Identity capital and Biafra activism in Southeast Nigeria

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

NATIONAL IDENTITIES Pub Date : 2022-05-31 DOI:10.1080/14608944.2022.2055535

S. Atata, A. O. Omobowale

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Identity capital entails the use of identity as an asset in achieving a set goal. It demonstrates a wider in-group identity spurred by social resource mobilization, identity cohesion, and social development. This article queries why identity is used as a capital to advance Biafra activism in Southeast Nigeria. Identity capital theorizes the adoption of Biafra identity as an asset to create in-group identification to foster social cohesion for the advancement of Biafra agitation. Using a secondary source of data collection and content analysis, this study reveals that Biafra identity is used to sustain Biafra activism among the Igbo in Nigeria.

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身份资本与尼日利亚东南部的比夫拉激进主义

身份资本是指将身份作为一种资产来实现既定目标。它展示了社会资源调动、身份凝聚力和社会发展所激发的更广泛的群体内身份。这篇文章质疑为什么身份被用作推动尼日利亚东南部比亚夫拉激进主义的资本。身份资本理论上认为，采用比亚夫拉身份作为一种资产，以创造群体内的身份认同，从而培养社会凝聚力，促进比亚夫拉的煽动。本研究使用数据收集和内容分析的第二来源，揭示了比亚夫拉身份被用来维持尼日利亚伊博人中的比亚夫拉激进主义。

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NATIONAL IDENTITIES POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other" etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of "nation"in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach.