Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Biographic Data
| ID | 8842628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Miller-Idriss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller-Idriss |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER-IDRISS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 640 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Exchange
In their landmark article on nationalism in the everyday, Jon E. Fox and Cynthia Miller-Idriss (2008a, 537) set out an ambitious research agenda which endeavored to observe “the actual practices through which ordinary people engage and enact (and ignore and deflect) nationhood and nationalism in the varied contexts of their everyday lives.” The authors’ focus on decentering elite perspectives and questions about the origins of nations in the stud…
Development and application of the Masculinity Content Classification Framework
Aimed to identify and define categories of content in the ‘mainstream manosphere.’ • Developed the Masculinity Content Classification Framework (MCFF). • Applied this framework to code TikTok video data provided by 142 young men. • Manosphere narratives found in 6% of videos, innocuous entry point content in 38%. • The MCFF enables standardised measurement of a currently elusive cultural ideology. The manosphere, once confined to fringe online co…
Playing with Fire
Fire has long been recognized as holding a wealth of symbolism across disciplinary contexts. However, its symbolic role in political violence has yet to be evaluated. This theoretical contribution explores a range of contexts in which fire is employed as a figurative or literal device in acts and threats of political violence. Through an evaluation of nine instances across a variety of extremist ideologies, we identify six thematic messages conve…
Fiction and misinformation
The growing presence of anti-establishment extremist movements online, and the offline actions that they inspire, pose a significant threat to U.S. democracy. This study evaluates the relationship between support for anti-establishment sentiment and trust in news sources; and tests whether a fictional counter-narrative story regarding an anti-government extremist group and group-related misinformation can change an individual’s support for anti-e…
Hate in the Homeland
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Making the World Global
Whatever Happened to Socialization
Socialization is a key mechanism of social reproduction. Yet, like the functionalists who introduced the concept, socialization has fallen out of favor, critiqued for ignoring power and agency, for its teleology and incoherence, and for a misguided link to 'culture of poverty' arguments. In this review, we argue for a renewed, postfunctionalist use of socialization. We review the concept's history, its high point under Parsons, the reasons for it…
Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right
Hate in the Homeland
A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements. Hate in the Homeland shows how t…
Afterword
This afterward synthesizes the primary arguments of each of the contributors to this volume, and suggests several next steps for analyses of gender and the far right. The chapter suggests that there is a need for more serious inquiry in four domains: on the intersections of extremism and gender-based violence, on how gender relates to subcultural and place-based challenges in terms of where women encounter extremist messages and first enter far-r…
Hate in the Homeland
The Global Enterprise
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Far right politics and extremist violence are on the rise across Europe, prompting scholars and policymakers to question why extremism has become so appealing to so many people. This book examines how far right ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols and references. Required reading for anyone concerned about the global…
Seeing the World
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Seeing the World
Soldier, sailor, rebel, rule-breaker
Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of images of far right symbols and commercial products in Germany, combined with 62 interviews conducted with German youth and their teachers in 2013–2014, this article examines young Germans’ sense of style and their interpretation of far right-wing symbols and codes in commercial products, clothing, and tattoos. The article focuses on the role that perceptions of masculinity and body image play i…
In search of the missing link
There is to date no systematic examination of how scholarship on gender and education intersects with studies of the radical right. While there is considerable practical and scholarly work attendin
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium
Gaining Freedoms
Educating the Gendered Citizen
The `here and now' of everyday nationhood
International audience
Everyday nationhood
Examines nationalism 'from below' in an exploration of four ways that nationhood is produced & reproduced in everyday life. The process by which the nation is constituted & legitimated as a discursive construct through 'talking the nation' is described, along with ways that nationhood frames the choices that citizens make ('choosing the nation'). The everyday meanings & invocations of national symbols constitute 'performing the nation,' while 'co…
Everyday Understandings of Citizenship in Germany
Most scholarship on citizenship focuses on institutional and structural analyses and extrapolates these to individual citizens' experiences. This renders citizenship a static and uniform concept that is divorced from individuals' understandings. Data gathered during qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Germany, in 2000–01 show how ordinary Germans' understandings of citizenship challenge an oversimplified narrative about “Germanness”…
Everyday nationhood
Examines nationalism 'from below' in an exploration of four ways that nationhood is produced & reproduced in everyday life. The process by which the nation is constituted & legitimated as a discursive construct through 'talking the nation' is described, along with ways that nationhood frames the choices that citizens make ('choosing the nation'). The everyday meanings & invocations of national symbols constitute 'performing the nation,' while 'co…
The `here and now' of everyday nationhood
International audience
Whatever Happened to Socialization
Socialization is a key mechanism of social reproduction. Yet, like the functionalists who introduced the concept, socialization has fallen out of favor, critiqued for ignoring power and agency, for its teleology and incoherence, and for a misguided link to 'culture of poverty' arguments. In this review, we argue for a renewed, postfunctionalist use of socialization. We review the concept's history, its high point under Parsons, the reasons for it…
Everyday Understandings of Citizenship in Germany
Most scholarship on citizenship focuses on institutional and structural analyses and extrapolates these to individual citizens' experiences. This renders citizenship a static and uniform concept that is divorced from individuals' understandings. Data gathered during qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Germany, in 2000–01 show how ordinary Germans' understandings of citizenship challenge an oversimplified narrative about “Germanness”…
Hate in the Homeland
