Identities
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Working Group Conception
The “Identities” working group explores the crafting and popularizing of civilizationalist identities and forms of social belonging through media, popular culture, heritage and historiography projects, academic and para-academic publications and innovations; troll armies, the proliferation of diasporic organizations; the promotion of civilizational identities and loyalties; the production of (mis) information on an industrial scale across various sectors of the internet.
Reading List
- Blackburn, Matthew. 2022. “The Persistence of the Civic–Ethnic Binary: Competing Visions of the Nation and Civilization in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.” National Identities 24 (5): 461–80.
- Cerrone, Joseph. 2023. “Reconciling National and Supranational Identities: Civilizationism in European Far-Right Discourse.” Perspectives on Politics 21 (3): 951–66.
- Durdiyeva, Selbi. 2023. “‘Not in Our Name:’ Why Russia Is Not a Decolonial Ally or the Dark Side of Civilizational Communism and Imperialism” The SAIS Review of International Affairs, May 29, 2023.
- Hale, Henry E., and Marlene Laruelle. 2021. “A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics.” Nationalities Papers 49 (4): 597–608.
- Katzenstein, Peter J.. 2009. Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives. Routledge.
- Wang, Ban, ed. 2017. Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Zhang, Weiwei. 2012. The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State. World Century Publishing Corporation.
- The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History. Harvard University Press, 2017.