Nationalism and Human Needs

Searle-White, Joshua

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“…Scapegoating is a key motive of ideologies based on white male supremacy and authoritarianism (Fuchs 2020). It serves to restore a sense of self-pride by shifting blame for present ills to a minoritized group or other nations (Searle-White 2001: 30). In Morocco, the Makhzen has long mastered scapegoating as a form to deflect criticisms of the regime (see Mifdal 2016).…”

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Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Almeida

Gerbaudo

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Facebook meme pages in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have flared-up in the past decade. Since 2017, some Moroccan pages have started sharing exclusively patriarchal, ultra- and ethnonationalist, misogynist, and racist content shaped to look in line with “alt-right” online aesthetics. Self-identifying as right-wing, these pages have memetized an entire ecosystem of scapegoats as enemies of the nation. Furthermore, they have rescued symbols from the past, such as the late King Hassan II or the Marinid flag, to formally establish the Moroccan Right. In view of this trend, this paper examines Moroccan Facebook meme pages that share ultranationalist content and build on a scapegoating strategy to understand how Far-Right ideologies have been adapted in the MENA. Through multimodal discourse analysis of memes posted since 2017 until April 2020, this paper studies the ways in which the revival of Far-Right tropes is contributing to reshaping local digital political landscapes and pushing toward an Arab Right. By examining a collection of over 1,600 memes, our paper argues that this new online Moroccan Far-Right discourse is adapting Far-Right views, particularly in terms of gender and race, to local politics. This research contends that internet memes are effectively acting as an entry point in the creation of a Moroccan Far-Right. As a newly formed trend, however, the Moroccan Far Right is still negotiating its main tenets.

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Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Almeida

Gerbaudo

2021

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…From the quotidian perspective, political psychologists have revealed that the micro bases of nationalism are rooted in the dynamics of group-member exchange (Balabanis, Diamantopoulos, Mueller, & Melewar, 2001; Searle-White, 2001). As social actors derive a sense of security, belonging, and prestige from their group affiliations, they tend to favor their ingroup and disfavor other outgroups (Tajfel & Turner, 2004).…”

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Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms

Yue,

Zheng,

Mao

2024

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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In this article, we develop a computational measure of firm-level rhetorical nationalism. We first review the literature and develop a four-dimensional theoretical framework of nationalism relevant to firms: national pride, anti-foreign, dominant agenda (national revival), and corporate role. We then use machine-learning-based text analysis of over 41,000 annual reports of Chinese public firms from 2000 to 2020 and identify a dictionary of words for each dimension. Using a weighted ratio of nationalism-related words, we describe the overall picture of Chinese public firms’ rhetorical nationalism and provide the first empirical evidence regarding rising rhetorical nationalism among Chinese firms. Firms’ demonstration of rhetorical nationalism is related to both strategic and socialization factors; firms that are state-owned enterprises, older, larger, more profitable, consumer-facing, with more individual investors, and lower sales from overseas demonstrate a higher level of nationalism. Firms that demonstrate more rhetorical nationalism also have a better future financial return. Our study provides a theoretical framework for the organizational study of nationalism and a new measure for firms’ rhetorical nationalism, and demonstrates that rising rhetorical nationalism among Chinese firms is more strongly driven by firms’ motivations to appeal to domestic investors and consumers than to obtain government subsidies. Our dataset is publicly available at: https://sites.google.com/view/firms-rhetorical-nationalism

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Nationalism and Human Needs

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Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right

Firms’ Rhetorical Nationalism: Theory, Measurement, and Evidence from a Computational Analysis of Chinese Public Firms

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