This article aims to analyse the history of Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (FUORI!), from 1971 to 1974. The research frames FUORI! as an attempt of community building, following ...some historiographical examples concerning the US homosexual activism. The main source was the magazine of the movement, thanks to its militant purposes, through which the imagined geography of militancy, theoretical works, gender tensions and inclusion of marginal people were observed. This analysis allowed to shape the specific features of an experience of LGBTQ+ militancy in the second half of the XX century, relating it to the political and cultural season of post 68.
Imagined Extremist Communities Sandboe, Inger Storm; Obaidi, Milan
Perspectives on terrorism (Lowell),
12/2023, Letnik:
17, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
This article introduces the concept of “imagined extremist communities,” a term that encapsulates the unique social landscape where right-wing lone actors, despite not being affiliated with organised ...groups, partake in a form of communal interaction. By examining the cases of Anders Behring Breivik, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, and Philip Manshaus, this article illuminates how group-based and lone actors are more alike than what is conventionally expressed in existing research. Although lone actors are not subject to an external command like group-based actors are, the imagined extremist community functions as a “group” for lone actors and is, for all practical purposes, a corresponding alternative to a terror cell. During the radicalisation process, these individuals seek and turn to the imagined extremist community, enabling them to form a sense of belonging and identification and underscoring that these actors, although conventionally labelled as “lone,” are immersed in an alternative culture that nurtures their ideas and sustains their extremist ideology. This becomes particularly evident through their cognitive radicalisation, a process amplified by their psychological predispositions. The concept of the imagined extremist community elucidates how lone actors, especially those embracing right-wing ideologies, are subject to radical influences. Their conservative traits and psychological dispositions make them particularly receptive to the appeal of such communities.
The conditions under which language learners speak or remain silent, when they write, read, or resist, is a passionate interest of mine that began more than two decades ago. Like many other language ...teachers and researchers, I have been entrusted over the years with the stories of language learners as they have moved from one country to another, from home to school, and from classroom to community. The learners have been of varying ages, and their stories have reflected both dreams and disappointments. As I have sought to make sense of such stories, I have had to grapple with what it means to know and teach a language, and English in particular, in our multilingual, transnational, and frequently inequitable world.
This article aims to examine the social imaginary toward nationalism from theoritical and bibliographical perspectives. Recently, there has been lack of study on imagined nationalism, after Bennedict ...Anderson had published Imagined Communities. This study by looking at social imagination and cultural memory, will describe the development of imagined nationalism in Nusantara. It will also survey several literatures on concept of nationalism in the region. It is believed that imagined nationalism in Nusantara has been influenced by many concepts from Western scholars. Thus, study on on this issue by emphasing on cultural memory is still needed. It is argued that it is necessary to conduct more research projects on imagined nationalism in Nusantara by focussing on spirit, cosmol-ogy, system of knowledge, and values among socities.
This paper concerns itself with the study of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) content on Tumblr. Adding to existing valuable studies on social media and NSSI, we contribute an anthropological ...understanding of the communal formations and relationships between people who use social media to express their thoughts and feelings about NSSI. Using online ethnography as a method, we approach our data from the perspective of someone who is new to NSSI Tumblr and is learning how to engage with other people who self-injure sharing content on the site. We argue that people who share and interact with NSSI content on Tumblr form part of imagined communities of practice, through which they create shared meaning and interpretations of their experiences. Our results suggest that Tumbleloggers who engage with NSSI content draw on a variety of communal practices and norms to create a non-judgmental space away from societal stigma. As such, future research can benefit from an approach centered around communal practices to understand how people who self-injure connect and communicate on social media.
•Ethnographic research fosters understanding of online community relationships.•‘Community of practice’ approaches center the practice to avoid value-laden labels.•Tumblr users who self-injure form ‘imagined communities of NSSI practice’.•Tumblr users who self-injure commit to making communal spaces safe and supportive.•Changing NSSI-related language reflects communal practices and challenges.
(Re)assembling Communities Harris, Oliver J. T.
