identitarianism

plural identitarianisms

1. countableuncountablehuman sciencesPolitics based on social identity.

   "The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)

   Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large, 1943, e.g.

   1. capitalizedcountableoftenuncountablegovernmentA far-right political movement and philosophy that seeks to preserve European ethnic and cultural identity against the perceived threats of immigration, Islam, and globalization.

      Needless to add, this augurs badly for the future of the GRECE’s identitarianism, for it now tacitly acknowledges the right of non-Europeans to occupy and partition European lands.

      2004, Michael O'Meara, New Culture, New Right: Anti-liberalism in Postmodern Europe, page 78

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      Identitarianism is probably the most well-known of these ‘new’ ideologies, despite its fairly recent emergence on the political scene. Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).

      2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN

      While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.

      2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe set of ideas arising from an ontology of identity.

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of identitarianism (“far-right political movement and philosophy”).