identitarianism

English

From identitarian +‎ -ism, 1943.

identitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural identitarianisms)

(sociology) Politics based on social identity.
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn , The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large, 1943, e.g.:
  "The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)
1. (sociology, politics, often capitalized) A far-right political movement and philosophy that seeks to preserve European ethnic and cultural identity against the perceived threats of immigration, Islam, and globalization.^[1]
  - 2004, Michael O'Meara, New Culture, New Right: Anti-liberalism in Postmodern Europe, page 78:
    Needless to add, this augurs badly for the future of the GRECE’s identitarianism, for it now tacitly acknowledges the right of non-Europeans to occupy and partition European lands.
  - 2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture‎^[2], Routledge, →ISBN:
    Identitarianism is probably the most well-known of these ‘new’ ideologies, despite its fairly recent emergence on the political scene. Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).
(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (psychology) The set of ideas arising from an ontology of identity.

^ (Can we date this quote?) “Identitarian/Identitarianism”, in Counter Extremism Project‎^[1], 2022, archived from the original on 2022-11-29: “Identitarian/Identitarianism is an ethnocultural transnational movement that sees its main purpose as defending Europe’s “identity” and ethnic purity from perceived Islamization and multiculturalism.”