Journal of archaeological method and theory,
03/2014, Letnik:
21, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article seeks to bring together studies of community from both the New and Old Worlds and examine their various strengths and weaknesses. Whilst applauding many of the recent developments, ...particularly the emphasis on communities as the outcome of practice and agency, I suggest that there are three specific difficulties present in the current studies of community: an underlying subtext which supports modern political notions of community as a timeless form of sociality; a prominent anthropocentric vision of community as the province purely of human beings; and a failure to folly embrace the role of affect and emotion. By rethinking communities as assemblages, this article seeks to build on the firm foundations constructed in the last 15 years to present new possibilities for taking this important concept forward.
This paper draws on the investigation of three memorial sites and determines that tourists articulate multiple imagined communities. Significantly, it identifies the core and common attributes of ...these imagined communities namely a consciousness of kind, horizontal ties, and moral responsibility and how tourists evoke them to make sense of the experience. Constructing imagined communities and associated meaning making also enables empathy and resolution, which is significant given the demanding and confronting nature of the subject matter projected at these sites. Imagining communities also creates a more visceral and affecting memorial experience as it contextualises meaning in a way that is highly appropriate, significant and personal. This work develops our understanding of the tourist experience by theorising the nature and role of the imagined community, and our knowledge of the memorial experience in terms of articulating how the imagining of community constitutes an important facet of this complex experience.
•A grounded theory examination of three memorial sites reveals new facets of the experience.•Tourists articulate multiple imagined communities including the global, national and local imagined communities.•These imagined communities contain core attributes that shape the memorial experience.•Imagining community enables a more meaningful and emotionally charged memorial experience.
This article considers the potential for creating new constellations of human-non-human relations in river catchment areas. It makes use of the author's ethnographic research in Australia, New ...Zealand and the UK, and engages with current debates about human and non-human rights in relation to water. Drawing on concepts of pan-species democracy, it explores how the rights and interests of diverse human groups, and non-human species, might be encompassed and approached more equitably in the decision-making processes that shape societies' engagements with water. It suggests that, with a stronger focus on equality and diversity, we can move towards more sustainable practices in interhuman and interspecies relations and address the major challenges of the current environmental crisis.
As sport has become more globalized, there has been an increase in the number of athletes who have changed their nationality to maximize their chances to compete in international competitions. In ...order to maximize its chances at its home hosted Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese government authorized many foreign-born athletes to gain Chinese citizenship to compete for China. The purpose of the study was to explore how Chinese social media users perceived athlete naturalization of Chinese athletes during the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games. Through sentiment analysis and thematic analysis, results found that Chinese spectators generally had positive emotions toward these naturalized Olympians. Online discussions mainly focused on three topics: expressing their attitudes toward athlete naturalization, questioning the legitimacy of the strategy, and discussing athletes’ heritage and cultural identities. This research hopes to broaden our understanding of the sport migrant issue in China, the perceptions of athletes who have naturalized, and the sentiments that Chinese consumers have of naturalized athletes at the Winter Olympic Games that were held in their country.
Online newspapers (and other spaces) are increasingly seeking to utilise user-generated content alongside professionally developed material. However, this might leave websites increasingly vulnerable ...to trolls, who work to disrupt online communications in online spaces. Such behaviour can have serious consequences both in peoples online and offline lives, and for the development of coherent online communities. One means of controlling is through the manipulation of the online space to create social norms of polite behaviour through the founding of ‘imagined communities’ online.
Approaching the issue from a discursive psychological perspective, this paper draws upon comments published in two online British newspaper comment sections responding to the publication of an academic article on trolling. Imagined communities are shown to arise irrespective of the presence of the virtual infrastructure to support the development of these imagined communities.
Key features of imagined communities identified here are: individuation (as opposed to deindividuation); mutual influence between posters; shared history for both the users and the online space; the use of humour to cement social bonds. Analysis also revealed tensions in posters understanding of online and offline behaviours.
This research holds implications for understanding online spaces, and the interactions between users within these spaces.
•A qualitative analysis of comments published in two British online newspapers.•Explored the emergence of imagined communities in minimal circumstances.•Posters treat each other as identifiable individuals.•Newspapers common threads are shown to share a common history.•Humour is also used to build a sense of community.
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