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{"title":"Engineering indigenous identity: the construction of an authentic Sámi","authors":"L. Zini","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2186846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2186846","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article wishes to contribute to the study of indigenous identity by focusing on the role of the modern industrial state of the nineteenth century as a powerful and enduring agent that ‘makes, owns, and uses’ indigenous identity through the application of targeted artificial ascriptions. These ascriptions are the result of processes of legal reclassification and mechanisms of legal othering and legal authentication, which remaps indigenous belonging and sense of self. To this end, the article steps away from the typologies of indigenous identity as being exclusively a product of ancestral ties, territoriality, group belonging, and self-identification – and thus indigenous agency. The essay problematizes these conceptualizations and looks at the indigenous Sámi people of Sweden as an illustration. A number of key legislations and documents are used to expose how the state in Sweden reconstructed the local indigenous population into a de jure bona fide, or authentic, Sámi. These legal reclassifications progressively transformed the Sámi people's customary rights to fit the state's narrative within a discourse of nineteenth century modern industrial state consolidation, resulting in the control, reduction, legal dissimilation and assimilation of the Sámi into the greater society and state project.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47410771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Black Tax and coloniality – re-interpretation, emancipation, and alienation","authors":"Annalena Oppel","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2188183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2188183","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explores the complex experiences of Black Tax in contemporary South Africa. It specifically seeks to understand whether Black Tax as a form of cultural re-interpretation of Ubuntu philosophy can be seen as a form of cultural emancipation or alienation. Black Tax is a colloquial term that describes experiences of family support in Southern Africa and thus in a highly unequal and formerly colonized context. By combining a theoretical lens of coloniality with omnivorousness, it draws out particular perspectives across the relationship between culture and power by drawing out three domains: ‘the traditional’, ‘the modern’, and ‘the navigation across’. The debate is informed by 26 essays written by South Africans on the subject matter. It highlights inequality as an internal conflict when navigating processes of emancipation and assimilation from African to Western values within the intimate space of family relationships. In that, it shows the lived reality and complexity when individuals negotiate their positionality, practice, and belonging. More broadly, it further proposes that contemporary political stances on capitalism and socialism remain colonial, thereby overlooking moral theories and philosophies from contexts of the global South.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41881900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Motivated ignorance and social identity threat: the case of the Flat Earth","authors":"Ians . Jones, A. Adams, J. Mayoh","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2208033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2208033","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Belief in a conspiracy theory may, for some, provide a social identity. Because of the nature of many conspiracy theories, social identities associated with such beliefs may be subject to varied and considerable threats. Whilst various mechanisms for dealing with social identity threat have received widespread attention, this paper introduces an as yet unexplored strategy – that of ‘motivated ignorance' – as a further mechanism for social identity maintenance. This is a behavior where individuals actively avoid freely available and accessible information in order to protect a social identity from information that may be harmful to the existence of the broader social group, and thus the individual’s own sense of self. Using a netnographic approach, we explored motivated ignorance related to the social identities formed around beliefs in the Flat Earth. Data revealed two categories of motivated ignorance. Firstly, that of ‘poisoning the well', where ignorance was justified by derogating the perceived epistemic quality of the information. The second was more instrumental, through ad hominem attacks on the source rather than the epistemic quality of information. The study suggests that motivated ignorance may be used as a strategy that may be used to protect social identities that are under threat, adding a further mechanism to the literature on coping with social identity threat.