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Soldier, sailor, rebel, rule-breaker
Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of images of far right symbols and commercial products in Germany, combined with 62 interviews conducted with German youth and their teachers in 2013–2014, this article examines young Germans’ sense of style and their interpretation of far right-wing symbols and codes in commercial products, clothing, and tattoos. The article focuses on the role that perceptions of masculinity and body image play i…
Educating the Gendered Citizen
In search of the missing link
There is to date no systematic examination of how scholarship on gender and education intersects with studies of the radical right. While there is considerable practical and scholarly work attendin
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Afterword
This afterward synthesizes the primary arguments of each of the contributors to this volume, and suggests several next steps for analyses of gender and the far right. The chapter suggests that there is a need for more serious inquiry in four domains: on the intersections of extremism and gender-based violence, on how gender relates to subcultural and place-based challenges in terms of where women encounter extremist messages and first enter far-r…
Everyday Understandings of Citizenship in Germany
Most scholarship on citizenship focuses on institutional and structural analyses and extrapolates these to individual citizens' experiences. This renders citizenship a static and uniform concept that is divorced from individuals' understandings. Data gathered during qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin, Germany, in 2000–01 show how ordinary Germans' understandings of citizenship challenge an oversimplified narrative about “Germanness”…
The `here and now' of everyday nationhood
International audience
Everyday nationhood
Examines nationalism 'from below' in an exploration of four ways that nationhood is produced & reproduced in everyday life. The process by which the nation is constituted & legitimated as a discursive construct through 'talking the nation' is described, along with ways that nationhood frames the choices that citizens make ('choosing the nation'). The everyday meanings & invocations of national symbols constitute 'performing the nation,' while 'co…
Educating the Gendered Citizen
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium
Gaining Freedoms
Soldier, sailor, rebel, rule-breaker
Drawing on a unique digital archive of thousands of images of far right symbols and commercial products in Germany, combined with 62 interviews conducted with German youth and their teachers in 2013–2014, this article examines young Germans’ sense of style and their interpretation of far right-wing symbols and codes in commercial products, clothing, and tattoos. The article focuses on the role that perceptions of masculinity and body image play i…
In search of the missing link
There is to date no systematic examination of how scholarship on gender and education intersects with studies of the radical right. While there is considerable practical and scholarly work attendin
Seeing the World
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Seeing the World
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Far right politics and extremist violence are on the rise across Europe, prompting scholars and policymakers to question why extremism has become so appealing to so many people. This book examines how far right ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded symbols and references. Required reading for anyone concerned about the global…
Gender and the Radical and Extreme Right
Hate in the Homeland
A startling look at the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements. Hate in the Homeland shows how t…
Afterword
This afterward synthesizes the primary arguments of each of the contributors to this volume, and suggests several next steps for analyses of gender and the far right. The chapter suggests that there is a need for more serious inquiry in four domains: on the intersections of extremism and gender-based violence, on how gender relates to subcultural and place-based challenges in terms of where women encounter extremist messages and first enter far-r…
Hate in the Homeland
The Global Enterprise
Making the World Global
Whatever Happened to Socialization
Socialization is a key mechanism of social reproduction. Yet, like the functionalists who introduced the concept, socialization has fallen out of favor, critiqued for ignoring power and agency, for its teleology and incoherence, and for a misguided link to 'culture of poverty' arguments. In this review, we argue for a renewed, postfunctionalist use of socialization. We review the concept's history, its high point under Parsons, the reasons for it…
Hate in the Homeland
Engagement in subversive online activity predicts susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda
Despite the widespread assumption that online misbehavior affects outcomes related to political extremism, few studies have provided empirical evidence to this effect. To redress this gap, we performed two studies in which we explored the relationship between subversive online activities and susceptibility to persuasion by far-right extremist propaganda. Study 1 ( N = 404) demonstrates that when individuals are exposed to far-right “scientific ra…
Exchange
In their landmark article on nationalism in the everyday, Jon E. Fox and Cynthia Miller-Idriss (2008a, 537) set out an ambitious research agenda which endeavored to observe “the actual practices through which ordinary people engage and enact (and ignore and deflect) nationhood and nationalism in the varied contexts of their everyday lives.” The authors’ focus on decentering elite perspectives and questions about the origins of nations in the stud…
Development and application of the Masculinity Content Classification Framework
Aimed to identify and define categories of content in the ‘mainstream manosphere.’ • Developed the Masculinity Content Classification Framework (MCFF). • Applied this framework to code TikTok video data provided by 142 young men. • Manosphere narratives found in 6% of videos, innocuous entry point content in 38%. • The MCFF enables standardised measurement of a currently elusive cultural ideology. The manosphere, once confined to fringe online co…
Playing with Fire
Fire has long been recognized as holding a wealth of symbolism across disciplinary contexts. However, its symbolic role in political violence has yet to be evaluated. This theoretical contribution explores a range of contexts in which fire is employed as a figurative or literal device in acts and threats of political violence. Through an evaluation of nine instances across a variety of extremist ideologies, we identify six thematic messages conve…
Fiction and misinformation
The growing presence of anti-establishment extremist movements online, and the offline actions that they inspire, pose a significant threat to U.S. democracy. This study evaluates the relationship between support for anti-establishment sentiment and trust in news sources; and tests whether a fictional counter-narrative story regarding an anti-government extremist group and group-related misinformation can change an individual’s support for anti-e…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Right-wing extremists (5 works) · Far right (4 works)