliki etnis. Di lihat secara eksklusif dalam mendapatkan suatu tempat yang strategis dalan suatu politik baik formal ataupun secara tidak formal.Kata Kunci : Politik Identitas, Agama, Sosial, dan Etnis.AbstractThis article  describes several national lidentities that have an overview that discusses politics and ethnicity. This discussion focuses on the basis for distinguishing this journal from similar or equivalent papers. Many secretaries or journals that discuss political identity participate in religion and marginalized groups, although there are also many issues of political and ethnic identity that have more emphasis on political identity. In the reform era, there was widespread and free public participation. In strengthening political identity, new problems were present. Political identity in Indonesia has become stronger and has become a pillar for the rolling of democratization. After completing reviewing and analizing data, this journal has therefore succeeded in obtaining mutually  sustainable matters with the strengthening of political and ethnic identities in Indonesia after a new period in which contributions between several parties have had an influence, which consist of the power of capital sosial ethnic. Seen exclusively in getting a strategic place in a politics, either formal or informal.Keywords: Identity Politics, Religion, Social, and Ethnicity.

Hip Hop as Public Pedagogy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra D'Urso
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter is a contribution to the literatures on hip hop and identity politics among two rappers of color in Scandinavia. Locating the artists’ pedagogical practices within global flows of resistance in hip hop culture, the concept of public pedagogy is employed for analyzing how these artists use hip hop as a medium for education and activism outside of formal educational institutions. The analysis focuses on counter-hegemonic representations of identity in the music of Adam Tensta and Eboi. The author argues that the two artists have situated themselves as public pedagogues and catalysts for social change and that they have confront right-wing populism and deconstruct Nordic notions of Otherness in their music In doing so, the artists provide nuanced counter-narratives that share insight into how global struggles for resources and neoliberal policies in the welfare state are brought to bear upon individuals living in the Nordic countries.

The Alt-Right

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Conservative Movement ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Clear Explanation ◽  
Racial Polarization

In recent years, the so-called Alt-Right, a white nationalist movement, has grown at an alarming rate. Taking advantage of high levels of racial polarization, the Alt-Right seeks to normalize explicit white identity politics. Growing from a marginalized and disorganized group of Internet trolls and propagandists, the Alt-Right became one of the major news stories of the 2016 presidential election. Discussions of the Alt-Right are now a regular part of political discourse in the United States and beyond. In The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know® , George Hawley, one of the world's leading experts on the conservative movement and right-wing radicalism, provides a clear explanation of the ideas, tactics, history, and prominent figures of one of the most disturbing movements in America today. Although it presents itself as a new phenomenon, the Alt-Right is just the latest iteration of a longstanding radical right-wing political tradition. The Alt-Right represents a genuine challenge to pluralistic liberal democracy, but its size and influence are often exaggerated. Whether intentionally or not, President Donald Trump energized the Alt-Right in 2016, yet conflating Trump's variety of right-wing politics with the Alt-Right causes many observers to both overestimate the Alt-Right's size and downplay its radicalism. Hawley provides a tour of the contemporary radical right, and explains how it differs from more mainstream varieties of conservatism. In dispassionate and accessible language, he orients readers to this disruptive and potentially dangerous political moment.

scholarly journals New Nationalisms and Identity Politics: Minorities, Majorities and Universal Emancipation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Viacheslav Morozov
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Minority Protection ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Question Today ◽  
Political Question ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

A defining feature of new nationalisms, with their right-wing populist rhetoric, is the way they exploit the regime of truth prevalent in liberal democratic societies. Their use of the language of democracy, human rights and identity is sometimes hard to differentiate from the mainstream convention. Despite being majoritarian in the way it seeks democratic legitimacy, new nationalist discourse consistently advances demands framed in terms of minority protection. This is done by presenting the existence of ‘our’ nation as threatened by overwhelming forces of neo-liberal globalisation (embodied in the EU, the West or even in ‘the Washington establishment’). By using the Pussy Riot case as an empirical example, this article argues that there is no way of preventing the language of minority protection from being hijacked by ‘predatory identities’ unless one foregrounds the universal dimension of equality and emancipation, as opposed to rights and entitlements associated with particular identities. The key political question today, as always, is how to navigate between the totalitarian disregard of the local and the parochialist concentration on the particular.

The Mediatization and Culturalization of Populist Political Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Milena Dragićević Šešić ◽  
Mirjana Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Market Liberalisation ◽  
The Impact

Researching the impact of populist political communication on media, art, and the cultural sphere in Serbia, the authors investigate various different phenomena that are rising under the pretext of market liberalisation and identity politics. Deregulation of media may have brought “independence” from power, but also complete market-dependence. In the cultural sphere, pressures on the arts from right-wing populism have lead to extreme nationalism in Serbian media and cultural practices while simulta-neously seeing a commercialisation of programming. “National discussions” regarding the status of real-ity show programmes on commercial television and accusations of anti-patriotism against most promi-nent Serbian artists have been lead by right-wing populists. At the same time, this research takes into account several forms of left-wing populism, mostly developed within the independent scene.

scholarly journals Das Massaker von Paris

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (178) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alp Kayserilioğlu ◽  
Dorothea Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

In the light of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, this essay seeks to analyse and understand the objective conditions and power relations within the capitalist world system as they have unfolded since the end of the Soviet Union. Its specific point is to understand the role of the leading strategies and practices of imperialism and of socalled „political Islam“within these conditions and power relations. The main strategies aim at fostering bonapartist, fascist and right-wing ideologies at home, in the dominant imperialist countries that is, and structurally reactionary/„Islamist“ ideologies in the periphery to, both, strengthen the leading factions of capital in the imperialist centres. The essay claims that the only viable option for the left is to remain independent of and in active opposition to the strategies of imperialism. Furthermore the left will have to take up the fight against creatures such as the Islamic State that were provided a fertile ground and nurtured by imperialism. It also concludes that the left has to defend and engage its own independent democratic and socialist perspective countering both the powers of imperialism in the centres and reaction in the periphery.

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