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49402981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land: envisioning nation as a polycultural community","authors":"Jagdish Gupta, S. Malik","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2187367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2187367","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper proposes to examine Gish Jen’s novel Mona in the Promised Land from polycultural/transcultural perspective. Polyculturalism dismisses the notion that individuals’ relationships to cultures are categorical and proposes that they are rather partial and plural; that cultural traditions are not independent, sui generis lineages but rather interacting systems is another assumption of the framework. Individuals are open to influences from multiple cultures and thereby become conduits through which cultures can affect each other. A polyculturalist rubric provides a better understanding of multiple cultural identities in literary works. Moreover, the concept brings into sharp focus how cultures are changed by contact with other cultures, enabling richer psychological theories of intercultural influence. Although polyculturalism and transculturalism provide an alternative framework to traditional paradigms, this is not to lose sight of the fact that they are extensions and improvements on colorblindness and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism has had its own history of reinventions from exclusionary multiculturalism to liberal multiracialism, critical multiracialism etc. that sought to supplement its limitations. The paper examines, with reference to Mona in the Promised Land, how different scientific paradigms about culture proffer different ideologies and policies and how polyculturalism or transculturalism with their policy of interculturalism provide a valuable complement to the traditional ideologies of colorblindness and multiculturalism.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Covid-19, communalism, and Islamophobia: India facing the disease","authors":"Silvia Tieri, A. Ranjan","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2207460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2207460","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 As threats to human security, epidemics cause fear and anxiety, thus generating conspiracy theories, fake news, and discrimination. In 2020, the most widespread xenophobic reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic was Sinophobia. In comparison, India’s response to the pandemic was both conventional and exceptional. Like other countries, India recorded a surge in Sinophobia; but –remarkably– in Islamophobia too. Turning to both history and theory, this paper investigates how Coronavirus got transformed into a ‘Muslim disease’ and connected to narratives of holy war and Islamization (‘Corona Jihad’). We contextualize the 2020 Covid-related Islamophobic wave within a longer process of demonization of the Muslim that is catalysed by the beliefs and policies of Hindu nationalism. In light of Muslims’ continuing relegation to the fringe of the Indian body-politic, we propose an interpretation of the 2020 disease-induced Islamophobia as scapegoating, based on René Girard’s mimetic theory. In conclusion, the case of Covid-19 in India confirms that in divided societies collective threats like epidemics are likely to exacerbate already existing forms of discrimination rooted in the society’s mainstream memory and norms, and highlights the role of beliefs in mediating between threat and violence. This case study also highlights the deep penetration of communal discourse in India’s everydayness and its far-reaching implications.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45845087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Baro Tumsa's contributions to the Oromo national movement","authors":"Asafa Jalata","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2208036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2208036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The article examines the political and intellectual contributions of Baro Tumsa in forming the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and developing the Oromo national movement. After the Haile Selassie government banned the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA) in 1967 and killed or imprisoned its prominent leaders and members, Baro played a central role in the Oromo national struggle facilitating the birth of the OLF. This organization has been mobilizing and leading the Oromo society since the 1970s and is becoming a major political force in shaping the future of Oromia and Ethiopia.","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42489242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The next big thing – artificial intelligence","authors":"P. Ahluwalia, Toby Miller","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2236372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2236372","url":null,"abstract":"The Next Big Thing has arrived – artificial intelligence (AI). But there is nothing new about AI – it has been part of everything from credit checks to customer ordering to citizen surveillance for a long time. For example, AI first ‘wrote’ a sports story in 2009, which became a model for the machinery’s extension into other culture industries (Brambilla Hall, 2018). The Los Angeles Times has had a Quakebot since 2014 that connects instantly to the newsroom with a story when a serious tremor is sensed in the Southland by the nation’s Geological Survey. Following a quick check of this draft by the human on duty, the story is published. Information on the system is catalogued under ‘people’ by the paper. There are utopic and dystopic components to the discourse of artificial intelligence. It is seen as a force disrupting the clientelismo that has dogged much of the world. Large sets of machine-collated and -sifted data have exposed international ruling-class concealment