Contemporary left-wing feminist and queer politics finds itself in a double-bind between on the one hand neoliberal corporate embracement of gender equality sexual diversity, (neo)conservative anti-gender mobilization other. In discourse, is commonly seen to be backed up disseminated by global corporations. Thus, time when nationalist ultra-conservative movements are increasingly challenging he...

This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many officials intellectuals who discussed Jewish Zionist Brazilians among themselves those years were using a of disloyalty. depicted Jews adopted diasporic stance (maintai...

In diasporic literature the question of identity is tangled with the question of history. This study aims at discussing how Yasmin Crowther reviews the Persian tradition in The Saffron Kitchen, her autobiographical novel which is mainly set-in early 60s, Iran. The novel focuses on evoking and rewriting history by using different types of counter narratives that contrast with Iranian hegemonic d...

BACKGROUND Each group or profession has its own discourse. Discourses create identity, support institutions and reproduce power relationships. Professional identity of Iranian nurses, which has recently had the opportunity to represent itself in social arena, needs investigation. This study aimed to make internal aspect of this identity clear. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted by...

This article presents an integrated model of contentious nationalist activity, 7 with structure, politics, and action assuming equal roles in an interdependent 8 causal system. The model is tested using simultaneous equation systems on 130 9 ethno-nationalist groups from 1990 to 1998. The results confirm the vital, 10 indirect role of grievances and group identity on protest and the powerful di...

As the Communist and Congress Parties continue their downfall in West Bengal, two parties relying heavily on identity politics are entrenching positions as main political forces of state: Trinamool with its pro-Bengali discourse Bharatiya Janata Party pro-Hindu discourse. Yet, we know little about how mobilization these different regional religious identities interact potentially conflicting ma...