Multitudinous identities: a qualitative and network analysis of the 15M collective identity

The emergence of network-movements since 2011 has opened the debate around the way in which social media and networked practices make possible innovative forms of collective identity. We briefly review the literature on social movements and ‘collective identity’, and show the tension between different positions stressing either organization or culture, the personal or the collective, aggregative or networking logics. We argue that the 15M (indignados) network-movement in Spain demands conceptual and methodological innovations. Its rapid emergence, endurance, diversity, multifaceted development and adaptive capacity, posit numerous theoretical and methodological challenges. We show how the use of structural and dynamic analysis of interaction networks (in combination with qualitative data) is a valuable tool to track the shape and change of what we term the ‘systemic dimension’ of collective identities in network-movements. In particular, we introduce a novel method for synchrony detection in Facebook activity to identify the distributed, yet integrated, coordinated activity behind collective identities. Applying this analytical strategy to the 15M movement, we show how it displays a specific form of systemic collective identity we call ‘multitudinous identity’, characterized by social transversality and internal heterogeneity, as well as a transient and distributed leadership driven by action initiatives. Our approach attends to the role of distributed interaction and transient leadership at a mesoscale level of organizational dynamics, which may contribute to contemporary discussions of collective identity in network-movements.     

现代化背景下的民族认同与民族关系--以海南三亚凤凰镇回族为例

在现代化进程中,各民族的政治、经济、社会和文化等都处于急剧变迁之中.在这样的背景下,海南省三亚市凤凰镇回族社区的民族认同和民族关系也呈现出一些新的情况,例如民族意识趋于强烈并带有市场经济的一些特点.而市场经济的发展也促进了民族间的相互理解与合作,政府的积极引导更是促进了民族关系的和谐发展.凤凰镇回族对异族通婚的普遍接受就是民族关系和谐发展的一个突出表现.     

试论哈萨克族民间文学中的禁忌民俗

本文通过对哈萨克族民间文学文本的分析,就其中禁忌民俗对于民族认同和社会整合的作用作一阐述。     

族群认同:男性客位化与女性主位化--关于当代中国族群认同的社会性别思考

像种族、阶级、阶层一样 ,族群和性别也是对人群进行社会分析的基本范畴。“时髦”的男人与“守旧”的女人作为当代中国族群认同实践中普遍存在的现象和经验 ,反映出当代族群认同中存在的性别差异以及男性客位化与女性主位化的倾向。这一现象是男女两性权力不对等的体现     

‘Our own Hurricane Katrina’: Aboriginal disadvantage and Australian national identity

Since Prime Minister Howard's declaration in 2007 that child sex abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities was Australia's ‘own Hurricane Katrina’, the trope of natural disaster has been a regular feature of print and television media coverage of Indigenous affairs in Australia. The effect of this rhetorical strategy is to separate what happens to Aboriginal people from the fabric of ‘mainstream’ Australian cultural and political life; to render it alien and unconnected to the relative privilege enjoyed by other Australians. This strategy also produces peculiar temporal effects by erecting a cordon sanitaire around Australian history and the national identity that it supports. Howard's comparison of Aboriginal disadvantage with Katrina, if read alongside his politicization of the teaching of Australian history, demonstrates an unwillingness to incorporate systemic injustice toward Indigenous people within the composition of that history. This article interrogates the relationships between the manifold understandings of Aboriginal disadvantage and attempts to commemorate its violent history, as these aspects of Australian life are both integrated and refused by national identity narratives. Specifically, the paper reinterprets the trope of natural disaster as a means of comprehending Indigenous disadvantage and Australian identity by drawing on Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Benjamin's understanding of activism as a constructive retrieval of the past will be developed to reconnect catastrophe to history, and to enable an exploration of responsibility for that history as an integral condition of contemporary Australian identity.     

Strict versus flexible categorizations of mixedness: classifying mixed race in Singapore and New Zealand

ABSTRACT

Classifying and recording population data along racial and ethnic lines is common in many multiethnic societies. Singapore and New Zealand both use racial and ethnic categories in their population records and national censuses, although on different scales, using different methodologies and to different ends. Mixed race identities are particularly difficult to classify within traditionally singular racial categories, and each country has dealt with this in various ways. This paper explores the effects of different forms of classification on mixed racial and ethnic identities. Narratives from 40 men and women of mixed descent highlight the tangible and intangible impacts of categorization along racial lines, and the ways in which mixedness can be tied with belonging. The contrasting examples of Singapore and New Zealand illustrate the ways in which individuals of mixed heritage navigate both strict and fluid forms of classification, and how stories of identity are closely intertwined with institutional classificatory structures.     

Australian national identity: empirical research since 1998

The question of what Australian identity means has re-emerged, as globalisation and a concerted political effort to reconstruct an ‘Anglo’ identity have caused uncertainty about ‘who we are’. To explore how Australians conceptualise identity, this paper examines empirical research since Phillips’ [1998. Popular views about Australian identity: Research and analysis. Journal of Sociology, 34(3), 281–302. doi:10.1177/144078339803400305] seminal work synthesising research on Australian identity. Nearly two decades on, a civic/ethno-nationalist distinction and traditional socio-political correlates remain; but less dichotomous constructions are also being explored and more progressive values included. Key differences are found in the increased range of meanings of Australianness, as well as an apparent shift, for some, towards a cosmopolitan identity.     

初唐敦煌莫高窟大幅净土变之建筑图──试论贞观时期和武则天时期莫高窟的某些特点

莫高窟初唐窟群当中, ３２９窟和 ３３１窟的壁画在画功特色上存在 某些共同之处。上述画功特色接近贞观年间的洞窟,但与武则天时期的洞窟差异 比较大。     

以历史记忆固基大学生国家认同的实践路径探析 ——以淮海战役为例

历史记忆是共同体认定的"历史",是共同体成员对往事的共享。历史记忆是生成国家认同的重要前提。符号记忆、情节记忆、价值记忆与自然认同、强化认同、理解认同之间的对应关系,为历史记忆生成国家认同提供了内在逻辑。淮海战役是中华民族共同体重要的历史记忆,是建构国家认同的重要历史资源。以淮海战役历史记忆固基大学生国家认同遵循以下实践路径：强化思政课承载历史记忆的价值功能、通过仪式操演深化历史记忆的情感体验、发挥媒体优势营造历史记忆的社会氛围。     

跨境区域民族鼓乐舞文化的历史认同

我国西南少数民族以及东南亚许多民族的社会生活中,从古至今广泛存在着以鼓为载体而兼具各种文化功能的民族鼓文化,并且一直被各民族人民所认同。它鲜明而有力地展示了各民族历史、文化、宗教、情感,以及不同的审美认知和审美心理,同时它也是民族历史文化认同的重要载体。跨境民族区域的乡土鼓乐舞中承载着太多的人类历史,以及大量民族民间风俗内涵,不仅在民族学、民俗学、宗教学上有很强的史料性,而且在人类学、社会学、历史学、心理学、伦理学上也具较高的研究价值。