of wealth and influence, sorting different forms of oligarchic malfeasance so reporters can make sense of them (Broussard, 2018, pp. 44–46). There is a grand future for such work. Interlocking directorates and oligarchical tendencies mean that Colombia, for example, is normally run by politicians with significant media interests. The prospect of instant, unedited, on-line access to their activity has excited many (Montaña, 2014). In Brazil, Aos Fatos used the bot Fátima to counter fascist lies during the 2022 Presidential election, and some journalists find automated fact-checking improves their work experience (Johnson, 2023; Manfredi Sánchez & Ufarte-Ruiz, 2020). It is also claimed that AI can prevent mass violence by alerting activists and authorities in ‘real time’ to its occurrence and establishing whether the testimony of eyewitnesses is part of a pattern (Yankoski et al., 2021). The World Economic Forum and Reuters even see AI as a key riposte to climate change (Neslen, 2021). UN agencies collude in these unsubstantiated claims via ‘AI for the Planet’. Needless to say, public relations agencies have been major players in this mythology, planting stories around the globe (Bourne, 2019). Meanwhile, AI agents have untold negative impacts on the climate, thanks to their gigantic carbon footprints (Heikkilä, 2022; Jones, 2018; Lacoste et al., 2019; Strubell et al., 2019). More prosaically than the idea of salvation from climate change, Bayerischer Rundfunk deploys the machinery to moderate online comments. The Associated Press generates shot lists to organize a bibliography of its video holdings (‘Artificial Intelligence is Remixing’, 2023). Such uses of the technology may appear quite mundane, but they have serious implications for the quality of work and the labor process alike. For example, Dataminr®’s ‘AI for Modern Newsrooms’ is favored by more than 650 news desks worldwide. It promises ‘the earliest possible indications of breaking news’, ensuring journalists will ‘gain an e","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48383617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities","authors":"Muhammad Imran, N. Almusharraf","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2194625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2194625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41534784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why journalism?","authors":"P. Ahluwalia, Toby Miller","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2023.2193474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2023.2193474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48043979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A short philosophical guide to the fallacies of love","authors":"Suman S. Shanker","doi":"10.1080/13504630.2022.2150608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2022.2150608","url":null,"abstract":"Love, as the most intense and pervasive of human feelings, cannot deny in it the existence of love beliefs, that is, beliefs about one’s own love and that of the others’ love, thereby rendering the imagination of a loveless world impossible. This book, the authors clarify, originates in a series of discussions surrounding the illusions in love in their own lives and that of their friends. These conversations are given a theoretical form in this book as an epistemology of love. The authors thereby introduce this epistemology of love as a reflection on the groundedness of love beliefs, focusing mainly on the kind of love that is not grounded. The illustration of this takes the form of sketches of fictional characters derived from authors’ own friends, fables, myths, and everyday stereotypical situations to a large extent. The first chapter begins by introducing the book’s premise based on eros, which is romantic love characterized by passion and desire for a lover, distinguished from philia, love characteristic of affection for one’s friends or family. It distinguishes romantic love from ‘conjugal love,’ or marriage, a more stable form of attachment. This romantic love is a dispositional state, an attitudinal property that the lover comes to possess for their beloved. It is typically encompasses three features; the physical reactions caused on interaction between lover and their beloved, the desire for prolonged intimate and sexual contact, and the thought and act of doing ‘strange’ things for the sake of the beloved, that one would not do otherwise. Thus the common properties of love originating from this disposition state are, firstly, love being passionate, is not an active choice one makes willfully. Second, is it not a characteristic feeling. Third, like any passionate feeling, love varies in its intensity and strength and is not a stable characteristic emotion that lasts in the same state throughout. Fourth, love is non-symmetric, one does not love with the guarantee of being loved in return or with the same intensity. Hence, the inevitable possibility of a broken heart. The second chapter focuses on the psychological mechanism of rationalization or the act of providing reasonable motivation to form unjustified love beliefs. The reasonable motivations themselves are not reasonable because the lover does not recognize the underlying causes of their actions. It talks about fallacies that elucidate the effects of the rationalization of love","PeriodicalId":46853,"journal":{"name":"Social Identities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47257984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}