IDENTITY HUNTERS

Welcome,

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 & Dr Nicholas Michelsen at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

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Recent Blog Posts

“The Older, The Worthier”: National Heroes as Conduits of Ethnonational Identity

December 5, 2022

The Cyprus Problem: Fractured National Identities Struggling For Control

December 5, 2022

Andrew Tate and the Manosphere: What They Have in Common & Why it Matters

December 5, 2022

Beneath a Hyperborean Sun

November 28, 2022

The Post-Brexit Tide of British Nationalism Pulls Us Back In … A Post-Brexit Britain Has Disturbed The Waters

November 28, 2022

The Tatar Issue in Russia’s Centre of Spiritual Unity

November 28, 2022

• “The Older, The Worthier”: National Heroes as Conduits of Ethnonational IdentityDecember 5, 2022
  In this video essay, Vanesa Valcheva examines how nationalist narratives usurp convenient historical figures, mythologising them as the cannons of a specific ethnonational spirit. Through the example of Bulgarian-North Macedonian […]
• The Cyprus Problem: Fractured National Identities Struggling For ControlDecember 5, 2022
  Written by Gabriel Blondeau The Nicosia derby opposing APOEL FC and AC Ommonia; the biggest rivalry in Cypriot football, is indicative of the larger political situation plaguing the island and […]
• Andrew Tate and the Manosphere: What They Have in Common & Why it MattersDecember 5, 2022
  Written by David Williams Andrew Tate – Chances are if you’re under 35 and not living under a rock, you will have come across this name. The Times reported that […]
• Beneath a Hyperborean SunNovember 28, 2022
  Written by: Thomas Rawson Alt-right nationalism sits in the centre of a flat world populated by ancient aliens, devil worshipping political elites, all underpinned by esoteric theories and speculation. The link […]
• The Post-Brexit Tide of British Nationalism Pulls Us Back In … A Post-Brexit Britain Has Disturbed The WatersNovember 28, 2022
  Written by: Louis Rawlinson On the 6th May 2021, the waters around the Channel Islands bore witness to a display of Anglo-French rivalry, and the crash and roar of British and French […]
• The Tatar Issue in Russia’s Centre of Spiritual UnityNovember 28, 2022
  Written by: Miriam Yakobashvili Crimea, Russia’s “centre of spiritual unity,” as claimed by Putin, has been inhabited by the Crimean Tatars for centuries. The ethnic group has lived on the peninsula throughout the […]