Identity Hunters

Identity Hunters is rated 3 out of 5 in the category writing and editing. Read and write reviews about Identity Hunters. Farage, Trump, Salvini, Le Pen, Franco, Ataturk, Stalin, Bismark – what could they possibly have in common? Nationalism. The Brexit vote, Le Pen’s capture of 33% of the French vote, Modi’s ethno-religious politics, not to mention Putin’s and Duterte’s macho-patriotic heroism tell us of a global shift towards nationalism. Identity Hunters is project is about understanding how identity and difference are politicised by nationalist politics. We hunt the instances when identity is made and politicised, we are identity hunters. This website is a platform for the public, students, and academics to engage with one another and explore the challenges of understanding and fighting nationalist politics. It is administered by students of A History of Nations, Nationalism and Theories of the State, a 3rd-year class taught by Dr Pablo de Orellana at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.