Contemporary national self-definition debates operate through the othering process
Evidence
As Clarke puts it, through the perpetuation and provision of meaning, ideology ‘creates a form of order, who we are, or perhaps more precisely who we are not, by the stigmatisation, marginalisation and intolerance associated with this’. Symbolic forms and the meaning made known through them create and sustain the relationships of power and interaction between the ingroup and outgroup: the self and the Other. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833; Equal-lives rhetoric masks a new hierarchy between nationals and foreigners; Cultural and literary studies lead cross-group analysis of othering discourses — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 522
Related
- Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other (similarity 0.87)
- Cultural and literary studies lead cross-group analysis of othering discourses (similarity 0.80)
- Assimilationism operates as solipsistic narcissism that cannot recognize otherness (similarity 0.79)
- Mass propaganda transforms ideology into a principle of self-definition for atomized individuals (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other
#exemplifies(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833 - Equal-lives rhetoric masks a new hierarchy between nationals and foreigners
#exemplifies(0.80)