Identity Hunters

Welcome to Identity Hunters

This project is about understanding 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 3rd-year class 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

• Podcast: Raceless nationalism in Cuba: origins, evolutions, limitationsNovember 29, 2021
  Interested in the role of blackness in creating a raceless identity in Cuba? Listen to the podcast by Marta Navarro and Charlotte Bascaule! This podcast is meant for non-commercial educational […]
• An ideology of desire: Orwell’s ‘Notes on nationalism’November 29, 2021
  Written by: Thomas Bouzereau and Pauline Darrieus ‘The very concept of objective truth is fading in the world… This prospect frightens me much more than bombs’, George Orwell says in […]
• The legacy of French colonialism, and the problematic case of New CaledoniaNovember 24, 2021
  Written by: Erell Mourouga One of the latest and furthest territories to integrate metropolitan France and most fractured politically, New-Caledonia is at the dawn of a third and final independence […]
• Industrialized Singapore or ‘Singaporean’ for Industrialization?November 22, 2021
  Written by: Kotono Sagane “Singapore you are not my country. Singapore you are not a country at all. You are surprising Singapore, statistics-starved Singapore, soulful Singapore of tourist brochures in […]
• Szukalski’s legacyNovember 16, 2021
  Written by: Roger Creus Vila How are the Polish far-right, Slavic neopagans and Leonardo DiCaprio related? This article will explore the interaction between art and politics as set by the […]
• Architecture and ideology: modernity as a Fascist endeavour in Il Foro MussoliniNovember 16, 2021
  Written by: Thomas Bouzereau and Pauline Darrieus In recent years, Fascist architecture has taken an increasingly important place among the Italian public debate, for being omnipresent yet unnoticed. It is […]