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This project aims to investigate and understand how identity and difference are politicised by nationalist politics. We hunt the instances when identity is made and politicised, we are identity hunters.
This website is a platform for the public, students, and academics to engage with one another and explore the challenges of understanding and fighting nationalist politics. It is administered by students of A History of Nations, Nationalism and Theories of the State, a third year module taught by Dr Pablo de Orellana at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Recent Blog Posts
- The Identity Hunters PodcastWe are launching a new podcast! Launched by former students of the nationalism module, this podcast continues our mission: to track how identity is constructed, politicised, and contested, though this… Read more: The Identity Hunters Podcast
- Immortal life through DeathBy Zayd Riaz “Martyrdom is a divine gift to the chosen ones. The magnificence of this lofty position is proportional to the grandeur of the sacrosanct self-sacrifice which draws the… Read more: Immortal life through Death
- Roestigraben: Beyond the Romand/Alemannic DivideThe Author has requested to remain anonymous. Roestis are a dish made from grated potatoes that are fried in a pan and often served as a pancake. The dish originates… Read more: Roestigraben: Beyond the Romand/Alemannic Divide
- The Red Scare and Ontological SecurityBy Zayd Riaz In order to reap change within a society, you create a rhetoric that threatens the very thing that keep the people alive and stable: their identity. The… Read more: The Red Scare and Ontological Security
- The ‘Cuck’ as Symbolic of Modern White Nationalist Movements“If a man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.” Immanuel Kant, quoted in the movie Cuck (2019) The evolution of the ‘cuck’ trope … Read more: The ‘Cuck’ as Symbolic of Modern White Nationalist Movements
- From Fellowship to Fascism? Tolkien, Nationalism, and the Politics of Literary AppropriationBy Eliot Tomlinson Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings have inspired many generations, uniting readers in a shared love for epic storytelling and mythological settings. It promotes empathetical values through the union… Read more: From Fellowship to Fascism? Tolkien, Nationalism, and the Politics of Literary Appropriation
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