A Constellation Approach to Understanding Extremist White Supremacy

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ID6209922
AuthorsKathleen Blee (0000-0003-2559-2949, Thanks to Mobilization’s special issue editors Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, and Ziad Munson for supporting our work and to participants in the following conferences for their insights on earlier versions of this work: Mobilization conference 2023; American Sociological Association meetings 2023 and 2022; University of Central Florida and National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center’s Seminar Series 2021., corresponding author), Robert Futrell (0000-0002-2885-9103, Thanks to Mobilization’s special issue editors Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, and Ziad Munson for supporting our work and to participants in the following conferences for their insights on earlier versions of this work: Mobilization conference 2023; American Sociological Association meetings 2023 and 2022; University of Central Florida and National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center’s Seminar Series 2021.), P Simi (0000-0003-1842-2108, Thanks to Mobilization’s special issue editors Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, and Ziad Munson for supporting our work and to participants in the following conferences for their insights on earlier versions of this work: Mobilization conference 2023; American Sociological Association meetings 2023 and 2022; University of Central Florida and National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center’s Seminar Series 2021.)
Year2024
Volume28
Issue4
Pages435-444
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514
PublisherMobilization Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17813/1086-671x-28-4-435
OpenAlexW4390561763
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Reflecting on long-term intensive ethnographic fieldwork, we sketch a “constellation” framework for understanding U.S. extremist white supremacy. Rather than tracing fluctuating people and organizations to explain the persistence of white supremacist extremism, we suggest that focusing on a core set of practices, ideas, and emotions offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful interpretation. We contrast our constellation framework with more typical “bucket” approaches that tend to compartmentalize a complex reality into categories that do not sufficiently match extremism’s dynamism

Biology · Constellation · Dynamism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sketch · Sociology · White supremacy · Computer Science · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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