The moratorium phase frees extremists to pursue identity questions without the group’s framework
Evidence
The moratorium also grants the participant a certain amount of flexibility and freedom to pursue identity questions which invariably arise in the absence of the social and ideological framework provided by the far-right organization during the participant’s active affiliation. — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 430
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘moratorium’ as the analytical concept for the phase of identity questioning that follows loss of the ideological framework.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Amy Fisher-Smith, Charles R. Sullivan, John D. Macready, and Geoffrey Manzi, Identity Reconfiguration and the Core…, 430
- XREF: connects to: Personal identity crisis can open individuals to extremist groups offering identity answers — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 20; De-radicalization is theorized as identity reconfiguration away from the extremist group — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 20; Consensus-based protest groups deliberately suppress individual prominence to preserve collective identity. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 358
Broader Connections
- Personal identity crisis can open individuals to extremist groups offering identity answers
#corroborates(0.85) — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 20 - De-radicalization is theorized as identity reconfiguration away from the extremist group
#expands(0.80) — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 20 - Consensus-based protest groups deliberately suppress individual prominence to preserve collective identity.
#complicates(0.72) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 358